{"id":43042,"date":"2011-01-15T08:36:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T15:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43042"},"modified":"2011-01-15T08:36:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T15:36:49","slug":"sports-car-mcnish-gasoline-cars-now-a-real-threat-at-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43042","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car &#8211; McNish: Gasoline cars now a real threat at Le Mans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Audi Le Mans star Allan McNish believes this year&#8217;s rule changes could make the top gas-powered cars a major threat to Audi and Peugeot&#8217;s diesel prototypes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Diesel-engined cars have dominated the Le Mans scene since Audi switched to the R10 TDI in 2006, but race organizer the Automobile Club de l&#8217;Ouest is adjusting the regulations this year and opening the door for performance balancing changes to ensure parity between gasoline and diesel cars.\u00c2\u00a0This has encouraged Aston Martin to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/mcnish-gasoline-cars-now-a-real-threat-at-le-mans\/article\/194335\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audi Le Mans star Allan McNish believes this year&#8217;s rule changes could make the top gas-powered cars a major threat to Audi and Peugeot&#8217;s diesel prototypes. Diesel-engined cars have dominated the Le Mans scene since Audi switched to the R10 TDI in 2006, but race organizer the Automobile Club de l&#8217;Ouest is adjusting the regulations [&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-43042","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\/43042","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=43042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43043,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43042\/revisions\/43043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}