{"id":115559,"date":"2016-03-14T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/115559\/local-racer-takes-top-spot\/"},"modified":"2016-03-14T11:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T09:25:50","slug":"local-racer-takes-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/03\/14\/local-racer-takes-top-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Local racer takes top spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is back to the track for local superbike racer Peter de la Rey.<\/p>\n<p>The Malvern East resident has started the new season of the South African National Drag Racing Championship on his new motorcycle, a BMW S1000RR superbike.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He competed in the superbike category in the first round of the championship at Tarlton International Raceway, recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started the new season with my new motorcycle after the correct spares arrived from the USA just in time for the event and it was worth the wait because I felt comfortable and quick straight away,\u201d De La Rey said.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI was the quickest in practice and qualified second, 2\/100ths of a second off pole and had a bit of extra speed in reserve so I felt very confident .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the racing started I really got going and managed a comfortable win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De la Rey added that he is really looking forward to the next event which is a Super Fest event and, therefore a big one, in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have got several small things to do on the bike and hope to improve it even more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you might be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/93633\/local-racer-is-charging-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\">Local racer is charging ahead<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='cd4c2ba084fb98060719b53a5b00eaed'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local superbike racer is ready to burn up the track in the South African National Drag Racing Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":115560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[6021,979,969,1351,2734,10223,1119,10222],"class_list":["post-115559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-drag-racing","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-malvern-east","tag-melissa-hart","tag-motorcycle-racing","tag-sport-2","tag-superbike-racing"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["drag racing","germiston","germiston city news","Malvern East","melissa hart","motorcycle racing","sport","superbike racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}