{"id":39375,"date":"2011-04-12T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=39375"},"modified":"2011-04-12T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T15:39:06","slug":"close-up-caterham-sp300r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2011\/04\/12\/close-up-caterham-sp300r\/","title":{"rendered":"Close-up: Caterham SP\/300R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2011\/04\/close_up_caterham_sp300r.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up Caterham SP\/300R\" title=\"Close-up Caterham SP\/300R\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/close_up_caterham_sp300r.jpg 480w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/close_up_caterham_sp300r-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today during the AutoRai 2011 we have a closer look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2011\/01\/17\/official-caterham-sp300r\/\">Caterham SP\/300R<\/a> released in January. The brand new Caterham model is a true racing car weighing only 450kg. The Caterham uses a supercharged 300bhp Ford Duratec engine connected to a semi-automatic gearbox with an overboost button providing up to 350bhp.<\/p>\n<p>Lola have taken responsibility for the chassis design. The SP\/300R features an aluminium tub with a longitudinally mid-mounted engine coupled to a stress-bearing rear transaxle. Downforce is applied through the use of a flat underbody, front splitter and large rear wing.<\/p>\n<p>Only 25 examples of the \u00a3 60,000 (\u20ac 71,800) machine scheduled to be built per year. 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The brand new Caterham model is a true racing car weighing only 450kg. The Caterham uses a supercharged 300bhp Ford Duratec engine connected to a semi-automatic gearbox with an overboost button providing up to 350bhp. Lola have taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3861,84],"tags":[10,12825,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}