{"id":18617,"date":"2025-06-15T11:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=18617"},"modified":"2025-06-16T07:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:38:11","slug":"oh-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/oh-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh well&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/+upload\/+article\/lemans2025a.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Against all my wishes, Maranello wins again&#8230; \ud83e\udd23 At least it was a privateer (whatever the brand, I&#8217;ll always side with the little guy). Nonetheless, a nice race, and contrary to last year, almost no safety car. After the hyperpole I had hopes specially for Cadillac and perhaps, Alpine and BMW. Yet, Cadillac never got close to the lead, just like BMW and Alpine. About Toyota, on the other hand, I was sure they would be up in the front, with Ferrari and Porsche, but they had a very slow race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nonetheless, my money was on Ferrari to win again, unless they had their F1 team to manage things in La Sarthe \ud83d\ude02. I didn&#8217;t think the 963 had a great chance and I was glad to see the Valkyries finishing the race. In LMP2, my favorite, the ORECA 07 #199 <em>&#8220;Spike the Dragon&#8221;<\/em>, finished in third (well, first in LMP2 Pro-Am). For GT3 I was routing for the Iron Dames&#8217; #85, but they finished all the way in the back \ud83d\ude25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A nice race overall, with not much drama on track. In terms of 1:43rd, I <em>really<\/em> want the Spike ORECA, BMW&#8217;s M Hybrid V8 #20 (beautiful!) and the Dames&#8217; #85. Oh, and possibly Mercedes AMG-GT3 #61.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against all my wishes, Maranello wins again&#8230; \ud83e\udd23 At least it was a privateer (whatever the brand, I&#8217;ll always side with the little guy). Nonetheless, a nice race, and contrary to last year, almost no safety car. After the hyperpole I had hopes specially for Cadillac and perhaps, Alpine and BMW. Yet, Cadillac never got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/oh-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh well&#8230;&#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-18617","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\/18617","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=18617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18625,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617\/revisions\/18625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}