{"id":14394,"date":"2014-07-07T18:36:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/bmw-m3-gt2-lined-up-for-le-mans\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T09:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T08:21:12","slug":"bmw-m3-gt2-lined-up-for-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/february-2010\/23\/bmw-m3-gt2-lined-up-for-le-mans\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW M3 GT2 lined up for Le Mans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BMW has announced its intention to enter the Le Mans 24 Hours this year with its controversial V8-powered M3 GT2 contender. <\/p>\n<p>The German manufacturer wants to race the M3 that competed in the 2009 American Le Mans Series in selected European events including the 24-hour races at Le Mans and Spa, and rounds of the Le Mans Series. However, it acknowledges that it will have to make changes to a car that has so far only been cleared to race under Le Mans rules in America and Asia. <\/p>\n<p>A BMW spokesperson said, \u201cThe car will have to be modified. It will not be a new car, but there will be changes that have a little bit of an influence on performance. We are in positive discussions with organisers and governing bodies regarding the approval of the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schnitzer Motorsport, which is leaving the World Touring Car Championship, will spearhead BMW\u2019s endurance assault in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":740,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,229,180],"issue_decade":[121600],"issue_year":[121601],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/14394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/14394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263489,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/14394\/revisions\/263489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14394"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=14394"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=14394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}