{"id":7587,"date":"2009-04-05T10:04:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T17:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7587"},"modified":"2009-04-05T10:42:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T17:42:57","slug":"automobile-sports-car-st-petersburg-acura-alms-race-recap-1-2-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7587","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; St. Petersburg: Acura ALMS Race Recap &#8211; 1-2 Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">David Brabham and Scott Sharp led an Acura 1-2 sweep Saturday in the Acura Sports Car Challenge, the second race of the 2009 American Le Mans Series, through the streets of St Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran driving pair drove the No. 9 Patr\u00c3\u00b3n Highcroft Racing Acura ARX-02a prototype sports car to the lead on Lap 43 and recorded a 32-second victory over the Mexican duo of Adrian Fernandez and Luis Diaz in the No. 15 Lowe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fernandez Racing Acura ARX-01b in the 93-lap feature. The 1-2 Acura finish marked Acura\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first ALMS sweep since last August in the streets of Detroit, when the automaker placed 1-2-3 overall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Acura sweep also made American Le Mans Series history with Acura taking wins in both the LMP1 and LMP2 class in the same event. No auto manufacturer had accomplished that feat in ALMS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ten years&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/paddocktalk.com\/news\/html\/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=106019&amp;newlang=&amp;topic=22&amp;catid=10\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brabham and Scott Sharp led an Acura 1-2 sweep Saturday in the Acura Sports Car Challenge, the second race of the 2009 American Le Mans Series, through the streets of St Petersburg. The veteran driving pair drove the No. 9 Patr\u00c3\u00b3n Highcroft Racing Acura ARX-02a prototype sports car to the lead on Lap 43 [&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-7587","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\/7587","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=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7625,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions\/7625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}