{"id":54873,"date":"2011-10-02T09:34:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T16:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=54873"},"modified":"2011-10-02T09:34:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T16:34:05","slug":"sports-car-racing-o%e2%80%99connell-gives-cadillac-a-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=54873","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Racing &#8211; O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Connell Gives Cadillac A Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hometown star Johnny O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Connell scored a pole-to-checkered flag victory in Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cadillac Road Atlanta Grand Prix in Flowery Branch, Ga., capping Team Cadillac\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s successful road-racing return to the 2011 Pirelli World Challenge series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Connell, driver of the No. 3 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe, led all 29 laps\/73.66 miles from pole in the season-ender to claim his second victory while also locking up second place to Porsche\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Patrick Long in GT Series points. Meanwhile, teammate Andy Pilgrim overcame a slow start to finish third in his No. 8 CTS-V Coupe to give Team Cadillac its first double-podium in the series sanctioned by Sports Car Club of America Pro Racing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always great to\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racintoday.com\/archives\/30494\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hometown star Johnny O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Connell scored a pole-to-checkered flag victory in Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cadillac Road Atlanta Grand Prix in Flowery Branch, Ga., capping Team Cadillac\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s successful road-racing return to the 2011 Pirelli World Challenge series. O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Connell, driver of the No. 3 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe, led all 29 laps\/73.66 miles from pole in the season-ender to claim his [&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-54873","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\/54873","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=54873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54874,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54873\/revisions\/54874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}