{"id":3811,"date":"2009-03-16T05:43:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2009-03-16T05:43:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:43:57","slug":"motorcycle-ama-ben-spies-doubles-up-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3811","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; AMA &#8211; Ben Spies Doubles Up in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yamaha rider Ben Spies lived up to the hype again in Qatar today, <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #0054a6! important; position: static;\"><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; position: relative;\">riding<\/span><\/span> an incredible two races to take his second and third consecutive victories in the Losail heat. Dropping to fifth from the start of the first race, the three-time AMA champion moved up to third position on lap four to tuck in behind race leader <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #0054a6! important; position: static;\"><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; position: relative;\">Max <\/span><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; position: relative;\">Biaggi<\/span><\/span> and second placed rider Noriyuki Haga for most of the race. The super calm Texan waited for his moment six laps from the end to make his move. &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoracingdaily.com\/news\/superbike\/ama-ben-spies-doubles-up-in-qatar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yamaha rider Ben Spies lived up to the hype again in Qatar today, riding an incredible two races to take his second and third consecutive victories in the Losail heat. Dropping to fifth from the start of the first race, the three-time AMA champion moved up to third position on lap four to tuck in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3811","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\/3811","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=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}