{"id":35955,"date":"2019-07-24T09:28:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T01:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=35955"},"modified":"2019-07-24T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T01:28:49","slug":"troy-alberto-places-2nd-in-3rd-round-of-honda-thailand-talent-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/07\/24\/troy-alberto-places-2nd-in-3rd-round-of-honda-thailand-talent-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Alberto places 2nd in 3rd round of Honda Thailand Talent Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It is Round 3 of the Honda Thailand Talent Cup, and the only Filipino rider who represented the Philippines has its back to back win in Race 1 and 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rider #20Troy Alberto got to be the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;placer for the first time in 2019 Honda Thailand Talent Cup. During the qualifying round, he experienced engine trouble as he finished in 5<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Race 1:<\/strong>&nbsp;Troy was confident enough and pushed harder as he went head to head with rider #16 Azryan Dheyo Wahyumaniadi of Indonesia to get the 1<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp; spot, while Rider#17 Herlian Dandi of Indonesia won third place. The day ended with an exciting race among Azryan getting the 1<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;place and for Troy, the only Filipino representative in Thailand getting the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;place with .160 seconds gap between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Race 2:<\/strong>\u00a0With rider #20 Troy Alberto\u2019s determination to be in the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0place podium, again he went on a head to head battle against rider #04 Watcharin Tubtim-on of Thailand. Rider #20 Troy got the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0position with only 3 laps left until Rider #04 Watcharin was able to catch up and finally regain the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0place while Troy got the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0place podium finish with only .90s gap between them.\u00a0 Meanwhile, rider#17 Herlian Dandi maintained his position as the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0place winner in Race 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dl-mail.ymail.com\/ws\/download\/mailboxes\/@.id==VjN-aCbUujP9WRIFkzC-HPKo0PwYPu4jD5cOi_sjbMnujizFHppaB98KCecoWGnkGzTGwSeqnpH3u8fKhDbfMcoHqg\/messages\/@.id==AP5iSsdT7ZVlXTcarw2kMEHHbck\/content\/parts\/@.id==1.4\/raw?appid=YMailNorrin&amp;ymreqid=27f3344f-c727-c29c-1cd6-f800cd01f600&amp;token=zitEzqOML3j84e6ealFTT5U7-km5qEQF52lp7AcCuBYn9lcFcVqfuGL6BYNQjidsTYaX7Nl3tVkDYdrY-6XbQ2rHnE483xOpkwFWSI9IQYYXdC46dMquEQsPd2h_UWUQ\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photos from Talent Cup\u2019s Facebook Page<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Troy Alberto got a back to back win for Round 3 of Thailand Talent Cup as he sustained his 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;place position for both Race 1 and Race 2. This former Honda Pilipinas Dream Cup rider got what it takes to be in the podium finish and shows that Filipinos have great potential to vie in an international competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rider #20Troy Alberto got to be the 2nd placer for the first time in 2019 Honda Thailand Talent Cup. During the qualifying round, he experienced engine trouble as he finished in 5th position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,637],"tags":[1153,628],"class_list":["post-35955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-motoring-2","tag-honda","tag-motoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}