{"id":19253,"date":"2013-08-08T16:41:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T16:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=19253"},"modified":"2013-08-08T16:41:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T16:41:37","slug":"jimbo-chadwick-named-orlando-speedworld-gm-racing-resumes-august-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/jimbo-chadwick-named-orlando-speedworld-gm-racing-resumes-august-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"JIMBO CHADWICK NAMED ORLANDO SPEEDWORLD GM &#8211; RACING RESUMES AUGUST 24th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19254\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19254\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19254 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" alt=\"New OSW GM Jimbo Chadwick in victory lane with Wayne Anderson following this years' Billie Harvey Memorial race.\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/New-OSW-GM-Jimbo-Chadwick-in-victory-lane-with-Wayne-Anderson-following-this-years-Billie-Harvey-Memorial-race...-500x400.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New OSW GM Jimbo Chadwick in victory lane with Wayne Anderson following this years&#8217; Billie Harvey Memorial race.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was announced today that Jimbo Chadwick of New Smyrna Beach, FL has been named to fill the vacant General Manager position at Orlando SpeedWorld.\u00a0 Chadwick has a long background in racing, starting as a driver at South Florida tracks, then by operating Chadwick Race Cars, Inc. in Pompano Beach from 1986 through 1997.\u00a0 After moving to North Carolina, Chadwick ran a marketing and promotions company called Showtime, Inc., building show cars and promotional items for such NASCAR Sprint Cup teams as Hendrick Motorsports, Roush Racing and Penske Racing.\u00a0 Now, after returning recently to Florida, Chadwick will take on the job of actually running a race track for the first time but says he is up to the challenge.\u00a0 Plans are to run an open practice on Friday evening, August 23, with the first scheduled racing event to take place the following night, Saturday, August 24.\u00a0 Classes that to be in action that night will be made known early next week so teams will have ample time to prepare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced today that Jimbo Chadwick of New Smyrna Beach, FL has been named to fill the vacant General Manager position at Orlando SpeedWorld.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,18,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-front-page-news","category-orlando-speedworld","category-racing-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19257,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19253\/revisions\/19257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}