{"id":856,"date":"2013-01-24T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/?p=856"},"modified":"2013-12-14T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T16:34:40","slug":"wall-to-wall-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wall-to-wall-carpet\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall to wall carpet&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to go to Universal Raceway on the weekends: this is what indoor offroad carpet racing looks like (or at least the practice sessions: real races show <em>good<\/em> driving \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"530\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KTCfl1et0lg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s timed practice: split into 1\/8th-scale buggies, 1\/10 buggies, short-course and assorted,&#8230;. and finally 15-minute free-for-all sessions. If you watch the back wall as the cars go over the long set of triple jumps you&#8217;ll see where a projector shows a pie-chart flashing who should currently be on the track (look around 1:25-1:27 in the video). During races that projector runs the lap timing system.<\/p>\n<p>I broke about $30 in parts there last weekend. Go too fast around a 90-degre corner? Hit a concrete wall. Land wrong from a jump? Slam in to a concrete floor. The cars are durable&#8230; but still&#8230; little plastic pieces can only take so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to go to Universal Raceway on the weekends: this is what indoor offroad carpet racing looks like (or at least the practice sessions: real races show good driving \ud83d\ude42 ) That&#8217;s timed practice: split into 1\/8th-scale buggies, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wall-to-wall-carpet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Wall to wall carpet&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-dO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}