{"id":6201,"date":"2024-10-21T21:16:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T02:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/?p=6201"},"modified":"2024-10-21T21:16:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T02:16:57","slug":"my-formula-1-austin-grand-prix-2024-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/my-formula-1-austin-grand-prix-2024-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My Formula 1 – Austin Grand Prix 2024 Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went to Austin for the Formula 1 racing at the Austin Grand Prix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was one of my first races, at least one that I remember, don’t think I ever did any as a kid. The event was a blast, since it was not only a regular race weekend but also a Sprint weekend. It meant more racing from the Formula 1 cars. On top of that, there were support races including the <a href=\"https:\/\/porschecarreracup.us\/\">Porsche Carrera Cup<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery .kb-gallery-type-masonry.kb-gallery-id-6201_8f817d-10{margin:-5px;}.kb-gallery-type-masonry.kb-gallery-id-6201_8f817d-10 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item{padding:5px;}.kb-gallery-id-6201_8f817d-10 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-6201_8f817d-10 .kb-slide-item .kb-gal-image-radius img{border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;;}<\/style><div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-6201_8f817d-10 alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-masonry kb-masonry-init kb-gallery-id-6201_8f817d-10 kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"2\" data-columns-xl=\"2\" data-columns-md=\"2\" 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I got to spend time with longtime friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kylemcd.com\/\">Kyle<\/a>, my other friend Kory, and Kyle’s friend Steven. It was great to have a disconnected weekend, enjoying lots of smoked meat, exploring downtown Austin, and listening to some live music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The F1 race on Sunday was exciting to watch. Max Verstappen had a great race and finished in 3rd, even though it was due to a 5-second penalty. He definitely made the race a nail-biter.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-image6201_d45079-c6 .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image6201_d45079-c6\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/10\/DSCF1706-Medium-3.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-6238 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/10\/DSCF1706-Medium-3.jpeg.webp 640w, https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/10\/DSCF1706-Medium-3-300x200.jpeg.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Austin for the Formula 1 racing at the Austin Grand Prix. It was one of my first races, at least one that I remember, don’t think I ever did any as a kid. The event was a blast, since it was not only a regular race weekend but also a Sprint weekend….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,72,73],"class_list":["post-6201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-post","tag-f1","tag-formula","tag-racing"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Personal Post"}],"post_tag":[{"value":74,"label":"f1"},{"value":72,"label":"Formula"},{"value":73,"label":"Racing"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC01379-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Leon Hitchens","author_link":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/author\/leonleonhitchens-com\/"},"comment_info":2,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Personal Post","slug":"personal-post","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":83,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":83,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Personal Post","category_nicename":"personal-post","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":74,"name":"f1","slug":"f1","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":74,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":72,"name":"Formula","slug":"formula","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":72,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":73,"name":"Racing","slug":"racing","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":73,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC01379-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}