{"id":12851,"date":"2023-07-06T18:32:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12851"},"modified":"2023-08-12T18:35:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:35:55","slug":"9yo-to-60mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/07\/06\/9yo-to-60mph\/","title":{"rendered":"9yo to 60mph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where 9-Year-Olds Do 60 M.P.H.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

For kids who dream of racing professionally, steering go-karts around a twisting track is where it all begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photographs by\u00a0Scott Rossi \/ Text by\u00a0Maria Jimenez Moya<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Micro Swift racers, the youngest class of drivers, at Texas Grand Prix in New Caney. Some compete before their seventh birthdays.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the second day of the Texas Grand Prix, motors were roaring. As mechanics tinkered with vehicles, drivers talked strategy with their coaches and tried to memorize the curves of the racetrack at the Speedsportz Racing Park outside Houston. \u201cI imagine it in my brain,\u201d said Mikey Collins as he waited for his heat to start on the last weekend in April. \u201cI envision it and try to do laps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mikey isn\u2019t a professional racecar driver, yet \u2014 he\u2019s only 9. And the vehicle he would soon climb into was a go-kart. But for lots of kids who dream of racing professionally, this is where it all starts: steering go-karts around a twisting track at 60 to 70 miles an hour, flying just inches over the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like lots of drivers, Mikey started young, when he was just 5, on his local track in Orlando, Fla. He was hooked. \u201cI like competitive stuff,\u201d he says. \u201cAnything that has to do with passing and trying to take the lead.\u201d Kids who get serious about the sport continue on to national races like the one in Texas: days-long competitions in which dozens of drivers compete in heats against other kids in their age group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The New York Times Where 9-Year-Olds Do 60 M.P.H. For kids who dream of racing professionally, steering go-karts around a twisting track is where it all begins. Photographs by\u00a0Scott Rossi \/ Text by\u00a0Maria Jimenez Moya On the second day of the Texas Grand Prix, motors were roaring. As mechanics tinkered with vehicles, drivers talked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}