{"id":19841,"date":"2014-06-30T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/burt-munro-challenge-revs-up-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-06-30T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T10:11:00","slug":"burt-munro-challenge-revs-up-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/06\/burt-munro-challenge-revs-up-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Burt Munro Challenge Revs Up 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Burt Munro Challenge is an annual motorcycle racing event held in Southland, New Zealand at the end of November \u2013 paying homage to a Kiwi racing legend.<\/span><\/span>

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Following the success of the 2005 movie about Munro’s inspirational life \u2013 \u201cThe World’s Fastest Indian\u201d, the Southland Motorcycle Club created the Challenge to honour Munro, his ingenuity, determination, and love of speed and motorcycles.<\/span><\/div>\n

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After setting a number of New Zealand land speed records in the 1940s and 1950s, Munro competed at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, United States. His first trip to Bonneville as a competitor was in 1962, when he was 63, and there he set a land speed record of 178.97mph.<\/span><\/div>\n

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He travelled there a further eight times to compete and set two more world records. His 1967 record of 183.58mph still stands today, and on this trip he also managed to hit 190.07mph during a qualifying run which is the fastest ever recorded speed on an Indian motorcycle.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Burt Munro Challenge – Beach Races<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
This year the Burt Munro Challenge runs from November 26 \u2013 30.<\/span><\/div>\n
The challenge features several racing disciplines including a Hill Climb, Beach Racing, Track Sprint Racing, Long-track, Super-X, Speedway, and Street Racing \u2013 all celebrating the life of champion racer Burt Munro.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Competitors and spectators come from throughout New Zealand, Australia and the world to attend the rally and challenge.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Time Magazine listed the Challenge as one of its \u201cmust do\u201d events last year and its popularity is growing each year.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Burt Munro Challenge – Bikes Galore<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
The rally site at Oreti Park has bikes on display by proud owners plus music, food and drink and other entertainment making for a great atmosphere.<\/span><\/div>\n
Now in its ninth year, the Challenge was seen as the biggest all round motorcycle rally in New Zealand.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cWhere it beats all the rest is that there are so many disciplines. There are bigger rallies (in terms of numbers in New Zealand) but they don’t have the racing events we do,\u201d Event Manager Jade Gilles said.<\/span><\/div>\n
The challenge was underpinned by loyal support from the regular attendees known as \u201cweekend warriors,\u201d Mr Gillies said.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Registrations open in July at www.burtmunrochallenge.com<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Racing programme:<\/span><\/div>\n
Wed 26 Nov, 5pm NZ LONGTRACK CHAMPS & GRAND PRIX<\/span><\/div>\n
Thu 27 Nov, 10am NZ HILL CLIMB CHAMPS<\/span><\/div>\n
Thu 27 Nov, 6pm  NZ SUPER-X CHAMPS<\/span><\/div>\n
Fri 28 Nov, 12pm  ILT NZ BEACH RACING CHAMPS<\/span><\/div>\n
Sat 29 Nov, 9am  E HAYES & SONS TERETONGA SPRINT RACES<\/span><\/div>\n
Sat 29 Nov, 4pm  ORETI PARK SPEEDWAY SPECTACULAR<\/span><\/div>\n
Sun 30 Nov, 10am  WYNDHAM STREET RACES<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Burt Munro Challenge is an annual motorcycle racing event held in Southland, New Zealand at the end of November \u2013 paying homage to a Kiwi racing legend. Following the success of the 2005 movie about Munro’s inspirational life \u2013 \u201cThe World’s Fastest Indian\u201d, the Southland Motorcycle Club created the Challenge to honour Munro, his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}