{"id":100688,"date":"2014-11-22T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=100688"},"modified":"2014-11-22T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T20:35:50","slug":"video-insanity-is-drag-racing-a-rocket-powered-240-mph-go-kart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=100688","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Insanity Is Drag Racing a Rocket Powered 240 mph Go-Kart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SN Editor &#8211; I&#8217;ve spent many years in action sports and\u00a0Jack McClure is still the craziest guy I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0\u00a0We raced\u00a0Top Fuel Dragsters in the late 1960&#8217;s and 1970&#8217;s.\u00a0 Fast cars were running the full quarter mile in the mid 6 seconds at 220+ mph.\u00a0 Jack would sit on his little go-kart,\u00a0make 5 second\u00a0passes at 240\u00a0mph and completely show up the big boys.\u00a0 His idea of &#8220;safety&#8221; was to strap a parachute to the back of his neck.\u00a0 He planned to release the chute if any problems happened, be pulled out of the car backwards and slide to a stop on his ass.\u00a0 Always wondered what happened to him and fully expected to hear he was killed\u00a0in this go-kart.\u00a0 He&#8217;s now\u00a0back at it at 88 years old\u00a0 &#8230; CRAZY !!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackflag.jalopnik.com\/insanity-is-drag-racing-a-jet-powered-go-kart-1661485782\/+ballaban\" target=\"_blank\">Check out this article for more information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.captjackmcclure.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack McClure&#8217;s Web Site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Captain Jack McClure 1973<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kpmsLBAZVbs?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After over 40 years, Captain Jack McClure fires up his H2O2 Rocket Powered Kart to put on a show at the 2014 ManCup at the South Georgia Motorsports Park. This video covers Jack&#8217;s runs Nov 14-16, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mu4elRgY-yk?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SN Editor &#8211; I&#8217;ve spent many years in action sports and\u00a0Jack McClure is still the craziest guy I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0\u00a0We raced\u00a0Top Fuel Dragsters in the late 1960&#8217;s and 1970&#8217;s.\u00a0 Fast cars were running the full quarter mile in the mid 6 seconds at 220+ mph.\u00a0 Jack would sit on his little go-kart,\u00a0make 5 second\u00a0passes at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,61,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-karts","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100688"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100700,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100688\/revisions\/100700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}