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BUDDY RICE VISITS MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

Racing For Kids Driver Buddy Rice visited with 75 youngsters today (Thursday, March 27) at Miami Children's Hospital. The 2004 Indy 500 Winner Rice, who pilots the #15 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Honda Dallara in the IndyCar Series, signed autographs, posed for pictures, and talked about his passion for racing.

Rice will drive in Saturday Night's GAINSCO Auto Insurance 300 at Homestead, Fla. The 8 pm race will be telecast on ESPN2.

Assisting in the visit with Rice were Shelly-Ann Walker and Gonzalo Marquez from TranSystems, Inc. and Angela Bianco and Wanda Colon from Humana, Inc. Humana and TranSystems are supporters of Racing For Kids.

Racing For Kids Hat and coloring books were distributed to the children visited. In addition, Humana provided miniature stuffed animals for the children at the Miami hospital while TranSystems donated toy race cars.