{"id":1862,"date":"2007-12-31T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svra.com\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2007-12-31T13:47:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T19:47:11","slug":"2007-svra-driver-of-the-year-sean-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/2007\/12\/31\/2007-svra-driver-of-the-year-sean-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 SVRA Driver of the Year: Sean Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2007-sean-ryan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2007-sean-ryan-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"2007-sean-ryan\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1863\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2007-sean-ryan-car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2007-sean-ryan-car-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"2007-sean-ryan-car\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1864\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Sean Ryan &#8211; Biltmore Lake, NC<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;At the age of 4, I began playing youth sports and developed a passion for competition that still burns more than ever today. Technically, my racing career began at the age of 11 when I started racing BMX in Montgomery, Alabama. At the age of 18, while attending college at Auburn University, I decided to give auto racing a try. My father Pat Ryan began racing the #15 Sunoco Camaro (formerly driven by Mark Donohue) with Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) in 1986 and I joined him driving a 1969 Triumph Spitfire after completing a performance driving school at Watkins Glen in 1992. I consistently finished up front in SVRA Group 1 for the next 9 years while also completing a Skip Barber driving school at Laguna Seca and competing in a Skip Barber Race Series at Moroso. I transitioned to SVRA Group 6 driving a 1971 Camaro in the year 2000 and have consistently finished up front in that group as well. I was awarded the SVRA &#8220;Driver of the Year&#8221; in 2007 and continue to race with SVRA on a regular basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Ryan &#8211; Biltmore Lake, NC &#8220;At the age of 4, I began playing youth sports and developed a passion for competition that still burns more than ever today. Technically, my racing career began at the age of 11 when I started racing BMX in Montgomery, Alabama. At the age of 18, while attending college [&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-1862","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\/1862","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=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}