{"id":14838,"date":"2009-06-18T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14838"},"modified":"2009-06-18T13:59:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:59:57","slug":"automobile-drag-racing-land-speed-record-san-carlos-buddies-share-love-of-racing-fast-at-bonneville-salt-flats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14838","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drag Racing Land Speed Record &#8211; San Carlos buddies share love of racing fast at Bonneville Salt Flats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Land speed record holder Dave McDonald of San Carlos can quickly provide a logical answer for almost any question about his hobby of choice \u00e2\u20ac\u201d drag racing at Utah&#8217;s Bonneville Salt Flats in his 1998 Pontiac Firebird.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He nonchalantly explained the parachutes on the back of the car with the fact that &#8220;brakes really don&#8217;t do you much good until you get down to about 100 (mph).&#8221; Nitrous oxide from the four 30-pound tanks in the car must be added to the fuel slowly in three stages to gain an extra 420 horsepower, he said, or the driver could &#8220;smoke the tires.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;We&#8217;re shifting into fifth gear at about 280 (mph). You don&#8217;t want the car to get squirrelly at that speed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The question, though&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/sanmateocountytimes\/localnews\/ci_12614028\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land speed record holder Dave McDonald of San Carlos can quickly provide a logical answer for almost any question about his hobby of choice \u00e2\u20ac\u201d drag racing at Utah&#8217;s Bonneville Salt Flats in his 1998 Pontiac Firebird. He nonchalantly explained the parachutes on the back of the car with the fact that &#8220;brakes really don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838","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=14838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14911,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838\/revisions\/14911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}