{"id":32843,"date":"2010-06-10T21:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=32843"},"modified":"2010-06-10T21:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T04:00:24","slug":"sports-car-racing-24-hours-of-le-mans-set-to-start-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=32843","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Racing &#8211; 24 Hours of Le Mans set to start Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 78th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world&#8217;s most famous sports-car endurance race, is scheduled to begin Saturday at the 8.5-mile Circuit de la Sarthe track in France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The long race includes different classes of race cars, each with multiple drivers, but the premier class features exotic prototype cars led by the diesel-powered entries of Peugeot and Audi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">One Peugeot team with drivers David Brabham, Marc Gene and Alex Wurz won the race\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s overall honors last year, Peugeot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first Le Mans victory since 1993 after several years of Audi domination\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/sports_blog\/2010\/06\/le-mans-motor-racing-peugeot-audi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 78th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world&#8217;s most famous sports-car endurance race, is scheduled to begin Saturday at the 8.5-mile Circuit de la Sarthe track in France. The long race includes different classes of race cars, each with multiple drivers, but the premier class features exotic prototype cars led by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32843","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\/32843","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=32843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32845,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32843\/revisions\/32845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}