{"id":1566,"date":"2018-10-05T06:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T06:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2018-10-05T06:49:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T06:49:16","slug":"lcr-honda-racer-ready-for-new-thai-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/2018\/10\/lcr-honda-racer-ready-for-new-thai-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"LCR HONDA RACER READY FOR NEW THAI CHALLENGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MotoGP World Championship will hold the first ever Grand Prix of Thailand this weekend, at the Buriram International Circuit in the eastern part of the country. Whilst it is uncharted territory in terms of racing, the MotoGP teams have already tested at the track back in February, and thanks to the huge popularity of the sport in south-east Asia did so in front of packed grandstands. Much the same is expected across all three days of this weekend\u2019s action, with the event a complete sell-out for fans.<\/p>\n<p>It is also a big weekend for Japanese rookie Takaaki Nakagami, with his home race up next on this Asia-Pacific leg of the series. The LCR Honda IDEMITSU rider arrives in the \u201cLand of Smiles\u201d after his best MotoGP result yet, with 12<sup>th<\/sup> at the Aragon GP, and will hope to continue that good form as he strives to close the gap in the Rookie of the Year standings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Takaaki Nakagami<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s great to be in Thailand, even though I know that the temperature is going to be high, and the humidity also makes it difficult for us. It\u2019s completely different weather to what we are used to, but for me it\u2019s an Asian round and that\u2019s good. It helps that I have no jet lag this race! I\u2019m a little concerned about the heat, but we will do what we can and hopefully there will be no rain this weekend. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe winter test here in Buriram was really good for us, and so session by session here for the race we will try to improve our set-up. I am really looking forward to this weekend as a whole.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1567 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/TIX3557-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/TIX3557-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/TIX3557-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/TIX3557-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MotoGP World Championship will hold the first ever Grand Prix of Thailand this weekend, at the Buriram International Circuit in the eastern part of the country. Whilst it is uncharted territory in terms of racing, the MotoGP teams have already tested at the track back in February, and thanks to the huge popularity of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}