Deb Wills, a woman from Urbana who raised a hefty amount of $49,000 for breast cancer relief has been rewarded by the organizers of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Deb Wills raised the amount as part of the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. She, along with other top ten fund raisers from across the nation, who were a part of the 2009 Avon Walk, were congratulated by Actor Patrick Dempsey and were also treated to a breakfast meal with the actor and his racing team- Dempsey Racing Champions’ Circle. The association between Avon and Dempsey Racing Champion’s Circle was announced a year ago during the 2009 Grand- Am Rolex Sports Car Series.

Deb Wills herself had suffered the pain of breast cancer. The lady herself had been a survivor of the deadly disease for the past 24 years and therefore left no stone unturned when it came to making a difference to other’s lives that had been fighting against the disease.  While talking about her quest to bring about a change, Deb Wills stated that she walked just because she couldn’t walk away. She further stated that she felt like her survival was a gift and it would further encourage women to witness a survivor walk. She added that she felt extremely blessed to be able to do participate in the event.

Apparently, Patrick Dempsey also participated in the 2009 Avon Walks for Breast Cancer in Los Angeles. The actor-racer won a racing suit which he was seen wearing during the 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. While talking about the importance of the awareness for the cause, Patrick Dempsey stated that the fight against the disease had to be kept up as there was a latest diagnosis for it every 180 seconds. And this was the major reason why the funds raised by the nine Avon Walk fundraisers as well as the rest of the thousands of walkers across the country were so important. When asked about the pink racing suit with the Avon logo that he won and wore to the 2009 Grand-Am event, he stated with a smile that real men could wear pink.

The top ten participating walkers successfully collected $225,000 for the cause in the 2009 event. For Deb Wills, this year marked the 10th time that she participated in the Avon event. The lady has already begun preparing for the next Avon walk which is scheduled to take place in Washington sometime in May for which she has now set up a target of about $60,000. So far, Deb Wills has been able to collect an amount of $57,000 which was earlier collected by a team called Team All Years that consisted of 42 members. In all, the 2009 Avon Walks remained successful in raising an amount of above $52 million.

The money raised in the event will be utilized by the Avon Group in the field of breast cancer research, community organizations as well as setting up help centers for cancer related queries and information. The main aim would be to provide breast cancer diagnosis without being concerned with the fact that whether the person can pay or not. Deb Wills considers her association with the Dempsey Racing Champions’ Circle an added incentive.

The magic that the Rolex Grand-Am Series together with its open wheel cousin IndyCar created at Homestead last year will not be replicated this year. The officials of the Grand-Am series have decided not to share the spotlight and the screen space with the IndyCar. The step has come as a result of the last year’s official viewership figures of the series. According to the data, the viewership of the main races of the grand event was a lot more than what was received by the IndyCar events telecasted by the cable live from the Homestead-Miami speedway.

However, the live audience reactions that the IndyCar registered last year during the top end races of the Grand-Am for the Grand Prix of Miami, told a different story. Apparently, the open-wheel partner of the series got a good deal of attention from the media and the general public making it to about 30,000 people in the court last October.

Speaking about the new format of the series, David Spitzer, Vice President of the Grand Am series said that having IndyCar as an open wheel feels great, however the organizers had to take the decision keeping the sponsors and the team of the Grand Am series in mind so as to build a foundation for them.

This year the Rolex Grand-Am series will be seen flagging the race on its own preceded by the Continental Tire Classification Homestead 200. The event will take place in South Florida in front of comparatively closed group of audience. The Rolex Grand Am series has left no stone unturned for the good response from the crowd of South Florida. From restaurants and Bars to the local malls of South Florida, Grand-Am’s organizing team has flooded the city to attract the fan following of the series. The celebrated series- Rolex Grand Am Sports car series has also tied up with the famous television series Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey who will be seen competing in the race as well. The star will be seen racing in the Grand Prix’s Grand touring secondary division.

In addition, the organizing team of the series has also decided to offer a ticket worth $40 which will enable the fans to get a rare chance to meet the star Patrick Dempsey as well as his team mate Joe Foster. The star will also be taking forward the cause of Cancer, Hope and Healing through the event.  Patrick Dempsey will be seen becoming a part of the race which will last for about two hours and 45 minutes.

