{"id":1573,"date":"2010-01-15T14:43:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T19:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2010-01-15T14:43:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T19:43:21","slug":"another-look-st-petersburg-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/alms\/another-look-st-petersburg-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Another look: St. Petersburg 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Acura, Porsche ruled on streets of St. Pete in second round<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a stellar opening to the 2009 season, the American Le Mans Series headed slightly west from Sebring for the Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg. The weekend marked another historic first for Acura and Patr\u00f3n Highcroft Racing as Duncan Dayton\u2019s pairing of David Brabham and Scott Sharp won the first LMP1 race for the manufacturer and the first for the Acura ARX-02a.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video&#8230;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><object id=\"flashObj\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"@videoPlayer=61574251001&amp;playerID=61498358001&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/61498358001?isVid=1&amp;publisherID=1379168851\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashObj\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"@videoPlayer=61574251001&amp;playerID=61498358001&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/61498358001?isVid=1&amp;publisherID=1379168851\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashvars=\"@videoPlayer=61574251001&amp;playerID=61498358001&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" swliveconnect=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Acura\u2019s P2 offering proved just as capable with an overall runner-up finish for Adrian Fernandez and Luis Diaz in Lowe\u2019s Fernandez Racing\u2019s Acura ARX-01b. Flying Lizard Motorsports\u2019 duo of Porsche drivers J\u00f6rg Bergmeister and Patrick Long won the first of five straight rounds, a stretch that carried them to the GT2 championship.<\/p>\n<p>Check back next Wednesday for a review of the season\u2019s third round: the Tequila Patr\u00f3n American Le Mans Series at Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The American Le Mans Series will open its 12th season with America\u2019s greatest sports car race, the 58th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida from March 17-20. The green flag will fall at 10:35 a.m. on Saturday, March 20 with live coverage on SPEED. For ticket and accommodation information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/sebringraceway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">sebringraceway.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The annual American Le Mans Series Winter Test is scheduled for February 22-23, also at Sebring International Raceway.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Source ALMS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acura, Porsche ruled on streets of St. Pete in second round \u00a0 After a stellar opening to the 2009 season, the American Le Mans Series headed slightly west from Sebring for the Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg. The weekend marked another historic first for Acura and Patr\u00f3n Highcroft Racing as Duncan Dayton\u2019s pairing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[399,5264,40,38,5275,5273,5277,37,5280,236],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}