{"id":16653,"date":"2009-07-15T10:43:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T17:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16653"},"modified":"2012-08-05T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T22:15:01","slug":"offshore-powerboat-racing-norway-set-to-break-middle-eastern-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16653","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Powerboat Racing &#8211; Norway set to break Middle Eastern dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16654\" title=\"red\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/07\/red.bmp\" alt=\"red\" \/>Jorn Tandberg, the defending European Class 1 offshore champion, will be hoping to break the Middle East dominance when he lines up to defend his title in next weekend&#8217;s BMW Norwegian Grand Prix in Arendal on July 17-19. Here 40 points will be up for grabs as the World Professional Powerboat Association (WPPA) introduces a two-race Grand Prix format for the first time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tandberg, a two-times winner in 2008, will line up in a Mercury V8-powered Welmax hull (pictured) alongside fellow Norwegian, Kolbjorn Selmer. He will be trying for a third win on home-waters in four years and hopefully kick-start his season after a broken driveshaft ended his race in Qatar&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mby.com\/auto\/newsdesk\/20090614172534mbynews.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorn Tandberg, the defending European Class 1 offshore champion, will be hoping to break the Middle East dominance when he lines up to defend his title in next weekend&#8217;s BMW Norwegian Grand Prix in Arendal on July 17-19. Here 40 points will be up for grabs as the World Professional Powerboat Association (WPPA) introduces a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16653","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\/16653","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=16653"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67944,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16653\/revisions\/67944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}