{"id":20682,"date":"2009-09-22T09:19:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T16:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20682"},"modified":"2009-09-22T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T19:46:17","slug":"automobile-rally-car-sti-drivers-rally-despite-crash-at-targa-newfoundland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20682","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Rally Car &#8211; STI Drivers rally despite crash at Targa Newfoundland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know things are not going well at Targa Newfoundland when your first day of competitive driving ends with a ride in an ambulance headed to St. John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, all sirens wailing, strapped head to toe on a hard stretcher. Minutes earlier, co-driver Keith Townsend and I had left the starting line for the first of two passes on the Flatrock stage aboard Subaru Rally Team Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race-prepared Targa STI.<\/p>\n<p>We had tested the car extensively on Mosport\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Driver Development Track a few weeks earlier and compared its outright speed and performance with that of a stock STI (see Posted Driving blog), but these were our first kilometres on the real roads of a Targa stage<br \/>\n&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/posteddriving\/archive\/2009\/09\/21\/drivers-rally-despite-crash-at-targa-newfoundland.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Details <\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/accounts\/default1\/banners\/dirtbagwr-468x60.jpg\" alt=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" title=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/scripts\/imp.php?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know things are not going well at Targa Newfoundland when your first day of competitive driving ends with a ride in an ambulance headed to St. John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, all sirens wailing, strapped head to toe on a hard stretcher. Minutes earlier, co-driver Keith Townsend and I had left the starting line for the first of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20682","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=20682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20712,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20682\/revisions\/20712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}