Race Cars For A Cause

We aim to create unique opportunities for disabled Veterans by giving them a trackday experience in an actual race car, and creating a race car with adaptive driving controls to give them a chance to compete in amateur racing events. An all-Veteran race team will be our ultimate goal, competing in as many events as possible, and hoping to see a graduate of our program move on to professional racing.

Additional impacts we are looking to make are reductions in stress due to PTSD and/or physical injuries to Veterans. By taking them out of their day-to-day situations, we intend to provide a new and exciting social experience that will get them to interact with fellow Veterans and recover some of the camaraderie that can be lost.

Obtain grants and funding, form a relationship with participating race tracks and race leagues, put our Veterans into racing situations, and campaign to get them a place in professional racing, if they desire. Form a working relationship with Veteran assistance programs (Wounded Warrior, Fisher House, VA programs, etc.) and get Veteran referrals to our program.

Through communications with various Veterans Assistance Organizations, and donations of track time from local high performance driving schools, we are able to bring Veterans to a race track for the day.

To date, we have established excellent working relationships with people and organizations within the automotive and racing industries. South Shore BMW in Rockland, MA has donated services to our cause (technical and mechanical help for our first track car), and we have negotiated with APEX Driving Events to allow Veterans to get ride along experiences at various tracks in the northeast, at no cost to our organization, nor to the Veterans. We hosted one event in 2015 which brought four Veterans to the race track for the day.

In 2016, we were the recipients of a fundraiser hosted by BMW of North America. This was our only fundraiser, which brought $2,500.00 to the mission. Private donations totaled $3,680.00 for 2016. In 2015 we served four Veterans at our events. In 2016, we proudly served 41 Veterans at our various track days.

Two additional tracks have offered to give us a total of four donated Veterans track day events in 2016. Palmer Motorsports Park and Thompson Speedway will host private track days for our Veterans. We have teamed up with Guardian Angel Motorsports, who have volunteered to bring out their incredible line up of cars and drivers to our events.