{"id":381,"date":"2012-09-09T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T11:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2012-09-09T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T11:26:13","slug":"motorsports-notoriety-at-indy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Motorsports Notoriety at Indy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Motorsports Notoriety at Indy!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Todd Lesenko made a very big impression yesterday within the entire Motorsports racing scene with a very spectacular and truly frightening incident during final round\u00a0FC qualifying at the NHRA Mac Tools\u00a0U.S. Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Todd had a catastrophic engine failure during his final qualifying attempt which pitched\u00a0and disintegrated the Grime Boss Dodge Stratus body on the Jim Dunn Racing machine.\u00a0\u00a0 Todd rode out a high speed result which saw him cross over just in front of Jon Capps but he\u00a0did a great job driving and ultimately made no contact with Capps or the wall and \u00a0got stopped safely.\u00a0\u00a0 Minor burns to his hand and sore ribs were the only injuries.<\/p>\n<p>On a positive note the car did run a 4.173 secs which put him into the show #15!\u00a0 The team is working thru the night to make repairs and plans are to run the Tap It Monte Carlo in today&#8217;s scheduled first round match-up vs Jack Beckman.<\/p>\n<p>Todd&#8217;s incident has made international motorsports highlight reels!&#8230;..BB\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>\u00a0 (Photos by:\u00a0 Bruce Biegler)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Todd-Boom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-382\" title=\"Todd-Boom\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Todd-Boom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"1029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Todd-Boom.jpg 500w, https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Todd-Boom-497x1024.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Todd-Boom2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-383\" title=\"Todd-Boom2\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Todd-Boom2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorsports Notoriety at Indy! Todd Lesenko made a very big impression yesterday within the entire Motorsports racing scene with a very spectacular and truly frightening incident during final round\u00a0FC qualifying at the NHRA Mac Tools\u00a0U.S. Nationals. Todd had a catastrophic engine failure during his final qualifying attempt which pitched\u00a0and disintegrated the Grime Boss Dodge Stratus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}