JAMES Aranyosi's late mother saved five lives from donating her organs.
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Now, the Geelong-based driver is using his sprintcar platform to pay her tribute.
Aranyosi flaunted his newly-branded Donate Life ride at the South West Conveyancing Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic on Saturday and Sunday night.
He told The Standard the sprintcar community had offered support in droves across the weekend.
The 28-year-old tragically lost his mother to a car accident in May last year, and after she donated organs, vowed to champion the cause.
"The speedway community is just great. They just get behind you with stuff like this," Aranyosi said.
"It's been fantastic to see a charity like Donate Life getting the exposure it deserves.
"I hope we've made a bit of a difference - we've managed to get a fair few signed up at the Fan Appreciation Day to donate their organs so that's a massive win for us.
"We just wanted to do a bit a tribute car for mum and raise awareness for such a great cause."
Aranyosi said he was pleased with his form at the classic and started in C-Main 2 behind Cobden-based driver Carly Walsh.
"We had a decent start on the Saturday, we just got caught up in the B-main a bit in a crash," he said.
"We rebuilt the car and managed to get back out for Sunday."
Warrnambool's Corey McCullagh went from high to low in heat four.
The 2018 classic winner stormed from seventh to finish second to Albury's Grant Anderson but his car weighed in 13 pounds under the limit, disqualifying him from the heat.
It stripped McCullagh of valuable points.
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American Cory Eliason had the best heat drive of the night, weaving his way from eighth to win heat three for Diamond Bay Motorsport.
NASCAR racer Kyle Larson's tough classic campaign was dealt another blow when he flipped one turn one of heat eight.
Larson failed to hit the track in C-Main 1 after crew couldn't save his battered car.
Other heat winners were Lisa Walker, Tim Hutchins, Australian number one Andrew Schuerle, Cody Maroske, Jackson Delamont and Luke Dillon.
David Donegan saluted in a crash-filled D-main, in which just five of the original 10 drivers finished.
Donegan, Andrew Corbert, Brendan Guerin and Ross Jarrad advanced to the C-Main.
Brett Milburn, Shaun Dobson, Kevin Titman and Jason Kendrick advanced to the back of B-Main 1 from C-Main 1.
Danny Reidy, Corey McCullagh, Kalib Henry and Jordyn Brazier advanced from C-Main 2 to stay alive.
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