The first weekend in June was action packed on and off the Belle Isle track at the Detroit Grand Prix. Both Racing For Kids and the Detroit Grand Prix celebrated 30 year anniversaries at various events throughout the city. Thursday IndyCar Racers Felex Rosenqvist and Santino Ferucci delighted several dozen patients with a pit stop […]
Racing For Kids Celebrates 30th Anniversary at Detroit Grand Prix
“FRAMING JOHN DELOREAN” Special Fundraising Screening Benefiting Racing For Kids
HOSPITAL VISIT BRINGS SMILES TO PATIENTS AND INDYCAR VISITORS
From INDYCAR® By Josh Roller | Published: May 10, 2019 INDIANAPOLIS – The legacy of Racing For Kids grew a little more when NTT IndyCar Series driver Marcus Ericsson and Harding Steinbrenner Racing co-owner George Steinbrenner IV visited Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St. Vincent on Thursday. Racing For Kids, in its 30th year, has […]
Drivers Produce Smiles And Memories With Stop At Long Beach’s Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital
It was Thursday Morning at Long Beach’s Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital and little patient Clare was not having a good day when the trio of Racing For Kids® drivers approached her in the playroom. She shook her head. “No.” She did not want a Racing For Kids hat; or to see a picture of a […]
IndyCar drivers visit patients at Dell Children’s before weekend races
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Three IndyCar racers stepped out from behind the wheel to spend some quality time with young patients at the Dell Children’s Medical Center Thursday morning. The visit was set up by the organization Racing For Kids, a Detroit-based national charity that brings celebrity race car drivers to visit sick children and raises money […]
Alexander Rossi, NTT INDYCAR® Series driver and Indy 500 Winner, to visit patients at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital on March 7
Racing For Kids®sponsors visit by Champion Racer What: NTT INDYCAR Series driver and an Indianapolis 500 winner, Alexander Rossi will visit patients at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospitalin St. Petersburg on Thursday, March 7, leading up to the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Rossi will drive the #27 Honda for Andretti Autosport in Sunday’s […]
Racing For Kids® Partners with Cooper Consulting Events in 2019
INDIANAPOLIS – February 14, 2019 – Racing For Kids®, the popular children’s charity, today announced a partnership with Cooper Consulting Events (CCE), an Indianapolis, IN based company. The partnership will support and promote Racing For Kids® year long program of taking IndyCar drivers to the bedsides of hospitalized youngsters and entertaining outpatients at selected IndyCar […]
FERRUCCI ENTERTAINS AND RECRUITS NEW INDYCAR FANS AT NORTH VALLEY SCHOOL
Santino Ferrucci of Dale Coyne Racing is the latest of a new wave of young American drivers to achieve their life-long dream of racing in the INDYCAR Series as he competes in Sunday’s Sonoma IndyCar Grand Prix at The Sonoma (CA) Raceway. It will be his third IndyCar race this year in his initial season. […]
The 12th Annual Racing For Kids to the Hill Hit All the Right Notes!
Racing For Kids to the Hill 2018 is now in the history books, but the memories will last a long time. Even though showers and thunderstorms were predicted for almost a week, the day dawned warm with sunshine and just a few clouds. During the street fair, Kercheval Avenue was filled with young families, older […]