{"id":8293,"date":"2013-05-25T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T23:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2013-05-25T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T23:30:18","slug":"closest-motor-racing-finish-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2013\/05\/closest-motor-racing-finish-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Closest Motor Racing Finish In History?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight, did <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Dempsey\">Peter Dempsey<\/a> &#8211; (running in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firestone_Indy_Lights\">Indy Lights<\/a> series) &#8211; just score the closest race victory in a motor racing event?<\/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\/Wp1klmtsWQA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>At 0.0026 seconds, he probably did.<\/p>\n<p>It was closer than even the previously recognised closest finish &#8211; (0.014 seconds) &#8211; between <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ayrton_Senna\">Ayrton Senna<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigel_Mansell\">Nigel Mansell<\/a> at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1986_Spanish_Grand_Prix\">1986 Spanish Grand Prix<\/a>:<\/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\/zQu8J8lQD9k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Damn impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight, did Peter Dempsey &#8211; (running in the Indy Lights series) &#8211; just score the closest race victory in a motor racing event? At 0.0026 seconds, he probably did. It was closer than even the previously recognised closest finish &#8211; (0.014 seconds) &#8211; between Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell at the 1986 Spanish Grand Prix: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[110,285],"class_list":["post-8293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-awesome","tag-indylights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293","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=8293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}