{"id":9545,"date":"2009-04-17T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T17:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9545"},"modified":"2009-04-17T11:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T18:59:43","slug":"powerboat-f1-powerboat-%e2%80%93-two-grand-prix-races-in-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9545","title":{"rendered":"Powerboat &#8211; F1 Powerboat \u00e2\u20ac\u201c two Grand Prix races in weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9546\" title=\"f1boat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/f1boat.jpg\" alt=\"f1boat\" width=\"660\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/f1boat.jpg 660w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/f1boat-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/f1boat-600x398.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only happened once, but already the new two race event format has brought a lot of opinions along with a lot of excitement for race fans and teams who now get to see two Grand Prix\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in one weekend instead of usual one as the U.I.M. F1 World Championship for power boating turns a new page in history in its 16 race schedule for the 2009 campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What do the teams think of the new racing format?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Its been great not only for our team, but for the spectators as well,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d stated the Manager for Team Abu Dhabi and four-time World Champion Scott Gillman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Obviously we are pleased since each of our two drivers (Ahmad Al Hameli and Thani Al Qamzi) won a race at the Grand Prix of Portugal and I think it will take a mixture of time and education to have the race spectators understand that the first day of competition is as important as the second day which was our traditional Grand Prix time&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerboat-world.com\/index.cfm?nid=55891\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only happened once, but already the new two race event format has brought a lot of opinions along with a lot of excitement for race fans and teams who now get to see two Grand Prix\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in one weekend instead of usual one as the U.I.M. F1 World Championship for power boating turns a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9545","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\/9545","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=9545"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9554,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions\/9554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}