{"id":77979,"date":"2013-04-13T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77979"},"modified":"2013-04-13T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T16:24:07","slug":"sports-car-racing-a-bluffers-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77979","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Racing &#8211; A BLUFFER&#8217;S GUIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Most forms of motorsport are fairly easy to get your head around. Open wheelers, touring cars, rallying&#8230; all have a fairly linear progression from grass roots up to fully professional series, with a progressively lairer set of rules and regulations along the way. GT racing, though, is slightly different. With so many name and rule changes in recent years, plus a whole host of different championships, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sometimes hard to make sense of the different ways and means one can go sports car racing these days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But go racing one can. Arm yourself with a factory-built GT car and the relevant race licence (not to mention, of course, a sizeable wad of cash, sponsorship, or a combination of both to throw at running the thing), and you too can\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pistonheads.com\/doc.asp?c=129&amp;i=27454\" 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>Most forms of motorsport are fairly easy to get your head around. Open wheelers, touring cars, rallying&#8230; all have a fairly linear progression from grass roots up to fully professional series, with a progressively lairer set of rules and regulations along the way. GT racing, though, is slightly different. With so many name and rule [&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-77979","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\/77979","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=77979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77981,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77979\/revisions\/77981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}