“Come Along For the Ride: With a donation to Kyle Petty's charity, be part of Team AutoWeek on this worthy trip:”

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Come Along For the Ride: With a donation to Kyle Petty's charity, be part of Team AutoWeek on this worthy trip: Posted: 07 Mar 2011 08:14 AM PST The 17th-annual Kyle Petty Charity Motorcycle Ride announced this year's dates and unveiled details of the New York-to-Florida route. For the first time, organizers have invited four riders to join our grizzled NASCAR correspondent and tour veteran Al Pearce on what we're proudly calling Team AutoWeek. The 100 or so bikers will leave Lake Placid, N.Y., on Saturday, May 7. They'll ride through New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia before arriving at Amelia Island, Fla., on May 14. The itinerary includes two nights in Lake Placid and then overnight stops in Corning, N.Y.; Farmington, Pa.; Irvington, Va.; Wilmington, N.C., and Charleston, S.C., before arriving on Amelia Island. Riders will spend two nights (May 9-10) at a posh resort in Irvington, where the Rappahannock River and Chesapeake Bay merge in eastern Virginia. Each Team AutoWeek candidate--who will get an invitation as a result of being an AutoWeek advisor--can reserve his or her place with a $7,600 donation to the 501(c)(3) charity, paid in two installments. That covers nine nights' lodging, all meals, all fuel, a KPCMR travel bag and a custom-designed KPCMR riding jacket. The "swag bag" also includes shirts, caps, gloves and various motorcycle accessories. The donation covers shipping of motorcycles from the Charlotte, N.C., area to Lake Placid. In addition to the KPCMR gifts, Team AutoWeek riders will get a free one-year subscription (or extension), plus shirts, caps and other goodies from AW. Retired NASCAR driver Kyle Petty and his family created the ride in 1995 to help support NASCAR-related charities. Donations were earmarked for children's hospitals and to support the outreach of the Winston Racing Wives Auxiliary. Shortly after Adam Petty died in an on-track accident in May 2000 in New Hampshire, the ride became the primary fundraiser for the Victory Junction Gang Camp in North Carolina. The ride has raised more than $15 million for the camp in the past 10 years. Twelve of the 16 previous rides have been from the West Coast to North Carolina, generally ending at the camp near Greensboro. Other ride routes have been from Dallas to Bristol, Tenn., (the NASCAR schedule didn't permit a longer trip), from Maine to Florida, from Michigan to Georgia, and from Idaho to North Carolina. For more NASCAR racing news and reports, click here. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php Five Filters featured article: Comment Is Free But Freedom Is Slavery - An Exchange With The Guardian's Economics Editor.

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