From a press release:

Safety First Racing continues its nationwide outreach program to kids promoting helmet safety. During the AMA week at Barber in Birmingham, AL, team owner, Kevin Hanson, spoke to 198 kids at Center Point Elementary school.

Regarding the presentation, Kevin Hanson stated, “It’s great to be able to reach kids at that early, impressionable age. Most of them haven’t really been around motorcycles and I have the ability to introduce them to motorcycling/racing community and promote safety right from the start.” “During my presentations, I’ve found maybe 30% of kids ever watch motorcycle racing on tv. Instead of waiting for them to stumble across us on tv, I’m going directly to them to promote the sport and promote safety at the same time.”

On a side note, Hanson had a little excitement on the way home to Illinois from Alabama. “I was driving along on I24 east of Paducah, KY minding my own business listening to the tunes when I looked at the monitor for the rear camera on my race hauler and saw sparks flying. I’ve been helping a buddy of mine, Dan Doty, by transporting his stuff to the races in his trailer. After pulling over to see what was about to get destroyed, I realized that the hitch on his trailer had broken in half and the front of the trailer was dragging on the ground. Thankfully, I had just checked my monitor about 15 seconds earlier when everything was fine so it had just broken. By the time I got it stopped, there wasn’t much left of the aluminum framing and trailer was barely attached to the hauler. A quick trip to a local UHaul company netted another trailer and I was back on my way shortly thereafter. So when you see me at Pikes Peak pulling a Uhaul trailer, NO I haven’t sold all of my possessions and moved into my new race hauler!”