{"id":8611,"date":"2025-09-23T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:33:29","slug":"top-five-finish-for-racing-to-end-alzheimers-thwarted-by-late-race-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/23\/top-five-finish-for-racing-to-end-alzheimers-thwarted-by-late-race-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Top five finish for Racing to End Alzheimer’s thwarted by late race incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (September 23, 2025) \u2013 The Racing to End Alzheimer’s with Stephen Cameron Racing team came close to earning its seventh IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge top 10 and third top five finish of the season in Saturday\u2019s Indianapolis Motor Speedway 120 – but two late race fuel system blips put the No. 19 Ford Mustang GT4 in harm\u2019s way, ending its race with two\u00a0laps remaining.<\/p>\n

The team recently shifted to a brand-new Ford Mustang chassis, which drivers Sean Quinlan and Greg Liefooghe tested several weeks ago at Road Atlanta. The move necessitated not only coming to grips with the car\u2019s nuances during the test, and through two practice sessions at Indy, but also updating the names of loved ones who have suffered from dementia or Alzheimer\u2019s that have been placed on the car by family and friends.<\/p>\n

The team replaced the names on the car\u2019s four fender panels but ingeniously deployed the two doors from the old car \u2013 a huge time savings for the crew, as the doors hold over 100 of the nearly 170 names that are on the car.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce again, huge thanks to the entire Cameron team for working so hard with us, to ensure that all the names were in place for Saturday afternoon\u2019s green flag,\u201d said Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s founder Phil Frengs. \u201cIt was great to see the bright purple and orange paint scheme head to the grid with all the names ready to go. These names represent champions to their family and friends, and we\u2019re honored to be a part of that commemoration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re grateful as well to Kevin Lee and the team at NBC Sports\/Peacock, for interviewing Greg (Liefooghe) during the first hour of the race,\u201d continued Frengs. \u201cIt gave Greg the chance to talk about Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s and explain Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s to all the IMSA fans. We appreciate the chance to tell our story and invite more people to put a name on the car and honor their loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over Friday\u2019s two one-hour practice sessions, Quinlan, Liefooghe and the team refined the new car\u2019s setup over Indy\u2019s tricky 14-turn, 2.439-mile layout. The IMS circuit presents a unique challenge: balancing aerodynamics on the sections of the track that incorporate the four-mile oval with tight road course corners that require heavy braking and a nimble response.<\/p>\n

Taking Saturday\u2019s green flag in 16th position, Quinlan rode the draft down the front straight and into turn one. He took the measure of the cars around him and moved up two positions by the end of lap one before settling into a rhythm in the lead train of cars. An early yellow gave the team the chance to top off fuel and change left side Michelin tires, with Quinlan slotting back into P14.<\/p>\n

A yellow with just over an hour to go sent Quinlan to pit lane from P11, this time for right side tires, fuel, and a change to Liefooghe. After a lightning-fast stop from the Cameron crew, Liefooghe headed back out on track in fifth position and quickly captured fourth as one of the fastest cars on track – and when a car ahead received a penalty, Liefooghe slid into third just before a yellow to retrieve debris.<\/p>\n

Liefooghe pounced on the restart, running side by side with the No. 46 for the rest of the lap before Liefooghe cleared ahead in the front straight \u2013 only to trade the position back several laps later. But a blip in the fuel system momentarily slowed the car, putting Liefooghe back to P7, and\u00a0the system blipped again, slowing the Ford Mustang momentarily. But it was enough to cause the car behind to clip Liefooghe, sending him into the turn six tires and out of the race with four minutes remaining.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the current BoP (balance of performance), we just didn’t have the speed that some of the other cars had,\u201d said team owner Steve. Cameron. \u201cOur pit stop was good, going with only two tires put us in the top five. It was a struggle there at the end, but Greg was doing a great job. The car looked great this weekend, but we\u2019ll have to take a look at what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

The No. 19 Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s Mustang gives families the chance to honor loved ones who have suffered from Alzheimer\u2019s disease or other forms of dementia. For a $250 donation, the family member\u2019s name and hometown is placed on the car, and their photo can be posted on the Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s website\u2019s tribute page.<\/p>\n

Names added now will\u00a0not only be on the car for the final race at\u00a0Road Atlanta\u00a0but will also be on the car for the entire 2026 racing season.<\/p>\n

All donations are matched by Frengs\u2019 company Legistics, with 100% going to the program\u2019s two beneficiaries \u2013 the Nantz National Alzheimer Center at Houston Methodist, and the UCLA Alzheimer\u2019s and Dementia Care Program.<\/p>\n

To date, Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s has donated over $1 million to those two programs.<\/p>\n

Donate now at this link.<\/a><\/p>\n

Next up for Racing to End Alzheimer\u2019s will be the final race of the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge season, the FOX Factory 120 at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta on Saturday, October 10.\u00a0 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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