{"id":230971,"date":"2026-03-22T06:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230971\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T06:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:27:13","slug":"statement-from-imsa-president-john-doonan-on-passing-of-grand-prix-of-long-beach-president-and-ceo-jim-michaelian-speedway-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230971\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from IMSA President John Doonan on Passing of Grand Prix of Long Beach President and CEO Jim Michaelian &#8211; Speedway Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll of us here at IMSA are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of longtime Grand Prix Association of Long Beach President and CEO Jim Michaelian. Jim was a racer\u2019s racer and a dear friend to IMSA and the motorsports community at large. In addition to his stewardship of the Long Beach event, Jim was a frequent competitor in IMSA races over the years. We will sorely miss his presence at Long Beach and racetracks everywhere. Our thoughts and prayers are with Jim\u2019s family, friends and colleagues. This is a devastating loss for our motorsports family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IMS PR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAll of us here at IMSA are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of longtime Grand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[104763,38639,131,133,132,52544,14396,104764],"class_list":["post-230971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-ims","tag-imsa","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-miss","tag-motorsports","tag-our-motorsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}