{"id":90038,"date":"2023-10-17T20:18:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/caught-pegasus-takes-flight\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T20:18:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:18:21","slug":"caught-pegasus-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/caught-pegasus-takes-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"CAUGHT: \u2018Pegasus\u2019 Takes Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Canadian drag racing veteran Paul Noakes gets a first-hand look at the fury of a nitro-powered Fuel Altered as he launches off the starting line in the \u201cPegasus\u201d Fuel Altered during an Empire Outlaws race. Noakes, who\u2019s known for his success in IHRA and NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car, was filling in for car owner Gary Kraus and his Pony Up Racing operation in this test session to prepare for upcoming races. It wasn\u2019t Noakes\u2019 first experience with nitromethane, though, as the Canadian Drag Racing Hall of Famer has also dabbled in Top Fuel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>[Editor\u2019s Note: This story originally appeared in DI #183, the Sportsman Special Issue, in July\/August of 2023.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>Empire Dragway<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Leicester, New York<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Saturday, June 3rd, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/caught-pegasus-takes-flight\/\">CAUGHT: \u2018Pegasus\u2019 Takes Flight<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/\">Drag Illustrated | Drag Racing News, Opinion, Interviews, Photos, Videos and More<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian drag racing veteran Paul Noakes gets a first-hand look at the fury of a nitro-powered Fuel Altered as he launches off the starting line in the \u201cPegasus\u201d Fuel Altered during an Empire Outlaws race. Noakes, who\u2019s known for his success in IHRA and NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car, was filling in for car owner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}