{"id":1638,"date":"2019-04-14T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T20:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2019-04-14T13:59:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T20:59:37","slug":"spa-francorchamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/14\/spa-francorchamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Spa-Francorchamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/47436127102\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"462337_FB\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7831\/47436127102_cd69cd5e84_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"462337_FB\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A couple of slow laps (3:17s) from Spa &#8211; unfortunately I did not get good video on day 1 when the weather was much better. My theoretical best was 3:11 which I am pretty happy with for a FWD GTI hatchback rented from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsrspa.com\/\">RSR Spa<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LxoujaqszC0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circuit_de_Spa-Francorchamps#Eau_Rouge\">Eau Rouge<\/a> really is as difficult as they say and the track has a bunch of corners that require way more trust in the car and your abilities than I had for my first time there. This was my first international track day and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookatrack.com\/\">Book-A-Track<\/a> did a great job. It was a bit weird to only pass on the left but they ran a great event and I liked the open track (non-session) aspect of it.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/33598889988\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Spa Francorchamps - Bookatrack - 0021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7831\/33598889988_b2b30ab4eb_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Spa Francorchamps - Bookatrack - 0021\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of slow laps (3:17s) from Spa &#8211; unfortunately I did not get good video on day 1 when the weather was much better. My theoretical best was 3:11 which I am pretty happy with for a FWD GTI hatchback rented from RSR Spa. Eau Rouge really is as difficult as they say and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,6,22,12,10],"tags":[140,394,395,84,72],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-motorsport","category-personal","category-photos","category-track-days","category-videos","tag-in-car-video","tag-spa","tag-spa-francorchamps","tag-track-day","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqPFW-qq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}