{"id":146136,"date":"2018-10-27T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=146136"},"modified":"2018-10-27T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T16:28:09","slug":"top-19-weirdest-things-people-race-professionally-instead-of-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=146136","title":{"rendered":"Top 19 Weirdest Things People Race Professionally Instead Of Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love to race \u2013 that\u2019s just the long and short of it all. While a very small handful of men and women are fortunate enough to enjoy the thrills of life as a professional racecar driver, there are yet handful more who can afford it off to the side; plenty of entry-level events let you race just about anything you own. Still, for most of us regular folks, having a dedicated racecar to daily-drive or racing a dedicated commuter or family car just doesn\u2019t make sense. But rather than let the professionals and ballers have all the fun, us commuter-driving, regular guys find our own things to race.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, it\u2019s less about budgetary constraints and more about the fact that it can be raced out of necessity\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotcars.com\/top-things-people-race-instead-of-cars-like-professionally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love to race \u2013 that\u2019s just the long and short of it all. While a very small handful of men and women are fortunate enough to enjoy the thrills of life as a professional racecar driver, there are yet handful more who can afford it off to the side; plenty of entry-level events let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,8,45,30,32,55,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-misc","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-powerboat","category-sailing","category-skydiving-base-jumping-hang-gliding-paragliding","category-trucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146136","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=146136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146137,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146136\/revisions\/146137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}