{"id":306,"date":"2009-02-04T04:44:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T00:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2009-03-17T22:33:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T05:33:27","slug":"ugly-formula-one-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Automobile F1 – Ugly Formula One cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

…can’t help thinking how revolting this year’s generation of Formula One cars look.<\/p>\n

The best looking of the breed is Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren, largely down to a trademark fancy paintjob, but I’ve seen that close up and it is no prettier in person than it is online.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem is the vast fairground-go-kart like front wings and silly, skinny\u00c2\u00a0stepladder rear wings mandated by the regulations.<\/p>\n

There have been plenty of ugly F1 cars in the past, but their aesthetic offence has often been an effort to…\u00c2\u00a0 More info \u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…can’t help thinking how revolting this year’s generation of Formula One cars look. The best looking of the breed is Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren, largely down to a trademark fancy paintjob, but I’ve seen that close up and it is no prettier in person than it is online.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem is the vast fairground-go-kart like front […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}