{"id":415,"date":"2014-12-11T10:26:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T10:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2019-05-27T08:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T07:01:15","slug":"porsche-racing-australia-boss-dies-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/porsche-racing-australia-boss-dies-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Porsche Racing Australia Boss Dies in a Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Porsche Racing Australia boss Jamey Blaikie has died in a car crash in Fiji<\/h1>\n

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Porsche Australia\u2019s boss Jamey Blaikie<\/strong><\/a> passes away in a car crash in Fiji where he was helping in the activities for a charity.<\/p>\n

The motor racing community is facing a very sad day to learn of the death of Jamey Blaikie. He was a long time racing administrator for Porsche Australia and also served as the director of Porsche motorsport in Australia.<\/p>\n

He was initially a racing driver but was more famous for his role in initiating the Porsche Carrera Cup in Australia in 2003. Last year, he left Porsche Cars Australia<\/strong><\/a> to pursue other interests. His biggest dream was to run an Aston Martin entry in the GT Asia series.<\/p>\n

These days, he was in Fiji where he was involved in an accident with a truck. He was using a rental car and going for charity work. His rental car collided with the truck and prematurely ended his life. At the time of the death, he was 52 years old.<\/p>\n

Our condolences go with his family, friends, colleagues and motorsport community down under where he will surely be missed, Rest in Peace Jamey Blaikie.<\/p>\n

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Porsche Racing Australia boss Jamey Blaikie has died in a car crash in Fiji   Porsche Australia\u2019s boss Jamey Blaikie passes away in a car crash in Fiji where he was helping in the activities for a charity. The motor racing community is facing a very sad day to learn of the death of Jamey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,91,3],"tags":[124,278,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enginecompare.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}