{"id":90107,"date":"2014-02-03T21:14:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90107"},"modified":"2014-02-03T21:14:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:14:42","slug":"indycar-engineer-contributes-to-u-s-bobsled-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90107","title":{"rendered":"IndyCar engineer contributes to U.S. bobsled squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An open-wheeled IndyCar and a streamlined bobsled may seem worlds apart, but for David Cripps \u2013 a former engineer for IndyCar Series team Panther Racing that\u2019s now helping the U.S. bobsled team in Sochi \u2013 his new job isn\u2019t much different from his old one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cMy responsibilities are very similar to an IndyCar race engineer. I am basically responsible for the performance, reliability, development and day-to-day running of the sleds,\u201d Cripps told IndyCar\u2019s official website ahead of training runs in Russia. \u201cThere has been a fairly large amount of development upgrades coming up to the Games.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/olympictalk.nbcsports.com\/2014\/02\/03\/indycar-engineer-contributes-to-u-s-bobsled-squad\/\" 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>An open-wheeled IndyCar and a streamlined bobsled may seem worlds apart, but for David Cripps \u2013 a former engineer for IndyCar Series team Panther Racing that\u2019s now helping the U.S. bobsled team in Sochi \u2013 his new job isn\u2019t much different from his old one. \u201cMy responsibilities are very similar to an IndyCar race engineer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,83,21,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-bobsled","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90107","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=90107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90108,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90107\/revisions\/90108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}