{"id":21850,"date":"2013-08-14T01:08:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T06:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=21850"},"modified":"2014-03-17T22:30:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T03:30:19","slug":"the-art-of-demo-durban-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2013\/08\/14\/the-art-of-demo-durban-style\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Demo – Durban Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>ValleyBiz Story |<\/p>\n

The afternoon started with a bang at the 15th Annual Durban Demo Derby on Sunday, August 11, 2013. A spectacular hit in the first heat created this amazing masterpiece of metal.<\/p>\n

Click any picture for a larger version.<\/em><\/p>\n

Drivers Derrick Krochak and Clint Burtanak emerged from their vehicles to pose in front of their creation.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/br>The demo derby delivers loud, raw, hard hitting, destructive entertainment and always draws a crowd.<\/p>\n

After 3 heats, grand challenge, mechanics and powder puff, there is not much left of many of the cars to drag away.
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Faron Burtanak won the Grand Challenge and a $1,500 cash prize.
\nNathan Ribalkin took 2nd and $500.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/br>It takes guts to drive in the demo. But after watching a few heats, it kind of makes you want to give it a try.<\/p>\n

Patti Bresky took her turn at the wheel in the powder puff heat.<\/p>\n

Fierce!
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ValleyBiz Story | The afternoon started with a bang at the 15th Annual Durban Demo Derby on Sunday, August 11, 2013. A spectacular hit in the first heat created this amazing masterpiece of metal. Click any picture for a larger version. Drivers Derrick Krochak and Clint Burtanak emerged from their vehicles to pose in front […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,16,15],"class_list":["post-21850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage","tag-life","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}