{"id":71572,"date":"2012-10-29T17:13:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T00:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=71572"},"modified":"2012-10-29T21:11:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T04:11:34","slug":"sports-car-283-mph-in-the-standing-mile-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=71572","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car &#8211; 283 MPH in The Standing Mile (record)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On October 16, Johnny Bohmer, owner of Performance Power Racing, strapped himself into the driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seat of his 1,700+ horsepower Ford GT, then pointed the nose towards the end of NASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shuttle Landing Facility runway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 15,000 foot runway, located on Merritt Island, would give Bohmer plenty of shut-down room after attempting to set a new standing mile speed record. With the folks from Guinness World Records on hand, Bohmer launched his Ford GT into the history books, achieving a standing mile speed of 283.232 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To put it in perspective, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1080134_performance-power-racing-ford-gt-sets-283-mph-standing-mile-record\" 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>On October 16, Johnny Bohmer, owner of Performance Power Racing, strapped himself into the driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seat of his 1,700+ horsepower Ford GT, then pointed the nose towards the end of NASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shuttle Landing Facility runway. The 15,000 foot runway, located on Merritt Island, would give Bohmer plenty of shut-down room after attempting to set a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71572","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=71572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71574,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71572\/revisions\/71574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}