{"id":580785,"date":"2010-05-27T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T04:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=13427"},"modified":"2010-05-27T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T04:15:09","slug":"racer-jesse-hockett-dies-in-tragic-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/580785","title":{"rendered":"Racer Jesse Hockett Dies in Tragic Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jesse Hockett<\/strong> \u201cThe Rocket<\/em>\u201d, died last Wednesday in an accident at his race shop<\/em> in his hometown Warsaw<\/em>, Missouri<\/em>. It was reported that Hockett was electrocuted while getting his hauler ready for the upcoming four- day weekend of racing. He just came from his most successful season where he won 22 times last year. Hockett went to victory lane 130 tiems in his career that included stints with USAC<\/strong>, SCRA<\/strong>, ACSC Lucas Oil Sprint Car Series<\/strong> and the Sprint Bandits<\/strong>. He was a two-time champion (2006 and 2007) and is the current points leader.<\/p>\n

Hockett was regarded as a powerful competitor whether he had wings, a 410 or 360 engine or Hoosier<\/em> or Goodyear<\/em> tires. He took on challengers like the World of Outlaws of the Weekend Warriors<\/em>. He also won in big events which included both the Western World Championship in Arizona<\/em> and the Perris Oval Nationals<\/em> in California in 2008. He also won last year\u2019s non-wing Ultimate Challenge at Oskaloosa Speedway<\/strong> in Iowa<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old racer left this world as a winner, capturing three features last weekend in his home state, including Friday at State Fair<\/strong> in Sedalia, Saturday at Lake Ozark Speedway<\/strong> in Eldon, and Sunday at the Double X Speedway<\/strong> near the town of California.<\/p>\n

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    Jesse Hockett \u201cThe Rocket\u201d, died last Wednesday in an accident at his race shop in his hometown Warsaw, Missouri. It was reported that Hockett was electrocuted while getting his hauler ready for the upcoming four- day weekend of racing. He just came from his most successful season where he won 22 times last year. Hockett […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}