{"id":12439,"date":"2009-05-18T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T19:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12439"},"modified":"2009-05-18T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:30:50","slug":"offshore-powerboat-racing-farewell-malta-hello-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12439","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Powerboat Racing &#8211; Farewell Malta, hello Turkey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12441\" title=\"malta1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/05\/malta1.bmp\" alt=\"malta1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What a start to the season. Bags of controversy, protests, some freakishly aggressive driving, not to mention a dry-pit full of P1 babes, the best pilots in the business and a visit from Malta&#8217;s Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>If the glorious weather was tranquil, the Sliema location serene and Maltese hospitality generous, the rip-roaring first round of Powerboat&#8217;s 2009 P1 World Championship action could only be described as brutal and barnstorming.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning SuperSport champions Aaron Ciantar and Angelo Tedeschi are once again going to take some beating, especially after claiming victory in relatively quiet conditions, not usually associated as the Chaudron-manufactured Ukrainian Seagull&#8217;s forte.<\/p>\n<p>If the SuperSport class whetted the appetite for a scintillating season, then the race for Evolution gold also looks like it&#8217;s going to go right down to the wire&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerboat-world.com\/Powerboat-P1---Farewell-Malta,-next-stop-Turkey!\/56853\/arc\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/placeholder-3700955?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/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 What a start to the season. Bags of controversy, protests, some freakishly aggressive driving, not to mention a dry-pit full of P1 babes, the best pilots in the business and a visit from Malta&#8217;s Prime Minister. If the glorious weather was tranquil, the Sliema location [&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-12439","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\/12439","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=12439"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12524,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12439\/revisions\/12524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}