UPDATE: To purchase your tickets online, please CLICK HERE to visit our Eventbrite page! Event Will Again Honor Three Courageous Kids The checkered festoons will be waving overhead and the engines will soon be revving up for the last blast of summer – the 15th Racing For Kids to the Hill — Shifting Into High […]
Racing For Kids Shifts Into High Gear as Racing For Kids to the Hill Returns
When there are weeks between NTT INDYCAR SERIES races
Racing For Kids Team members took advantage of the mid-summer break in IndyCar Racing for a fishing excursion on the cool waters of Northern Lake Michigan. Good News! The fish were biting: Steelhead, King Salmon and Lake Trout. From left to right, Andy Muzingo, Rick Muzingo, Ben Muzingo and Pat Wright.
Catching Up with Our Courageous Kids – Riley Slattery
Riley was one of the first Courageous Kids when Racing For Kids initiated the program in 2017. At the time, she was a brave little 7 year old who had overcome many medical obstacles, including 23 surgeries which had required her to use a wheelchair and later a walker. But she had a undeniable zest […]
Another Great “Kids at the Track” Day in Saint Pete
Racing For Kids got off to a fast start to the 2021 season in St. Petersburg. IndyCar Racer Jack Harvey delighted patients at John’s Hopkins All Children’s Hospital with a ‘Virtual Visit’ on Thursday, April 22. Harvey went on to a strong 4th Place finish Sunday in the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. On […]
Catching Up with Our Courageous Kids-Dylan Drouillard
When Racing For Kids first met Dylan in the summer of 2012, he was a 7 year old out-patient at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. He and his parents, John and Deanna and his big sister, Emily came to our Kids at the Track event at the Detroit Grand Prix on Belle Isle where he met IndyCar […]
Remembering Fay Buhl
Fay FitzSimons Buhl, the honorary godmother of Racing For Kids®, passed away on February 25 in Harbor Springs, Michigan. Former board member of Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Fay is the mother of four boys including former IndyCar Racer, Robbie Buhl, who is the national spokesperson and co-founder of Racing For Kids; Tom Buhl, longtime co-chairman […]
Racing For Kids Jumpstarts the holidays with special Christmas Visits
Racing For Kids kicked off the holiday season with two special visits one to Children’s Hospital of Michigan and the other to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. Both visits were Christmas gift “drop offs” to help brighten a hospital stay for many metro Detroit and Kansas City children. In the Detroit visit, a couple […]
Racing For Kids First Virtual Fundraiser is a Huge Success!!
Our 14th Annual Racing For Kids to the Hill certainly wasn’t the event we had been hoping to stage in 2020. But fortunately we were able to “Shift Gears” and ended up having a wonderfully successful “virtual” event that benefited both our hospital visit program as well as the community restaurants who have been with […]
Racing For Kids to the Hill – Shifting Gears 2020 – Virtual Event EXTENDED!
We are so disappointed COVID-19 canceled our annual “last blast of summer” fundraiser this year. But we need to keep helping sick kids in hospitals in our community and across the country. so this year our annual fundraiser is going virtual with an online Luxury Non-Auction and our new Donate & Dine Package. PURCHASE TICKETS and […]
