IndyCar Racer Devlin DeFrancesco Walks the Walk for the Tiniest Babies

When it comes to his involvement in a new venture to promote critical neonatal care, NTT IndyCar Series driver Devlin DeFrancesco walks the walk and talks the talk from experience.

The Canadian driver and his family have formed an initiative called Racing for the Tiniest Babies that pledges to match all eligible donations up to $250,000 for Canada’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s DAN Women and Babies program, which supports thousands of families and premature babies across the Canadian province of Ontario each year.

The 22-year-old DeFrancesco, who is in his rookie IndyCar season for Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport, was born 15 weeks premature and weighed approximately two pounds at birth. “His prognosis at birth was grim,” a media release said.