{"id":18724,"date":"2009-08-15T17:51:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T00:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18724"},"modified":"2009-08-19T12:06:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T19:06:36","slug":"automobile-sports-car-vintage-racing-historic-start-at-laguna-seca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18724","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car Vintage Racing &#8211; HISTORIC START AT LAGUNA SECA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Steve Earle looked like a kid in a candy store Friday as the 36th annual Rolex Monterey Automobile Races kicked off its three-day run at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca under spectacular sunny skies and a large opening-day crowd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I ran across Steve and his wife Debbie at The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering on the pristine grounds of Quail Lodge. Each year, there is a Historics to Quail run and the Earles were checking out the fabulous display and even better food that make up The Quail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This year, a combination of classes in the pre-war era made the trek (with California Highway Patrol escort) from the track to Quail Lodge and back. It&#8217;s a traffic-stopper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Steve said he flew back to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in a helicopter, which gives a whole new perspective on what is going on at the fabled race track&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereyherald.com\/search\/ci_13112538?IADID=Search-www.montereyherald.com-www.montereyherald.com\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Earle looked like a kid in a candy store Friday as the 36th annual Rolex Monterey Automobile Races kicked off its three-day run at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca under spectacular sunny skies and a large opening-day crowd. I ran across Steve and his wife Debbie at The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering on the pristine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18724","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=18724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18983,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18724\/revisions\/18983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}