DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (March 19, 2023) – NASCAR, The NASCAR Foundation, Speedway Motorsports and Speedway Children’s Charities are teaming up to host a 75-hour event to raise funds for nonprofits across the country, as part of the sport’s 75th Anniversary celebrations.
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CONCORD, N.C. (December 20, 2022) – One of the most powerful and inspirational speeches across the American sports landscape was given at the inaugural ESPY Awards on March 4, 1993, when Jim Valvano was presented the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. There, he addressed an audience filled with his friends, family and contemporaries. Of course, Valvano had been diagnosed with terminal cancer – the award an acknowledgement of his condition – and passed away less than two months later.
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GARDENA, CALIF – August 2, 2022 – Donations by members of the international car club Team Shelby over the past four months have raised $72,830 for the Carroll Shelby Foundation.™ The funds will be used by the charity founded by icon Carroll Shelby to provide medical support for children with life-threatening disease and automotive educational opportunities for young people.
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BROWNSBURG, Ind. (July 9, 2022) – The Rayce Rudeen Foundation has partnered with Tony Stewart Racing in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, and the non-profit organization that honors the life of Rayce Rudeen will be emblazoned on the Top Fuel dragster of Leah Pruett during the DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals July 22-24 at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway.
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May 25, 2022 — If you are looking for the “next big name” in Motorsports then look no further than Elvis Rankin. Elvis is a 14-year-old from Indianapolis who has been making a name for himself in SIM racing and just earned himself an enormous opportunity to race in the Formula series. Don’t be mistaken, Elvis has plenty of track time, too. As a matter of fact, his entire 2016 USAC .25 Midget National Title awards and race car are on display at the Museum of American Speed in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Lingenfelter is more than turning innovative engineering into winning performance; they like to get involved, and this time, they are helping children with critical illnesses make their life-changing wishes come true through the Make-A-Wish foundation. Priceless wishes are granted for children, plus the winner takes home a $30,000 Lingenfelter Performance Engineering Eliminator Spec Engine built to the same specifications used to build the engines for the 1953 Kindig-It CF1 Roadster for Dave Kindig at Kindig-It-Design.
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MOORESVILLE, N.C. (April 5, 2022) – When Dale Earnhardt Jr. climbs behind the wheel of the No. 88 Hellmann’s Chevrolet on Friday night at Martinsville Speedway (7:30 p.m. ET on Fox Sports 1), he’ll be doing much more than steering a racecar, he’ll be helping those who experience food insecurity.
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GREENWICH, CONN. — The Piston Foundation announced a new partnership with Lime Rock Park in which both parties will have an active role in providing automotive career opportunities for talented men and women who want to learn and practice the skilled trades needed by the car enthusiast community.
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Huntersville, NC (January 2022) — WORKPRO® Tools, the Do-it-Yourself hand and power tool brand, proudly announces an addition to its Pink Tools for Hope line. The new 11-in-1 Multi-tool is designed to be not only a convenient and efficient multi-tool for a wide range of uses but also to be an effective soldier in the war against breast cancer. Continuing its partnership with the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. ®, (NBCF),
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MERIDEN — A donation from NASCAR racing star Joey Logano is helping fund improvements to the South Meriden race track where Logano, a Middletown native, competed in his formative years.
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