{"id":51145,"date":"2011-06-26T08:40:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=51145"},"modified":"2011-06-26T08:40:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:40:38","slug":"motorcycle-motogp-ben-spies-scores-his-first-motogp-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=51145","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle MotoGP &#8211; Ben Spies scores his first MotoGP victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spies Relieved To Win On Special Weekend For Yamaha<\/p>\n<p>Ben Spies was delighted to score his first MotoGP victory on the weekend that Yamaha marked 50 years in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. The Texan took the lead early in the first lap and an incident between teammate Jorge Lorenzo and Marco Simoncelli gave him the springboard for a comfortable victory.<\/p>\n<p>Within three laps, Spies was over four seconds clear of the rest of the field and\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk\/2011\/06\/spies-relieved-to-win-on-special-weekend-for-yamaha\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spies Relieved To Win On Special Weekend For Yamaha Ben Spies was delighted to score his first MotoGP victory on the weekend that Yamaha marked 50 years in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. The Texan took the lead early in the first lap and an incident between teammate Jorge Lorenzo and Marco Simoncelli gave him the [&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-51145","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\/51145","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=51145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51146,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51145\/revisions\/51146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}