{"id":16885,"date":"2009-07-20T17:56:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16885"},"modified":"2012-08-05T14:27:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T21:27:51","slug":"automobile-drifting-off-road-dirt-track-sturbin-danger-history-collide-in-%e2%80%98race-to-the-clouds%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16885","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drifting Off-road dirt track &#8211; Sturbin: Danger, History Collide In \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcRace To The Clouds\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the spirit of Parnelli Jones, world-class rally aces Marcus Gr\u00c3\u00b6nholm and Andreas Eriksson will scale Pikes Peak Sunday determined to crack the elusive 10-minute barrier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jones, one of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most versatile drivers, won the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in 1963 and 1964 in a Mercury Marauder set up as a U.S. Auto Club stock car. Gr\u00c3\u00b6nholm, a two-time World Rally Car champion, and Eriksson, a four-time Swedish Rally champion, will tackle the 87th edition of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Race to the Clouds\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in a pair of supercharged Ford Fiestas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite their impressive rally credentials, Gr\u00c3\u00b6nholm and Eriksson have spent this week in and around Colorado Springs, Colo., adjusting to the serpentine 12.42-mile course and thin air as bonafide rookies. Jones, the 1963 Indianapolis 500 champion, suggested that was a wise approach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Those rally guys are pretty brave guys anyway, running on the circuits they run&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racintoday.com\/archives\/7829\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of Parnelli Jones, world-class rally aces Marcus Gr\u00c3\u00b6nholm and Andreas Eriksson will scale Pikes Peak Sunday determined to crack the elusive 10-minute barrier. Jones, one of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most versatile drivers, won the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in 1963 and 1964 in a Mercury Marauder set up as a U.S. Auto Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,60,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drifting","category-off-road-auto","category-sprints-midgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885","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=16885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67894,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885\/revisions\/67894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}