{"id":5341,"date":"2009-03-21T05:10:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2009-03-21T06:15:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T13:15:39","slug":"automobile-sports-car-rahal-returns-to-racing-roots-in-sports-car-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5341","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; Rahal returns to racing roots in sports car effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bobby Rahal is still searching for sponsorship for an IndyCar effort in 2009, but his team will keep busy, regardless, running all-new BMW M3 sports cars in the American Le Mans\u00c2\u00a0Series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rahal Letterman Racing, co-owned by late-night TV host David Letterman, has partnered with BMW of North America to race two of the redesigned M3s in the GT2 class for the full 10-race ALMS schedule, beginning with Saturday&#8217;s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of\u00c2\u00a0Sebring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Most people associate me with IndyCars, but my background&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2009\/03\/20\/sports\/CAR-ALMS-Notebook.php\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Rahal is still searching for sponsorship for an IndyCar effort in 2009, but his team will keep busy, regardless, running all-new BMW M3 sports cars in the American Le Mans\u00c2\u00a0Series. Rahal Letterman Racing, co-owned by late-night TV host David Letterman, has partnered with BMW of North America to race two of the redesigned M3s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341","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=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}