{"id":865,"date":"2007-11-13T20:37:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T01:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=865"},"modified":"2007-11-13T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T01:40:19","slug":"the-2007-light-racers-competition-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"The 2007 Light Racers Competition &#8211; Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this, my penultimate post in this series on the 2007 Light Racers Competition, I thought I would post some of the pictures I took of the cars and competitors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/DSC00209.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/tn_DSC00209.jpg\"  height=\"113\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 113px\" \/><\/a>I liked this shot of one of the racers, lit up with the spotlight as it attempted to make its run.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/DSC00220.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"113\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/tn_DSC00220.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 113px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was an interesting entry, a 3-wheeler.\u00a0 It was able to run through part of the racecourse, but not, unfortunately, all of it.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/DSC00228.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"113\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/tn_DSC00228.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 113px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a close-up of the Technology Tycoons entry.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/DSC00229.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"113\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/tn_DSC00229.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 113px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these entries, I believe were from the same family (if this is wrong, please let me know and I&#8217;ll correct this post).<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/DSC00247.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/tn_DSC00247.jpg\"  height=\"113\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 113px\" \/><\/a>This is the McGill team and their entry.\u00a0 As I indicated in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=863\">earlier post<\/a>, this entry was, by far, the fastest one in the competition.\u00a0 If it had stayed on course, it would have easily won the competition&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/DSC00249.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/tn_DSC00249.jpg\"  height=\"113\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 113px\" \/><\/a>The Kansas City Space Kids with their winning entry.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>(As always, click on the picture thumbnails for a larger version)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this, my penultimate post in this series on the 2007 Light Racers Competition, I thought I would post some of the pictures I took of the cars and competitors. I liked this shot of one of the racers, lit up with the spotlight as it attempted to make its run. . . This was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-light-racers-competition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}