Racing to End Alzheimer’s looks to restart at Road Atlanta

The team will compete in the HSR Prototype Challenge series as part of the legendary Mitty weekend at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta

LOS ANGELES (April 23, 2025) – The Racing to End Alzheimer’s / Forbush Performance team looks to get its racing season underway this weekend at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, competing in the 48th annual Mitty Presented by Hagerty weekend.

The No. 33 Ligier JS P315 LMP3 prototype race car will be driven by tech entrepreneur and veteran sports car racer Matt Forbush in the trio of Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Prototype Challenge Presented by IMSA series races. The team had planned to make its series debut in the season opener at Sebring, but mechanical gremlins put the introduction off until Road Atlanta – and Racing to End Alzheimer’s founder Phil Frengs is more than ready to get this new venture underway.

“We had to wait a little longer than we originally planned, but we’re excited to finally get started in the series,” said Frengs. “This is a new initiative for us, acting as an ancillary effort to our exciting new IMSA sports car campaign, which will be announced shortly. It’s great to bring the purple and yellow Alzheimer’s colors to the HSR series, and to an entirely new fan base. We love coming to Road Atlanta and know the fans will come out to see the amazing cars on a historic vintage racing weekend.”

The HSR Mitty Presented by Hagerty is one of the longest running and most prominent events in North America for historic motorsports. The Prototype Challenge series will contest three races on the weekend: two 30-minute sprint races and a 90-minute enduro.

Fans at Road Atlanta (and fans at home) can donate to the cause and place their loved one’s name on the No. 33 LMP3 prototype. Friends and family members who have been affected by Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia are proudly displayed on the car as the team races at some of the most famous tracks in North America. All donations are matched by Frengs’s company Legistics, with 100% going to the team’s two beneficiaries.

Despite the delay in debuting the team, Forbush is excited about the chance to bring the Racing to End Alzheimer’s message of hope to a new paddock. The Mitty regularly draws a large crowd, and he knows how eye-catching the livery will be.

“I’m looking forward to finally racing this car, but we all know there’s a much bigger picture to this,” said Forbush. “That makes it exponentially more fun and rewarding, to be doing all this for a good cause. We already have names on the fin of the car – my stepmom’s mother passed away from Alzheimer’s and having her name on there is cool. So for a bunch of reasons, I think the car just looks great. It catches everybody’s eye and that leads to questions of what the names mean, so we can start that conversation – because so many people have been affected by Alzheimer’s and dementia in their family.”

Forbush, a longtime GT car racer (GT cars are high-performance versions of street cars) also looks forward to racing a prototype for the first time. A recent test at Road Atlanta gave him the chance to learn and progress – a process he expects to continue all season.

“I got a good amount of seat time so it was very a productive test,” said Forbush. “I’m still very new to this type of car, but I feel good about my pace and about the car as well. This is a learning year for me but I’m really looking forward to it. The entry list is strong for this series this weekend and we know that, given the vintage nature of some of the classes, this will be the hardest and toughest racing all weekend. I can’t wait to put the Racing to End Alzheimer’s prototype on track.”

The first HSR Prototype Challenge Presented by IMSA sprint race takes the green flag Saturday at 2:10 p.m. ET, with the enduro at 6:05 p.m. The second sprint race takes place Sunday at 12:50 p.m. ET.