Our Mission
Racing for ALS utilizes high performance driving events to build ALS awareness and to battle ALS head on with a Triple Target Funding model that supports focused pharma research, no placebo clinical trials and individual ALS patients in need.
After Dave’s diagnosis in October of 2017, we realized that our dream of someday buying cars and going racing needed to happen now. As the Lord brought more and more incredible members of the racing community into our lives, we quickly realized that fast cars and racing could be about more than just fun! As such, we embarked on a mission to raise money to fight ALS on behalf of those currently battling the disease and for those who have been taken by it.
“We at Racing For ALS share a passion for cars--Particularly fast ones. We’ve spent the last two years living our dream of racing cars together, even as ALS looms large in the rear view. Beyond the fun, friends and fellowship of the car community, our race has become a mission to raise funds and awareness for research and treatment of Motor Neuron Disease [ALS]. We pray that a cure lies just around the next curve and invite you to grid up and help us speed to the finish line. Horsepower can indeed heal.”
Why We Race
Every 90 minutes, doctors deliver a new ALS diagnosis. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease. ALS destroys motor neurons, eventuating muscle weakness, paralysis and difficulty breathing and swallowing. Most ALS sufferers live 2-5 years after diagnosis. Every 90 minutes, ALS claims another soul.
Racing For ALS believes ALS is not an incurable disease…It’s an underfunded one. Our mission is to raise awareness and direct funds to speed a cure.
We pray that one day soon, there are no more names to add to our trunk tribute….Our goal is to #ENDALS!
OUR IMPACT
Racing for ALS continues to be blessed with opportunities to impact the lives of families living with ALS. Our primary efforts target pharma research, patient assistance and ALS awareness.
To learn more about how we’re impacting ALS, click the blue button below.
David with his wife and 2 amazing children who have raised over $30,000 for the ALS Association with 2 ALS walks with their team - Team Honey Badger.
The family with Texas Terry Labonte during Dave's Race at VIR in 2019.
Dave’s Story
David R. Lloyd, Jr. Obituary/Celebration of life -
Dave with his brother Scott picking up "Winger" from Hennessey.
In October of 2017, our family’s life changed forever with David’s ALS diagnosis. David was a normal, healthy guy in his late 40’s, working hard and raising two wonderful kids. Then, out of the blue the doctors told him, “It’s ALS…Average life expectancy 2-5 years, it is incurable and we don’t know how or where it will manifest itself…It’s different for everyone.”
Doctors further revealed that the medical community knew as much about ALS in 2017 as it knew about cancer 100 years ago!?! That is just not okay for a disease that can impact anyone, anytime, regardless of age or gender… We have to find a cure!!! Our Triple Target Funding initiative aims to do just that.
David Richard Lloyd, Jr. of Cary North Carolina, age 52, passed away Tuesday night July 25, 2023, surrounded by his family. David is survived by his wife Kristan Lloyd, his children Landon and Kyley Lloyd, and his faithful companion Gidgit the dog. He is also survived by his father David Lloyd, Sr, wife Anne Lloyd, his mother Donna Lloyd, his brother Scott Lloyd, wife Marya, along with two nieces Audrey and Sydney Lloyd, his step-sister Kate Cabral, husband Stephen and his nephew Jackson, along with other loving family members.
David Lloyd was born in Fayetteville, NC, excelled in school, graduating with honors from Terry Sanford High School, and going on to graduate with honors from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. David worked for more than a decade at SAS Institute in Cary, NC, and then successfully started and ran his own business Mogul Media Systems for more than a decade, before joining the MTM Services team to help Healthcare providers deliver better care to their clients.
David was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) in October 2017. David beat the odds with his long fight against ALS, and that fight along with who he was as a person inspired so many people.
That inspiration led those on the Racing for ALS team to raise over 1.1 million dollars since June of 2018 in his honor to help fund the fight against ALS, and to help others battling this disease. That is who David was. He always had a kind word and a wave no matter how he was feeling, or of course a good joke. David loved being able to help others, and David was truly overwhelmed and beyond appreciative of the love shown to him by those who rallied around him and were just an amazing support to him. Even though a thank you doesn’t seem to suffice, the family says “thank you” again to all who have been a part of this journey and helped David in his fight to #endals.
Thanks to everyone for sending so many kind messages, thoughts, and prayers over these honoring Dave. As you can see from the picture grabbed from FB, there were over 100,000 interactions on social media (FB, IG and X) alone in regard to Dave’s obituary, along with global media coverage remembering him for all that he had done to help others facing the specter of ALS.
Dave is racing today, he is free, he hurts no more. Thanks be to God!
