{"id":26852,"date":"2020-03-29T01:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T01:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=26852"},"modified":"2020-03-29T01:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T01:26:49","slug":"driver-spotight-johnny-marra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/driver-spotight-johnny-marra\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Spotlight:  Johnny Marra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Johnny Marra<br \/>\nHometown: Punta Gorda, Florida<br \/>\nFrom: South Bend, Indiana<br \/>\nHome Track: 417 Southern Speedway<br \/>\nBirthdate: 7\/21\/2001<br \/>\nClass: Pro Truck<br \/>\nCar Number: 99<br \/>\nHistory: Started Racing Go Karts at 6 Years old. Won Briggs Lite Championship at 7. Started racing mini cups at 8 Years old. At 11, Started Racing mini stocks. Won mini stock Track championship at Desoto Speedway in 2015 at 14 years old and won second mini stock championship the following year at Desoto Speedway in 2016 at age 15. Started racing Pro Trucks at 16. Still working on getting a win in Pro Trucks.<br \/>\nSponsors: Charlotte Quality Tire\u2019s, Punta Gorda,Florida.<br \/>\nCharlotte Quality Car Sales, Punta Gorda, Fl.<br \/>\nHorners RV\/Auto Repair, Punta Gorda,Fl.<br \/>\nWhy did you get into Racing? I got into racing because my dad put me in kart and I love to race.<br \/>\nWhat do you love most about the sport? I love to drive anything fast. I really enjoy the competition and enjoy the friendships we have made while racing.<br \/>\nWhere do you see yourself in 5 years? Hard to say. I would hope to be racing at least Late models by then, maybe even a bigger class like a touring series late model or maybe even Arca, but that takes a lot of money and I would need to get a lucky break and have someone put me in a car.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26865\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/90380145_198297288128524_8554668761561432064_n-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26864\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/90201919_622765231615227_608527837128818688_n-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26863\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/90059996_632575920641743_8493126673393254400_n-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26862\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/90051293_2456733484431206_7959921120843399168_n-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26861\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/89973110_551558972135870_4032211461802557440_n-617x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Johnny Marra Hometown: Punta Gorda, Florida From: South Bend, Indiana Home Track: 417 Southern Speedway Birthdate: 7\/21\/2001 Class: Pro Truck Car Number: 99 History: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26864,"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-26852","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\/26852","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=26852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26867,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26852\/revisions\/26867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}