{"id":409,"date":"2017-08-31T01:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T01:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2017-08-31T01:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T01:10:01","slug":"race-report-speed-circuit-2017-monza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Race Report &#8211; Speed Circuit 2017 Monza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the first time in the Tabletop Racing Club&#8217;s history, 12 Drivers started on the grid at Monza!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bruce McLaren held pole position ahead of this year&#8217;s crowded field.\u00a0 He lead through two intensive laps.\u00a0 Once again Beltoise challenged McLaren on the final lap.\u00a0 This time, Beltiose achieved victory in a photo finish.\u00a0 Rindt finished close behind in third place.<\/p>\n<p>Two rookie drivers participated in the race.\u00a0 Eric took charge of the Bonnier racing team and his drivers finished in fifth and sixth place.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Joshua was not able to finish the race and his drivers were forced to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Race results follow:<\/p>\n<p>1st Den (J. Beltoise) 60\/40\/20\/160\/6<br \/>\n2nd John (B. McLaren) 80\/40\/40\/160\/5**<br \/>\n3rd Steve (J. Rindt) 60\/40\/20\/160\/6<br \/>\n4th Den (J. Gavin) 60\/40\/20\/160\/6<br \/>\n5th Eric H. (J. Bonnier) 40\/40\/40\/180\/5<br \/>\n6th Eric H. (Tresham) 40\/40\/60\/180\/4<br \/>\n7th Terry (J. Surtees) 80\/60\/40\/160\/4<br \/>\n8th Terry (G. Eaton) 80\/40\/40\/160\/4<br \/>\n9th Steve (M. Andretti) 60\/40\/20\/160\/6<br \/>\nDNF John (D. Bell) 60\/60\/60\/200\/5*<br \/>\nDNF Joshua (DeKlerk) 60\/40\/20\/180\/5<br \/>\nDNF Jashua (Hague) 60\/40\/40\/160\/5<\/p>\n<p>With his win at Monza, Beltoise reached 60 points and secured the Championship.\u00a0\u00a0 With only two races to go, second and third places are still hotly contested.\u00a0 Follow this link for the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/speed-circuit-2017-season-7-standings\/\">season&#8217;s standings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note:\u00a0 The race was held on the original 3M version of the track.\u00a0 Due to the glossy vinyl service, the race photos were not usable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in the Tabletop Racing Club&#8217;s history, 12 Drivers started on the grid at Monza! Bruce McLaren held pole position ahead of this year&#8217;s crowded field.\u00a0 He &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/?p=409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Race Report &#8211; Speed Circuit 2017 Monza&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-circuit","category-speed-circuit-race-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabletopracingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}