Pippa Mann Indy500 Small Sponsor
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What fuels you? I’m fueled when I see a person aggressively pursue their life dreams. I’m not talking about a person who talks about doing everything they can to make things happen for them, I’m talking about a person who actually does everything they can to make things happen for them.
That’s race car driver Pippa Mann.
Pippa is an inspiring person, and I feel obliged to do something I told myself I’d never do - start an online fundraising page. If you know me, then you know how I feel about asking others for money. However I believe that her mission, and the story behind this pink car is important, that I want to do more than just say I support her. I want to hand her a check to help put that pink car on the track, and I want to put a decal on her car. At $10,000 Pippa has told me the decal will be very small, (and it will be VERY small), but I want to watch that car this May knowing I was a small part in making it happen.
Pippa doesn’t have a full time IndyCar ride, which means she runs one IndyCar race per year - The Indy 500. She spends her entire year doing what is effectively an unpaid marketing job to try and raise the sponsorship to make the car run, while actually also working several part time jobs in her industry - one of which involves her regularly commuting to and from Alabama in her Honda Civic. She makes appearances for her Indy 500 sponsors throughout the entire calendar year, and alongside raising money to make her race car run, she also raises funds for the fight against breast cancer. As a partner of Susan G. Komen, Pippa accepts no money from them to run their logos on her race car, instead she and her team owner Dale Coyne give away their most valuable real estate on the car each year for a good cause, and then go out and raise money for Susan G. Komen through an online campaign that runs alongside her on track effort each May.
That’s the sort of person you want to get behind. Pippa was running in the top 10 with less than 10 laps to go at the 2016 Indianapolis, but didn’t get the yellow flag she needed to make her fuel numbers and finisher 18th. She’s the only female driver to have ever won pole in any event Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and she’s hoping to make her pink car run the fastest ever speed by a female driver in history if her program goes ahead this May. She’s raised over $150,000 locally and nationally for Susan G. Komen over the past 3 years, and she’s planning to try and take that total above $225,000 total raised this May. But to get there, she needs others who appreciate the hustle to step up to the plate.
Now I’m not suggesting that $10,000 will make the difference as to whether Pippa’s program runs or not, but I do know that she has put together around 1/3rd of her budget from small numbers like these over the past several years, and that another person signing on at this level does make a difference. I want to make a difference. And I want to walk in her garage and put our small decal on her car, and I want to share that with all of you on social media too.
If Pippa doesn’t run this May, I will donate all of the money raised directly to Susan G. Komen instead.
So do you love hustle the way I love hustle? And do you want to see a Pete the Planner decal on a pink race car supporting a good cause? If the answer to these questions is “yes”, then click the button and contribute to our small campaign. Just don’t use money allocated for your Roth IRA, 401K or your emergency savings to do it!
You can find out more about Pippa, and her story, in my interview with her from earlier this year at PeteThePlanner.TV.
That’s race car driver Pippa Mann.
Pippa is an inspiring person, and I feel obliged to do something I told myself I’d never do - start an online fundraising page. If you know me, then you know how I feel about asking others for money. However I believe that her mission, and the story behind this pink car is important, that I want to do more than just say I support her. I want to hand her a check to help put that pink car on the track, and I want to put a decal on her car. At $10,000 Pippa has told me the decal will be very small, (and it will be VERY small), but I want to watch that car this May knowing I was a small part in making it happen.
Pippa doesn’t have a full time IndyCar ride, which means she runs one IndyCar race per year - The Indy 500. She spends her entire year doing what is effectively an unpaid marketing job to try and raise the sponsorship to make the car run, while actually also working several part time jobs in her industry - one of which involves her regularly commuting to and from Alabama in her Honda Civic. She makes appearances for her Indy 500 sponsors throughout the entire calendar year, and alongside raising money to make her race car run, she also raises funds for the fight against breast cancer. As a partner of Susan G. Komen, Pippa accepts no money from them to run their logos on her race car, instead she and her team owner Dale Coyne give away their most valuable real estate on the car each year for a good cause, and then go out and raise money for Susan G. Komen through an online campaign that runs alongside her on track effort each May.
That’s the sort of person you want to get behind. Pippa was running in the top 10 with less than 10 laps to go at the 2016 Indianapolis, but didn’t get the yellow flag she needed to make her fuel numbers and finisher 18th. She’s the only female driver to have ever won pole in any event Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and she’s hoping to make her pink car run the fastest ever speed by a female driver in history if her program goes ahead this May. She’s raised over $150,000 locally and nationally for Susan G. Komen over the past 3 years, and she’s planning to try and take that total above $225,000 total raised this May. But to get there, she needs others who appreciate the hustle to step up to the plate.
Now I’m not suggesting that $10,000 will make the difference as to whether Pippa’s program runs or not, but I do know that she has put together around 1/3rd of her budget from small numbers like these over the past several years, and that another person signing on at this level does make a difference. I want to make a difference. And I want to walk in her garage and put our small decal on her car, and I want to share that with all of you on social media too.
If Pippa doesn’t run this May, I will donate all of the money raised directly to Susan G. Komen instead.
So do you love hustle the way I love hustle? And do you want to see a Pete the Planner decal on a pink race car supporting a good cause? If the answer to these questions is “yes”, then click the button and contribute to our small campaign. Just don’t use money allocated for your Roth IRA, 401K or your emergency savings to do it!
You can find out more about Pippa, and her story, in my interview with her from earlier this year at PeteThePlanner.TV.
Organizer and beneficiary
Peter Dunn
Organizer
Carmel, IN
Philippa Mann
Beneficiary
