{"id":139786,"date":"2020-04-11T15:09:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/11\/alice-powell-the-thought-of-having-another-year-not-racing-is-pretty-gutting\/"},"modified":"2020-04-11T15:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:09:03","slug":"alice-powell-the-thought-of-having-another-year-not-racing-is-pretty-gutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=139786","title":{"rendered":"Alice Powell: \u2018The thought of having another year not racing is pretty gutting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driver had a new lease of life with her return to racing in last year\u2019s W Series, but the coronavirus crisis has wrenched away the opportunity to build on that successTwelve months ago Alice Powell described her return to motor racing as a new lease of life. After four years without a drive she grasped her chance in the all-female W Series with unbridled verve. However, with her career resurgent the opportunity to build on her success has been wrenched away by the coronavirus-induced sporting shutdown. It has struck Powell as a body blow. \u201cThe thought of having another year not racing is pretty gutting,\u201d she says bluntly.Powell fears there may be no racing this year but is emphatic that if that is necessary to defeat the virus, then every sport must take it on the chin. \u201cMy other half thinks that we might not go racing at all,\u201d she says. \u201cI say: \u2018Don\u2019t be silly,\u2019 but in the back of my mind I think he could be right. That is really upsetting because last year was my time back racing after being out for a long time.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/apr\/11\/alice-powell-w-series-interview-thought-year-not-racing-gutting\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Powell: \u2018The thought of having another year not racing is pretty gutting\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver had a new lease of life with her return to racing in last year\u2019s W Series, but the coronavirus crisis has wrenched away the opportunity to build on that successTwelve months ago Alice Powell described her return to motor racing as a new lease of life. After four years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}