{"id":3196,"date":"2016-04-24T20:01:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T18:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2016-04-24T20:01:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T18:01:47","slug":"rossi-wins-spanish-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/more-sport\/rossi-wins-spanish-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Rossi wins Spanish Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JEREZ, Spain (Reuters) &#8211; Italian MotoGP great Valentino Rossi won the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday with a dominant pole-to-flag ride for the 113th victory of his career in all categories.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Yamaha rider kept Spanish team mate and reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo comfortably behind him to take the chequered flag with his front wheel in the air in celebration.<\/p>\n<p>It was his 87th win in the top class.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo finished second for his 100th career podium with championship leader and fellow Spaniard Marc Marquez in third place for Honda.<\/p>\n<p>After four of the season&#8217;s 18 races, and the first round in Europe, Marquez has 82 points and Lorenzo 65. Rossi is third with 58.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEREZ, Spain (Reuters) &#8211; Italian MotoGP great Valentino Rossi won the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday with a dominant pole-to-flag ride for the 113th victory of his career in all categories. The 37-year-old Yamaha rider kept Spanish team mate and reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo comfortably behind him to take the chequered flag with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1565,1562,1563,1567,114,1564,1566],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-more-sport","tag-grand-prix","tag-italian-motogp","tag-motogp","tag-rossi","tag-spanish-grand-prix","tag-valentino-rossi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}