The star who will be seen driving in the Mazda looked elated at the development and said that he was excited about the fact that he was supporting the wonderful league of drivers to build a better series.
The Grand Prix of Miami will see basically two types of cars participating in the event, one being the Daytona Prototype and other being the GT Series. This year’s Rolex Grand Am Sports Car Series will see the drivers racing on the track which is about 2.23 mile long with more than 14 challenging turns.

Dempsey Racing had a wonderful season at the 2009 Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series as the team managed many highs on all the fronts of the challenging and one of the highly competitive tournaments of the world of motorsports. The team which boasts of race drivers Patrick Dempsey and Joe Foster and was ably supported by their hugely impressive stand-in driver Charles Espenlaub had series of career-best performances not only for the team as a whole but for the individual drivers as well. With the kind of run they ensured for Mazda it made the GT class of Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series even more competitive and Mazda an even bigger force in the circuit. The way the No 40 Dempsey Racing Mazda RX- 8 GT performed in the 2009 season the upcoming 2010 Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series season can be expected to be more challenging and going by the high hopes that the Dempsey Racing has justifiably built up, the team is likely to ensure some upsets and improve on the successful outing they had this year.

Dempsey Racing has been around for a while with the team having made its debut in the 2007 season of the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series at the Miller Motorsports Park. Like most of the teams the team has taken its time to come to the grove in the most competitive and challenging of tournaments in the world of motorsports. It goes to the credit of the Dempsey Racing team, its strategists, team crew and mechanics and of course the drivers that in a span of couple of seasons the team has managed to come up with really outstanding results in the just concluded 2009 season. The outcomes of the efforts of the team can be judged from the fact that the No 40 Dempsey Racing Mazda RX- 8 GT was placed

among the top-10 in as much as seven of the twelve races which constituted the 2009 Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series. And this was not as in addition to the impressive showing and accompanying results for the team, the drivers had their highpoints too, making the season gone by the best everyone in the team had had so far.

Patrick Dempsey who is the lead driver and after whose name the team is named was driving in his fifth year as a driver and had his best outing so far. He was impressed with the overall and his own performance in the 2009 Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series season and is very optimistic about ensuring better results next year. The highlight of the year for Patrick Dempsey was the grand finale of the season at the Grand Prix of Miami where the Dempsey Racing managed to finish at the sixth place, its best result of the season. For his co-driver Joe Foster this season was his best too as he enjoyed his stint as the anchor driver for team for all of the twelve races. He managed great qualifying results as well as finishes to justify his role as the team’s anchor driver. Now it would be really interesting to see whether the Dempsey Racing team can improve on its performance in the 2010 Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series season.

Actors as good looking as Patrick Dempsey and a watch as striking as the Rolex Milgauss seldom have to suffer bored looks and disinterested glances. Rolex has always believed in serving to its clients a good and interesting mix of the best looks and the best functions. The result is that not only do Rolex watches turn out to be extremely efficient in terms of their function but are also extremely suave and classy. Rolex watches are always well turned out and tuned to get the attention of all those who are extremely selective about the kind of watches that they would like to wear on their wrist. The Milgauss that is one of Rolex’s special offerings to premium watch brand wearers and owners is a very specialized watch that is specially constructed to function effectively in the most magnetic of conditions, every pun intended. Patrick Dempsey has made a name for himself as an actor who has not only been blessed with suave looks but the actor has cultivated his charm and is also one of the classiest actors in the industry today.

Dempsey began his career with a role in the stage production Torch Song Trilogy. He has also contributed histrionically to the stage productions of The Subject Was Roses and Brighton Beach Memoirs. Dempsey’s first role in front of the camera was for the film In The Mood. Patrick went on to do several light hearted film some of which were Can’t Buy Me Love and Some Girls where he was cast opposite Jennifer Connelly. Another couple of “happy ending� movies followed with Patrick being cast for Loverboy and Happy Together.

Dempsey garnered a lot of critical attention with his role in Mobsters as the real life mob boss Meyer Lansky. Dempsey played the role of Aaron Brooks in Once & Again with so much conviction that his portrayal of a psychologically unbalanced brother brought him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor. He also featured in the well known and critically acclaimed Iron Jawed Angels with co star Hilary Swank.

