{"id":2573,"date":"2005-06-21T00:22:15","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T04:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2005\/06\/21\/f-1-farce\/"},"modified":"2005-06-21T00:22:15","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T04:22:15","slug":"f-1-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2005\/06\/21\/f-1-farce\/","title":{"rendered":"F-1 farce&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what happened&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michelin shipped some tires to a F-1 race at Indy that were inadequate<br \/>\n\tfor the track<\/li>\n<li>After noticing this, they asked if they could swap the tires<\/li>\n<li>The rules makers said &quot;no&quot; and threatened to impose a huge penalty<\/li>\n<li>Instead of paying the penalty AND losing (the new tires would not have<br \/>\n\tbeen competitive), the drivers decided not to race<\/li>\n<li>Hilarity ensues&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/42896\">Grand Farce &#8211; MetaFilter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/planet-f1.com\/features\/letters\/story_19984.shtml\">Words<br \/>\n\tAre Too Good For This Farce&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Letters from Planet-F1.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what happened&#8230; Michelin shipped some tires to a F-1 race at Indy that were inadequate for the track After noticing this, they asked if they could swap the tires The rules makers said &quot;no&quot; and threatened to impose a huge penalty Instead of paying the penalty AND losing (the new tires would not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}