{"id":11526,"date":"2009-05-06T17:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T00:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11526"},"modified":"2009-05-06T17:51:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T00:51:29","slug":"powerboat-water-skiing-race-record-shattered-in-australian-bridge-to-bridge-one-up-ski-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11526","title":{"rendered":"Powerboat Water Skiing &#8211; Race record shattered in Australian Bridge to Bridge one-up ski race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11527\" title=\"bridge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/05\/bridge.bmp\" alt=\"bridge\" \/>Chris Stout and the team of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBlazen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 have become the fastest crew to ever travel down the Hawkesbury River, winning the Bridge to Bridge one up race in a record shattering time of 35.14.<\/p>\n<p>The race was run in conjunction with the Upper Hawkesbury Power Boat Club\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual Bridge to Bridge powerboat classic.<\/p>\n<p>With Noel Griffin and Bernie Simpson still bleary eyed after working on mechanical gremlins late into the night as well as getting up early to test, they drove the perfect race to take the win.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After big challenges by other competitors, including a huge run after bar point from Greg Houston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcStinga\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBlazen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 led the whole way to take about a minute off \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHellbent&#8217;s record from last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Noel Griffin Racing secured a 1,2 result with the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBurnin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 crew of Gary Holzwart, Jason Bennet and Mark Weaver taking second, also under the old record&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerboat-world.com\/Race-record-shattered-in-Australian-Bridge-to-Bridge-one-up-ski-race\/56474\/arc\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Stout and the team of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBlazen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 have become the fastest crew to ever travel down the Hawkesbury River, winning the Bridge to Bridge one up race in a record shattering time of 35.14. The race was run in conjunction with the Upper Hawkesbury Power Boat Club\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual Bridge to Bridge powerboat classic. With Noel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,30,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-powerboat","category-water-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526","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=11526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11581,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions\/11581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}