{"id":1716,"date":"2017-03-26T12:15:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T16:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2017-07-23T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T13:22:28","slug":"corvette-racing-tire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"Corvette Racing Tire"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1715\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Corvette-Tire.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1715\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Corvette-Tire-1024x645.jpg\" alt=\"Corvette Racing Tire\" width=\"600\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Corvette-Tire-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Corvette-Tire-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Corvette-Tire-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Corvette-Tire.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corvette Racing Tire (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One last image from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/24_Hours_of_Daytona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolex 24<\/a> at Daytona International Speedway. \u00a0The group I was with went into the Corvette garage and talked to a few team members. \u00a0While others were talking, I sat on the floor and took the above image.<\/p>\n<p>I would have liked to ask someone to block out the hotspot just above the Michelin Man logo, but thought that would be a little rude.<\/p>\n<p>It was interesting hearing about the tires. \u00a0Teams do not have enough rims to last the entire 24 hours, so Michelin has a facility set up to swap tires on rims. \u00a0When a car pits, the team takes the worn tires off the car and\u00a0to the Michelin facility. \u00a0The rims get fresh\u00a0tires and return to the pit box for the next pit stop. \u00a0Corvette Racing had two people dedicated to transporting tires to and from the Michelin facility for the entire 24 hour race.<\/p>\n<p>Do that for all the teams, for 24 hours, and that adds up to one heck of a lot of tires!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One last image from the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway. \u00a0The group I was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[443,446,447,444,445],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida","tag-corvette","tag-florida","tag-michelin","tag-racing","tag-tire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}