{"id":624,"date":"2010-11-21T06:29:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T12:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=624"},"modified":"2010-11-21T06:29:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T12:29:54","slug":"race-leading-celica-throws-rods-20r-still-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"Race-Leading Celica Throws Rods, 20R Still Runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rod_throw_celica-600px.jpg\" alt=\"rod_throw_celica-600px\" title=\"rod_throw_celica-600px\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rod_throw_celica-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rod_throw_celica-600px-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nActually, this is pretty old news; the GT$500 Celica blew up at about 10:30 last night, shortly before I went back to the motel for some sleep while Judges Scott and Kent took over for the LeMons Supreme Court graveyard shift.<!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/former_race_leader-600px.jpg\" alt=\"former_race_leader-600px\" title=\"former_race_leader-600px\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/former_race_leader-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/former_race_leader-600px-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThe GT$500, which <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5282351\/gt500-celica-takes-the-new-orleans-lemons-checkered-flag-honda-wagovan-one-lap-behind\">won the &#8217;09 Laissez Les Crapheaps Roulez<\/a> race, had a two-lap edge over the second-place Turbo Poop Thunderbird when disaster happened: two rods right through the side of the block. Because the engine is&#8211; or, rather, <em>was<\/em> a rugged Toyota 20R, however, the car kept running well enough to finish the lap and drive back through the paddock in a cloud of oil smoke.<br \/>\n<em>Update:<\/em> According to graveyard-shift honcho Lamm, the race leader is now the Race Hard Race Ugly E30, followed by the Warthog Racing E30 and the Austin No Power Impreza. They&#8217;ve been on a several-hour break due to dangerous fog conditions (98% humidity in Belle Rose tonight) but should be back in action shortly. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, this is pretty old news; the GT$500 Celica blew up at about 10:30 last night, shortly before I went back to the motel for some sleep while Judges Scott and Kent took over for the LeMons Supreme Court graveyard shift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[441,271,269,268,450,447,270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}