{"id":61840,"date":"2012-03-16T07:09:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T14:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=61840"},"modified":"2012-03-16T07:09:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T14:09:38","slug":"sports-car-racing-12-hours-of-sebring-kicks-off-talent-rich-2012-alms-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=61840","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Racing &#8211; 12 Hours of Sebring kicks off talent-rich 2012 ALMS season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SEBRING, Fla. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr\u00c3\u00b3n kicks off its 2012 season this weekend with the 60th version of the 12 Hours of Sebring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Race organizers were anticipating a crowd in excess of 150,000 and a grid of 64 cars for America&#8217;s oldest and most grueling sports-car race. The 3.74-mile circuit in central Florida not only welcomes the opening round of the ALMS but the debut of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Sebring represents the\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/story\/2012-03-15\/12-Hours-of-Sebring-kicks-off-ALMS-season\/53552384\/1\" 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>SEBRING, Fla. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr\u00c3\u00b3n kicks off its 2012 season this weekend with the 60th version of the 12 Hours of Sebring. Race organizers were anticipating a crowd in excess of 150,000 and a grid of 64 cars for America&#8217;s oldest and most grueling sports-car race. The 3.74-mile [&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-61840","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\/61840","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=61840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61842,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61840\/revisions\/61842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}