{"id":6374,"date":"2009-03-28T20:21:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T03:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6374"},"modified":"2009-03-29T13:46:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T20:46:56","slug":"automobile-rally-development-continues-on-focus-rs-wrc-ahead-of-portugal-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6374","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Rally &#8211; Development Continues on Focus RS WRC Ahead of Portugal Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team begins the second quarter of its FIA World Rally Championship campaign in Portugal next week with subtle improvements to its record-breaking Focus RS World Rally Car.\u00c2\u00a0 As the series heads to the Iberian Peninsula for Rally de Portugal (2 &#8211; 5 April), the British-based squad will introduce a revised engine for the first time in competition.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The newly-homologated power plant available to drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen and team-mates Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila includes an electric water pump and a lightweight flywheel.\u00c2\u00a0 During a comprehensive testing programme, the drivers have reported a slight improvement in outright engine performance from the upgrades. &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoracingdaily.com\/news\/world-rally-championship\/development-continues-on-focus-rs-wrc-ahead-of-portugal-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/accounts\/default1\/banners\/dirtbagwr-468x60.jpg\" alt=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" title=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/scripts\/imp.php?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team begins the second quarter of its FIA World Rally Championship campaign in Portugal next week with subtle improvements to its record-breaking Focus RS World Rally Car.\u00c2\u00a0 As the series heads to the Iberian Peninsula for Rally de Portugal (2 &#8211; 5 April), the British-based squad will introduce a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374","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=6374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6487,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}