{"id":10837,"date":"2015-01-06T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=10837"},"modified":"2017-08-01T14:29:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:29:52","slug":"dakar-2015-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/dakar-2015-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakar 2015 Kicks Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10843\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/243142_Full_HiRes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10843\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/dakar-2015-kicks-off\/243142_full_hires\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/243142_Full_HiRes.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"639,330\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Marc Bow Photography&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D7100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1388600725&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Marc Bow&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"243142_Full_HiRes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;http:\/\/blog.toyota.eu\/2014\/01\/14\/toyotas-dakar-challenge\/&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/243142_Full_HiRes-300x154.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/243142_Full_HiRes.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10843\" alt=\"http:\/\/blog.toyota.eu\/2014\/01\/14\/toyotas-dakar-challenge\/\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/243142_Full_HiRes.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/243142_Full_HiRes.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/243142_Full_HiRes-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/243142_Full_HiRes-638x330.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/blog.toyota.eu\/2014\/01\/14\/toyotas-dakar-challenge\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On January 4<sup>th<\/sup> 2015, the Dakar Rally officially waved the green flag and got things underway. Over 600 competitors showed up at the starting line in Buenos Aires, ready to take on the 37<sup>th<\/sup> annual rally. These fearless racers will trek across 5,661 miles of South American soil stretching over Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ZZ2mcltT0g\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of the terrain will be over inhospitable land with unfavorable conditions.\u00a0With competitors racing in everything from cars and trucks, to dirt bikes and quads, this is one of the most strenuous and demanding endurance races out there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gaps.dakar.com\/2015\/dakar\/stage-02\/aso\/ukie.php\">Follow the live feed here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>With competitors racing in everything from cars and trucks, to dirt bikes and quads, this is one of the most strenuous and demanding endurance races out there.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":10843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470,5470,27],"tags":[1752,1753,451,28,3708],"class_list":["post-10837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-off-road","category-off-road-racing","tag-2015-dakar-rally","tag-dakar","tag-endurance-racing","tag-off-road","tag-off-road-racing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/243142_Full_HiRes.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-2ON","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}