{"id":48394,"date":"2011-04-25T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=48394"},"modified":"2011-04-25T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:16:24","slug":"video-drifting-fun-at-infineon-every-wednesday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=48394","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Drifting Fun at Infineon every Wednesday Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A new attraction at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma brings a popular overseas form of car racing called &#8220;drifting&#8221; to the local racing scene, Wednesday April 13, 2011. During Wednesday night drags this summer, the lower paddock will be converted to a drift course for Bay Area racers, amateur and professional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230; Where else but your PlayStation do you see someone roar full-throttle into a 180-degree turn, skid sideways through the bend and then immediately start a squealing slide into the next turn \u00e2\u20ac\u201d all while maintaining speed and control?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; display: block;\">But silicon chips can&#8217;t conjure the smoke and noise from burning rubber that filled the air around the course. And Swan, and his fellow drivers, are flesh-and-blood participants in the surest motorsporting trend to bald your tires: Drifting\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressdemocrat.com\/article\/20110424\/ARTICLES\/110429679?Title=Drifting-along-at-Infineon&amp;tc=ar\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=911214221001&#038;playerID=30062553001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAABGMt5U~,qb_SkHeXnERaNFEFlltSIS27hK8-HgW2&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=911214221001&#038;playerID=30062553001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAABGMt5U~,qb_SkHeXnERaNFEFlltSIS27hK8-HgW2&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new attraction at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma brings a popular overseas form of car racing called &#8220;drifting&#8221; to the local racing scene, Wednesday April 13, 2011. 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