{"id":55411,"date":"2011-10-17T14:21:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=55411"},"modified":"2011-10-17T14:21:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:21:51","slug":"casey-stoner-takes-2011-motogp-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=55411","title":{"rendered":"Casey Stoner Takes 2011 MotoGP Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Casey Stoner Takes 2011 MotoGP Title (While Honda Takes Constructor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Title) in Convincing Style<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is no overstatement to say that Casey Stoner, and Honda, have dominated this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s MotoGP championship. Despite a DNF that was not his fault in Jerez (Valentino Rossi knocked him over like a bowling pin), Stoner has won nine races and clinched the title with two races remaining. Honda swept the podium at Phillip Island in part thanks to the difficulties suffered by Yamaha over the weekend (resulting in a DNS for both Lorenzo and Spies), but Honda has also clearly deserved this Constructor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s title (again, clinched two rounds early).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With two races remaining, Stoner has that rare opportunity to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycledaily.com\/2011\/10\/casey-stoner-takes-2011-motogp-title-while-honda-takes-constructors-title-in-convincing-style\/\" 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>Casey Stoner Takes 2011 MotoGP Title (While Honda Takes Constructor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Title) in Convincing Style It is no overstatement to say that Casey Stoner, and Honda, have dominated this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s MotoGP championship. Despite a DNF that was not his fault in Jerez (Valentino Rossi knocked him over like a bowling pin), Stoner has won nine races [&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-55411","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\/55411","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=55411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55412,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55411\/revisions\/55412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}