{"id":73956,"date":"2013-01-06T10:48:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T17:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=73956"},"modified":"2013-01-06T10:48:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T17:48:40","slug":"sports-car-racing-actor-patrick-dempsey-and-mazda-part-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=73956","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Racing &#8211; Actor Patrick Dempsey and Mazda Part Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the notable teams absent from this weekend&#8217;s Roar Before the Rolex 24 is Dempsey Racing, with the longtime GT squad confirming Friday that it has parted ways with <span id=\"itxthook0w\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap\" style=\"border-bottom: darkgreen 0.1em solid; padding-bottom: 1px !important; background-color: transparent; color: darkgreen; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\">Mazda<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The move comes in the wake of a lengthy and successful relationship with the Japanese manufacturer, which delivered multiple podiums and a win in Rolex Sports Car Series competition with the RX-8. Plans were also initially in place for Dempsey to represent Mazda in LMP2 this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been an all-Mazda team for a long time and\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/auto-racing.speedtv.com\/article\/sports-car-dempsey-mazda-part-ways\/\" 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>One of the notable teams absent from this weekend&#8217;s Roar Before the Rolex 24 is Dempsey Racing, with the longtime GT squad confirming Friday that it has parted ways with Mazda. The move comes in the wake of a lengthy and successful relationship with the Japanese manufacturer, which delivered multiple podiums and a win in [&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-73956","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\/73956","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=73956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73957,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73956\/revisions\/73957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}