{"id":16202,"date":"2012-06-18T07:11:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16202"},"modified":"2012-06-18T07:11:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:11:28","slug":"ferrari-wins-top-gt-class-at-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/events-shows\/ferrari-wins-top-gt-class-at-le-mans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari wins top GT class at Le Mans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luca di Montezemolo has hailed Ferrari&#8217;s victory at Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-logos\/Ferrari.jpg\" alt=\"Ferrari\" width=\"288\" height=\"115\" \/>The premier prototype class was dominated by the German marque Audi, but on the top of the podium for the leading GT category &#8211; GTE-PRO &#8211; was a Ferrari 458 Italia.<\/p>\n<p>The car was fielded by the closely Ferrari-linked AF Corse team, and driven by the Ferrari test driver and former grand prix winner Giancarlo Fisichella.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an important victory in an important race which has always been important in the history of Ferrari,&#8221; Ferrari president Montezemolo said.<\/p>\n<p>Another Ferrari 458, fielded by Luxury Racing, finished second.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former Super Aguri driver Anthony Davidson is likely to be missing in the Valencia paddock this weekend following his huge airborne crash late on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Briton, also an expert pundit at grands prix for British broadcaster Sky, will remain in a French hospital until Wednesday, with two broken vertebrae.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more like three weeks until the pain subsides and I get my mobility back fully,&#8221; said Toyota prototype driver Davidson.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luca di Montezemolo has hailed Ferrari&#8217;s victory at Le Mans. The premier prototype class was dominated by the German marque Audi, but on the top of the podium for the leading GT category &#8211; GTE-PRO &#8211; was a Ferrari 458 Italia. The car was fielded by the closely Ferrari-linked AF Corse team, and driven by &#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":[19,20],"tags":[93,272,609,148],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16202"}],"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=16202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16203,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16202\/revisions\/16203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}