Diabetes Australia is proud to announce their new partnership with A1GP's Team Australia.
Diabetes Australia Chief Executive Officer, Matt O’Brien, said ‘The partnership with A1 Team Australia will allow us to deliver our key messages in a completely new way and we will be using this partnership to raise awareness of type 2 diabetes in particular.’
Through this new partnership Diabetes Australia will be able to take their message to places it has never gone before, namely the racetrack.
Diabetes Australia CEO Matt O'Brian and A1 Team Australia Seatholder Alan Jones MBE officially launching the partnership
The partnership is the brainchild of the A1 Team Australia Seatholder Alan Jones MBE. After three seasons competing in the A1GP, Alan regularly met people living with diabetes.
“I now realise the need is to help find the undiagnosed, the help prevention of this disease” said Jones. “240 million globally are found to have Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes, 350 kids in Australia under the age of 15 has Type 2, that’s not good. We need to do something, so our Team will carry the Diabetes Australia logo on the sides of the bodywork of our race car, as well, on all team crew shirts, the pit perch, all four pit garage panel walls, our team web page at
www.A1GP.com and on all of our media releases” AJ confirmed.
A1 Team Australia plans to promote diabetes awearness at every country they travel to this season, with affiliate diabetes divisions utilising celebrity presence to reveal the serious disease that fills our own MCG every year with new cases being diagnosed.
The A1 Team Australia crew preparing for the innagural Australian A1 leg of the race to be held in the Gold Coast, October 2009