{"id":419,"date":"2010-02-05T18:32:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T08:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2010-02-05T18:32:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T08:32:47","slug":"bathurst-1992-the-wet-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/02\/bathurst-1992-the-wet-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathurst 1992: The Wet Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jumping back into the archives for a bit &#8211; here&#8217;s the famous (and some say controversial) finish to the 1992 Tooheys 1000.  <\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z19UGblgVog\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>It was a sad day for me &#8211; one of my racing heroes, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/en\/Denny_Hulme\">Denny Hulme<\/a> died on live television before my eyes that day &#8211; of a heart-attack at the wheel early in the race.  Given the mood, many people just wanted to get this race over and done with, and move on.  It&#8217;s certainly the only Bathurst I&#8217;ve wanted to &#8220;hurry up and finish&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That wish was granted when the rain intervened, and the notoriety of this day in Australian sport was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jumping back into the archives for a bit &#8211; here&#8217;s the famous (and some say controversial) finish to the 1992 Tooheys 1000. It was a sad day for me &#8211; one of my racing heroes, Denny Hulme died on live television before my eyes that day &#8211; of a heart-attack at the wheel early in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}