{"id":14746,"date":"2011-12-30T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14746"},"modified":"2011-12-30T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T12:08:00","slug":"webber-enjoys-wheelie-on-grand-prix-motorbike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-enjoys-wheelie-on-grand-prix-motorbike\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber enjoys wheelie on grand prix motorbike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has this week enjoyed a high-risk ride on the back of a grand prix motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian, who recently sat out part of his own outdoor adventure challenge in Tasmania ostensibly due to Red Bull&#8217;s fear of injury, rode at the rear of a Ducati 2-Up machine at Queensland Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>At the controls was his countryman Troy Bayliss, a former MotoGP rider and triple Superbike world champion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some things need doing,&#8221; wrote Webber on Twitter as he published a photo of himself and Bayless mid-wheelie.<\/p>\n<p>Bayliss replied: &#8220;You (Webber) were a top pillion and ripped it up solo as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the 2008\/2009 pre-season, Webber badly broke his right leg in a mountain biking descent.<\/p>\n<p>He said earlier this month: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to wrap myself in cotton wool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Formula one rules my life for most of the year, but I am going to go away, train and have fun doing it and nobody is going to stop me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has this week enjoyed a high-risk ride on the back of a grand prix motorcycle. The Australian, who recently sat out part of his own outdoor adventure challenge in Tasmania ostensibly due to Red Bull&#8217;s fear of injury, rode at the rear of a Ducati 2-Up machine at Queensland Raceway. At the controls &#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":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,165,3487,3488],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746"}],"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=14746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14747,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746\/revisions\/14747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}