{"id":52422,"date":"2011-07-27T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T21:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52422"},"modified":"2011-07-27T14:44:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T21:44:57","slug":"motogp-hayden-defends-under-performing-rossi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52422","title":{"rendered":"MotoGP &#8211; Hayden defends under-performing Rossi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nicky Hayden has come to the defence of teammate Valentino Rossi in the face of criticism that the seven-time MotoGP world champion is not trying hard enough this season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rossi, who has notched up a record 79 wins in the premier motorcycle racing category, has been having a lack-lustre season after joining Ducati for 2011, his best result being a third place in France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;People who think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not trying are crazy,&#8221; said Hayden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I saw his right foot come off the peg a couple of times when\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supersport.com\/motorsport\/motogp\/news\/110727\/Hayden_defends_underperforming_Rossi\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>Nicky Hayden has come to the defence of teammate Valentino Rossi in the face of criticism that the seven-time MotoGP world champion is not trying hard enough this season. Rossi, who has notched up a record 79 wins in the premier motorcycle racing category, has been having a lack-lustre season after joining Ducati for 2011, [&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-52422","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\/52422","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=52422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52423,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52422\/revisions\/52423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}