{"id":10373,"date":"2009-04-25T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T02:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10373"},"modified":"2009-04-25T22:04:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T05:04:12","slug":"automobile-autocross-sports-cars-autocross-racing-offers-fast-cheap-fun-with-all-kinds-of-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10373","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Autocross Sports Cars &#8211; Autocross racing offers fast, cheap fun with all kinds of cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The racecars are lined up side-by-side, the drivers strapped in, ready to take to the twisting course at Portland International Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>It is an eclectic grid of cars. An electric blue Z06 Corvette, with its wind-cheating body and fat, sticky tires, idles door-to-door with an aging Honda, sitting high on its 12-inch wheels.<\/p>\n<p>In other rows sit Mustangs, Subarus, a Camaro, a butterscotch yellow Porsche and an assortment of cars more typical of the parking lot at Costco than the paddock at PIR.<\/p>\n<p>That is the beauty of autocross. It&#8217;s a run-what-ya-brung sport &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/info\/drivetime\/index.ssf?\/base\/automotive\/124060111588930.xml&amp;coll=7\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The racecars are lined up side-by-side, the drivers strapped in, ready to take to the twisting course at Portland International Raceway. It is an eclectic grid of cars. An electric blue Z06 Corvette, with its wind-cheating body and fat, sticky tires, idles door-to-door with an aging Honda, sitting high on its 12-inch wheels. In other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autocross","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373","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=10373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10375,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373\/revisions\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}