{"id":91400,"date":"2014-03-05T21:23:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T04:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91400"},"modified":"2014-03-05T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T04:23:20","slug":"sports-car-racing-inside-porsches-919-hybrid-lmp1-and-a-closer-look-at-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91400","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Racing &#8211; Inside Porsche&#8217;s 919 hybrid LMP1, and a closer look at the competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For motorsport enthusiasts, 2014 is shaping as one of the most exciting years ever because Porsche is returning\u00a0 to World Championship Endurance Racing after a 16 year absence, and thanks to some intelligent reframing of the regulations, the battleground is now not just one of outright performance, but of technological excellence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">New World Endurance Championship rules focused on encouraging hybrid drives, engine downsizing and energy efficiency have thrown three automotive giants into a pitched battle to prove their technological expertise in the harshest environment possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Audi has won the Le Mans 24 Hour Race 12 times in the last 14 years \u2013 it started racing just after Porsche stopped. The world\u2019s largest automaker, Toyota, is\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/porsche-919-hybrid-lmp1-vs-audi-r18-e-tron-quattro-vs-toyotats040\/31081\/\" 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>For motorsport enthusiasts, 2014 is shaping as one of the most exciting years ever because Porsche is returning\u00a0 to World Championship Endurance Racing after a 16 year absence, and thanks to some intelligent reframing of the regulations, the battleground is now not just one of outright performance, but of technological excellence. New World Endurance Championship [&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-91400","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\/91400","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=91400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91401,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91400\/revisions\/91401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}