My name is Timothy Carel, and I’m a race car driver based out of Los Angeles. Over the past few years, I have been climbing my way through the racing ladder, having just completed the first rung of the fabled ladder to Indycar, the most prestigious and incredible racing series America has to offer. Last year was my second step on this “Indycar ladder”, but it also unfortunately became my last step. It was a grueling and harsh season, with many problems out of my control. Notably, just before the season started, my family went through the Palisades Fire, a devastating fire that wiped out almost my entire neighborhood. Fortunately, through the courage from my father and I, we were able to save our house and participate in last year’s USF2000 season. This season came with many hardships due to funding inhibitions and just plain bad luck despite promising pace. But we still persevered through the season, that was, until the final race at Portland International Raceway. In the first race at Portland, I was involved in a crash that sealed the fate of the season, and left a sour taste in mine, my friends and families mouths. This was the most horrifying crash of my life, I climbed on top of another racecar, flipped 180 degrees so I was upside down, and hit another car straight on, that sent me high in the air, while flipping in the process. I landed on the halo, which had saved my life through this proceeding. I was luckily pulled out of the car unharmed, which is so rare for a crash that grand. And this leaves us to today. The new season has already begun, and without a budget, I could not participate. We are currently in the process of building a new race car out of the scraps and remains of the crashed race car and another donor car. We plan to accomplish our build before the Portland International Raceway race weekend on August of this year.Through your support, we hope to be able to race once again, and find redemption at the track that seemingly had ended my aspirations, hopes and dreams, and career as a race car driver. I aim to prove that no matter the setback, there is always a way forward, please support me in my goal of returning to Portland and stepping foot back into the sport which I call home.

The budget is set to $50K to be able to run our racecar at Portland. Half of that budget will go to the preparation of the race (car prep, test days), and the other half for the expenses for the race weekend itself (race entry fees, tires, gas, race support).

If you are curious to the terror of the crash, here is a link to watch what exactly happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiFNGL63piQ

In collaboration with Fast Toys, we created some packages for our precious Sponsors:

• $7K: one day rental for you to drive the USF Pro 2000 race car on a track in CA
• $5K: your name or your company on the race car and exposure on both the Fast Toys (21k followers) and my social media (3k followers), in order to boost exposure to your websites and products, as well as a video promoting your company on YT and IG
• $2K: a video promoting your company and its services on YT and IG Timothy channels
• $1K: 2 x VIP tickets to watch the race at Portland (Indycar weekend)
• Any other amounts will help reach our goal and is greatly appreciated!