{"id":18217,"date":"2009-08-11T13:32:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T20:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18217"},"modified":"2010-10-30T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T22:25:33","slug":"offshore-powerboat-racing-class-1-offshore-powerboat-racing-in-disarray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18217","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Powerboat Racing &#8211; Class 1 Offshore Powerboat Racing in disarray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18219\" title=\"med_victory\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/08\/med_victory.jpg\" alt=\"med_victory\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/med_victory.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/med_victory-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The powerful two-boat Qatar team has withdrawn from the remainder of the UIM Class 1 Offshore series, citing \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmisconduct and bad sportsmanship\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as behind the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor, president of the Qatar Marine Sports Federation (QMSF), said the Qatar team would not be taking part in any of the remaining four races.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheikh partners offshore legend and throttleman Steve Curtis in the Qatar 96 boat, while Abdullah Al Sulaiti and Matteo Nicolini handle the Qatar 95 boat.<\/p>\n<p>It is rumoured that another team, believed to be Norwegian, is also contemplating pulling out of the championship, while Australia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bill Barry-Cotter, owner of the two boat Maritimo team, has come out in full support of the Qatar team&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerboat-world.com\/Class-1-Offshore-Powerboat-Racing-in-disarray\/60060\/arc\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/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 \u00c2\u00a0 The powerful two-boat Qatar team has withdrawn from the remainder of the UIM Class 1 Offshore series, citing \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmisconduct and bad sportsmanship\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as behind the decision. Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor, president of the Qatar Marine Sports Federation (QMSF), said the Qatar team would not [&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-18217","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\/18217","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=18217"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18223,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217\/revisions\/18223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}