{"id":10978,"date":"2025-09-04T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=10978"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:07:19","slug":"gordon-bennett-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/?p=10978","title":{"rendered":"GORDON BENNETT 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next stop: Metz! On Friday, September 5th, the worlds oldest and most prestigious aviation race takes off with it&#8217;s 68th edition &#8211; and we&#8217;re happy to be a part of it again! This year, we&#8217;ll be competing as team GERMANY-3, with the race-proven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuttgarter-hofbraeu.de\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stuttgarter Hofbr\u00e4u<\/a> gas balloon of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballonsportgruppe-stuttgart.de\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To follow the race live, there are many possibilities:<br \/>\n&#8211; the live tracking of the official Gordon Bennett page: <a href=\"https:\/\/live.gordonbennett.aero\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live.gordonbennett.aero<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; the Gordon Bennett TV on Youtube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@GordonBennettTV\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youtube.com\/@GordonBennettTV<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; the official Facebook page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Course.Gordon.Bennett\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/Course.Gordon.Bennett<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; the official Instagram page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/coupeaerogordonbennett\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">instagram.com\/coupeaerogordonbennett<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; the YB Races app in the respective app store for mobile devices<br \/>\n&#8211; the Facebook page of the Balloon Club of Stuttgart: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bsgstuttgart\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/bsgstuttgart<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; the Instagram page of the Balloon Club of Stuttgart: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ballonstuttgart\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">instagram.com\/ballonstuttgart<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; and of course our own social media accounts you can find in the menu to the right (scroll down!)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re looking forward to an exciting race! =)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gb25teamger3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gb25teamger3.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gb25teamger3-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next stop: Metz! On Friday, September 5th, the worlds oldest and most prestigious aviation race takes off with it&#8217;s 68th edition &#8211; and we&#8217;re happy to be a part of it again! This year, we&#8217;ll be competing as team GERMANY-3, with the race-proven Stuttgarter Hofbr\u00e4u gas balloon of the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V.. To follow the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[37,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10981,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions\/10981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alifeofballooning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}