{"id":6784,"date":"2009-03-31T09:14:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T16:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6784"},"modified":"2009-03-31T10:03:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T17:03:12","slug":"automobile-drag-racing-sports-cars-fundraiser-force-to-honor-shelby-at-special-charity-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6784","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drag Racing Sports Cars Fundraiser &#8211; Force to honor Shelby at special charity affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fourteen-time NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Funny Car champion John Force will be the guest speaker Wednesday night at the fourth annual Speedway Children&#8217;s Charities Mel Larson Night of Champions Dinner presented by AutoTrader.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This year&#8217;s event will honor American automotive and motorsports legend Carroll Shelby and will be held in the Bellagio Hotel &amp; Casino&#8217;s Grand Ballroom in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Carroll sets the bar very high for everyone else in motorsports,&#8221; said Force, who has 126 NHRA Funny Car final-round wins to his credit. &#8220;He is truly a legend and I feel honored to be a part of any function that honors him and his accomplishments. We have a lot in common. We&#8217;re both racers; we&#8217;re both Ford guys and we&#8217;re both big storytellers. It&#8217;ll be great to get together with him again in Las Vegas.&#8221;&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.go2geiger.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1170:force-to-speak-at-mel-larson-night-of-champions&amp;catid=1:pronews&amp;Itemid=17\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jdoqocy.com\/placeholder-3701045?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen-time NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Funny Car champion John Force will be the guest speaker Wednesday night at the fourth annual Speedway Children&#8217;s Charities Mel Larson Night of Champions Dinner presented by AutoTrader.com. This year&#8217;s event will honor American automotive and motorsports legend Carroll Shelby and will be held in the Bellagio Hotel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,71,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784","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=6784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6830,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}