{"id":217,"date":"2015-03-01T21:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T21:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/?p=217"},"modified":"2015-03-01T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T21:16:05","slug":"rd-minis-johannesburg-historic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"RD Minis &#8211; Johannesburg Historic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RD-Joburg-Mini-Image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RD-Joburg-Mini-Image-1-300x160.png\" alt=\"RD Joburg Mini Image 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RD-Joburg-Mini-Image-1-300x160.png 300w, http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RD-Joburg-Mini-Image-1-750x399.png 750w, http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RD-Joburg-Mini-Image-1.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RD-Joburg-Mini-Image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RD-Joburg-Mini-Image-2-300x160.png\" alt=\"RD Joburg Mini Image 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RD-Joburg-Mini-Image-2-300x160.png 300w, http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RD-Joburg-Mini-Image-2-750x399.png 750w, http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RD-Joburg-Mini-Image-2.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An incredible double win for me tonight in the Race Department Mini races at Johannesburg Historic! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Paul Watkins joined me for the first time as my team mate, albeit not in an official Mighty Forth capacity, and overall we had a great nights racing!<\/p>\n<p>From the practice times it looked like we might be pretty quick in the race, and after qualifying 1-2, with Paul on pole, it seemed that we had a great chance of a result.\u00a0 Paul had a bad start and got bogged down, but I managed to pull away in first with Theo and Chris in close pursuit.\u00a0 I had an really intense battle with Theo for quite a few laps after that with us swapping places on the long home straight and eventually I managed to pull ahead and lose the tow, while Paul, charging through the field began to pressurise Theo.\u00a0 After that it was all about keeping a safe distance and taking a really good win from Theo and second, and Paul in a very close Third.<\/p>\n<p>Qualifying for race 2 went well again for the two of us again, but this time I took pole position and Paul was second.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Paul missed the start of race 2 and starting from the pit lane had a DQ for speeding, so it all ended pretty badly before it had begun for him!\u00a0 I got a great start and a very lonely race with no real threat from anyone behind me.\u00a0\u00a0 It was strange having so much daylight from pulling away and I had to keep the concentration levels high to avoid any silly mistakes.\u00a0 I led the whole race and took win number 2 by 14 seconds!\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure it would have been a closer run thing if Paul was alongside though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An incredible double win for me tonight in the Race Department Mini races at Johannesburg Historic! \ud83d\ude42 Paul Watkins joined me for the first time as my team mate, albeit not in an official Mighty Forth capacity, and overall we had a great nights racing! From the practice times it looked like we might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29,27,30,28,22,21,13],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fastest-lap","tag-johannesburg","tag-mini","tag-pole","tag-race-department","tag-rd","tag-win","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}