{"id":99445,"date":"2014-10-19T21:20:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T04:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=99445"},"modified":"2014-10-19T21:21:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T04:21:46","slug":"sports-car-racing-little-joe-huffaker-not-yet-out-of-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=99445","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Racing &#8211; &#8220;Little Joe&#8221; Huffaker not yet out of gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The siren song of racing at Laguna Seca was too much.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Huffaker had been retired from racing Sports Car Club of America races for a decade, but when club officials announced last fall that this year\u2019s national finals would be held at Laguna Seca \u2014 a course the veteran Huffaker likens to nearly his home track \u2014 he set his sights on qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Describing it as \u201csetting his sights\u201d on merely qualifying might be understating Huffaker\u2019s confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the beginning of the year, I had to knock the rust off but it came back,\u201d he said. \u201cI was\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressdemocrat.com\/sports\/2978842-181\/benefield-petaluma-racer-not-yet#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The siren song of racing at Laguna Seca was too much. Joe Huffaker had been retired from racing Sports Car Club of America races for a decade, but when club officials announced last fall that this year\u2019s national finals would be held at Laguna Seca \u2014 a course the veteran Huffaker likens to nearly his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99445","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=99445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99447,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99445\/revisions\/99447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}