{"id":567,"date":"2017-06-28T08:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2017-06-28T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T15:20:55","slug":"sovren-spring-sprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"SOVREN Spring Sprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/34@Seattle_2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-569\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/34@Seattle_2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/34@Seattle_2017.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/34@Seattle_2017-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/34@Seattle_2017-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">#34 ran well all weekend despite not having the best gear in the diff for this track.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I ran the #34 2002 at the SOVREN Spring Sprints held on April 28-30 at Pacific Raceway outside Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fun weekend with lots of track time. I had some good racing with several other cars.<\/p>\n<p>I should mention that this car has the old style long-neck differential in it. Because of that there are a limited number of diff ratios available for the car.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle has a very long front straight and with the gear I had in the car I was hitting 8,000 RPM about 1\/2 to 2\/3 0f the way down the straight. So I had to feather the throttle and this was costing me about a second a lap.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video from the weekend:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SOVREN Spring Sprints 2017- Group 2 Highlights\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w8_Lw8YPEis?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran the #34 2002 at the SOVREN Spring Sprints held on April 28-30 at Pacific Raceway outside Seattle. It was a fun weekend with lots of track time. I had some good racing with several other cars. I should mention that this car has the old style long-neck differential in it. Because of that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/?p=567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SOVREN Spring Sprints<\/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":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","category-races"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}