{"id":10452,"date":"2009-04-25T21:58:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T04:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10452"},"modified":"2009-04-27T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T22:11:57","slug":"motorcycle-raod-racing-motogp-preview-grand-prix-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10452","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Raod Racing &#8211; MotoGP Preview: Grand Prix Of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THE AMERICANS: U.S. riders Nicky Hayden (Owensboro, Ky., Ducati Team) and Colin Edwards (Houston, Yamaha Tech 3) will compete in this race. Edwards is fourth and Hayden 12th in the MotoGP standings after one race this season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Nicky Hayden: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My first GP with Ducati didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly go as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d hoped, but we took some positives out of it. I lapped quicker in the second half of the race than I had done all weekend, and above all, I felt comfortable on the bike. Hopefully this will help us work out what it is exactly that I need to improve my feeling with the bike because being so far off the pace in practice wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cool! Physically I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m OK. No doubt, the race was tough because I was pretty beaten up, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve recovered well and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect to have any problems in Japan. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably go to the Clinica on Thursday to have the stitches removed, and that will be the end of the matter&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theautochannel.com\/news\/2009\/04\/23\/458040.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE AMERICANS: U.S. riders Nicky Hayden (Owensboro, Ky., Ducati Team) and Colin Edwards (Houston, Yamaha Tech 3) will compete in this race. Edwards is fourth and Hayden 12th in the MotoGP standings after one race this season. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Nicky Hayden: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My first GP with Ducati didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly go as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d hoped, but we took some positives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452","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=10452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10454,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452\/revisions\/10454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}