{"id":93997,"date":"2025-12-23T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93997\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:05:08","slug":"jacksonville-street-racers-will-have-new-option-with-groundbreaking-of-callahan-drag-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93997\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville street racers will have new option with groundbreaking of Callahan drag strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Owner David Hicken finally broke ground Tuesday on the new eighth-mile Hicken Power Dragstrip &#8212; the area\u2019s first drag strip since 2017.\u00a0The aim is to be open for racing by May at the latest, Hicken said during Tuesday\u2019s groundbreaking ceremony.\u00a0Hicken previously told News4JAX that he hopes the new drag strip can serve as a safer, legal alternative for area street racers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Owner David Hicken finally broke ground Tuesday on the new eighth-mile Hicken Power Dragstrip &#8212; the area\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16125,502,50124,50075,116,118,117,3898,115,36454],"class_list":{"0":"post-93997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-callahan","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-drag-racing","11":"tag-drag-strip","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","14":"tag-jacksonville-news","15":"tag-nassau-county","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-street-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}