Racing For Kids® kicked off the 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series with an event-filled weekend in St. Petersburg, Florida. Activities included an exciting driver visit to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital on Thursday and a thrilling, action packed kids-at-track day on Friday—all leading up to the Grand Prix race on Sunday. Sunday’s highlight was the presentation […]
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APEX LEGENDS SPONSORS 2016 CHILDREN’S BOOK HOLIDAY GIFT PROGRAM TO BENEFIT RACING FOR KIDS®
Apex Legends, publisher of The Longest Day – A Childhood Race Adventure and Josef, the Indy Car Driver, is offering an exclusive holiday gift program for Racing For Kids sponsors, partners, donors and IndyCar friends. Purchase Apex Legends children’s books for the young racing fans on your list and Racing For Kids will receive 50% […]
Red Bull Rally Cross Race Drivers visit sick kids at Seattle Children’s Hospital and get involved
SEATTLE.—-When it comes to visiting sick kids with Racing for Kids, drivers from the Red Bull Rally Cross Series are not afraid to “get involved,” so to speak. Upon entering the “Play Room” at Seattle Children’s Hospital on a Racing for Kids Visit Thursday, September 14, 2016, Red Bull Drivers James Rimmer and Conor Martell […]
Spencer Pigot Recruits New Fans At Santa Rosa’s North Valley School
IndyCar Rookie, Spencer Pigot delighted 80 students at North Valley School today (Thursday) at Racing For Kids annual stop at the highly regarded Santa Rosa (CA) school. Engaging kids from grades 2 to 12 in an assembly outside the school, Pigot gave an impressive tutorial on IndyCar racing from inside the cockpit of his Ed […]
RFK Atlantic City Visit With Red Bull RallyCross Drivers
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ.– Racing for Kids, the Michigan based nonprofit that visits kids at Children’s Hospitals and other children-centric organizations around the United States, joined forces again with drivers from the Red Bull Global Rallycross Series (GRC), who were in Atlantic City for a race. Team Subaru Drivers Bucky Lasek and Sverre Isachsen and Alex Keys […]
Hinch Leads Quartet Of Racers To Sheboygan Falls Boys & Girls Club
“Mom, I met some amazing racecar drivers today “said the diminutive girl with dark hair and dark eyes as she left Sheboygan Falls Boys & Girls Club, Thursday. The “amazing drivers,” were Verizon IndyCar Series star, James (Hinch) Hinchcliffe and talented Indy Lights racers Zach Veach, Shelby Blackstock and Dalton Kellett who conducted a Racing […]
Stefan Wilson Visits Sick Kids At Indy’s Peyton Manning St. Vincent Hospital
Stefan Wilson is looking to run in his first Indy 500 this year in the 100th running of The Greatest Spectacle in Motorsports. He has dedicated his entry to honor his late brother INDYCAR star racer Justin Wilson who died from injuries in a crash last August at The Pocono (PA) Raceway. Stefan’s entry is […]
Verizon IndyCars’ Aleshin Leads RFK Trio Visit To School For Autistic Children
Racing For Kids, which for twenty-seven years has been cheering up sick kids with visits from professional race drivers, continued to explore new avenues of children’s healthcare with a visit Thursday, April 21, 2016, to the Glenwood Autism and Behavioral Health Center in Birmingham, AL. A three driver contingent lead by Verizon IndyCar Series’ first Russian driver, Mikhail Aleshin of SMP Racing, visited more than 80 youngsters in classrooms at Glenwood. Joining […]
