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RACING FOR KIDS JOINS FORCES WITH SAILORS FROM TRANSPACIFIC YACHT RACE TO VISIT SICK KIDS AT MILLER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
LONG BEACH, CA. ---Racing for Kids, a Michigan based non-profit organization that uses the popularity of motorsports to visit sick kids in children’s hospitals around the world, will join forces with the sailors schedule to participate in the Transpac Yacht Race from Long Beach to Hawaii (July 5th) and visit sick kids at Miller Children’s Hospital, 2801 Atlantic Ave, Long Beach 2 pm, Friday, July 3, 2009.
Racing for Kids, which is celebrating its 20th Anniversary, has visited some 20,000 sick kids over the years and this effort with the Trans Pacific sailors marks the organization’s first venture with Yacht Race participants.
“Over the years, we have partnered with a variety of motorsports racers from Indy or Open Wheel Racing, Sports Car Racing, and dirt track motorcycle racing, so we are quite excited about the opportunity to partner with the Transpac Race and one of its major sponsors, TranSystems, a global transportation consulting company,” explained J. Patrick Wright, Racing for Kids executive director.
At the visit, sailors from the race who also starred in the Disney Movie, “Morning Light,” which is about the 2,225 mile race from
Based in Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, adjacent to Detroit, Racing for Kids drivers and racers have visited more than 200 hospitals in the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico and Australia and the organization has donated more that $5-M to children’s hospitals and health care institutions. RFK was founded by Dr. Bill Pinsky, pediatric cardiologist who enjoyed racing and saw the therapeutic value of race drivers visiting sick kids. He then partnered with Robbie Buhl, a now retired Indy race car driver and current Indy Racing League team owner and Wright.
Additional information is available at www.racingforkids.org.
