{"id":26910,"date":"2020-04-08T01:07:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T01:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=26910"},"modified":"2020-04-08T01:07:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T01:07:01","slug":"driver-spotlight-james-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/driver-spotlight-james-peters\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Spotlight:  James Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driver Spotlight for Sunshine State Racing: Asphalt \/Dirt<br \/>\nName: James Peters<br \/>\nHometown: Winter Garden, FL<br \/>\nHome Track: Citrus County Speedway<br \/>\nBirthday: 4\/7\/80 &#8230; Turing 40 on Tuesday !!<br \/>\nClass: Pure stock<br \/>\nCar Number: 5<br \/>\nHistory: When did you start racing and what did you start racing?<br \/>\nStarted at Orange County Raceway, Bithlo FL on their dirt track in 1995 driving a 4-cylinder bomber.<br \/>\nWhat is your favorite track to race at?<br \/>\nDirt &#8211; Volusia Speedway Park<br \/>\nAsphalt &#8211; Bronson<br \/>\nWho is your racing idol?<br \/>\nLocal track level &#8230; my dad Fred Peters, uncle Carl Peters and family friend Ted Head.<br \/>\nNASCAR level &#8211; Richard Petty<br \/>\nHighlight: favorite race win, favorite race etc.<br \/>\nI do have several, but the most recent one would be when I got the win at Citrus on 6\/9\/18 and my grandpa was there. The track allowed the extra time to get him down to get him in the picture. Most likely was his last time @ the track since he is now 92 years old and unfortunately now in a nursing home.<br \/>\nPeople that help on your car: Me, myself and I&#8230; when it comes to physically working on it.<br \/>\nSponsors: Rocket Red Motorsports and Jowers Batteries<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26919\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/92575471_689360388558409_2856939699006603264_n-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26918\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/92421253_3001308773263036_2802671923933216768_n-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26917\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/92341866_828613607634117_4788917487414542336_n-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26916\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/92242410_882892995456440_5177920453599035392_n-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26915\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/92216448_236200990857846_6509389211899002880_n-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26914\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/92129579_243115340207499_2638725415857815552_n-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver Spotlight for Sunshine State Racing: Asphalt \/Dirt Name: James Peters Hometown: Winter Garden, FL Home Track: Citrus County Speedway Birthday: 4\/7\/80 &#8230; Turing 40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26920,"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-26910","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\/26910","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=26910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26921,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26910\/revisions\/26921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}