{"id":30391,"date":"2010-04-11T09:19:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T16:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30391"},"modified":"2010-04-11T09:19:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T16:19:46","slug":"stoner-claims-qatar-motogp-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30391","title":{"rendered":"Stoner claims Qatar MotoGP pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Casey Stoner will start from pole for Sunday night&#8217;s MotoGP season opener in Qatar, having fended off arch-rival Valentino Rossi in qualifying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The duo battled for pole throughout the qualifying hour, with Stoner deposing Rossi just after the halfway point and then repeatedly improving until he reached a time of 1m55.007s.\u00c2\u00a0Rossi (Yamaha) edged closer, and was faster than Stoner around the first half of his final lap, but the Ducati&#8217;s performance in the final sector was just too strong, and Rossi fell 0.355sec short around the lap\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/stoner-claims-qatar-gp-pole\/article\/167734\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Stoner will start from pole for Sunday night&#8217;s MotoGP season opener in Qatar, having fended off arch-rival Valentino Rossi in qualifying. The duo battled for pole throughout the qualifying hour, with Stoner deposing Rossi just after the halfway point and then repeatedly improving until he reached a time of 1m55.007s.\u00c2\u00a0Rossi (Yamaha) edged closer, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30391","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=30391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30392,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30391\/revisions\/30392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}