{"id":55,"date":"2006-07-13T23:20:04","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T06:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/wordpress\/?p=55"},"modified":"2009-10-16T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T22:06:15","slug":"bondurant-grand-prix-road-racing-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Bondurant School of High Performance Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attending the four-day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bondurant.com\/\">Bondurant Grand Prix Road Racing course<\/a> both fulfilled a lifelong dream and let me know how much more I need to learn about driving an automobile fast for competition. We spent the first three days of the class driving the Corvette C5, and the fourth day driving a Formula Ford. I definitely need to work on my heel-toe downshifting. The class was everything I expected, and more&#8230; I had all four tires in the dirt on a couple occasions, but managed to avoid hitting anything&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My next opportunity to drive a Formula Ford will be during &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bondurant.com\/courses\/laptheoval.php\">Lap the Oval<\/a>&#8221; day at Phoenix International Raceway, in November. It is a non-competitive event, but should be a lot of fun; I&#8217;ve attended races at PIR since grade school, and have always wanted to drive on that track&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/Bondurant_GPRR\">Images from the Bondurant Grand Prix Road Racing class, Day 4<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/Bondurant_GPRR\/127_2773a.jpg\" alt=\"Driving a Formula Ford\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attending the four-day Bondurant Grand Prix Road Racing course both fulfilled a lifelong dream and let me know how much more I need to learn about driving an automobile fast for competition. We spent the first three days of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=55\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}