Ricky Byers (read my previous blog about Ricky Byers) is still on a mission.  Ricky was unable to get the $30,000 left (down from $150,000) he needed to race in the ARCA race at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 6th – right before the Budweiser Shootout.  Now his focus has turned to the ARCA series race in Texas for April 16th. If not Texas, then it will be at his home track – Talladega Super Speedway on April 23rd, and so on…. until he gets a sponsorship or just enough money to get him racing on the track.

Ricky told me he is not giving up and he will continue to push his dream of being able to race in hopes of helping in the search for a cure for cancer (funding wise). He did some tweaking and was able to get his "asking" price for sponsorship for a full ARCA season decreased by a Million…. Ricky Byers Racing was asking for $2 Million.  "We actually got the whole thing down by a $1 Million so we can run the full season and have a weekly show car displayed," Byers said.

Folks, this is a 39 year-old man (and single, ladies!!), a race car driver (with five Championships under his belt from Super Pony Late Model and Sportsman) who has survived battles with cancer – twice – the same cancer that claimed Bobby Hamilton’s life in January 2007, who is willing to race and has the motivation and fire under him that he WILL win races just so he can donate all his winnings to cancer research.

Ricky Byers Racing has a fan page on Facebook and he can also be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RickyB1363.

I have inserted his recent interview for you to see which was held by Birmingham, AL FOX News to help in his quest to "Race for a Cure."