{"id":186797,"date":"2017-02-06T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T10:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/opinion\/what-makes-a-racer\/"},"modified":"2019-09-19T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:21:31","slug":"what-makes-racer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/articles\/sports-cars\/what-makes-racer\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a racer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The story behind saving 1.3 tonnes from the road-going Bentley Continental to make a GT3 racer&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Frankel was lucky enough to go to the Bathurst 12 Hours this year courtsey of&nbsp;Bentley (you can read his other content below). Even though the team had better things to do,&nbsp;he managed to persuade<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/races\/6789-2003-le-mans-24-hours\"> 2003 Le Mans 24 Hours<\/a> winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/12355-guy-smith\">Guy Smith<\/a> to walk him round Bentley&#8217;s GT3 machine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0TrgXdJSPw\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/opinion\/sports-cars\/ferrari-masters-mountain-bathurst-win\"><strong>Ferrari masters the Mountain for Bathurst win<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/opinion\/sports-cars\/magic-bathurst\"><strong>The magic of Bathurst<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story behind saving 1.3 tonnes from the road-going Bentley Continental to make a GT3 racer&nbsp; Andrew Frankel was lucky enough to go to the Bathurst 12 Hours this year courtsey of&nbsp;Bentley (you can read his other content below). Even though the team had better things to do,&nbsp;he managed to persuade 2003 Le Mans 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":186798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118743,121827,118722],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572509,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186797\/revisions\/572509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}