{"id":72385,"date":"2012-11-21T20:34:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T03:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=72385"},"modified":"2012-11-21T20:34:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T03:34:47","slug":"global-rallycross-part-1-a-personal-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=72385","title":{"rendered":"Global Rallycross, part 1 &#8211; a personal view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rallycross had its foundation event at Lydden Hill, UK, back in 1967. It started booming in Britain in the late &#8217;70s, became a hugely popular sport in Europe (particularly Scandinavia) in the &#8217;80s and its modern form has recently caught light here in the USA in the form of the Global Rallycross Championship. In the first of a three-part series, RACER editor David Malsher examines the GRC&#8217;s intrinsic appeal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m by no means an ageist snob regarding the young nor do I believe that racing was necessarily better in X, Y or Z era, but I can remember being absolutely floored when I heard that Colin McRae&#8217;s presence at the X Games in 2006 had been a revelation to kids of a certain generation, who had played\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/insight-global-rallycross-part-1--a-personal-view\/article\/269375\/\" 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>Rallycross had its foundation event at Lydden Hill, UK, back in 1967. It started booming in Britain in the late &#8217;70s, became a hugely popular sport in Europe (particularly Scandinavia) in the &#8217;80s and its modern form has recently caught light here in the USA in the form of the Global Rallycross Championship. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72385","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=72385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72386,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72385\/revisions\/72386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}