{"id":12804,"date":"2011-06-15T22:05:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T02:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12804"},"modified":"2011-06-15T22:05:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T02:05:31","slug":"honda-indy-toronto-gets-the-party-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/events-shows\/honda-indy-toronto-gets-the-party-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda Indy Toronto gets the party started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers officially start the 25-day countdown to celebrating 25 years of racing on the streets of Toronto<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/posts-other\/Honda-Indy-Toronto-party-started.jpg\" alt=\"Honda-Indy-Toronto-party-started\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Fabian Garzon<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>June 15, 2011 (Toronto) \u2013 The Honda Indy Toronto kicked into high gear today as\u00a0 organizers of the event and racecar drivers converged on the William Ashley flagship store at Bloor Street West to officially start the 25-day countdown to the 25th running of a race on streets of Toronto. Race fans were treated to a cake interpretation of the street course by CakeStar, autograph sessions with drivers that included Alex Tagliani and a show car on William Ashley bone china teacups.<\/p>\n<p>The Honda Indy Toronto, Ontario\u2019s largest annual sporting event, takes place from July 8 to 10 on the streets surrounding Exhibition Place near Lake Ontario and downtown Toronto. With 25 years of Indy car racing history in Toronto, the Honda Indy Toronto is among the most respected motorsports events in North America and features a week-long festival-like atmosphere that includes the fastest racing series on the planet, celebrity athletes, live entertainment and interactive activities.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.HondaIndyToronto.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.HondaIndyToronto.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers officially start the 25-day countdown to celebrating 25 years of racing on the streets of Toronto &nbsp; &nbsp; June 15, 2011 (Toronto) \u2013 The Honda Indy Toronto kicked into high gear today as\u00a0 organizers of the event and racecar drivers converged on the William Ashley flagship store at Bloor Street West to officially start &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[19,2120],"tags":[5389,3145,5404,5386,1940,2372,1958,5328,5421],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12806,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804\/revisions\/12806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}