{"id":14330,"date":"2022-07-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=14330"},"modified":"2022-09-05T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T15:25:51","slug":"books-the-iroc-porsches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/19\/books-the-iroc-porsches\/","title":{"rendered":"Books &#8211; The IROC Porsches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/+upload\/+article\/books_iroc.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>&#8220;The IROC Porsches: The International Race of Champions, Porsche&#8217;s 911 RSR, and the Men Who Raced Them&#8221; &#8211; Matt Stone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Right around when I ordered my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/porsche-911-carrera-3-0-rsr-iroc-1-spark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">911 RSR IROC #1<\/a>, I also ordered this book. It took a <em>looooong <\/em>while to arrive, and I just finished it this week. Hardcover, with an embossed cover, 192 pages and a gazillion photos. The author dives DEEP into the 1973\/74 IROC season and the cars that were in the race. To the point that he describes the history of every single one of the 15 chassis that participated in the championship. For the Porsche fanboy (me) a treasure trove of information on this specific model. For the gearhead in general (me again) a fantastic description of a very interesting race series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\">The eagle-eyed coffee connoisseur probably identified that coffee as Nespresso \ud83e\udd2e. Yes, I confess, it is Nespresso. No, I don&#8217;t drink Nespresso (last one I had was before the pandemic, I think). Yet, I was in a hurry and didn&#8217;t have time to fire up my ECM and make a <em>proper <\/em>espresso. Looking back, though, I should have made a pour-over, instead. <br>May the God of Speed have mercy on my soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right around when I ordered my 911 RSR IROC #1, I also ordered this book. It took a looooong while to arrive, and I just finished it this week. Hardcover, with an embossed cover, 192 pages and a gazillion photos. The author dives DEEP into the 1973\/74 IROC season and the cars that were in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/19\/books-the-iroc-porsches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Books &#8211; The IROC Porsches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-books","category-racing","post_format-post-format-aside"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330","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=14330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14336,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330\/revisions\/14336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}