We have been accused of being a tad mental for this one, but here goes.
A group from the Alabama Sports Car Club of America has set up a partnership with Racing4Research and the Children's Tumor Foundation. We will be running a Virtual 24 Hours of Daytona in our Daytona Prototype while the No. 85 Racing4Research Farnbacher Loles 911 GT3 Cup car assaults the 3.56 mile road course. This will prove to be quite a challenge for us and even more of a challenge for the teams at the Speedway.
We set this partnership up in order to give something back to an amazing cause and the sport that we truly love. Please have a look at the Racing4Research site here, http://www.racing4research.org/ to see how they have combined Endurance Racing and this amazing Foundation into something much bigger than the sum of its parts.
There will be live coverage of the Virtual 24 running from 2:30pm central time Saturday the 24th of January all the way up to the checkered flag on Sunday the 25th with a post race wrap up concluding around 3:00 pm central time. We will also be giving you live updates throughout the race on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=56114858367&view=all#/group.php?gid=56114858367 Keeping you up to date with how we are running compared to the actual race and our thoughts regarding our effort and what is happening at Daytona . There will be a live web cam running throughout the event as well, so you can see when we completely mess things up or occasionally get it right. (The live feed link has not been finalized at this time, please check back over the coming week for details)
If we have inspired you to donate even half a cent per lap or a one time amount to this cause (we should be running in the neighborhood of 800ish laps, that would only be $4.00! Of course I'm sure they would be happy to have a bit more than that : ) Please go to our Racing4Research page at:, http://www.active.com/donate/racing4research/Virtual24HoursofDayt and your contributions will go directly to the source!
Should be an absolute blast, hope to see some of you following along.
Regards,
The Alabama SCCA Gang and Friends
