{"id":190980,"date":"2025-10-05T06:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190980\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T06:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:01:14","slug":"making-of-a-monster-waters-primed-for-bathurst-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190980\/","title":{"rendered":"Making of a monster: Waters primed for Bathurst moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-inter font-normal normal antialiased text-md mb-6 gap-x-1 leading-6 md:text-base md:leading-7 text-dark-grey-2\">At 31, Waters isn\u2019t running out of time to win Bathurst. But to many, it\u2019s taken longer than expected to get the breakthrough. This year, he makes his 13th Bathurst start. Remarkably, only eight drivers \u2014 Paul Morris (22 starts), Luke Youlden (18), Lee Holdsworth (18), Paul Dumbrell (14), Shane van Gisbergen (14), John Harvey (14), and John French (14) \u2014 had to wait longer for their first Bathurst wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 31, Waters isn\u2019t running out of time to win Bathurst. But to many, it\u2019s taken longer than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-190980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}