{"id":34551,"date":"2010-07-28T07:56:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=34551"},"modified":"2010-07-28T10:44:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T17:44:14","slug":"minis-to-return-to-international-rallying-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=34551","title":{"rendered":"Minis to return to international rallying circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Minis are making a full return to international rallying\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmore than 40 years after the automotive icons set Monte Carlo alight in their racing heyday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">German automaker BMW announced Tuesday that the car will begin a phased return to the World Rally Championship next year before contesting the entire championship from 2012 for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153several years.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It will be an eagerly anticipated return for one of rallying\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most unexpected star performers. Conceived as a thrifty vehicle during the 1950s fuel crisis, the car came to symbolize the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Swinging 60s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Britain after wowing celebrities, including the Beatles\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-wrc-minis\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minis are making a full return to international rallying\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmore than 40 years after the automotive icons set Monte Carlo alight in their racing heyday. German automaker BMW announced Tuesday that the car will begin a phased return to the World Rally Championship next year before contesting the entire championship from 2012 for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153several years.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551","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=34551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34553,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551\/revisions\/34553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}