{"id":680,"date":"2010-03-27T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2010-03-27T18:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T01:00:20","slug":"superbike-races-at-fontana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Superbike Races at Fontana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another first for me today.  I went out to Fontana Raceway(where they hold the California 500 NASCAR Race) and watched really fast motorcycles race.  I&#8217;ve added the pictures to my <a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.org\/gallery\/amasuperbike2010\">gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have watched motorcycle races on TV many times and have always been amazed at the amount they lean in the corners.  Today I found the most amazing thing was how fast they get going in the straight.  These are motorcycles with the same basic engine that I have in mine in that they are 1000cc.  These bikes have quite a bit more horsepower although not as much more as I would have thought.  Mine has about 130 and these have 200.  They hit over 175 MPH in the straight and they get there pretty fast.<\/p>\n<p>One problem today was very high wind.  I was hit with it on the way out(I rode my bike) and couldn&#8217;t believe they would actually race it in.  They did postpone the race for about an hour and a half and when they did finally start it was still quite windy.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say it was a lot of fun.  I would do it again as long as I knew it wasn&#8217;t going to be so windy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another first for me today. I went out to Fontana Raceway(where they hold the California 500 NASCAR Race) and watched really fast motorcycles race. I&#8217;ve added the pictures to my gallery. I have watched motorcycle races on TV many times and have always been amazed at the amount they lean in the corners. Today I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}