Van Merksteijn Motorsport has marked the start of his 10-event World Rally Championship campaign in Portugal this week by confirming its support of the KiKa children's cancer charity in The Netherlands.
Team driver Peter van Merksteijn Jr will carry Drive for KiKa branding on his Citroen DS3 WRC throughout the course of the season. The Dutch squad will make a financial contribution to the charity for each stage kilometre covered. It will also approach its sponsors and partners for additional pledges of monetary support.
A statement from team said: “Peter van Merksteijn Jr is of the opinion that the enormous chance he is given to drive with a top car in the most prestigious global rally championship should also be used for a public cause. With millions of rally fans worldwide, he is dedicated to raise more awareness for a serious problem in the world, childhood cancer. Van Merksteijn Motorsport has linked the World Rally Championship project with KiKa, a Dutch foundation raising money for research on children with cancer who are fighting this horrible disease.”
Throughout 2011, Van Merksteijn Motorsport will raise awareness of KiKa and will set aside funds to support one of KiKa’s 80 research projects. At the end of the season van Merksteijn Jr will hand over a cheque to the charity.
Of van Merksteijn Jr’s first competitive outing of the season, Citroen Racing Technologies chief Benoit Nogier said the Dutchman’s objective was to complete the entire rally route in order to build his experience.
“The goal is to discover the team and the car,” said Nogier. “To do that he needs to stay on the road for all three days and to learn but I don’t need to tell him this because he already knows. He doesn’t need to think about where he finishes. He just has to finish.”
Credit: World Rally Championship (www.wrc.com)
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