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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Lime Rock’s Historic Festival This Weekend Important to Make-A-Wish

Lime Rock Park’s combined Historic Festival 29 Presented by Jaguar and Sunday in the Park Concours is one of the biggest events for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut, the official charity of Lime Rock Park. Lime Rock set a goal of raising $100,000 this year – and it’s close ($60,000), thanks to Lime Rock’s generous fans.

Following are the ways fans coming to this weekend’s festival can help Make-A-Wish get over the final hump. (By the way, the vintage drivers and entrants are helping, too. See below.)

- A big percentage of each sale of the weekend’s Historic Festival 29 Souvenir Program goes to Make-A-Wish

- Fans have a chance to wave the green flag to start one of the Saturday or Monday races. All they need to do is go to the Make-A-Wish display at the Lime Rock Info Tent and buy a $5 raffle tickets. There are lots of races – 44 all told – so a fan’s chances are pretty good at becoming an Official Starter

- There is giant convention of MGs here this weekend – almost 100 – and they want a Make-A-Wish “People’s Pick” vote to choose the best one for the Sunday Car Show. Fans may make a small Make-A-Wish donation at the MG Tent (on No-Name Straight) on Sunday and they’ll get a voting card to pick their favorite MG

- Fans can also make a Make-A-Wish donation at the Rolls-Royce/Bentley display at West Bend during the Sunday in the Park Concours

- And what are many of the 300 vintage race car drivers doing? For every lap they complete this weekend, they’ve gotten “per-lap” pledges from friends, family and sponsors. The driver that collects the most money wins a Rolex watch, donated to Make-A-Wish by Rolex U.S.A.

- Even if fans are not coming to Lime Rock this weekend and still want to make a Make-A-Wish donation, they can go tolimerock.com (click here) to donate.

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