{"id":36063,"date":"2010-08-24T06:42:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=36063"},"modified":"2010-08-24T07:01:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T14:01:17","slug":"video-low-budget-car-race-for-citroen-2cv-enthusiasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=36063","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Low Budget Car Race For Citroen 2CV Enthusiasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s more like the drone of bees than the roar of racing car engines &#8230; the annual 24-hour Citroen 2CV race gets underway at Snetterton in England.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These cars are seriously unsuitable for racing and have been compared to garden sheds.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But enthusiasts love them &#8211; and racing the old Citroens takes a great amount of skill.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Especially when the competition heats up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Car restorer Paul Robertson says the greatest skill needed to drive these cars is maintaining speed around corners &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/english.ntdtv.com\/ntdtv_en\/ns_europe\/2010-08-24\/549038627653.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\" data=\"http:\/\/english.ntdtv.com\/mFlvPlayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http:\/\/media5.ntdtv.com\/eBrief\/news\/20100824-WN-12_Low-Budget-Car-Race-For-Citroen-2CV-Enthusiasts.flv&amp;overstretch=true&amp;searchbar=false&amp;image=http:\/\/english.ntdtv.com\/sysImages\/no_pic.jpg&amp;autostart=false\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/english.ntdtv.com\/mFlvPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s more like the drone of bees than the roar of racing car engines &#8230; the annual 24-hour Citroen 2CV race gets underway at Snetterton in England. These cars are seriously unsuitable for racing and have been compared to garden sheds.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But enthusiasts love them &#8211; and racing the old Citroens takes a great amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,25,73,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-video-general","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36063","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=36063"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36076,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36063\/revisions\/36076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}