{"id":149355,"date":"2025-11-23T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/149355\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:20:08","slug":"nzigp-waikato-challenge-cancelled-after-competitor-taken-to-hospital-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/149355\/","title":{"rendered":"NZIGP Waikato Challenge cancelled after competitor taken to hospital in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>23 Nov, 2025 07:11 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Hampton Downs Motorsport Park. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/advertising.nzme.co.nz\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Waikato motorsport event has been cancelled, after a competitor was taken to hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">MotorSport New Zealand said a competitor suffered a medical episode during a race at the NZIGP Waikato Challenge at Hampton Downs on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         They pulled to<br \/>\n         the side of the track and responders were on the scene immediately.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">The rest of the event was called off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 23 Nov, 2025 07:11 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,20703,6636,99932,1239,11728,2241,78,111,139,69,99931,213,19554,61,1524],"class_list":{"0":"post-149355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-cancelled","10":"tag-challenge","11":"tag-competitor","12":"tag-condition","13":"tag-critical","14":"tag-hospital","15":"tag-in","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-nzigp","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-taken","22":"tag-to","23":"tag-waikato"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}