{"id":79016,"date":"2013-05-09T19:48:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79016"},"modified":"2013-05-09T19:48:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:48:24","slug":"racing-through-africa-in-the-grandest-rally-on-the-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79016","title":{"rendered":"Racing Through Africa In The Grandest Rally On The Continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thomas Flohr, the chairman and sole shareholder of Swiss-based private plane company VistaJet, just bought $8 billion worth of new planes from Bombardier Bombardier Ask him about it\u2013the largest single transaction in the history of that aircraftmaker\u2013and he\u2019ll give you a matter-of-fact answer. But bring up the prospect of spending more than a week bouncing over 3,000 miles of rocks, sand, mud and grass, with snakes, lions, heatstroke and wind exposure thrown in for good measure, and he lights up. \u201cRacing is in my fingertips,\u201d he says over lunch in Montreal. \u201cIt\u2019s my passion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The object of his passion is the East African Safari Classic Rally, which he terms\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/hannahelliott\/2013\/05\/08\/racing-through-africa-in-the-grandest-rally-on-the-continent\/\" 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>Thomas Flohr, the chairman and sole shareholder of Swiss-based private plane company VistaJet, just bought $8 billion worth of new planes from Bombardier Bombardier Ask him about it\u2013the largest single transaction in the history of that aircraftmaker\u2013and he\u2019ll give you a matter-of-fact answer. But bring up the prospect of spending more than a week bouncing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79016","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=79016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79017,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79016\/revisions\/79017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}