{"id":703740,"date":"2010-03-29T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=41877"},"modified":"2010-03-29T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T20:00:22","slug":"2010-kia-soul-the-official-pace-car-of-the-u-s-touring-car-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/703740","title":{"rendered":"2010 Kia Soul:  The Official Pace Car Of The U.S. Touring Car Championship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/2010-kia-soul-the-official-pace-car-of-the-u-s-touring-car-championship\/ustccsoul1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41878\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ustccsoul1-500x333.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"2010 Kia Soul Pace Car\" title=\"ustccsoul1\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-large wp-image-41878\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pace car with the aerodynamics of a housing complex<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ll bet you didn\u2019t see this one coming:  a \u201chighly modified\u201d Kia Soul will be used as a safety \/ pace car for the 2010 U.S. Touring Car Championship.  The Soul made its debut at the March 21 race, at California\u2019s Infineon Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Built by GoGoGear, the Soul pace car features an upgraded suspension, new tires on Konig wheels, a Borla exhaust, a Takeda short ram intake and strobe lighting plus the required light bar.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-41877\"><\/span>The purpose of a pace car is to collect the field and maintain a moderate speed to ensure track safety (while retaining some heat in the tires).  I\u2019m not sure a Kia Soul, even a \u201chighly modified\u201d one, would be my first choice to pace anything other than a cycling event.  Still, Renault did build one kick-ass press van (the Espace F1 &#8211; Google it), so I suppose anything is possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CzQI8cMdI80KV4pxMaLotqXDrg8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CzQI8cMdI80KV4pxMaLotqXDrg8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CzQI8cMdI80KV4pxMaLotqXDrg8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CzQI8cMdI80KV4pxMaLotqXDrg8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pace car with the aerodynamics of a housing complex I\u2019ll bet you didn\u2019t see this one coming: a \u201chighly modified\u201d Kia Soul will be used as a safety \/ pace car for the 2010 U.S. Touring Car Championship. The Soul made its debut at the March 21 race, at California\u2019s Infineon Speedway. Built by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2X4E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}