Demspey’s recent films include Made of Honor, Freedom Writers and Patrick is scheduled to star in the movie Blood, Sweat and Tears. Patrick is also the very popular Dr. Shepherd from Grey’s Anatomy and has a Golden Globe nomination for the role. Dempsey has also driven his pace car in the Indianapolis 500 and Rolex 24 at the Daytona sports car race. Dempsey is also the co-owner of the Indy Car Series team Vision Racing. Patrick also competed in this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans’s GT2 class.

Rolex’s Milgauss is a watch without a parallel. Created with the specific purpose of catering to those who don’t let the elements get the better of their efforts the watch is most suited for fields that are highly magnetized environments like labs and aircraft building zones. Rolex true to its reputation has always kept in mind that watches are worn by everybody and anybody despite who they are and what they do. The Milgauss is specially equipped to resist a magnetic flux density of 1,000 gauss. This too is an Oyster Perpetual watch that has the ability to give accurate readings even at the most magnetic environments where time usually has a reputation to come to a stop. The self wound Milgauss is waterproof to a depth of 330 feet/100 meters and is also a certified chronometer. The 40 mm dial is a suave black in color and adds to the Milgauss’ effortless style. The polished bezel only adds another shade of style to the Milgauss and complements the steel finish of the watch. Crystallized in sapphire the Rolex Milgauss is a must own if you want to add a dash of effortless suaveness to your wardrobe.

The core element of humanity is the capacity and the adaptability to be able to master the senses. Fusing ambition with focus man is able master skill and talent and attain amazing feats. Rolex has made it a part of their surging ambition to partner events that propound the objective of achieving the highest forms of human endeavor. The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series is regarded as one of the most prestigious car races in the world and has been partnered by Rolex for almost a decade now. This battle of champions that has Rolex as its title sponsor witnesses the top notch racers from around the world competing to claim the top honor. In a tremendous display of skill the racers thrust their cars forward concurrently maneuvering the hair pin bends to gain momentum and outperform the other racers. Growing in popularity and prestige the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series has seen a continuous surge in the number of spectators that come to witness the combat between the racers and their incredible machines. The tremendous capacity of the racers to be able to calibrate speeds, shift into a new gear and simultaneously control the powerful machine while hurtling down the speedway is an immense task and requires remarkable deft and focus. More than the actual event itself Rolex salutes and celebrates the steadfast focus and the determined vision of these incredible racers.

At the Verizon Wireless 250 a part of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series that was held at the New Jersey Motorsports Park astounding number of people had come to witness this event. This battle between the racing champions was held on Sunday, the 6^th of May this year. Over the years the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series has seen a tremendous increase in the number of people who come to watch this tremendous display of capacity, human spirit, determination and ability. At the third round of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series also known as the Verizon Wireless 250 the spectator attendance jumped by 30 percent in spite of the continuous rain at the speedway. Braving the steady rain the spectators turned up in huge numbers to witness this remarkable racing challenge. The general manger of the newly constructed Jersey Motorsports Park along with many racers competing at the event like David Donohue, winner of the 2009 Rolex 24 At Daytona, Brian Frisselle driving No. 10 SunTrust Racing Ford Dallara and Patrick Dempsey of Dempsey racing were surprised at the huge turn out and the astonishing response of the Millville and Vineland communities.

Apart from the racing the spectators were able to meet their favorite racers and take their autographs at the autograph session that featured all of the Rolex Series drivers. The audience members also had access to the pre-race grid which was open to everyone. Ability gains popularity only when it is recognized and accepted and this in turn proves the capacity of understanding the importance of human achievement.

The growing significance of these prestigious races is due to the incredible ambition of the human spirit, to brave all odds and free the spirit and mind to break the fetters of mediocrity and achieve something extraordinary. Rolex understands the significance of human attainment and triumph and supports world class events like this that promote exceptional ability.

Rolex, a name that conjures feelings of intense drive, unrelenting ambition, perfection and trust has been sponsoring sporting events that aim to develop talent and enable individuals to attain the greatest of human triumphs. The Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Rolex is the resurrection of the fading United States Road racing Championship. Rolex took over as the title sponsor back in 2002 and has from then on constantly supported this racing event. The Rolex Sports Car Series has grown both in popularity as well as scope and has a large number of celebrities taking part in the racing tournament. The exponential growth in appeal has led to increase in media coverage and the number of spectators.

