{"id":1834,"date":"2002-12-31T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2002-12-31T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svra.com\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2002-12-31T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2002-12-31T19:07:08","slug":"2002-svra-driver-of-the-year-ross-l-bremer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/2002\/12\/31\/2002-svra-driver-of-the-year-ross-l-bremer\/","title":{"rendered":"2002 SVRA Driver of the Year: Ross L. Bremer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2002-ross-l-bremer.jpg\" alt=\"2002-ross-l-bremer\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/2002-ross-l-bremer.jpg 640w, https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/2002-ross-l-bremer-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Ross L. Bremer &#8211; Atlantic Beach, FL<\/h3>\n<p>Ross started racing Go-Karts in the early 1960&#8217;s in Clearwater, FL. Over the next few years he raced in the S.C.C.A. in V.W. sedans, BMW 700 sedans, Formula Junior, Beach Formula V and finally in 1965 his Anglia Super 1300 in S.C.C.A. C\/sedan. He won numerous races in SCCA regional races and in 1966 was invited to Riverside for the Run Offs as an alternate. <\/p>\n<p>In 1967 he entered and drove a Lotus Cortina in under 2 liter touring in the Daytona 24-Hr finishing 3rd in class and 21st overall with Don Kearney. The same year entered the Anglia in the Sebring Trans\/AM 4-Hr, but D.N.F. in the last minutes. He retired from auto racing to race sailboats and motorcycles for 15 years. <\/p>\n<p>In 1991, Ross and Karen discovered Vintage racing in West Palm Beach, rebuilt the old Anglia Super, bought Karen a Ford Escort RS1600, and went Vintage racing with S.V.R.A. and other groups. Highlights have been numerous overall wins, The &#8220;Big Fun&#8221; award, Amateur Mechanic of the Year, and, in 2002, \u201cDriver of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ross and Karen continue racing now with 6 racing European Fords in their stable and multiple championships in Groups 1 &amp; 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross L. Bremer &#8211; Atlantic Beach, FL Ross started racing Go-Karts in the early 1960&#8217;s in Clearwater, FL. Over the next few years he raced in the S.C.C.A. in V.W. sedans, BMW 700 sedans, Formula Junior, Beach Formula V and finally in 1965 his Anglia Super 1300 in S.C.C.A. C\/sedan. He won numerous races in [&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-1834","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\/1834","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=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}