{"id":19344,"date":"2026-06-06T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=19344"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:07:09","slug":"its-that-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/its-that-time-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s that time of the year!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/api.lemans.org\/media\/cache\/api_news_large\/assets\/fileuploads\/69\/04\/6904cb8521776.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 7 days we&#8217;ll have the <em>24 Heures du Mans<\/em> 2026!!! I think this might reserve some surprises: a brand new manufacturer in Hypercar (18 cars in the class), 19 LMP2 cars (seems like ACO will not kill the class, unlike WEC) and 25 LMGT3 (with just two Porsches \ud83d\ude32).  Nonetheless, in Hypercar I don&#8217;t expect much from newcomer Genesis, so I guess it will once again be a battle of attrition between Ferrari and Toyota. Cool to have Astons in the fight, the same for BMW, but I doubt they&#8217;ll be true contenders. Well, unless shit happens, and shit happens a LOT at Le Mans. And just two porkers in a 62-car grid?!? I don&#8217;t think there were ever so few Porsches at La Sarthe since the early 50s&#8230; Troubling for sure \ud83e\udd28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who&#8217;s gonna watch it? In my house the family has been officially notified that the TV is mine from early Saturday to Sunday at lunch and I don&#8217;t give a flying crap about soccer \ud83d\ude01.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 7 days we&#8217;ll have the 24 Heures du Mans 2026!!! I think this might reserve some surprises: a brand new manufacturer in Hypercar (18 cars in the class), 19 LMP2 cars (seems like ACO will not kill the class, unlike WEC) and 25 LMGT3 (with just two Porsches \ud83d\ude32). Nonetheless, in Hypercar I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/its-that-time-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s that time of the year!&#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-19344","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\/19344","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=19344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19348,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19344\/revisions\/19348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}