{"id":15991,"date":"2009-07-08T11:28:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T18:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15991"},"modified":"2009-07-08T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T18:28:18","slug":"autommobile-rally-car-off-road-motorcycle-motocross-pikes-peak-international-hill-climb-2009-%e2%80%93-event-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15991","title":{"rendered":"Autommobile Rally Car Off-road Motorcycle Motocross &#8211; Pikes Peak International Hill Climb 2009 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Event Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15992\" title=\"pikes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/07\/pikes.bmp\" alt=\"pikes\" \/>What began on August 10, 1916, as an automobile race featuring Barney Oldfield and Eddie Rickenbacker to help promote a new highway to the top of a Colorado mountain will present its 87th edition on Sunday, July 19, as America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second oldest motor sports race, behind only the fabled Indy 500.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, with almost 50 auto or truck drivers and 115 motorcycle racers in 11 divisions,including automotive, semi truck, exhibition, open wheel, super stock car, pro truck and motorcycle classes, will attack the 14,110-foot peak in one of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs most exciting sports events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Race to the Clouds takes its competitors to the summit of Pikes Peak, a distance of 19.99 km (12.42 miles) over 156 turns, climbing 1,439\u00c2\u00a0meters (4,721\u00c2\u00a0ft) from the start at Mile 7 on Pikes Peak Highway at 2,862\u00c2\u00a0meters (9,390\u00c2\u00a0ft) on grades averaging 7% over both gravel and paved sections&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rallybuzz.com\/ppihc-09-event-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What began on August 10, 1916, as an automobile race featuring Barney Oldfield and Eddie Rickenbacker to help promote a new highway to the top of a Colorado mountain will present its 87th edition on Sunday, July 19, as America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second oldest motor sports race, behind only the fabled Indy 500. The Pikes Peak International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,43,8,45,60,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-off-road-auto","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15991","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=15991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15994,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15991\/revisions\/15994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}