{"id":1845,"date":"2004-12-31T13:26:32","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T19:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svra.com\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2004-12-31T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2004-12-31T19:26:32","slug":"2004-svra-driver-of-the-year-travis-engen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/2004\/12\/31\/2004-svra-driver-of-the-year-travis-engen\/","title":{"rendered":"2004 SVRA Driver of the Year: Travis Engen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/2004-travis-engen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/2004-travis-engen-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"2004-travis-engen\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1849\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2004-travis-engen-car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2004-travis-engen-car-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"2004-travis-engen-car\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1847\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Travis Engen &#8211; Weston, CT<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I started racing with the VSCCA in 1995 driving a 1953 Lotus MK VI. (I have no earlier pro or amateur experience). The next year I progressed to a Lotus 18 formula junior, then to a March formula Ford a couple of years later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was selected as the SVRA&#8217;s &#8216;Most Improved Driver&#8217; in 1999, that year having moved up to racing a 1970 Chevron B17b (formula b) and a 1962 Lotus 23b. I advanced to a 1976 RAZT RT 1 (formula atlantic) in 2000, a 2001 Lola T97\/20 Indy Lights car in 2004 and a 2005 Audi R8 Le Mans prototype in 2009. Along the way I have won many championships, notable amount them several Monoposto Racing titles, the SVRA Endurance Race championship in 2004 to 2007 and 2009. I have also won FISR&#8217;s BOSS championship each year from 2005-2009. The racing achievement I regard most highly was my selection as the SVRA &#8216;Driver of the Year&#8217; in 2004.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Engen &#8211; Weston, CT &#8220;I started racing with the VSCCA in 1995 driving a 1953 Lotus MK VI. (I have no earlier pro or amateur experience). The next year I progressed to a Lotus 18 formula junior, then to a March formula Ford a couple of years later.&#8221; &#8220;I was selected as the SVRA&#8217;s [&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-1845","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\/1845","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=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}