Teen Pro Race Car Driver Plans Project Yellow Light Race to Raise Awareness of Distracted Driving Dangers

Three brothers are signing up teens from high schools in Fairfield County, CT, and Westchester County, NY, for the second annual Project Yellow Light Race in Mount Kisco, NY, a scholarship competition that will raise awareness of the dangers or distracted driving.

Grand Prix New York will host the second annual 90-minute endurance race to benefit Project Yellow Light, an organization that promotes awareness of the dangers of distracted driving.

Greenwich High School senior Ben Albano, the 2013 MAZDASPEED Challenge Summer Series Champion, along with his brothers Addison, a junior at Brunswick School, and Austen, a freshman at King Low Heywood Thomas private school, are organizing the race and signing up participants from high schools throughout Fairfield County, CT and Westchester County, NY. The race will take place on April 25 at 7pm at Grand Prix New York, 333 North Bedford Road in Mount Kisco, NY.

The National Safety Council has designated April as Distracted Driving Awareness Month. States have taken up the cause and are putting tougher laws in place to discourage distracted driving. Connecticut State Representative Fred Camillo, who was recently appointed to the Distracted Driving Prevention Task Force, commented, “This is a great way to help raise awareness within the teen community of the dangers of distracted driving. This event, in coordination with the nationally recognized efforts of Project Yellow Light, is complimentary to what we are doing at the legislative level here in Connecticut. It is a perfect marriage, and Ben’s credibility as a professional race car driver gives him a unique voice among his peers.”