Patrick Dempsey the American born actor who rose to fame as a guest actor in the ‘Will and Grace’ series will be participating in the 2009 edition of the Rolex Sports Car Series. Patrick Dempsey who took over the American sitcom industry with his portrayal of Dr. Derek Shepherd in the immensely popular drama series called ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ has a penchant for racing cars around the circuit. Popularly referred to as ‘McDreamy’ because of his tremendous sex appeal and reach, Patrick Dempsey was chosen by the many brands like Versace and Mazda among others to represent them. Racing cars in his spare time Patrick Dempsey has already competed in the Indianapolis 500, 24 Hours of Daytona as well as the Baja 1000 Off-road race. An avid competitor, Patrick Dempsey is a co-owner of his own IndyCar series team known as Vision racing. Last year he competed in 5 out of the total of 12 races of the Rolex Sports Car Series races. According to reports from the track Patrick Dempsey will be co-driving the No. 40 Mazda RX- 8 along with Joe Foster in the Rolex Sports Car Series. Last year Patrick Dempsey and his team had finished off at the 36^th place in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen event. Patrick Dempsey along with his racing team will return to the Watkins Glen International circuit on Saturday the 6^th of June to take part in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen.

An autograph signing event is going to be held from 12 in the afternoon to 12:45on Saturday. Fans who come to witness the event will be able to meet all the drivers of the Rolex Sports Car Series like the 3 time runner-up of the Champ Car World Series Bruno Junqueira, Scott Pruett along with Patrick Dempsey. Tickets for the Rolex Sports Car Series that is to be held on the 5^th as well as 6^th of June are priced at 35 dollars that is inclusive of the autograph signing event.

The anticipated Rolex Sports Car Series draws a tremendous number of spectators and has become a premier racing event that witnesses a competition between a numerous skilled race car drivers. Rolex has played an active part in endorsing and promoting this event while simultaneously increasing the awareness and popularity of this racing tournament.

Come this Saturday and fans of circuit racing as well as ‘Dr. McDreamy’ will have the opportunity of seeing their favorite actor playing the role of a sports car racer as he competes in the adrenalin pumping race of the Rolex Sports Car Series.

Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey is fielding his own Grand-Am series racing team this year in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Following in the footsteps of the late Paul Newman, Hollywood heartthrob Patrick Dempsey has become an actor turned sports car racer by acquiring the team formally known as Hyper Sport. The Grand-Am team will compete against the finest drivers in the world in the No. 16 under the Dempsey Racing banner.

Although Dempsey attempted to compete in the race last year, he had a frightening mishap exiting pit road during the trials. Dempsey is prepared, however, for the challenges this time around, as he explains: “”Last year, I didn’t really have an understanding. Certainly, getting out the pits was my first realization. Every time I go out, I’m much slower and careful.” In his second trip, Dempsey feels like he is making progress on the twist and turns of the 3.56-mile road course: “I’m really pleased with this morning and where I was last year and where I am this year,” Dempsey said. “I hope that continues on.”

In the race, Dempsey has teamed up with the Avon Walk For Breast Cancer, and he will be promoting breast cancer awareness. The Dempsey Racing team will add a touch of pink to the Rolex 24 by adding a swathe of bright pink down the centre of the car as it competes in the GT class of the Grand-Am Rolex Series opener. When asked about the pink swathe in such a manly sport, Dempsey laughed:  “Real men can wear pink. All of us at Dempsey Racing are proud to partner with the Avon Foundation in its fight against breast cancer. I am so proud to support the cause, which raises funds that directly save lives,” Dempsey continued, “While two very different types of endurance events, the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and sports car racing have the common tie of the mental and physical stamina required to achieve success.

With that juxtaposition in mind, a special contest for top fundraisers of the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer will be unveiled during the Rolex 24.” Like Rolex, the sponsor of the 24-hour racing event, Patrick Dempsey has showed himself to be nothing less than a class act. By carrying on the tradition of Paul Newman, Patrick Dempsey manages to connect the Grand-Am Rolex Series with philanthropy, doing his best to help others as he pursues his car racing dreams.