{"id":9975,"date":"2009-04-21T18:45:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T01:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9975"},"modified":"2009-04-21T22:13:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T05:13:05","slug":"powerboat-newcastle-set-to-welcome-offshore-superboats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9975","title":{"rendered":"Powerboat &#8211; Newcastle set to welcome Offshore Superboats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9976\" title=\"newcastle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/newcastle.bmp\" alt=\"newcastle\" \/><\/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>The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctop guns\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 among Australia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s offshore racers return to Newcastle on the weekend of May 2 and 3 for the fifth round of the Nautilus Marine Offshore Superboat Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers describe the Newcastle race as &#8216;unique&#8217; in that it involves racing on both placid harbour conditions and the open ocean, where crews may encounter anything from a nasty chop to mountainous seas.<\/p>\n<p>The Newcastle round offers excellent viewing for spectators, with the 220km\/hr-plus boats racing around buoy turns inside the harbour before charging back out to sea on each lap of the 160 kilometre (approx) race.<\/p>\n<p>In Class 1, series leader, the V-12 Lamborghini-powered \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMaritimo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 will be out to fend off the challenge from &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerboat-world.com\/index.cfm?nid=56020\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/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 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctop guns\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 among Australia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s offshore racers return to Newcastle on the weekend of May 2 and 3 for the fifth round of the Nautilus Marine Offshore Superboat Championships. Organisers describe the Newcastle race as &#8216;unique&#8217; in that it involves racing on both placid [&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-9975","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\/9975","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=9975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10012,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions\/10012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}