{"id":41521,"date":"2010-12-11T09:52:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T16:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=41521"},"modified":"2010-12-11T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T16:52:50","slug":"sports-car-racing-a-technical-tour-of-audis-radical-new-lmp1-machine-the-r18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=41521","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Racing &#8211; A technical tour of Audi&#8217;s radical new LMP1 machine, the R18."},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"article_subtitle\" style=\"text-align: left;\">SPEED.com&#8217;s resident racecar engineering guru takes you on a technical tour of Audi&#8217;s radical new LMP1 machine, the R18.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span><span id=\"intelliTXT\">Christmas came two weeks early for sports car fans when Audi revealed the R18, its new-for-2011 Le Mans racer, and even with just a cursory glance, the new coupe looks like a major step forward for the German marque.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span><span>Audi earned an astonishing 1-2-3 at Le Mans this year, but those within the team will readily admit that if not for Peugeot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trio of twin-turbo diesel V12-powered 908s grenading in spectacular fashion, the R15 plus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 had little chance of landing on the podium. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span><span>The last time Audi held an advantage\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/auto-racing.speedtv.com\/article\/lemans-inside-the-audi-r18\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPEED.com&#8217;s resident racecar engineering guru takes you on a technical tour of Audi&#8217;s radical new LMP1 machine, the R18. Christmas came two weeks early for sports car fans when Audi revealed the R18, its new-for-2011 Le Mans racer, and even with just a cursory glance, the new coupe looks like a major step forward for [&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-41521","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\/41521","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=41521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41522,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41521\/revisions\/41522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}