Last year over 78,000 cars entered the Toyota Sponsafier contest. Our Lyme Disease Awareness car came in 15th place (with almost 8,000 votes) and remained on display for a couple of months where it was seen by countless people!
Cars with the highest numbers of votes in the first round this year will be featured again in the final round where they will be displayed even more prominently.
Our theme this year is ``Get it Right, Treat the Bite!'' We want to encourage people to think about Lyme disease when they are bitten by a tick and to seek medical care immediately.
Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ehrlichia, Bartonella and a host of infectious organism can be found in ticks, so why wait? After all, prevention is the best medicine!
This year our driver is Michael Waltrip- two time winner of the Daytona 500. With him behind the wheel and you at the voting pole each day, we should do quite well!
Be sure to click on the 3-D view of the car and see the tribute to Dr. Charles Ray Jones (on the roof).
Our Lyme Disease Awareness efforts this year are dedicated to Dr. Jones and his wonderful staff for all they do to help the children who suffer with chronic Lyme and tick borne diseases.
We are also celebrating Dr. Jones 82nd birthday this month- March 14, 2011. If you don't know Dr. Jones' story please visit the site dedicated to him, his staff and his precious kids.
Aside from raising Lyme awareness across the internet, the winning car (grand prize) will be featured at the 2011 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race this summer where it can be seen by millions of fans via television coverage and news reports.
The winner will also receive a prize package of Toyota Racing Gear and be honored with a visit from a (real) NASCAR driver.
Should our car win, all prizes will be donated to individual(s) dealing with chronic Lyme disease.
For more information check out the ``Racing Awareness'' page at www.DrJonesKids.com
Please feel free to share this announcement with your email, twitter and face book friends (see sample posts below). Encourage them to vote for our Racing Lyme Disease Awareness Car!
Boogity, boogity, boogity... Let's go racing, boys!
** Facebook post- Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car! You can get the word out about Lyme disease by voting for the Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car. We have 15 days to get as many votes as possible. You can vote once a day- it is easy, free and no registering required. Last year over 78,000 cars entered the contest. Our Lyme car came in 15th place and was seen by tons of people! See the Racing Awareness page at: www.DrJonesKids.com
**Twitter post- Gentlemen... START YOUR ENGINES!!! Vote for the Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car. See the Racing Awareness page- www.DrJonesKids.com
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For the record... the car was approved and I got the official email on Thursday evening at 6:33 PM. The note I got from them said ...
"Congratulations! Your Sponsafier design, LYME DISEASE AWARENESS, has been officially approved!
You now have 15 days to rally as many votes as you can. It's not that much time, so be sure to sign in soon and share your design on Facebook�, Twitter and wherever else you think it will get noticed."
I got the websites updated and the first announcements out by email and posted on here about 10:30 PM.
So.... our "24 hour period" would run approximately from 10:30 PM to 10:30 PM each day.
Each day we should record the total number of votes at 10:30 so we can watch them climb.
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Votes now stand at 237. I voted yesterday and today and sent out to everyone on my email list.
The car is great, good job and nice tribute to Dr J on the roof.
VOTE VOTE VOTE
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I'd like to see a thread on medical referring to to this thread in general...
as medical gets a lot more traffic
...but
yes? no? maybe so?
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I posted on Mike's FB Racing page. Maybe tomorrow someone else could post.
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Up for today's voting!
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We were the favorite car yesterday
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My latest salutation - thanks for car-ring enough to race Lyme awareness!
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BUT... If we are going to have a chance to win, each person voting daily now needs to find at least 5 more people to cast their votes. And that is a minimum!
Can you do it?
Can you keep voting and share the original announcement below with others? Facebook, Twitter, friends at school and work? The more who know, the faster we go toward Racing Lyme Disease Awareness!!!
UPDATE 11:30 PM, Monday.
There are 6,891 votes for the top car- so far. We are almost at 1,000 votes and have 10 more days to vote.
2 cars have total votes in the 6,000- 7,000 range (voting closed)
2 cars in the 5,000 range (voting closed)
1 car in 3,000 range (voting open)
4 in the 2,000 range (2 still have voting open)
5 in the 1,000 range (1 still has voting open)
Zac Attack and Faith & Hope are HOT on our bumpers.
Don't forget to cast your vote!!!!
Help Raise Lyme Disease Awareness. Vote for the Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car. Free, easy and no registration required.
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GREAT!!!!! That is too cool!!!
Wonderful effort!!!
I don't do Facebook stuff, so this is even better than I could imagine!
I just saw we hit 1,001!!!
Keep up the good effort to race awareness. We will get folks to ...
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We are getting it out everywhere - facebook bigtime, lymefriends, Paul's groups, some of the state groups -
actually, if any of you could post on your yahoo state groups, that would be great - with another week and a half to go, I think we stand a good chance to go to the top o' the heap this time!!
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We only have about 50 more votes to get in 15th place!!!
Hope by the time I get up tomorrow we are on page 3 instead of page 4!
That assures us many more views for racing Lyme Awareness!
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I think as it climbs we can get more people excited about voting too..
lets just hope the competition does not have the same momentum
it seems there are like 4 cars still active getting good votes above the Lyme Car
the rest of the top 15 are done with votes so we are battling with like 4 others to reach 7000 Votes
the thing I find strange is the home page says 7 days left to vote
but the car page says 15.
I wonder if the entire event ends in 7 days?
this just seems a little strange... but pressing on regardless.
Paul
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The contest for some may be over in 7 days, but each car has 15 days from the time the car was accepted. There is a designated time period (buried in the rules) that has a table of dates to follow.
