{"id":8067,"date":"2025-04-29T12:28:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=8067"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:28:50","slug":"racing-to-end-alzheimers-teams-with-cameron-racing-to-contest-the-2025-imsa-michelin-pilot-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/racing-to-end-alzheimers-teams-with-cameron-racing-to-contest-the-2025-imsa-michelin-pilot-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s teams with Cameron Racing to contest the 2025 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

– First race for the new partnership will be at historic WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca \u2013 site of the 2017 debut of the iconic \u201cnames\u201d livery<\/em><\/p>\n

– The team will also reunite with local driver Nick Galante in the TCR class<\/em><\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES (April 29, 2025) \u2013 Racing to End Alzheimer’s sports a new team partner in 2025, joining forces with Sonoma, Calif.-based Stephen Cameron Racing to contest the Grand Sport (GS) class in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge.<\/p>\n

The series may be different this season but the premise of Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s remains the same: to give family and friends the chance to honor loved ones who have suffered from dementia and Alzheimer’s \u2013 and in doing so, raise awareness and funds to help \u201cfind the cure and fund the care.\u201d<\/p>\n

For just $250, a name can be placed on the No. 19 Ford Mustang GT4, proudly displayed as the team races at some of the most famous tracks in North America. All\u00a0donations<\/a>\u00a0are matched by founder Phil Frengs\u2019 company Legistics, with 100% going to the team\u2019s two beneficiaries \u2013 the Nantz National Alzheimer\u2019s Center at Houston Methodist (founded by longtime CBS announcer Jim Nantz, to honor his father who passed from Alzheimer\u2019s in 2011) and the UCLA Alzheimer\u2019s and Dementia Care program.<\/p>\n

The move marks a series return for Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s, who originally brought the traditional \u201cnames\u201d livery to the Pilot Challenge series in 2017 (with the car\u2019s debut at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca). Frengs and Galante won the championship in 2016, finished third in the final 2017 standings and then won the championship title again in 2018, all with Monterey resident Nick Galante as one of two drivers.<\/p>\n

Galante, a professional caddie at the world-famous Pebble Beach Golf Links, also returns to the Pilot Challenge series this weekend, racing a special anniversary edition in the TCR class, an Audi RS3 LMS for RVA Graphics Motorsports By Speed Syndicate alongside Luke Rumburg and carrying the new Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s colors.<\/p>\n

The \u201cnames\u201d livery might be familiar but the 2025 paint scheme on the No. 19 Ford Mustang GT4 will be brand new and exciting, meeting the challenge of maintaining the branding fans have come to recognize while blending with the Cameron Racing orange.<\/p>\n

Stephen Cameron Racing, led by longtime sports car racer Steve Cameron, was founded in 1987. The team has been a leading team in a multitude of top U.S. racing series, including IMSA, SRO, INDY NXT, USF2000 and Historic SportsCar Racing, specializing in trackside support, driver development, and car preparation.<\/p>\n

The purple and orange No. 19 will be driven by an outstanding pair of drivers who have significant history with Cameron Racing \u2013 and both are Bay area residents: Palo Alto\u2019s Sean Quinlan, with whom the team won the 2019 Pirelli GT4 America series (in his eighth year with the team), and San Francisco-based Greg Liefooghe, who won Pirelli World Challenge SprintX titles with the team in 2017 and 2019, and has been with the team for nine years.<\/p>\n

The relationship with Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s is especially meaningful to Quinlan, whose grandmother suffered from the disease.<\/p>\n

The announcement was a long time coming for Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s founder Phil Frengs, but the chance to partner with an outstanding team, in one of the premier sports car series, was well worth the wait.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t be happier to partner with Stephen Cameron Racing, and with Sean [Quinlan] and Greg [Liefooghe],\u201d said Frengs. \u201cThey saw the opportunity with us, approached us and asked how they could help \u2014 and so developed this wonderful opportunity for us to join one of sports car racing\u2019s leading teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd as a special effort at WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway to commemorate where it all began, we\u2019re also thrilled to be able to join RVA Graphics Motorsports\/Speed Syndicate, putting Nick back in a Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s car at this, one of our favorite tracks and his home racetrack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frengs began Racing to End Alzheimer’s after his wife Mimi was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer\u2019s. Since that debut race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca eight years ago, Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s has raised more than $1 million to help the fight against the disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really is so meaningful that we\u2019re debuting this new program in Monterey,\u201d said Frengs. \u201cWe started Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s in 2017 to raise funds and awareness. We got the idea of putting the names of family and friends who have suffered from dementia and Alzheimer’s on the car as a way to honor them. We have come so far \u2013 but there is still so far to go, and we, along with our two outstanding beneficiaries, are committed to this fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has taken a great deal of work to put this program together for 2025, and a huge thanks to Steve and his team for putting in the effort to bring everyone together,\u201d continued Frengs. \u201cIt speaks to the commitment we all have to continue fighting Alzheimer’s disease, as we have seen progress in both treatment and care, especially from our two outstanding beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to rejoining the Pilot Challenge paddock and talking to many fans throughout the season. Just about everyone we meet at the racetrack has a story about how Alzheimer’s has affected their family, and that\u2019s our mission: to give them an opportunity to honor their loved ones in a tangible way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two-hour Laguna Seca 120 for the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge takes the green flag Saturday, May 10 at 12:45 p.m. PT. The race will be broadcast live in the U.S. on\u00a0Peacock TV<\/a>, and internationally on IMSA.tv and on IMSA\u2019s YouTube channel \u2013 ad-free courtesy of Michelin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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