{"id":779,"date":"2018-11-23T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=779"},"modified":"2018-11-23T17:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:30:23","slug":"supercars-action-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/23\/supercars-action-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars action begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second instalment of the Newcastle 500, the city&#8217;s biggest\u00a0event,\u00a0has begun with the SuperUtes\u00a0first\u00a0on track\u00a0this morning.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Supercars9.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/Supercars9.jpg.aspx?width=800&amp;height=1200\" alt=\"Supercars9.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Supercars7.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/Supercars7.jpg.aspx?width=800&amp;height=1200\" alt=\"Supercars7.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Supercar8.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/Supercar8.jpg.aspx?width=800&amp;height=533\" alt=\"Supercar8.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Super-ute-inside.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/Super-ute-inside.jpg.aspx\" alt=\"Super-ute-inside.jpg\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\nThe City of Newcastle is supporting\u00a0Hunter woman Charlotte Poynting\u00a0in the SuperUtes class.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Charlotte-inside.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/Charlotte-inside.jpg.aspx\" alt=\"Charlotte-inside.jpg\" \/><\/strong>Poynting, 19,\u00a0is driving\u00a0a SuperUte\u00a0emblazoned with the colourful Newcastle brand.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A43I0402-COPY.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/A43I0402-COPY.JPG.aspx?width=800&amp;height=533\" alt=\"A43I0402-COPY.JPG\" \/>Pit crews in action this morning.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A43I0493-COPY.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/A43I0493-COPY.JPG.aspx?width=800&amp;height=533\" alt=\"A43I0493-COPY.JPG\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A19V9491-COPY.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/A19V9491-COPY.JPG.aspx?width=800&amp;height=533\" alt=\"A19V9491-COPY.JPG\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A43I0592-COPY.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/A43I0592-COPY.JPG.aspx?width=800&amp;height=533\" alt=\"A43I0592-COPY.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nCrowds started gathering\u00a0just after sunrise\u00a0to score the best\u00a0vantage points.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Crowd-shot-(1).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/Crowd-shot-(1).jpg.aspx?width=800&amp;height=621\" alt=\"Crowd-shot-(1).jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCity staff are out there greeting fans and promoting Newcastle.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Council.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/Council.jpg.aspx?width=800&amp;height=533\" alt=\"Council.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"insta2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/insta2.jpg.aspx?width=800&amp;height=1066\" alt=\"insta2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHundreds gathered in Gregson Park, Hamilton,\u00a0yesterday afternoon\u00a0for signings by Supercars drivers before their star power\u00a0lit up\u00a0Beaumont Street\u00a0in a parade of vintage cars<strong>.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signing-inside.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/signing-inside.jpg.aspx\" alt=\"signing-inside.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDiners spilled out of restaurants\u00a0as the procession passed in the first celebration\u00a0of\u00a0the four-day\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/Explore\/Things-to-do\/What-s-On\/Events\/Entertain-Newcastle\">Entertain Newcastle festival,<\/a>\u00a0organised with our partners to spread the high-octane atmosphere across the city<strong>.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Beaumont-St-crowd-inside-(3).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Supercars-action-begins\/Beaumont-St-crowd-inside-(3).jpg.aspx\" alt=\"Beaumont-St-crowd-inside-(3).jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDarby Street\u00a0will\u00a0light up\u00a0tonight with live music and\u00a0early\u00a0Christmas lights, before tomorrow sees the staging of the Supercars concert at No.1 Sportsground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second instalment of the Newcastle 500, the city&#8217;s biggest\u00a0event,\u00a0has begun with the SuperUtes\u00a0first\u00a0on track\u00a0this morning. The City of Newcastle is supporting\u00a0Hunter woman Charlotte Poynting\u00a0in the SuperUtes class. Poynting, 19,\u00a0is driving\u00a0a SuperUte\u00a0emblazoned with the colourful Newcastle brand. Pit crews in action this morning. Crowds started gathering\u00a0just after sunrise\u00a0to score the best\u00a0vantage points. City staff are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/23\/supercars-action-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Supercars action begins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}