{"id":98332,"date":"2014-09-15T20:34:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T03:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=98332"},"modified":"2014-09-15T20:34:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T03:34:44","slug":"why-the-porsche-956962-is-the-greatest-sports-racing-car-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=98332","title":{"rendered":"Why The Porsche 956\/962 Is The Greatest Sports Racing Car Ever Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Porsche 956\/962 twins won the first and the last 24 Hours of Le Mans they were entered in, twelve years apart. I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s ever been any other sports racing car that was as successful for as long as this masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-textannotation-id=\"bef7b5684433ad91dab5c465f178e0f5\">The 956 debuted in 1982 for then-new Group C category of top-rung sports car racing. The idea was to limit the amount of fuel used by the cars and let the rest pretty much go as it pleased.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-textannotation-id=\"d14bfb2994ce681e348b2153702a710b\">With the 24 Hours of Le Mans victory as the goal and the circuit&#8217;s endless Mulsanne Straight in mind\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/why-the-porsche-956-962-is-the-greatest-sports-racing-c-1635060254\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZxC-knQmkM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-textannotation-id=\"d14bfb2994ce681e348b2153702a710b\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Porsche 956\/962 twins won the first and the last 24 Hours of Le Mans they were entered in, twelve years apart. I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s ever been any other sports racing car that was as successful for as long as this masterpiece. The 956 debuted in 1982 for then-new Group C category of top-rung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,73,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-video-general","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98332","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=98332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98334,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98332\/revisions\/98334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}