{"id":10794,"date":"2009-04-28T17:18:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T00:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10794"},"modified":"2009-04-28T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T00:21:11","slug":"powerboat-racing-australias-bridge-to-bridge-celebrating-73-years-of-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10794","title":{"rendered":"Powerboat Racing &#8211; Australia&#8217;s Bridge to Bridge &#8211; celebrating 73-years of racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10795\" title=\"bridge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/bridge.jpg\" alt=\"bridge\" width=\"660\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bridge.jpg 660w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bridge-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bridge-600x401.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>The Upper Hawkesbury Power Boat Club is in full throttle mode for next Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bright Print Bridge to Bridge powerboat classic, the 74th staging of the popular event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Australia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quickest boats and best drivers are ready to do battle over the winding 112 kilometre stretch of the Hawkesbury River in an event that often becomes a race of attrition as engines are \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbrutally punished\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at wide open throttle and maximum revolutions.<br \/>\nSuch is the speed some of these racers can top that the race, despite its 112km length, has become known as a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdrag race\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, as some of the V8-powered racers can top 260km\/hr (162mph).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Six-time winner Ricky Howard is the current race record holder, his fantastic 2008 victory stopping the clock at 29 minutes, 47 seconds and making him the first man in history to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccrack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the 30 minute mark&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/index.cfm?Nid=56266&amp;refre=y&amp;ntid=0\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures\u00c2\u00a0<\/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>The Upper Hawkesbury Power Boat Club is in full throttle mode for next Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bright Print Bridge to Bridge powerboat classic, the 74th staging of the popular event. Australia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quickest boats and best drivers are ready to do battle over the winding 112 kilometre stretch of the Hawkesbury River in an event that often becomes [&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-10794","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\/10794","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=10794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10798,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions\/10798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}