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….we have The Race.

Lord of The Rings Frodo & THE RING

For those that aren’t familiar with JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy, hobbit Frodo Baggins was able to fight off the evil influence of, The Ring to ultimately over come evil to save earth as we know it. The ring had phenomenally evil powers that would draw one in and consume them with the lure of omnipotent power. People would actually morph into crazy looking creatures like Frodo’s antithesis Gollum.

“The Race” - the Rolex 24 - has that same lure, that same draw and the same effect of morphing your bank account into a crazy looking creature.

I’m finding it’s consuming my every thought. While I run every day, I watch Andy Lally’s track video. When I drive by companies, I think about how they might benefit in becoming a sponsor. I ask myself, how many people should we have in the Spotting Corp? Which corners should they be stationed at? What can I do to physically & mentally prepare? To fund raise? Who do we know that can help us get introduced to….? And, of course, I think about the $$. Is it really responsible of me as a parent to spend this kind of money in these kind of times? Regardless, I’m committed….”It’s one race, to rule them all”.

It’s been a dramatic few weeks since the October test days. As a team, we’ve been working hard to get exposure for the charitable infrastructure we’ve built. It’s been hard work and difficult to get people’s attention in these economic times. There has been some notable milestones thus far and they look like the following:

• Successful testing of one of the few early 2009 Porsche GT3 Cups with Andy Lally, Kevin Buckler & Spencer Pumpelly.

Car #68 for Rolex24 2009

• Feature focus at this years Boston Children’s fund raiser entitled Champions for Children. This is their largest fund raiser of the year with over 2000 attendees and last year raise $5.5mm.
• Feature focus within Morgan Stanley’s annual appeal campaign where the firm looks to employees to donate to pediatric charity for 2008. This appeal goes to all 40,000 employees.
• An offer of support by Joey Kramer, drummer of Aerosmith to lend his celebrity to our fundraising efforts. Currently planning a rock band battle fund raiser at which he’ll be a celebrity judge.
• Team driver Steve Zadig has an E85 powered Norma M20 chassis entered in the infamous 25hr at Thunderhill to race the first week of December. This will be his 3rd year entering and with podium finishes in past years is looking for P1 in this year’s race.

Powered by E85 ethanol

In today’s environment, will all going on in terms of job losses, wealth being destroyed, iconic American Corporations going out of business (AIG, Lehman, Washington Mutual, Wachovia, Merrill Lynch, Citi?, GM?, Ford?) we need a feel good story. We need to celebrate the human element of life and most, most, most importantly - continue give as so many need so desperately.

We’ve been super busy on those fronts in the last month and trying as hard as we can to be local community leaders. To that end we would really, sincerely, welcome your help in directing attention to this fund raising infrastructure we’ve worked so hard to build. Can you please do two things for me?

1. Pledge a donation.

2. Ask a friend to do the same.

Thank you in advance,

Bruce Ledoux
Rolex GT Car #68
www.guardianangelmotorsports.com