{"id":3111,"date":"2009-03-10T06:16:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T14:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:24:42","slug":"automobile-2009%e2%80%99s-best-sports-car-race-coming-up-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"Automobile &#8211; 2009\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best sports car race coming up Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of a NASCAR Sprint Cup race this weekend, and with neither the Indy Racing League or Formula 1 seasons under way yet, a little more attention than usual may be focused on the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best sports car race, the 12 Hours of Sebring.<\/p>\n<p>While the Rolex 24 at Daytona (in a different sports car series than Sebring, the Grand Am Daytona Prototypes instead of the American Le Mans Series) is run on the relatively smooth Daytona tri-oval and infield circuit, Sebring is a bumpy, suspension- and gearbox-busting airport layout that is the best preparation automakers have for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France three months later.<\/p>\n<p>Sebring has always been more about cars and manufacturers than drivers: Ford vs. Ferrari, Ferrari vs. Porsche, Porsche vs. Jaguar and so on. &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.heraldtimesonline.com\/auto\/?p=381\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of a NASCAR Sprint Cup race this weekend, and with neither the Indy Racing League or Formula 1 seasons under way yet, a little more attention than usual may be focused on the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best sports car race, the 12 Hours of Sebring. While the Rolex 24 at Daytona (in a different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}