{"id":35631,"date":"2010-08-17T20:16:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T03:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35631"},"modified":"2010-08-17T20:16:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T03:16:47","slug":"why-ducati-and-rossi-will-make-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35631","title":{"rendered":"Why Ducati and Rossi Will Make Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wayne Rainey described an out-of-body experience when he was so totally in the zone on his race bike that his timing and his lines were perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 Rossi has talked about the same type of zone, and referred to it as making a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153poem\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on his motorcycle.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By hiring Valentino, Ducati not only gains, perhaps, the greatest rider of all time, but much more.\u00c2\u00a0 The timing, as I will discuss, is also perfect, and Rossi can leave Ducati with a valuable legacy a few years down the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nicky Hayden is an important part of this story.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, Nicky has often struggled since engine displacement in MotoGP was limited to 800cc a few years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 He loved the power and the handling characteristics that went along with the 990cc motors, and it was during that era that he won his World title\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycledaily.com\/2010\/08\/why-ducati-and-rossi-will-make-poetry\/\" 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>Wayne Rainey described an out-of-body experience when he was so totally in the zone on his race bike that his timing and his lines were perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 Rossi has talked about the same type of zone, and referred to it as making a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153poem\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on his motorcycle.\u00c2\u00a0 By hiring Valentino, Ducati not only gains, perhaps, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35631","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\/35631","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=35631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35633,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35631\/revisions\/35633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}