Ernie Francis, Jr., commits to TBI Awareness

September 24, 2014

(Team Release) Many who have been following the Trans Am series this year, have noticed a young , very young talented driver to emerge into the Trans Am history books. Ernie Francis Jr, of Dania Florida has surged into the history books this year by winning in TA3 at New Jersey Motorsports Park earlier this year thus becoming the series youngest ever winning driver at the mere age of 16. Since that time, he has gone on to record a staggering four wins. The last one, at Lime Rock Park, not only captured the pole and the win, but the win had second place even a lap down. While this soft spoken and humble driver has dominated in Trans Am Series’ TA3 class, he just finished up taking the Pirelli World Challenge championship year end 3rd place in TCA, driving his MX5 even missing a race, and basically the finale event when his half shaft broke at the standing start. He is quickly emerging as one to beat in every class/series he enters.

One thing many might not know about Ernie is his passion and compassion to helping others, and doing charitable work off track for many organizations. He has just became the pro driver to represent and run for Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness. Being very aware of the seriousness of this in motorsports, he has taken on to be the motorsports voice in this campaign. His team, Breathless Performance Pro Racing and he himself has reached out to families to invite them to the events to be part of the race weekends, as well as doing some fundraising for TBI. This weekend, he will be having almost a hundred extra “passengers” riding with him as he will have names of TBI survivors currently dealing with this, and names of those who have passed, on his car as a a tribute, memorial, and dedication for all those affected by TBI. In a way, it will be those names on the car who will be sponsoring this driver, riding along in spirit and memory. Look for more information on this at Ernie Ty Frances, on Facebook.