{"id":5949,"date":"2021-10-01T15:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2022-10-05T23:51:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T23:51:38","slug":"2021-scholarship-winner-andre-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/?p=5949","title":{"rendered":"2021 ANDRE CASTRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5950\" src=\"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AndreC-1200x538-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AndreC-1200x538-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AndreC-1200x538-1-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/AndreC-1200x538-1-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Aged 22 (born January 6, 1999), from New York, N.Y. Began karting at age 7. Won a Skip Barber \u201cKarts to Cars\u201d Scholarship and took three wins, five poles and 10 podiums in the 2016 Skip Barber Race Series. Made his Formula Tour 1600 debut in Canada with three podium finishes and was named a Team USA Scholarship finalist. Finished in the top 10 in two of just four Cooper Tires USF2000 starts in 2017. After a two-year hiatus, he returned to the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2019, scoring four podiums and one pole. This year has run a partial USF2000 season with best of eighth at St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aged 22 (born January 6, 1999), from New York, N.Y. Began karting at age 7. Won a Skip Barber \u201cKarts to Cars\u201d Scholarship and took three wins, five poles and 10 podiums in the 2016&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6299,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions\/6299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}