{"id":44651,"date":"2011-02-16T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=44651"},"modified":"2011-02-16T08:01:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:01:39","slug":"chip-yates-brings-electric-motorcycle-within-15-seconds-of-daytona-sportbike-qualifying-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=44651","title":{"rendered":"Chip Yates Brings Electric Motorcycle Within 1.5 Seconds of Daytona Sportbike Qualifying Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are electric motorcycles, and then there is Chip Yates and the Swigz Racing team. Yates&#8217; electric motorcycle isn&#8217;t like other electric bikes you&#8217;ve seen. The difference? Yates&#8217; bike is unbelievably fast. Yates and the Swigz Racing team just came within 1.4 seconds of the qualifying time for the AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To qualify for the Daytona Sportbike series, Yates would have to set a lap time of 1:35.88. Yates was almost able to hit that time this weekend during a two day test at the Auto Club Speedway. Yates ended the test with\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbikes.com\/motorcycle-sports\/ama-racing\/4047-chip-yates-brings-electric-motorcycle-within-15-seconds-of-daytona-sportbike-qualifying-time\" 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>There are electric motorcycles, and then there is Chip Yates and the Swigz Racing team. Yates&#8217; electric motorcycle isn&#8217;t like other electric bikes you&#8217;ve seen. The difference? Yates&#8217; bike is unbelievably fast. Yates and the Swigz Racing team just came within 1.4 seconds of the qualifying time for the AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike series. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44651","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=44651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44652,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44651\/revisions\/44652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}