RFT 6 months after commissioning our program
WOW! That is all we can say. The last 6 months have been a wild ride for our program. We have been able to have 31 beneficiaries from our programs in three different states! It wouldn’t have been possible to be this far so quickly without the epic partnerships we have been able to make. Our partnership with Utah Motorsports Campus has allowed us to get two Veterans and Active Duty members out on track for 50-minute sessions every Wednesday night. This is insanely awesome, and we are pretty certain there is nothing like this happening anywhere else in the world for Veterans and Military members. As our program grows we really look forward to getting out with the Lucky Dog Racing League crew. Cathy Fuss the owner of the series is an amazing human being and loves to give back to Veterans and AD members. We can’t say thank you enough for our future opportunities to run with your series!!! We sponsored two members for the “All Out Call Out” in New Mexico which is a drag race event. LS Fest donated two entries for their Fort Worth event that we unfortunately were unable to fill in such a short time. We added a Central Region Coordinator Brandon Davenport. Brandon was able to secure tickets to an Indy race which included lunch, dinner, and a parking pass for the Veterans and their family members that went with them.
We have been beyond fortunate to have been donated two caged cars, a 1990 Mazda Miata that is called Trainer and a 1989 Honda CRX called Walker Texas. We have found great support from companies that love what we are doing and have donated products to get the cars closer to running on the track or to enhance our current track experiences for the members running with us. Hasport Performance donated motor mounts for Walker Texas, Safelite donated a windshield for Walker Texas, our buddy Chase Holyoak from Tink’s Superior Auto Parts / NAPA store, Miatacage.com donated bumper ducting pieces to control airflow through the radiator for our Miata, GWR- Guarino-Watson Racing worked with us on getting their slick floor drop pan for our Miata, and Motive Engineering has created a partnership with us so we can use there Hub Stands to knock out alignments and corner balances anywhere we are driving and racing. With our partnership use “racingfortomorrow” which will get you an 8% discount off the Hub Stands and they will donate a portion of each sale back to us to help fund our program. Zane is a super rad human being, we can’t say thank you enough for this opportunity! We wanted to say thanks to our buddy Alex Foust over at Kaiju Auto Boutique. He has been a big supporter of our program from the first time we met him. He helped us to get vinyl on our two-car enclosed trailer, and made our stickers. He rocks our nonprofit on his K24 Miata to help raise awareness for our program. Our buddy Kevin Savage has helped our program by donating Falken RT-660 tires to allow us to keep the Miata up and going!
We also had a 125CC CRG Shifter Kart donated by Ray a Vietnam Veteran. It has been in storage for a good couple of years, we are going to clean it up and hopefully get it running very soon. We are looking to offer karts for our kart program in the future. We have a possible lead on another Kart as well.
We look forward to finishing off 2022 very strong and our goal is to have 50 Veterans and active duty members that were positively affected by our program offerings! We are going to be holding a $50 for 50 Veteran campaign. We are trying to raise money to allow us to get to our 50 beneficiary mark through our programs by the end of 2022, and start preparing for next year’s events as we are looking to grow nationwide!
Thanks for reading, and happy motoring!
