{"id":9860,"date":"2017-03-07T13:46:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=9860"},"modified":"2017-03-07T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:46:33","slug":"byrd-97-named-new-indy-speedrome-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2017\/03\/07\/byrd-97-named-new-indy-speedrome-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Byrd \u201997 named new Indy Speedrome president"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9861\" style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2017\/03\/07\/byrd-97-named-new-indy-speedrome-president\/byrds-brothers-april-2016\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9861\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9861\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/03\/Byrds-brothers-April-2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/03\/Byrds-brothers-April-2016.jpg 325w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/03\/Byrds-brothers-April-2016-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan &#8217;97 (r) and David &#8217;98 Byrd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Byrd II \u201997<\/strong> was named President of the 76-year old Indianapolis Speedrome when it was purchased by a new owner last November.\u00a0 New ownership and the new president, who is overseeing day-to-day operations, are teaming up to revitalize the Speedrome, \u201cbelieved to be the oldest figure 8 track in the country.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibj.com\/articles\/62796-storied-racetrack-revved-for-a-restart-under-new-owner\">Click here<\/a> for the news story.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan and his brother David \u201998 are owners of the <strong>Jonathan Byrd&#8217;s Racing i<\/strong>n the Indycar series.\u00a0 Last April, they were part of the panel discussion at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/news\/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=10789\">\u201cIndyCar &amp; the Liberal Arts\u201d<\/a>, put on by <em>The Bachelor<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Byrd II \u201997 was named President of the 76-year old Indianapolis Speedrome when it was purchased by a new owner last November.\u00a0 New ownership and the new president, who is overseeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/03\/Byrds-brothers-April-2016.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9864,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions\/9864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}