{"id":1875,"date":"2009-12-31T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svra.com\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2009-12-31T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:57:09","slug":"2009-svra-driver-of-the-year-ed-jensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/2009\/12\/31\/2009-svra-driver-of-the-year-ed-jensen\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 SVRA Driver of the Year: Ed Jensen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2009-ed-jensen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2009-ed-jensen-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Jensen\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/2009-ed-jensen-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/2009-ed-jensen.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2009-ed-jensen-camaro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2009-ed-jensen-camaro-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2009-ed-jensen-camaro\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/2009-ed-jensen-camaro-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/2009-ed-jensen-camaro.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Ed Jensen | 1945 &#8211; 2010<\/h3>\n<p>Ed was involved in racing since his teen years in Allentown, PA, where he worked as a &#8220;go-for&#8221; on a sprint car team. The driver was a then unknown rookie driver named Mario Andretti. Ed&#8217;s experiences in racing include sprint car racing, Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) racing and vintage racing. He has both a mechanic and a driver.<\/p>\n<p>For over 20 years, he has raced a 1967 Camaro Z28 with the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA). Ed received the SVRA &#8220;Driver of the Year&#8221; award in 2009. Ed was retired CEO of Associated Computer Systems, Ltd. (ACS), a computer technology company he founded in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Ed died at Road America of natural causes in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Jensen | 1945 &#8211; 2010 Ed was involved in racing since his teen years in Allentown, PA, where he worked as a &#8220;go-for&#8221; on a sprint car team. The driver was a then unknown rookie driver named Mario Andretti. Ed&#8217;s experiences in racing include sprint car racing, Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) racing [&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-1875","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\/1875","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=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.racingamerica.com\/svra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}