{"id":5117,"date":"2010-05-07T20:16:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T00:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2010-05-07T20:16:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T00:16:43","slug":"endurance-sports-car-racings-biggest-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/alms\/endurance-sports-car-racings-biggest-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Endurance: Sports Car Racing&#8217;s Biggest Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s survival of the fittest &#8230; both physically and mentally<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Endurance is synonymous with sports car racing and the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr\u00f3n. It\u2019s the ultimate test of both man and machine with both being pushed to their limits. The third round of the 2010 season is at the demanding Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, which is even tougher when the race is six hours in length &#8211; taking competitors from daylight to dusk and then darkness.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"580\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IVvZbixXtJQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"580\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IVvZbixXtJQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s incredibly tough physically but almost mentally,\u201d said Muscle Milk Team CytoSport\u2019s Sascha Maassen. \u201cSometimes I\u2019ve had races where I\u2019ve been very hot and after the first two hours, I\u2019ll think \u2018I can\u2019t do another stint. It\u2019s impossible.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s experience,\u201d said JaguarRSR\u2019s Marc Goossens. \u201cIt\u2019s knowing how to adapt to situations and try to adapt as easily as you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more, tune into CBS Sports for the American Le Mans Series Monterey presented by Patr\u00f3n at 1:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, May 29.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/posts-alms\/Endurance-1.jpg\" alt=\"Endurance-1\" width=\"512\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | ALMS<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s survival of the fittest &#8230; both physically and mentally<\/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":[5264,5334,452,112,453,111,1056,5304,751],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117"}],"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=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5121,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}