{"id":80134,"date":"2013-06-05T21:03:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T04:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80134"},"modified":"2013-06-05T21:03:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T04:03:52","slug":"sports-car-racing-a-look-back-at-the-last-50-years-of-the-24-hours-of-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80134","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Racing &#8211; A look back at the last 50 years of the 24 Hours of Le Mans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\">Le Mans is a name that immediately conjures images of Porsches, Ferraris, Fords, Jaguars, Audis, and other cars roaring through the French countryside for 24 hours every June. Steve McQueen\u2019s movie about the race, simply titled \u201cLe Mans\u201d captured one of the magic eras of the race, with Porsche 917\u2019s battling Ferrari 512\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\">The greatest tragedy in the history of the sport also took place there, when Pierre Levegh\u2019s Mercedes sailed into the crowd, killing nearly 100 people in 1955. I was\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportscarillustrated.com\/News_2013\/H\/news13H_0737.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Mans is a name that immediately conjures images of Porsches, Ferraris, Fords, Jaguars, Audis, and other cars roaring through the French countryside for 24 hours every June. Steve McQueen\u2019s movie about the race, simply titled \u201cLe Mans\u201d captured one of the magic eras of the race, with Porsche 917\u2019s battling Ferrari 512\u2019s. The greatest [&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-80134","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\/80134","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=80134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80135,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80134\/revisions\/80135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}