Kyle Larson Participates In Tony Hunt’s
Race For A Reason
Annual Event Benefits Make-A-Wish

Sacramento, CA. February 10, 2008. Sprint Car Driver Kyle Larson joined the fun for the fourth year in a row at the RPM-Race Place Motorsports Indoor Karting Facility as Tony Hunt hosted the sixth annual Race for a Reason event to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation for Sacramento and Northeastern California. Twenty-two teams competed, with a celebrity driver heading each five person team assembled.

Hunt, a five time USAC Western States Sprint Car champion, captained one team while Larson headed another.  Among the other celebrity drivers on hand were rally racer and drifting driver Tanner Faust, road racing star Joey Hand, drag racer Gary Ormsby, Jr., and three time USAC Silver Crown Champion Jimmy Sills.

Larson’s team consisted of drivers he was very familiar with from his years of racing outlaw karts. The veteran of the group was long time outlaw kart star and sometime sprint car driver Daniel Becker, 360 spec sprint car driver R.C. Smith, late model driver Mackena Bell, and mini-sprint, midget and soon to be sprint car driver Colby Copeland.

Three segments were used to determine the overall winning team – qualifying, the pit-stop challenge, and the final 45 minute enduro. Larson’s team won the enduro main event and finished fourth in the qualifying. The weak link in the group’s effort was the 15th place finish in the pit stop challenge that required teams to simulate a pit stop, including changing both right side tires on a former Randy LaJoie Busch Series stock car.

The three combined segments placed Larson’s team sixth in the final tally, while James Sweeney’s team was crowned the overall champions. Thanks to Hunt’s and RPM owner Brent Webb’s efforts a record amount of $25,759.00 was collected, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

             
            

Race: February 10, 2008
Photos Courtesy of Steve LaMothe
www.stevesracingphotos.com