{"id":10955,"date":"2020-09-22T08:27:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=10955"},"modified":"2020-12-01T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T11:03:35","slug":"was-the-2020-race-a-good-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/22\/was-the-2020-race-a-good-le-mans\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the 2020 race a &#8220;good Le Mans&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d39a3h63xew422.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/21162753\/Marcel-Langer-Rebellion-Racing-Le-Mans-2020-19-1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t think anyone will say it was a bad race, but it was certainly atypical. The pandemic forced it to be closed to the public, so there were no fans and only the technical pre-race events happened. The pre-race parade and all the fan events did not happen, and media coverage was limited. So all in all a very peculiar race compared to the traditional &#8220;Le Mans experience&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petrolicious.com\/articles\/watching-the-end-of-an-era-at-an-atypical-24-hours-of-le-mans?fbclid=IwAR2Nc6UycyxNkQU_OTtpo4Fv2cdSECMJzCNZCWS4QQz6CTH91sALvc9Z71k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Petrolicious<\/a> wrote a very nice article about this year&#8217;s race, and touches exactly on those points. In the future people will look back and see 2020 as the last LMP1 race, where the TS050 won it&#8217;s third Le Mans in a row. But for us experiencing all this first hand and live, it sure was something strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t think anyone will say it was a bad race, but it was certainly atypical. The pandemic forced it to be closed to the public, so there were no fans and only the technical pre-race events happened. The pre-race parade and all the fan events did not happen, and media coverage was limited. So all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/22\/was-the-2020-race-a-good-le-mans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Was the 2020 race a &#8220;good Le Mans&#8221;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-le-mans","category-news","post_format-post-format-image"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10956,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions\/10956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}