{"id":1783,"date":"1991-12-31T12:03:43","date_gmt":"1991-12-31T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svra.com\/?p=1783"},"modified":"1991-12-31T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"1991-12-31T18:03:43","slug":"1991-svra-driver-of-the-year-david-kopf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/1991\/12\/31\/1991-svra-driver-of-the-year-david-kopf\/","title":{"rendered":"1991 SVRA Driver of the Year: David Kopf"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>David Kopf | 1927 &#8211; 2004<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/1991\/12\/1991-david-kopf.jpg\" alt=\"1991-david-kopf\" width=\"256\" height=\"238\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1962\" \/><br \/>\nDavid was a master designer, machinist and inventor. He founded Kopf Instruments in 1958. David and Carol married in 1963. He had many hobbies including carousel horses and fairground organs.<\/p>\n<p>Racing cars were a second career starting in 1985. He drove vintage Porsches- notably a 1963 Porsche RS60- and later his own LeMans prototype. He competed successfully in numerous races and was named \u201cDriver of the Year\u201d in SVRA in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>David died in California in 2004. David Kopf Instruments continues to develop products in the neuroscience and biomedical fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Kopf | 1927 &#8211; 2004 David was a master designer, machinist and inventor. He founded Kopf Instruments in 1958. David and Carol married in 1963. He had many hobbies including carousel horses and fairground organs. Racing cars were a second career starting in 1985. He drove vintage Porsches- notably a 1963 Porsche RS60- and [&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-1783","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\/1783","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=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}