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Jacksonville Father And Son Lead Kart Racing Team To Win Grand Prix Benefitting Nonprofit 

an individual riding a cruiser down a street: Drivers maneuver for position Saturday during the nineteenth yearly Jacksonville Grand Prix at the North Florida Kart Club 103rd Street Sports Complex on Jacksonville's Westside. Perseverance Karting has the race. © Teresa Stepzinski/Florida Times-Union Drivers maneuver for position Saturday during the nineteenth yearly Jacksonville Grand Prix at the North Florida Kart Club 103rd Street Sports Complex on Jacksonville's Westside. Perseverance Karting has the race. 

A group drove by a Jacksonville father and child won the nineteenth yearly Jacksonville Grand Prix — a six-hour go-kart perseverance race Saturday that is a significant pledge drive for Spina Bifida of Jacksonville that regularly draws proficient racers from one side of the country to the other. 사설토토

End Alzheimer's Racing made out of Bill Slupski and his child Alex, both of Jacksonville, and their companion Perry Herndon of Atlanta defeated warmth, stickiness and intense contest to dominate the race at the North Florida Kart Club 103rd Street Sports Complex. 

The expert dashing group addresses philanthropic Alzheimer's Association, Central/North Florida in the race. Situated in Jacksonville, the group has raised about $10,000 for the Alzheimer's Association during the two years the racers have been related with the association. 

"While the dashing is fun, we appreciate supporting great motivations significantly more," Slupski said. 

JKL Racing completed second — 15 seconds behind End Alzheimer's — while Team Red Stripe 1 was in third spot in the perseverance go-kart race. 

a gathering of individuals holding a sign: End Alzheimer's Racing group (from left0 Perry Herndon of Atlanta, Bill Slupski (focus) and his child Alex Slupski both of Jacksonville, won the Jacksonville Grand Prix go-kart perseverance race profiting Spina Bifida of Jacksonville on Saturday. © Bill Slupski/Provided End Alzheimer's Racing group (from left0 Perry Herndon of Atlanta, Bill Slupski (focus) and his child Alex Slupski both of Jacksonville, won the Jacksonville Grand Prix go-kart perseverance race profiting Spina Bifida of Jacksonville on Saturday. 

Advanced and run by Endurance Karting, the Jacksonville Grand Prix since 2003 has been one of the biggest gathering pledges occasions for not-for-profit Spina Bifida of Jacksonville. The race has raised about $150,000 to assist youngsters with the birth imperfection and their families. 

The occasion is considered a "installation occasion" on the kart dashing schedule — every year drawing in a sold-out field from the nation over, the racers said. 

Saturday's occasion flaunted 24 groups in five divisions — tenderfoot to proficient — hustling on the notable 0.5-mile track with its 1,000-foot long straight and banked turns. 

Hustling to respect family, others with Alzheimer's 

Bill Slupski established End Alzheimer's Racing in 2018 when his dad in-law, Robert Herzog died from Alzheimer's. He died roughly two months before Slupski and his child were to contend in a 24-hour race. 

To respect Herzog's life, the dad and child chose to race and raise gifts for the benefit of the Alzheimer's Association's Longest Day crusade. 

"We needed to zero in on Alzheimer's after what he had experienced and what my better half's family had experienced," Slupski said of why they picked the Alzheimer's Association. 

The pressure, monetary effects and wellbeing sway on the guardians is an every minute of every day fight. It negatively affects the parental figure just as the patient, he said 

Zeroing in on the late spring solstice, the affiliation's Longest Day Campaign fund-raises to help pay for Alzheimer's exploration just as administrations for patients and their families. 

"For us with the Alzheimer's Association, it's not simply the cash. We need to fund-raise yet we likewise need to bring issues to light about the sickness," Slupski said. 

Alzheimer's measurements are faltering, he said. 

"6,000,000 individuals now in America are living with Alzheimer's. A bigger number of individuals kick the bucket from Alzheimer's than coronary illness," he said adding that 1 of every 3 senior residents pass on with Alzheimer's or another dementia. "Individuals simply don't understand the effect of the infection." 

Alex Slupski shares his dad's enthusiasm for dashing and for discovering a remedy for the infection. 

He began kart dashing when he was 14 years of age however his adoration for hustling returns to when he was a little child. At 21, he's among the veteran racers. 

"Dashing has been a piece of my life since I was nearly nothing. At the point when I was 2 or 3 I went to the track at Daytona with my father. It's been something that both of us have done together for a truly lengthy timespan and it's an incredible movement that we share," Alex Slupski said. 

At the point when he got mature enough to drive, Alex Slupski said he and his dad made hustling something they did together. 

