{"id":88378,"date":"2013-12-21T19:41:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T02:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=88378"},"modified":"2013-12-21T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T04:09:07","slug":"motorcycle-video-yamaha-gifts-kenny-roberts-and-gary-jones-lifetime-achievement-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=88378","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Video &#8211; Yamaha Gifts Kenny Roberts and Gary Jones Lifetime Achievement Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yamaha loves its racers. From dirt to pavement, Yamaha understands its past champions played a major role in putting the Tuning Fork brand on the racing map. So when the company holds its year-end champions celebration, it\u2019s kind of a big deal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This year Yamaha\u2019s Bob Starr and Racing Director Keith McCarty paid tribute to two of its biggest racing stars, three-time and first American Grand Prix champion, Kenny Roberts, and four-time 250cc motocross champion Gary Jones, by honoring them with lifetime achievement awards. Roberts, in typical King Kenny fashion, made a dramatic entrance by\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle.com\/events\/yamaha-gifts-kenny-roberts-gary-jones-lifetime-achievement-awards\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kenny Roberts arrives at Yamaha Motor Corp. USA headquarters on the infamous TZ750 flat-tracker to accept a lifetime achievement award.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WBQ7jxtr3UE?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=25556\" target=\"_blank\">The Stoked News story and video of King Kenny and the TZ Flat-Tracker at the 1975 Indy Mile<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yamaha loves its racers. From dirt to pavement, Yamaha understands its past champions played a major role in putting the Tuning Fork brand on the racing map. So when the company holds its year-end champions celebration, it\u2019s kind of a big deal. This year Yamaha\u2019s Bob Starr and Racing Director Keith McCarty paid tribute to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,45,46,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-roadracing","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88378","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=88378"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88389,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88378\/revisions\/88389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}