{"id":117212,"date":"2024-02-28T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/28\/jon-bon-jovi-is-taking-the-fastest-seat-in-sports-at-ntt-indycar-series-season-opener\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T21:07:07","slug":"jon-bon-jovi-is-taking-the-fastest-seat-in-sports-at-ntt-indycar-series-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/28\/jon-bon-jovi-is-taking-the-fastest-seat-in-sports-at-ntt-indycar-series-season-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Bon Jovi is taking the Fastest Seat In Sports at NTT Indycar Series season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-28\/Getty_JonBonJovi_022824.jpg\" alt><figcaption> MICHAEL TRAN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jon Bon Jovi<\/strong> is getting ready to strap in. He will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indycar.com\/News\/2024\/02\/02-28-BonJovi-StPete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special guest<\/a> at the NTT IndyCar Series season opener: the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Florida, which starts on March 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That means Jon gets to take what&#8217;s called the Fastest Seat In Sports. He will be driven at high speed in a two-seat car around the 1.8 mile temporary street circuit that leads to the starting line for the first race of the 2024 season. His driver will be four-time Indy 500 winner and former <em>Dancing with the Stars<\/em> champ <strong>H\u00e9lio Castroneves<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Jon is no stranger to auto racing: He performed at the 2006 Daytona 500\u00a0\ufeffwith<strong> Bon Jovi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The new documentary <em>Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story\u00a0<\/em>will stream April 26\u00a0on Hulu.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MICHAEL TRAN\/AFP via Getty Images Jon Bon Jovi is getting ready to strap in. He will be a special guest at the NTT IndyCar Series season opener: the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Florida, which starts on March 9.\u00a0 That means Jon gets to take what&#8217;s called the Fastest<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/28\/jon-bon-jovi-is-taking-the-fastest-seat-in-sports-at-ntt-indycar-series-season-opener\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}