{"id":6721,"date":"2011-05-16T16:05:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6721"},"modified":"2011-05-16T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:05:28","slug":"bill-lester-becomes-first-black-grand-am-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6721","title":{"rendered":"Bill Lester Becomes First Black Grand-Am Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DANVILLE, Va. \u2014 <strong>Bill Lester<\/strong> became the first black driver to win a Grand-Am Road Racing event, teaming with <strong>Jordan Taylor<\/strong> to top the Rolex Series\u2019 GT class Saturday in the Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re ecstatic,\u201d <strong>Lester<\/strong> said. \u201cEverything came together for us. We knew at the beginning of the season that this team had a lot of potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough victory in the Autohaus Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro came in the hometown of auto racing pioneer <strong>Wendell Scott,<\/strong> the only black driver to win NASCAR Sprint Cup race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DANVILLE, Va. \u2014 Bill Lester became the first black driver to win a Grand-Am Road Racing event, teaming with Jordan Taylor to top the Rolex Series\u2019 GT class Saturday in the Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway. \u201cWe\u2019re ecstatic,\u201d Lester said. \u201cEverything came together for us. We knew at the beginning of the season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}