{"id":1114,"date":"2010-07-25T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T06:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2010-07-25T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T06:24:11","slug":"age-versus-fitness-in-motor-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/07\/age-versus-fitness-in-motor-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Age Versus Fitness in Motor Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have often heard it argued that motor racing is not a sport, that it can&#8217;t be difficult to sit in a car and just drive.  Of course, just about any form of motor sport is hard work &#8211; anyone who thinks otherwise should take the chance to have a go at their local go-kart centre.  It&#8217;s not in any way as easy as the experts make it look.<\/p>\n<p>In the following video &#8211; produced in 1995 &#8211; the work involved is demonstrated by Larry Perkins and Paul Romano &#8211; in the process proving that age is also no barrier.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HvHE1Ltf3mA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have often heard it argued that motor racing is not a sport, that it can&#8217;t be difficult to sit in a car and just drive. Of course, just about any form of motor sport is hard work &#8211; anyone who thinks otherwise should take the chance to have a go at their local go-kart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[422,458,567],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-perkins","tag-romano","tag-v8sc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}