Racing For Kids, the longest continuous children’s charity in motorsports, congratulates the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach for its 50th Anniversary of bringing big time auto racing to Southern California. For 26 years (1991-2016), Racing For Kids was the beneficiary of the Grand Prix’s Toyota Pro Celebrity Race bringing a variety of celebrity racers […]
Racing For Kids opened the 2025 NTT INDYCAR Series season with a visit to hospitalized kids at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fl. This is the Grosse Pointe based national children’s charity’s 36th year of helping sick children get better faster through motorsports.
Leading the February 27 hospital visit was AJ Foyt Racing’s star racer Santino Ferrucci who competed is the weekend’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. The popular INDYCAR racer made bedside visits, engaging 50 young patients, talking about racing, signing his hero cards, posing for photos and handing out colorful Racing For Kids hats.
Joining Ferrucci were two young racers from the USF2000 Series. Jace Demark and George Leon Argyos III (AKA G3 Argyos). Their 90 minute program was the 21st visit Racing For Kids has made to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital since INDYCAR began racing on the streets of St. Petersburg in 2003.
The following day, Racing For Kids teamed up with St. Petersburg Grand Prix promoter, Green Savoree Racing Promotions, to entertain dozens of young hospital outpatients and their families at a VIP Kids-at-the-Track event. The kids enjoyed personal tours of the INDYCAR Paddock, the AJ Foyt Racing team transporter, the Dallara chassis manufacture’s transporters and the Firestone Racing’s race tire compound. They were also treated to a delicious track side lunch provided by Lundy Catering.
“Green Savoree and its St. Pete Grand Prix staff really stepped up to the plate once again to make this happen” said Debby Wright, Racing For Kids’ COO. “We love kicking off our season in St. Petersburg and our 36th year is off to a great start.”
Racing For Kids faces a busy season again which will feature race weekends programs at the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix in late May as well as a June event at the world famous Road America track in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. “This is a particularly exciting and rewarding time of year for our team of Grosse Pointer residents and supporters,” said Wright, ”as we take the spirit of our community to the bed-sides of sick children around the United States and Canada.”
