{"id":27104,"date":"2016-06-22T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T19:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/hydrogen-powered-race-car-runs-laps-at-le-mans"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:55:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:55:16","slug":"hydrogen-powered-race-car-runs-laps-at-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/hydrogen-powered-race-car-runs-laps-at-le-mans","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen-Powered Race Car Runs Laps at Le Mans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hydrogen-powered-race-car-runs-laps-at-le-mans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ford\u2019s GT claimed first place in its class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on the 50th anniversary of the first of its four outright victories in the 1960s, and Porsche\u2019s 919 Hybrid snatched a second consecutive Le Mans victory.<\/p>\n<p>The unheralded news of this year\u2019s Le Mans race, however, is a hydrogen fuel cell race car completed laps on the Le Mans circuit for the first time in history.<\/p>\n<p>The pioneering car was a Green GT H2, driven around the French track by former Formula 1 driver Olivier Panis during a break in qualifying, and again before the race started.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hybridcars.com\/hydrogen-powered-race-car-runs-laps-at-le-mans\/\">http:\/\/www.hybridcars.com\/hydrogen-powered-race-car-runs-laps-at-le-mans\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford\u2019s GT claimed first place in its class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on the 50th anniversary of the first of its four outright victories in the 1960s, and Porsche\u2019s 919 Hybrid snatched a second consecutive Le Mans victory. The unheralded news of this year\u2019s Le Mans race, however, is a hydrogen fuel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67129,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27104\/revisions\/67129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}