{"id":43427,"date":"2011-01-23T17:36:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T00:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43427"},"modified":"2011-01-23T17:36:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T00:36:34","slug":"fundraising-alex-briggs-starts-the-ultimate-ducati-motogp-experience-auction-for-australian-flood-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43427","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising &#8211; Alex Briggs Starts the Ultimate Ducati MotoGP Experience Auction for Australian Flood Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alex Briggs, Valentino Rossi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mechanic and A&amp;R super friend, has put together the ultimate Ducati MotoGP experience auction, with all proceeds going towards the disaster relief efforts for the flooding in Australia. Called the worst flood in Australia in the past 50 years, the waters have hit the states of Queensland and Victoria with devastating affect since December 2010 (damages are being estimated in the 10\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2s of billions of dollars), causing Briggs to want to do something for his home country (most of Rossi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crew hails from Australia as well).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bringing his cause before Ducati MotoGP Project Director Alessandro Cicognani, the Marlboro Ducati team has gotten behind Briggs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 desire to help his home country, and has\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asphaltandrubber.com\/news\/ducati-corse-australia-floods-auction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Briggs, Valentino Rossi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mechanic and A&amp;R super friend, has put together the ultimate Ducati MotoGP experience auction, with all proceeds going towards the disaster relief efforts for the flooding in Australia. Called the worst flood in Australia in the past 50 years, the waters have hit the states of Queensland and Victoria with devastating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,8,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43427","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=43427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43429,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43427\/revisions\/43429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}