DLT Honorees ride with NASCAR’s Joey Gase
On Sunday 11/5, NASCAR driver and Donate Life advocate Joey Gase took to the track at Texas Motor Speedway for the AAA Texas 500 Monster Energy Cup Series race. Gase’s Donate Life Texas #7 car featured photographs of 21 Donate Life Honorees – people whose lives have been personally touched by donation. During the car’s unveiling event, each Honorees also applied painted handprints to the hood and trunk of the car as part of what has become a Gase tradition called “Handprints of Hope.”
Gase has partnered with Donate Life Texas since 2015 in an effort to increase organ and tissue donation awareness. As the son of an organ and tissue donor and as a professional athlete, Gase has an ability to speak about the importance of registration in a personally compelling way to race fans in Texas and beyond.
For the more than 120,000 people currently awaiting an organ transplant in the U.S., this race was about more than to roar of the engines, it’s about hope. Each NASCAR fan inspired by Joey and the call to Donate Life brings us one step closer to a day when no one must wait for the transplant they need to survive.
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Donate Life Texas #7 Honorees, Fall 2017
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Check out Donate Life Texas #7 in for a Pit Stop while the race was under a caution flag.
Enjoy news coverage of the unveiling event at Joshua High School, held on 11/2/17:
Donate Life Texas gives special thanks to the staff and volunteers of LifeGift and Southwest Transplant Alliance for support essential to making this event possible. Event photos by Ralph Lauer.
