{"id":10396,"date":"2009-04-25T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10396"},"modified":"2009-04-27T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T22:16:17","slug":"offshore-powerboat-class-1-world-powerboat-qatar-marine-festival-grand-prix-fazza-3-strikes-first-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10396","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Powerboat &#8211; Class 1 World Powerboat Qatar Marine Festival Grand Prix: Fazza 3 strikes first blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10422\" title=\"qatar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/qatar.bmp\" alt=\"qatar\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Victory for Fazza 3 in the opening round of the UIM\/WPPA Class 1 World Powerboat Championship was sealed this afternoon by Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi. Second place went to home favourites Sheikh Hassan Bin Jabor Al-Thani and Steve Curtis, with Class 1 debutant Mohammad Al Mehairi and Jean-Marc Sanchez claiming third place in a sun-kissed Qatar Marine Festival Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The reunited pairing of Al Zafeen and Bin Hendi powered through to a comfortable victory in the end, but they did not have it all their own way. A fantastic start by Qatar 95 saw the Edox Pole Position winner&#8217;s storm away with the early lead, but engine troubles forced them to &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerboat-world.com\/index.cfm?nid=56178\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/accounts\/default1\/banners\/dirtbagwr-468x60.jpg\" alt=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" title=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/scripts\/imp.php?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Victory for Fazza 3 in the opening round of the UIM\/WPPA Class 1 World Powerboat Championship was sealed this afternoon by Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi. Second place went to home favourites Sheikh Hassan Bin Jabor Al-Thani and Steve Curtis, with Class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-powerboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10643,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396\/revisions\/10643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}