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An incident at Road America sent the team to work getting the back-up Ford Mustang ready to go – including the names of over 130 loved ones who have suffered from dementia or Alzheimer’s
LOS ANGELES (August 18, 2025) – Racing to End Alzheimer’s with Stephen Cameron Racing looks to rebound this weekend, heading to VIRginia International Raceway with the back-up No. 19 Ford Mustang after an incident in the previous race weekend’s IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge took the team’s primary car out of commission.
The team, led by drivers Sean Quinlan and Greg Liefooghe, scored their first podium of the year last month in Canada, and looked poised for a similar result earlier this month at Road America – until Liefooghe was hit and sent into the turn four wall. With significant damage incurred, the team – currently working out of the LAP Motorsports shop to save time going back and forth to their home base in Sonoma, Calif. – set to work on the No. 19 Racing to End Alzheimer’s Ford Mustang back car.
Over the past two weeks, the crew has spent long hours making sure the car has all the latest updates, including the current BoP (balance of performance) specifications and driver ID information – and of course, making sure the names are back in place for this weekend’s two-hour Virginia is for Racing Lovers Grand Prix at VIRginia International Raceway, live on Peacock at 2:00 p.m. ET on Saturday.
“We can’t thank the entire Cameron team enough for their hard work on this,” said Racing to End Alzheimer’s founder Phil Frengs. “The team has done an outstanding job to get the back-up Ford Mustang ready in just over two weeks, and we know the car will be set up in every way, even including placing each name back in its original spot. It’s as important to them as it is to us, to honor everyone whose name is on the car.”
The No. 19 Racing to End Alzheimer’s Mustang gives families the chance to honor loved ones who have suffered from Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. For a $250 donation, the family member’s name and hometown is placed on the car, and their photo can be posted on the Racing to End Alzheimer’s website’s tribute page. All donations are matched by Frengs’s company Legistics, with 100% going to the program’s two beneficiaries – the Nantz National Alzheimer Center at Houston Methodist, and the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program.
To date, Racing to End Alzheimer’s has donated over $1 million to those two programs.
Racing to End Alzheimer’s has not been to VIR in several years with the IMSA series, so Frengs has looked forward to this weekend ever since locking in the 2025 program with Cameron, Quinlan, and Liefooghe.
“VIR is in such a beautiful location, at the corner of Virgina, and North Carolina,” said Frengs, noting that a drive to the track can take one in and out of both states several times. “There are so many great racing fans in that part of the country, especially given all the tradition that’s associated with NASCAR hereabouts. VIR is a wonderfully designed track, a fast track, and we’ve had really great experiences racing there, including a victory (in 2019).”
The VIRginia is for Racing Lovers Grand Prix for the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge series will take the green flag Saturday at 2:20 p.m. ET. The race will be broadcast live in the U.S. on Peacock TV, and internationally on IMSA.tv and on IMSA’s YouTube channel – ad-free courtesy of Michelin.
About Racing to End Alzheimer’s
In 2013, Phil Frengs’s late wife Mimi was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease. Their experience with the disease led Frengs to a seminal moment: his company, Legistics, had long sponsored a team in IMSA sports car racing and he realized an opportunity to raise money and awareness for the fight against the disease. In 2017, he formed Racing to End Alzheimer’s, giving fans the opportunity to honor loved ones by putting their names on the race car via donation – with Legistics matching each donation. 100% of those donations go to the two organizations the team supports:
The Nantz National Alzheimer Center at Houston Methodist is exploring cutting edge strategies in therapy, care and research to find a cure for these dementias. NNAC was founded by longtime CBS Sports broadcaster Jim Nantz and his family in honor of his father, Jim, Jr., who passed away after a 13-year battle with Alzheimer’s.
The UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program is a nationally-recognized grant-funded program designed to help patients and their families with the complex medical, behavioral and social needs associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.
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