Last year the winning car had LOTS more than 7,000 votes and cars can still be entered before the deadline. I'll bet the old posts are here, let me look.
We were in 15th place with almost 8,000 votes... so we ned to just keep climbing as much as possible to have a big cushion.
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When it says the contest is over in 7 days, 6 days, etc, it means March 20 is the last day to enter new cars. But everyone's car gets 15 days of voting, meaning April 6 (15 days after March 20) is the last day for voting in this first phase.
Which means...if anyone's feeling creative and wants to make a car design, it's fun to do - just let us know - Paul's got quite a votin' gang... lol
Paul - it started in February.
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Here is the way they determine the finalists. It isn't JUST votes.
Finalist Selection: During the Finalist Selection Phase, qualified judges selected by Sponsor in its sole discretion (the "Qualified Judges") will review and judge all Designs according to the following criteria (the "Judging Criteria"):
Originality of the Design when compared to other Designs (20%);
Feasibility of the Design to be applied to a two-seater NASCAR show car (20%);
Creativity demonstrated by the application of user-uploaded images and/or pre-loaded Sponsafier graphics to the Design to the Design (20%);
Ability of the Design to inspire consumers (20%);
and Public Appeal (20%).
Subject to the entrant's compliance with these Official Rules, the ten (10) entrants with the highest-scoring Designs will be deemed potential Finalist Prize winners and will advance to the Public Voting II Phase.
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Sorry I missed your posts in between mine. I was busy thinking. HA!
Bird brain (remember that is what I called you last year during the races)...
Thanks for answering Paul's questions.
And yes, we are now on the 3rd page!!! 15th place!
HOLY COW!!!
Hey Tu Tu... you got a cow picture?
I'm heading to bed gang... so keep the tank full and the tires in good shape. I think we will be doing some REAL good racing tomorrow!
And thanks!
Oh... gotta tell you this. Too cute!
I was with my darling little grand daughter the other day and as you know, keeping up with a two year old IS challenging.
To keep her occupied and me not walking another MILE up the dirt road pulling a wagon with Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and her rock, a sea shell and a quarter in it...
I put her in the car and let her "drive" it.
Of course I had the keys in my pocket and it wasn't running, but she didn't know any better.
I turned up the music loud, which she loves, and taught her to stand up behind the wheel and lean her little shoulder into the steering wheel so the horn would beep.
Then I would wave my arms when the horn beeped and say loudly...
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"
When I was leaving late that night to go home I tooted the horn for a good bye to the family when I was out at the end of the driveway.
My son told me the next day the little girl was outside with him when I left and beeped the horn ... and when I beeped he heard her say ...
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Of course - why didn't we think of the rest of the nonLyme world - let's see - just about 300 million in the US - Paul, do you think you could alert the media tomorrow morning?
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(posted in activism, but now see the party is here in gwneral!!
vroom...reporting for race car duty! I've have been voting every day, but couldn't get here til now.
I'll be happy to post a message on my facebook page, and same as last year, will send a request to multiple email lists, including dear hubby's, whose contacts really kicked up some dust last time around.
1,800 is an awesome start!!! Can't wait to lap some of the others!
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AMAZING!
We are now in 10th place!
You can see us there on the second page under "most votes".
ElaineG- You still voting? Hope so!
Imitchy- Good for you!!! Thanks!
Jaqui- My bet is I just spelled that wrong. But I am glad you are voting too! Wonderful!!!
Kam- so nice you are working with us to burn rubber off dem tires!
Flower Child- Did you vote today? If so, that helped put us in 10th place and we thank you!
TuTu... thanks for working in the pit crew too! Of course dropping your drawers all the time like you do... it might be better to have you out along the track to distract the other drivers!
Tracy- Do you believe TuTu has a giraffe in the mix? Some people! HA!
Bird Brain 3443456- Can you check those shocks to be sure they are holding up? You're doing a grand job!
Paul Mall- Thanks for the reports and for spreading the word. I can't seem to find how to tell the number of days left for each of the cars for voting, so your reports do help!
And catching up to the party is none other than Dilly!!! Good to see you here! Now get those overalls on and get to work!
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LOL! Yeah you spelled it wrong but I don't care...WOOT! doin a happy dance! I just went to check on the car too! I swear you and I are almost on the same time/mind frame...cause ever time I go to check you have beat me by like about a half hour! We now have *drum roll please* 1900 VOTES!!!!!
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TC I vote every morning. Then I go to my hubby's computer and vote for him while he is away on business. Hey, somebody has to cast his vote
I'm going to go out to the store and get some Depends and send them to you TC. You get so excited
I think when, yes when, we get to the top five, you are going to lose it. (Not mentally, either ) The Depends should come in handy !!
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We're going to the top, everyone!! This has got to be written up as the greatest collective Lyme activist activity in awhile, if ever -
I was wondering when Ms Dilly would join the party. I read the thread TC posted from last year's run - can you all believe that Dilly looked through most of the thousands of cars entered to report on whether they were still running and if any threat to us! Now that's dedication!
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Rday! Glad you joined the Pit Crew!
With all that woo hoo'in, well, it seems the rest of you are just plain goofy!
But I like goofy in a pit crew!
Did you know with less than 60 votes we can blow the doors off the state police car as we fly past them?
And when we do... we will be in 9th place!!!!
Woooooo hooooo to all of you!
Now I GOT to get back to other Lyme business. But let me know the updates! I'll check back later!
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Boo Hoo. Oh, yuck, not the garage stall floor.
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We are on the time mind meld thing again! 1992! LOL! I should be in bed, just started treatment today..first day of Doxy, let the Herxing begin!
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