IndyCar: Ganassi Racing and American Legion’s ‘Be The One”

The No. 8 and the No. 11 Chip Ganassi Racings Hondas will carry the ‘Be The One’ liveries for tonight’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 to bring awareness to the American Legion’s suicide prevention training program.

The American Legion is challenging the IndyCar community to ‘Be The One’ to help end veteran suicide by enrolling in suicide prevention training.  Chip Ganassi Racing is proud to set the example with his team members taking the ‘Be The One’ training this September, learning strategies and taking a pledge to help end the alarming number of veteran suicides in the U.S.

Anyone can take the training, which is led by mental health experts at Columbia University.  The free, 90-minute virtual session gives all who enroll actionable tools and strategies to assess and help America’s veterans going through a crisis.  You can find a schedule of sessions at legion.org/betheone/training.

Before taking the training, The American Legion has three actions everyone can take right away to help save veterans:

Ask a veteran or service member if they need help.

Listen when a veteran or service member needs to talk.

Reach out if you are a veteran or service member struggling with mental health.

Chip Ganassi commented about this program.  “As a race team owner, I have sold many products for many brands over the years, but I have never felt that we were really impacting lives in a profound way, and I feel like that’s what we do with the American Legion and it’s ‘Be The One’ program.  I have never been so proud to represent a brand as I am representing the American Legion and all they do for our nation’s veterans.”

Lucille Dust reporting live from WWTR