{"id":1523,"date":"2026-04-19T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:26:16","slug":"the-lord-of-the-ring-its-raceday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"The lord of the ring | It\u2019s raceday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we&#8217;re racing round 2 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/gtel.team\/?tag=lord-of-the-ring\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"89\">\u201cLord of the Ring\u201d<\/a> series on the <a href=\"https:\/\/gtel.team\/?tag=nurburgring-nordschleife\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"52\">N\u00fcrburgring Nordschleife<\/a>\u2014this time in the far more aggressive Toyota MR2. Expect a completely different challenge: less about preserving momentum, more about keeping control as the mid-engine balance punishes overconfidence. Stay smooth, respect the curbs, and survive the Ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(109,83,60) 0%,rgb(51,25,25) 100%)\">Check&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/embed?height=800&amp;wkst=2&amp;bgcolor=%23ffffff&amp;ctz=UTC&amp;hl=en&amp;showPrint=0&amp;showCalendars=0&amp;src=M2dpZGpyMXQyZ3EwNHNlMHF0czhzNzdmdDRAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&amp;color=%237986CB&amp;style=border-width:0&amp;width=1000&amp;height=800&amp;frameborder=0&amp;scrolling=no\">our calendar<\/a>&nbsp;for the practice and race times in your timezone. If you&#8217;re new to racing with us, make sure to read the <a href=\"https:\/\/gtel.team\/?page_id=232\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"232\">Drivers code of conduct<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/gtel.team\/?page_id=609\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"609\">Rules and regulations<\/a> do apply and penalties will be issued if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re racing round 2 of the \u201cLord of the Ring\u201d series on the N\u00fcrburgring Nordschleife\u2014this time in the far more aggressive Toyota MR2. Expect a completely different challenge: less about preserving momentum, more about keeping control as the mid-engine balance punishes overconfidence. Stay smooth, respect the curbs, and survive the Ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9,89],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-gt-7","tag-lord-of-the-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtel.team\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}