{"id":8844,"date":"2009-04-12T09:55:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T16:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8844"},"modified":"2009-04-12T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T18:13:00","slug":"automobile-sports-car-pre-63-gt-models-race-at-the-silverstone-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8844","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; Pre-63 GT models race at the Silverstone Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8847\" title=\"63\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/63.jpg\" alt=\"63\" width=\"700\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/63.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/63-150x118.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/63-600x473.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>Not the usual historic FIA GT suspects, but an exciting, eclectic grid of early 1960s racers will battle it out on track at the Silverstone Classic in July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The historic race event organisers have announced the pre-\u00e2\u20ac\u212263 GT race, brainchild of racer Ben Cussons, as symbolic of the Silverstone Classic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s effort to showcase original race cars on a level-playing field rather than in a more traditional FIA context of combined pre-\u00e2\u20ac\u212266 classes.<\/p>\n<p>Participation is limited by invitation only to GT cars built and homologated before January 1 1963, from AC Cobras to Short Wheel Base Ferraris and Aston Martin Zagatos, all models which were built to be driven on the road and raced on the track.<\/p>\n<p>Observance to period homologation rules will be strict, as the grid welcomes&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicrallies.com\/blog\/index.php?\/archives\/1748-Pre-63-GT-models-race-at-the-Silverstone-Classic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the usual historic FIA GT suspects, but an exciting, eclectic grid of early 1960s racers will battle it out on track at the Silverstone Classic in July. The historic race event organisers have announced the pre-\u00e2\u20ac\u212263 GT race, brainchild of racer Ben Cussons, as symbolic of the Silverstone Classic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s effort to showcase original race [&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-8844","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\/8844","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=8844"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8860,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions\/8860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}