{"id":1769,"date":"1989-12-31T11:48:07","date_gmt":"1989-12-31T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svra.com\/?p=1769"},"modified":"1989-12-31T11:48:07","modified_gmt":"1989-12-31T17:48:07","slug":"1989-svra-driver-of-the-year-david-whiteside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/1989\/12\/31\/1989-svra-driver-of-the-year-david-whiteside\/","title":{"rendered":"1989 SVRA Driver of the Year: David Whiteside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/1989\/12\/1988-david-whiteside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/1989\/12\/1988-david-whiteside-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"1988-david-whiteside\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/1989\/12\/1988-david-whiteside-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/1989\/12\/1988-david-whiteside.jpg 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/1989\/12\/1988-david-whiteside-car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/1989\/12\/1988-david-whiteside-car-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"1988-david-whiteside-car\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/1989\/12\/1988-david-whiteside-car-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/1989\/12\/1988-david-whiteside-car.jpg 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>David Whiteside | Deceased 2001<\/h3>\n<p>An excellent driver, a respected Lotus car collector and a student of racing history, David believed in celebrating and preserving history. He enjoyed the social and organizational side SVRA and often played hilarious pranks in the paddock.<\/p>\n<p>David brought a rate spark of wit, intelligence, organizational skill, and enthusiasm to the formative years and was one of SVRA\u2019s staunchest supporters. He first raced with SVRA in 1978 and almost never missed an event. David was killed in a road car accident in 2001. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Whiteside | Deceased 2001 An excellent driver, a respected Lotus car collector and a student of racing history, David believed in celebrating and preserving history. He enjoyed the social and organizational side SVRA and often played hilarious pranks in the paddock. David brought a rate spark of wit, intelligence, organizational skill, and enthusiasm to [&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-1769","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\/1769","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=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}