04/24/05

LAPS FOR KIDS TEAM IN MILLION DOLLAR DRIVE PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP

Avon Lake, Ohio — Gary Kannegiesser, Laps for Kids LLC founder, announces that his fund raising organization and karting team of Kannegiesser, national karting champion Alan Rudolph, and Tim Megenbier will attempt to raise an unprecedented $1 million for the VICTORY JUNCTION GANG in 2005 as they challenge a Guinness World Record that has stood for eight years in November of 2005.

Laps for Kids is proud to add a new partner, World Karting Association, to its growing list of sponsors who want to help physically challenged young people in a program called “The Million Dollar Drive”. This program is very simple: anyone who enters a George Kugler Manufacturer’s Cup Series presented by Bridgestone event in 2005 and makes a cash donation or an in-kind donation of over 100 items to choose from listed on the Lapsforkids.com website, can help set a new Guinness World Record for the largest donation by karters to a children’s charity.

To be a part of “The Million Dollar Drive”, bring cash or items to a special collection point that will be set up at each race. There you will be given a receipt for your donation and be eligible for many awards. The Victory Junction Gang is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit charity so all your donations will be tax deductible. All checks are to be made payable to Laps for Kids / Friends of Victory Junction Gang and all credit cards are accepted.

For your support donors will have a chance to win great prizes. With each donation drivers will receive a special patch and eligible to win prizes at each event.

Proceeds of the Laps for Kids “The Million Dollar Drive” will benefit the Victory Junction Gang Camp, a Randleman, North Carolina based camp for special needs

Founded by actor Paul Newman and Kyle and Pattie Petty to honor Adam Petty, Victory Junction’s mission is to enrich the lives of children from the Carolinas and Virginia, who suffer with chronic or life-threatening illnesses. The camp has a racing theme that allows campers to begin their experience by entering the camp through a tunnel and crossing a starting line into the world of racing. Victory Junction’s 75-acre site has more than 36 buildings, including dining hall, gym, pool, theater, therapeutic center, arts and crafts center, race shop, and 16 camper cabins. The Victory Junction Gang Camp, which is also a Charity of NASCAR, opened June of 2004 and is free to children and their families.

Adam Petty made his start in motorsports through karting; a life cut short in an untimely death in NASCAR in 2000, at twenty years of age. The Laps for Kids team will be going the distance in his honor as well.

For more information or question please contact: Gary Kannegiesser at 440 670 2897
Donations may be sent to: Laps for Kids / Friends of Victory Junction, 32967 Durrell Ave.
Avon Lake, Ohio 44012 or visit any of the following:
Laps for Kids LLC: www.lapsforkids.com.
Victory Junction Gang: www.victoryjunction.org.
Snap-On Stars of Karting: www.starsofkarting.com


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