{"id":8729,"date":"2009-04-10T22:19:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T05:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2009-04-10T22:23:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T05:23:40","slug":"electric-motorcycle-road-racing-motorcycle-green-grand-prix-draws-a-packed-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8729","title":{"rendered":"Electric Motorcycle Road Racing &#8211; Motorcycle Green Grand Prix Draws A Packed Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Twenty-three electric motorcycles will line up for the start of the world&#8217;s first zero-emissions grand prix, a 37-mile dash around the famed Isle of Man that&#8217;s drawn riders no less impressive than the machinery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eighteen teams have answered the challenge thrown down by British entrepreneur Azhar Hussain, who founded the TTXGP motorcycle race to prove going green doesn&#8217;t mean going slow. Teams will descend on the Isle of Man &#8211; home of one of the oldest and most storied races in all of motorsports &#8211; from as far away as India for the June 12 event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;We are thrilled with the high level of interest the TTXGP has generated globally, and the superb quality of the teams that will be involved,&#8221; Hussain said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The bulk of the teams come from the United States and the U.K, but other countries we&#8217;ll see on the grid include India, Germany, Austria and, of course, the Isle of Man&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/cars\/2009\/04\/green-grand-pri.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details, pictures, teams\u00c2\u00a0and riders<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-three electric motorcycles will line up for the start of the world&#8217;s first zero-emissions grand prix, a 37-mile dash around the famed Isle of Man that&#8217;s drawn riders no less impressive than the machinery. Eighteen teams have answered the challenge thrown down by British entrepreneur Azhar Hussain, who founded the TTXGP motorcycle race to prove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729","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=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8732,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions\/8732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}