{"id":151882,"date":"2019-07-13T08:21:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=151882"},"modified":"2019-07-13T08:21:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:21:08","slug":"what-its-like-to-drive-an-electric-race-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=151882","title":{"rendered":"What It\u2019s Like to Drive an Electric Race Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Sellers is an electric race-car driver. That is, he races electric cars. Which isn\u2019t to say he isn\u2019t exciting\u2014i.e. electric\u2014on the track, but rather that he\u2019s currently competing in a Jaguar I-Pace EV, which its maker has organized a whole support series around called the I-Pace eTrophy, with races run before Formula E main events. He was in New York City recently to talk up the series, which comes to Brooklyn this weekend. New York bureau chief Jamie Kitman caught up with him and was there to record what he had to say. The text has been edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started similarly to most drivers, in carting when I was young, and I worked my way through there and then through the support series to IndyCar, Champ Car at the time. I did some\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.automobilemag.com\/news\/what-like-to-drive-ev-electric-race-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Sellers is an electric race-car driver. That is, he races electric cars. Which isn\u2019t to say he isn\u2019t exciting\u2014i.e. electric\u2014on the track, but rather that he\u2019s currently competing in a Jaguar I-Pace EV, which its maker has organized a whole support series around called the I-Pace eTrophy, with races run before Formula E main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,69,21,24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-electric-vehicles","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-rally-car","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151882","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=151882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151883,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151882\/revisions\/151883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}