{"id":5225,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:29:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:29:33","slug":"audi-and-peugeot-diesels-wheel-to-wheel-halfway-through-sebring-wvideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5225","title":{"rendered":"Audi and Peugeot diesels wheel to wheel halfway through Sebring w\/video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2009 12 Hours of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/chrysler\/sebring\/\">Sebring<\/a> closes in on the halfway point, it&#x27;s a battle royal between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/diesel\/\">diesels<\/a> from Germany and France with the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/acura\/\">Acuras<\/a> still running close as well. Moments ago Alan McNish in the No <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/polestar\/2\/\">2<\/a> Audi R15 TDI was running wheel to wheel with Franck Montagny in the No 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/peugeot\/\">Peugeot<\/a> 908. The second R15 in the hands of Mike Rockenfeller is just over 20 seconds back followed closely by the first of the new Acura ARX-02a LMP1 cars driven my Scott Dixon. The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/audi\/\">Audis<\/a> are handling the bumpy Florida track well showing better control through the corners than the old R10s did. There are still more 6 hours to go as we write this and it looks like it will be a race to the finish. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtv.com\/programs\/american-le-mans-series-on-board-pass\/\">Speed is showing the race in HD on the tube as well as streaming it online<\/a>. Audi also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/R15-TDI\/60311816743?v=wall&#038;viewas=552960200#\/pages\/R15-TDI\/60311816743?ref=mf\">has a Facebook page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/audiR15tdi\">twitter feed<\/a> for the R15 with updates, photos and video throughout the day. Don&#x27;t forget all of these cars are also vying for the ALMS Green Challenge Championship as well. Don&#x27;t forget to check the video after the jump<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/americanlemans.com\/index_live2.php\">American Le Mans<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/03\/21\/audi-and-peugeot-diesels-wheel-to-wheel-halfway-through-sebring\/<\/p>\n<p>2009-03-21T16:10:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2009 12 Hours of Sebring closes in on the halfway point, it&#x27;s a battle royal between the diesels from Germany and France with the new Acuras still running close as well. Moments ago Alan McNish in the No 2 Audi R15 TDI was running wheel to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10152,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions\/10152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}