{"id":29163,"date":"2010-03-19T20:19:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T03:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29163"},"modified":"2010-03-19T20:38:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T03:38:43","slug":"off-road-racing-insight-the-art-of-big-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29163","title":{"rendered":"Off-road Racing &#8211; Insight: The art of big air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A key component \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and a major attraction to spectators \u00e2\u20ac\u201c of short-course racing as practiced by the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series is the air. No, we&#8217;re not talking about the atmosphere, mixed with the lovely smells of race fuel and a bit of dust; we&#8217;re talking hang time, the big air the trucks and buggies get when they leap off the tabletop jumps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To spectators it&#8217;s exciting, especially when you have a host of trucks coming off the jump at the same time. It appears to be a few seconds of uncontrolled chaos followed by a big thump at the end\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/insight-the-art-of-big-air\/article\/166138\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key component \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and a major attraction to spectators \u00e2\u20ac\u201c of short-course racing as practiced by the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series is the air. No, we&#8217;re not talking about the atmosphere, mixed with the lovely smells of race fuel and a bit of dust; we&#8217;re talking hang time, the big air the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-off-road-auto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29163","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=29163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29170,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29163\/revisions\/29170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}