Don Kitch Jr., the head of Team Seattle, is trying to raise $1 million for the Seattle Children’s Infant Cardiac Care Unit by selling space on the team’s Ferrari 430; $500 for a 1-by-1-inch photo of you or someone you love.
It’s hard to see what a race-car driver has in common with a sick kid.
But then the commonalities take shape: Patience. Courage. The pit stops. The panic. And always, a steady eye on the finish line. On victory.
You think about it all when you talk with Don Kitch Jr., the head of Team Seattle, an endurance car-racing team that just found out that it had won a spot in the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans.
“I cried,” Kitch told me …Â Details