{"id":1748,"date":"1987-12-31T11:25:26","date_gmt":"1987-12-31T17:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svra.com\/?p=1748"},"modified":"1987-12-31T11:25:26","modified_gmt":"1987-12-31T17:25:26","slug":"1987-svra-driver-of-the-year-james-jim-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/1987\/12\/31\/1987-svra-driver-of-the-year-james-jim-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"1987 SVRA Driver of the Year: James (Jim) Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1987-jim-williams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1987-jim-williams-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"1987-jim-williams\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/1987-jim-williams-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/1987-jim-williams.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1987-jim-williams-team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1987-jim-williams-team-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"1987-jim-williams-team\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/1987-jim-williams-team-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/1987-jim-williams-team.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Jim Williams &#8211; Walhalla, SC<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I began vintage racing with the 1985 Walter Mitty. Since then I have run in 23 Mitty\u2019s and most of the SVRA and HSR events. I was named the SVRA &#8216;Driver of the Year&#8217; in 1987; the 1991 HSR &#8216;Driver of the Year&#8217; and received the 1995 Bob Fergus &#8216;Big Fun Award&#8217; and the HSR &#8216;Spirit Award.&#8217; I am perhaps best known for my 1957 Green Lotus Eleven #85 and my open car trailer, which doubled as a rocking chair porch and hangout for fun and foolishness. Both are retired now and I continue to enjoy vintage racing in my \u201cLittle Red\u201d 1959 Seblmg Sprite.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Williams &#8211; Walhalla, SC &#8220;I began vintage racing with the 1985 Walter Mitty. Since then I have run in 23 Mitty\u2019s and most of the SVRA and HSR events. I was named the SVRA &#8216;Driver of the Year&#8217; in 1987; the 1991 HSR &#8216;Driver of the Year&#8217; and received the 1995 Bob Fergus &#8216;Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driver-of-the-year"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}