Knoxville, Iowa –On Friday, March 13, 2020, at 6:00 p.m., Make-A-Wish®Iowa in partnership with Tyler Barrick will be officially unveiled at the Sprint Car Hall of Fame in Knoxville. This is the first sprint car dedicated to Make-A-Wish and will be raced the entirety of the 2020 season. The car will bring awareness to hundreds of thousands of racing fans in Iowa and worldwide.

Tyler Barrick will be racing in the Make-A-Wish Iowa branded sprint car for this season. Barrick and his sponsors are past Make-A-Wish Iowa supporters and wanted to expand their involvement. This car will help grant life-changing wishes to children with critical illness across the state.

Wish kid Will will be attending the event and helping with the car unveiling. Will recently wished to go to the Barrett-Jackson Antique Car Auction, where he helped raise over $400,000 for the local Make-A-Wish chapter. Will loves cars and is very excited about the event.

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About Make-A-Wish Iowa: Make-A-Wish®Iowa creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. We seek to bring every eligible child's wish to life because a wish is an integral part of a child's treatment journey. Research shows children who have wishes granted can build the physical and emotional strength they need to fight their illness. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Make-A-Wish is the world’s leading children’s wish-granting organization, serving children in every community in the United States and more than 50 countries worldwide. Together, generous donors, supporters, staff and more than 34,000 volunteers across the U.S., grant a wish every 33 minutes, on average, somewhere in the country. Since 1980, Make-A-Wish has granted more than 330,000 wishes to children in the U.S. and its territories; more than 15,800 in 2019 alone. For more information about Make-A-Wish Iowa, visit iowa.wish.org.