{"id":26300,"date":"2020-01-24T01:18:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T01:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=26300"},"modified":"2020-01-24T01:18:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T01:18:40","slug":"sunshine-state-racing-young-guns-colton-the-bolt-bettis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/sunshine-state-racing-young-guns-colton-the-bolt-bettis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine State Racing Young Guns Colton &#8220;The Bolt&#8221; Bettis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Colton Bettis<br \/>\nHometown: Lutz, FL<br \/>\nHome Track: Showtime Speedway<br \/>\nBirthdate: September 8, 2009 (10 years old)<br \/>\nClass: Super Mini Late Model<br \/>\nCar number: 61<br \/>\nSponsors: Tony Carreno Fill Haulers, Circle C\u2019s Ranch, Morgan Exteriors, Nancy\u2019s Original Restaurant, American Mulch, Ricks Hauling, Grind it Stump Removal, Stroud Equipment Repair, S&amp;R crane, Rentalex<\/p>\n<p>Colton\u2019s racing career was inspired by his grandfather. Colton can remember when he was younger that he would race anything he could around the house, outside was his power wheels. At the young age of three, he was in his first Go-Kart and since then Colton has not looked back.<br \/>\nColton states he loves to run upfront, he loves the competition and knowing that he is able to compete with others that are sometimes four times his age. Colton has big dreams of being in a Cup Car, he has the need for speed. As soon as he is age eligible, he will be in Sprint car (but do not tell his Mother or Grandmother.)<\/p>\n<p>Colton has held several championships since 2014 starting with Junior Sportsman, to 2016 Dirt Devils Novice Track Champion, 2017 Henry Albritton Memorial Champion, 2x Sandi DeCaire Memorial Champion, 2019 Greg Leonard Classic Champion, and his latest accomplishment; the 2020 Eastbay Winter Kart Nationals Junior 2 Champion<\/p>\n<p>2014 Junior Sportsman Champ Champion<br \/>\n2015 Junior Champ Red Plate Champion<br \/>\n2015 New Years Shootout Champion<br \/>\n2016 Dirt Devils Novice Track Champion<br \/>\n2016 Sportsman Champ Red Champion<br \/>\n2016 Vega Junior Sportsman Champion<br \/>\n2017 Henry Albritton Memorial Champion<br \/>\n2017 Junior Sportsman Champ Green Champion<br \/>\n2017 FCKL Junior Champ Champion<br \/>\n2017 Junior 1 FDMS Track Champion<br \/>\n2018- Junior Champ Green Champion<br \/>\n2x Sandi DeCaire Memorial Champion<br \/>\n2019- Greg Leonard Classic Champion<br \/>\n2020-Eastbay Winter Kart Nationals Junior 2 Champion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26315\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/410-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26316\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/411-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26317\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/412-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26318\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/413-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26319\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/414-640x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Colton Bettis Hometown: Lutz, FL Home Track: Showtime Speedway Birthdate: September 8, 2009 (10 years old) Class: Super Mini Late Model Car number: 61 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26314,"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":[3,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-racing-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26300","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26320,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26300\/revisions\/26320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}