{"id":59608,"date":"2012-01-28T09:44:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T16:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=59608"},"modified":"2012-01-28T09:44:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T16:44:37","slug":"sports-car-racing-q-a-travis-pastrana-on-rolex-24-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=59608","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Racing &#8211; Q &#038; A: Travis Pastrana on Rolex 24 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Action sports superstar Travis Pastrana is in the midst of developing his car racing career, and this weekend races in a Ferrari 458 with Michael Waltrip, Rob Kauffman and Rui Aguas in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. He&#8217;s done rallying in America and was slated to make his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut last season before crushing his ankle at the X Games. While Pastrana is a megastar to most of the sporting world, he&#8217;s merely a rookie at Daytona and in sports car racing. RACER web editor Tony DiZinno caught up with Pastrana during the AF Waltrip&#8217;s team driver change practice to see how he is taking to this experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R: Where does sports car racing fit in on your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cool list\u00e2\u20ac\u009d among all the things you&#8217;ve done?<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/q-a-travis-pastrana-on-rolex-24-debut\/article\/225204\/\" 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>Action sports superstar Travis Pastrana is in the midst of developing his car racing career, and this weekend races in a Ferrari 458 with Michael Waltrip, Rob Kauffman and Rui Aguas in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. He&#8217;s done rallying in America and was slated to make his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut last season before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59608","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=59608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59609,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59608\/revisions\/59609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}