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Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :

May 21, 2011

THE WINNER IS ANNOUNCED! Congratulations to Chelsea's Hope, the official grand prize winner of the Toyota Sponsafier Contest! The Chelsea's Hope race car was designed to raise awareness for Lafora disease.

The winners of the grand prize were provided an opportunity to meet NASCAR race car driver Denny Hamlin (#11) in North Carolina and have their car design on display over the weekend.

For information about Lafora disease, that affects mostly teenagers, please click here. To see photos of Chelsea's Hope Race Car and the happy winners at the All-Star Race, click here.

Your 2011 Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car efforts were incredible! Over 18 MILLION viewers clicked on the Toyota Sponsafier website where our car was displayed.

Over 4,000 visits were tallied on the website dedicated to Dr. Charles R. Jones (www.DrJonesKids.org) during the contest. If you Googled "race car Lyme", three full pages of participating websites were on display that were directly related to your efforts in Racing Lyme Disease Awareness.

The free publicity you generated was "priceless". You deserve a big thank you and congratulations too!

In the near future we hope to see the official race car helmet we won for being a Top Ten Finalist, with our design displayed on it.

Once it arrives we will let you know and, of course, put photos of it on display everywhere to keep the awareness efforts going throughout the year.

The helmet will then be on loan to Dr. Jones office in New Haven, CT for his (our) children and their parents to enjoy.

Thanks again for making the contribution to help Race Lyme Disease Awareness!

To see the race car Finalists, click here http://www.sponsafier.com/share/46869 Click on Back to Gallery, then the Finalists.

For future updates, click here https://sites.google.com/site/drjoneskids/racing-awareness/2011-race-updates

Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :

Thanks to all the members at LymeNet and their families and friends.

C-ya next year!

[Big Grin]

Posted by brf (Member # 8748) on :

Just to let you know Tincup that the Lyme Awareness Race Car campaign was circulating for weeks in the Neuroimmune Disease community and many votes were cast by those diagnosed with ME/CFS, Fibro and Post Lyme.

Glad you placed in the top ten. Congratulations!

Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :

I think we did wonderful just getting double the votes of any other car, and then also to be in the top 10, with all the publicity that garnered. And all the fun everyone had, driving that car!

Congrats, everyone, and a big THANK YOU to you, TC, for doing it. I understand you did a couple other cars too.

I especially like that you continued the theme as a website for everyone to use. That's very useful!

So next time we know to run a car for Lafora disease? Lyme and lafora? lol -

Posted by tdtid (Member # 10276) on :

Job well done, TC. I look forward to my daily voting next year for your design and hope you will continue to fight this race. Thanks for all that you do.