{"id":44889,"date":"2011-02-21T20:19:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T03:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=44889"},"modified":"2011-02-21T20:19:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T03:19:19","slug":"motogp-lorenzo-spies-is-a-title-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=44889","title":{"rendered":"MotoGP &#8211; Lorenzo: Spies is a title threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo believes his new Yamaha teammate Ben Spies will be a title threat from the outset as he steps up to the factory team for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Spies is only in his second year of MotoGP, having won the World Superbike crown at the first attempt in 2009 and then took sixth in the 2010 standings with the satellite Tech 3 Yamaha team.\u00c2\u00a0Asked what he expected from Spies this year, Lorenzo replied: &#8220;I think Ben is\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/lorenzo-spies-is-a-title-threat\/article\/196717\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo believes his new Yamaha teammate Ben Spies will be a title threat from the outset as he steps up to the factory team for 2011. Spies is only in his second year of MotoGP, having won the World Superbike crown at the first attempt in 2009 and then took sixth in [&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-44889","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\/44889","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=44889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44890,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44889\/revisions\/44890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}