{"id":138957,"date":"2018-01-12T11:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=138957"},"modified":"2018-01-12T11:06:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:06:58","slug":"land-speed-record-1600km-h-bloodhound-ssc-heads-to-sa-for-shakedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=138957","title":{"rendered":"Land Speed Record &#8211; 1600km\/h Bloodhound SSC heads to SA for shakedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official. Bloodhound SSC will finally make a run at South Africa\u2019s Hakskeen Pan later this year, but don\u2019t get your hopes up on watching a world land speed record attempt just yet. This planned pass will be a shakedown run only.<\/p>\n<p>The supersonic project was first announced in 2008, and was initially scheduled to make its official record run in 2011, but funding issues have seen many postponements over the past ten years. The British team, which also holds the current land speed record at 1228km\/h with another car called Thrust SSC, has now secured enough sponsorship to &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/motoring\/motorsport\/1600kmh-bloodhound-ssc-heads-to-sa-for-shakedown-12688407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official. Bloodhound SSC will finally make a run at South Africa\u2019s Hakskeen Pan later this year, but don\u2019t get your hopes up on watching a world land speed record attempt just yet. This planned pass will be a shakedown run only. The supersonic project was first announced in 2008, and was initially scheduled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138957","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=138957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138958,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138957\/revisions\/138958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}