Furthermore, both dad and child work in the hustling business. Alex Slupski is a movie producer for Sunday Group Management, an advertising firm for motorsports. His father deals with a group in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge arrangement, ordinarily doing fuel for Stoner Car Care/Automatic Racing and their Aston Martin vehicles. 

The End Alzheimer's group has a drawn out objective of raising $6,000 for the Alzheimer's Association's Longest Day crusade over a progression of races this year. By race time Saturday, they had vows adding up to almost $1,000. 

Slupski said they didn't have a particular gathering pledges objective for the Jacksonville Grand Prix. Since that occasion is for Spina Bifida of Jacksonville, they would not like to detract from that center, he said. 

Toward the beginning of December, the group will race in the Simcraft 24 Hour race in New Orleans, Slupski said. 

a gathering of individuals riding skis on a blanketed street: Bill Slupski of End Alzheimer's Racing sits tight for the thumbs up to leave the pit region and drive onto the track during the nineteenth yearly Jacksonville Grand Prix on Saturday at the North Florida Kart Club 103rd Street Sports Complex on the Westside of Jacksonville. Perseverance Karting facilitated the race that had 24 six-part groups. © Teresa Stepzinski/Florida Times-Union Bill Slupski of End Alzheimer's Racing hangs tight for the approval to leave the pit region and drive onto the track during the nineteenth yearly Jacksonville Grand Prix on Saturday at the North Florida Kart Club 103rd Street Sports Complex on the Westside of Jacksonville. Perseverance Karting facilitated the race that had 24 six-part groups. Fantastic Prix 'in excess of a race' 

The Spina Bifida of Jacksonville group completed nineteenth. The freshman group probably won't have taken the checkered banner, yet the occasion regardless was a triumph for the racers and those they addressed in the occasion. 

The current year's public mindfulness and raising money crusade — "Love what drives you" — associates the racers to the spina bifida wheelchair clients, Demery Webber, chief head of Spina Bifida of Jacksonville, said between supporting the association's hustling group. 

Spina Bifida is the most well-known forever incapacitating birth deformity in the United States. A normal of eight children daily are brought into the world with spina bifida or a comparative birth imperfection of the cerebrum and spine, Webber said. 

The Jacksonville Grand Prix is something other than a kart race. It was set up 19 years prior out of appreciation for Webber's little girl, Lindsey — presently 21 — who has spina bifida, her mom said. 

Numerous individuals with spina bifida invest energy at the kart track, so there is a "wheel-to-wheel" association and corresponding with the go-kart racers, Webber said. 

"The racers will come out and have an incredible day riding around and assisting us with supporting and serve our spina bifida local area," she said. 

The association's race group was made out of guardians of youngsters with spina bifida, an offspring of a grown-up with spina bifida and furthermore a sibling of a more youthful sibling who has spina bifida, Webber said. 

Albeit the group completed back in the pack, the occasion was vital for the "spina bifida family," she said. 

"It's a decent chance since they don't will do a ton of advancement exercises or only ready to deliver pressure when you are in a clinic setting and specialist's workplaces," Webber said. 

The pandemic, she said "was amazingly trying for the families." Many experienced issues getting to legitimate consideration just as fun exercises that help the patients and their families vent and will converse with one another, she said. 

"The disconnection that we as a whole experienced during COVID is our typical due to the delicate medical problems they frequently end up in," Webber said. Spina bifida frequently is misconstrued, she said. 

"Numerous individuals have known about it yet not many comprehend that it's a birth deformity that has long lasting movement. It's an infection also. Their wellbeing can endure at different stages throughout everyday life and that great clinical help and intercession is critical," Webber said. 

a man holding a telephone and remaining before a structure: Bill Slupski of End Alzheimer's Racing prepares to take the wheel of his group's go-kart Saturday during the nineteenth yearly Jacksonville Grand Prix. The group won the six-hour race - crushing 23 different groups at the North Florida Kart Club 103rd Street Sports Complex on Jacksonville's Westside. Perseverance Karting hosts and supports the race that benefits Spina Bifida of Jacksonville. © Teresa Stepzinski/Florida Times-Union Bill Slupski of End Alzheimer's Racing prepares to take the wheel of his group's go-kart Saturday during the nineteenth yearly Jacksonville Grand Prix. The group won the six-hour race - crushing 23 different groups at the North Florida Kart Club 103rd Street Sports Complex on Jacksonville's Westside. Perseverance Karting hosts and supports the race that benefits Spina Bifida of Jacksonville. Freshman racers 

Chris Mulhern scaled to the top advance of seats deliberately positioned at a critical turn on the serpentine race track. Taking out his phone, Mulhern of Jacksonville recorded video of his colleagues in the — Dirty Dozen 1 and Dirty Dozen 2 — karts as they went zooming by on the track shining with heatwaves. 

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