{"id":55698,"date":"2011-10-24T10:23:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T17:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=55698"},"modified":"2011-10-24T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T17:23:43","slug":"porsche-rennsport-reunion-iv-insights-vic-elford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=55698","title":{"rendered":"Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV insights: Vic Elford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Looking at it now, it&#8217;s easy to forget that the Porsche 917 is a production sports car. When the FIA decided that the Championship of Makes would be for 3.0-liter prototypes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c ostensibly to slow the climbing speeds at places like Le Mans \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it also allowed 5.0-liter sports cars, as long as at least 50 were built for homologation. That was an easy target for the Ford GT40 to hit; other manufacturers didn&#8217;t jump so quickly. But when the homologation threshold was lowered to 25, Porsche bit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thus the 917 was born. With a stunningly lightweight spaceframe chassis that used magnesium and titanium to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/porsche-rennsport-reunion-iv-insights-vic-elford\/article\/215070\/\" 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>Looking at it now, it&#8217;s easy to forget that the Porsche 917 is a production sports car. When the FIA decided that the Championship of Makes would be for 3.0-liter prototypes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c ostensibly to slow the climbing speeds at places like Le Mans \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it also allowed 5.0-liter sports cars, as long as at least [&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-55698","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\/55698","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=55698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55699,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55698\/revisions\/55699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}