{"id":15739,"date":"2009-07-06T09:44:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T16:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15739"},"modified":"2009-07-06T09:44:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T16:44:04","slug":"motorcycle-road-racing-ama-pro-racing-announces-interest-in-450-singles-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15739","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Road Racing &#8211; AMA Pro Racing Announces Interest in 450 Singles Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMA Pro Racing announced today its interest in a 450cc singles class for future AMA Pro Road Racing seasons.\u00c2\u00a0 The purpose of the class would be to provide a gateway for young regional riders to ascend to the national ranks of professional motorcycle racing.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nOver the coming months, AMA Pro Racing officials will begin the process of testing the concept for performance, competition and safety characteristics as well as viability and interest in the marketplace. Preliminary plans call for the entry-level professional class to feature an arrive-and-ride format utilizing a single, yet-to-be-determined manufacturer and 450cc single-cylinder motorcycles prepared by a single tuner.\u00c2\u00a0 Entries in the class would be restricted to riders between the ages of 16 and 21, supplanting the requirements for AMA Pro SuperSport presented by Shoei&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superbike-news.co.uk\/absolutenmnet\/templates\/?z=4&amp;a=1624\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMA Pro Racing announced today its interest in a 450cc singles class for future AMA Pro Road Racing seasons.\u00c2\u00a0 The purpose of the class would be to provide a gateway for young regional riders to ascend to the national ranks of professional motorcycle racing. \u00c2\u00a0 Over the coming months, AMA Pro Racing officials will begin [&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-15739","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\/15739","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=15739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15740,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions\/15740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}