{"id":65529,"date":"2019-10-01T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T18:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=65529"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T21:31:34","slug":"behind-the-wheel-podcast-episode-23-michael-hope-rat-trap-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/behind-the-wheel-podcast-episode-23-michael-hope-rat-trap-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Wheel Podcast Episode 23: Michael Hope Rat Trap Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"65530\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/behind-the-wheel-podcast-episode-23-michael-hope-rat-trap-racing\/1142594971395576-m0jy2fewzy9obm90mule_height640-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1142594971395576.M0jy2FEwZY9OBM90muLE_height640-min.png\" data-orig-size=\"620,340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Behind The Wheel Podcast Episode 23: Michael Hope Rat Trap Racing\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1142594971395576.M0jy2FEwZY9OBM90muLE_height640-min-300x165.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1142594971395576.M0jy2FEwZY9OBM90muLE_height640-min.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1142594971395576.M0jy2FEwZY9OBM90muLE_height640-min.png\" alt=\"Behind The Wheel Podcast Episode 23: Michael Hope Rat Trap Racing\" width=\"620\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1142594971395576.M0jy2FEwZY9OBM90muLE_height640-min.png 620w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1142594971395576.M0jy2FEwZY9OBM90muLE_height640-min-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1142594971395576.M0jy2FEwZY9OBM90muLE_height640-min-376x206.png 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to Behind The Wheel. While the last two episodes have focused on those who are making lives better through this sport, this month we are once again focusing on what makes racing so popular \u2013 the whole powerful speed of the thing.<\/p>\n<p>In our latest episode, we took some time out with famed land speed racing team Rat Trap Racing and this team\u2019s newest young gun, driver Michael Hope. The son of famed land speed record holder Ron Hope made his first appearance on the famed Bonneville Salt Flats at the end of August and since this time has continued to impress at tracks throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Click the Soundcloud link below to find out more about this young driver and how his love for breaking motorsports records all over the world is sure to make him a well-known name in this sport for years to come.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZuapA5hZPE?si=k_fH-RQt5gUV1LfZ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you have suggestions for the Behind The Wheel podcast in 2019? Drivers or other team members that you think would made great interviews? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In our latest episode, we took some time out with famed land speed racing team Rat Trap Racing and this team\u2019s newest young gun, driver Michael Hope.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":65530,"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":[3470,3699,5029],"tags":[1667,357,1619,1184,7163,41,5444,4910],"class_list":["post-65529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-racing","category-racing","tag-behind-the-wheel","tag-driver-interviews","tag-ellen-richardson","tag-land-speed-racing","tag-michael-hope","tag-news","tag-podcast","tag-rat-trap-racing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1142594971395576.M0jy2FEwZY9OBM90muLE_height640-min.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-h2V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65529","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99443,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65529\/revisions\/99443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}