{"id":7227,"date":"2009-04-03T12:38:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2009-04-03T14:24:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T21:24:44","slug":"powerboat-drag-racing-this-time-lake-will-be-smokin%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7227","title":{"rendered":"Powerboat Drag Racing &#8211; This time, lake will be Smokin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week it was Smokin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the Sound that roared through the waters of the Mississippi Sound to the north of Deer Island in Biloxi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This week, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Smokin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the Lake off The Dock Bar and Grill in the Gulfport Lake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Smokin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the Sound featured massive 45-to-50 foot boats \u00e2\u20ac\u201d equipped with twin outboards \u00e2\u20ac\u201d reaching speeds of 170 mph around a 9-mile track that drew thousands of race fans all along Casino Row.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Smokin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the Lake, however, will introduce a new style of racing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First of all, there will be no boats running twin engines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Second, boats will not reach speeds of 170.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And third, there will be no circular track with races that covers 80-to-100 miles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Instead, single engine boats will race a quarter-mile track that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s similar in style to NHRA drag racing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Welcome to the world of Deep South Drag Boat racing&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/sports\/story\/1249099.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/placeholder-3701054?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week it was Smokin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the Sound that roared through the waters of the Mississippi Sound to the north of Deer Island in Biloxi. This week, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Smokin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the Lake off The Dock Bar and Grill in the Gulfport Lake. Smokin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the Sound featured massive 45-to-50 foot boats \u00e2\u20ac\u201d equipped with twin outboards \u00e2\u20ac\u201d reaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-drag-racing","category-powerboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227","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=7227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7324,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions\/7324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}