Location: Gainesville Raceway, Gainesville, Florida
\nDistance Traveled: 1743 miles<\/p>\n
After the war of attrition that was Sebring, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect to see many happy faces after the 200 mile hike north to Gainesville Raceway — home of the NHRA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gatornationals. Suprisingly, wide smiles and blaring car stereos greet us when we pull in for the second half of One Lap\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most grueling day so far.<\/p>\n
First up the tech and safety inspection.\u00c2\u00a0 Then Gainesville Raceway\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dan Robertson — looking like a tall Johnny Cash in his dark black cowboy hat — gives interested drivers a quick primer on the basics of drag racing. He covers everything from where to line up, how to stage, and what to do when the light goes green. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a basic run through, but important as there are just as many drag rookies here today as there were autocross newbies on Sunday…\u00c2\u00a0 Details & Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Location: Gainesville Raceway, Gainesville, Florida Distance Traveled: 1743 miles After the war of attrition that was Sebring, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect to see many happy faces after the 200 mile hike north to Gainesville Raceway — home of the NHRA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gatornationals. Suprisingly, wide smiles and blaring car stereos greet us when we pull in for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495","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=11495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11498,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495\/revisions\/11498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}