{"id":159960,"date":"2020-12-29T19:24:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T02:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=159960"},"modified":"2020-12-29T19:24:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T02:24:22","slug":"racer-emma-kimilainen-walked-away-from-an-indy-lights-seat-when-the-team-demanded-she-pose-topless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=159960","title":{"rendered":"Racer Emma Kimil\u00e4inen Walked Away From An Indy Lights Seat When The Team Demanded She Pose Topless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an ambitious young woman in motorsport, Emma Kimil\u00e4inen was aiming for the top. After some success in Nordic motorsport, running Finnish Formula Ford and Swedish Radical championships, she was awarded a factory Audi team DTM test seat and continued in ADAC Formel Masters and Formula Palmer Audi. Then she walked away from it all, taking a four year hiatus from racing. She\u2019s always said that her funding simply dried up and it was time to take a break, but the truth, as it turns out, is a bit more sinister and a whole lot more creepy.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2010 season, still hoping to eventually make her way to Formula 1, Kimil\u00e4inen was negotiating for a ride &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/w-series-racer-emma-kimilainen-walked-away-from-an-indy-1845959279?utm_source=jalopnik_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=2020-12-29\" 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>As an ambitious young woman in motorsport, Emma Kimil\u00e4inen was aiming for the top. After some success in Nordic motorsport, running Finnish Formula Ford and Swedish Radical championships, she was awarded a factory Audi team DTM test seat and continued in ADAC Formel Masters and Formula Palmer Audi. Then she walked away from it all, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159960","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=159960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159961,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159960\/revisions\/159961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}