National Ambassadors
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Carl Edwards Our relationship with Carl Edwards began with a dream. In 2004, a 12 year-old-boy named Josh wanted to go to a NASCAR race and have a few moments to meet Carl. His experience turned into something not even he could have imagined! Josh went to Daytona and watched the Craftsman Truck Series from the pits. Carl won his first Daytona race that day and gave his trophy to Josh. Josh spent the whole weekend meeting other drivers and, the day of the Daytona 500, watched the race with Jack Rousch, owner of Rousch Fenway Racing. Since then, Carl has been a wonderful ambassador of The Dream Factory granting dreams to several other children, naming The Dream Factory in NASCAR fundraisers, using his Back40 Records company to benefit The Dream Factory and having an annual meet and greet with our mid-western dream kids. |
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Alex Kennedy After talking to Carl Edwards, host, Dennis Michelson from Race Talk Radio, told Alex Kennedy, a young up and coming race car driver, about The Dream Factory. Alex put our logo on his race car and has been promoting The Dream Factory ever since. At the age of 16, Alex has just moved up to the NASCAR Late Model Series program with Spraker Racing as a NASCAR development driver. Along with this move, he has been instrumental in kicking off “Driving for Dreams”, a national promotional campaign for The Dream Factory in partnership with Race Talk Radio and several other drivers. Alex is also very generous with his time for our dream kids getting together with them several times a year. The children get to see the pits, sit in the cars and experience racing like few can. |
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Wink Martindale Best known as the television game show host of Tic-Tac-Dough, Wink Martindale got his start with broadcasting in Since then, Wink has become one of The Dream Factory's national ambassadors and has recorded a public service announcement to be used at local radio stations for all of our chapters. |