{"id":5939,"date":"2009-03-25T18:19:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T01:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2009-03-25T18:19:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T01:19:13","slug":"motorcycle-roadracing-q-and-a-with-ama-pro-racing-daytona-safety-car-controversy-and-buell-displacement-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5939","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Roadracing &#8211; Q and A with AMA Pro Racing: Daytona Safety Car Controversy and Buell Displacement Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you watched the 2009 Daytona 200, you probably enjoyed the close racing action, spills and thrills. But you may have a few questions and concerns about the safety of the racers and fairness of the class structure. Track illumination lights conked out, riders went down to avoid the &#8220;safety&#8221; car that was out on track during the yellow flag periods, and Danny Eslick on his Buell &#8211; with a 525cc displacement advantage over the 600cc Inline Four competition &#8211; had no trouble pulling the big-bucks factory-prepped Yamaha YZF-R6 racebike of winner Ben Bostrom and the Suzuki GSX-R600 of second-place finisher Jason DiSalvo. Eslick&#8217;s bike later lost ground when fairing repairs necessitated an extended pitstop&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycledaily.com\/25march09_controvesy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you watched the 2009 Daytona 200, you probably enjoyed the close racing action, spills and thrills. But you may have a few questions and concerns about the safety of the racers and fairness of the class structure. Track illumination lights conked out, riders went down to avoid the &#8220;safety&#8221; car that was out on [&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-5939","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\/5939","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=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5941,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions\/5941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}