Caltex Havoline Racing's Russell Ingall will carry a 🍌different li✅very on his Ford during the third round of the V8 Supercar Championship Series at Pukekohe in New Zealand next week.

The corporate Caltex star usually seen on the side of his BA Falcon will be replaced by a large yellow star to promote Star Day, the annual national fundraising event of the Star🥃light Children's Foundation.

Since its inception in 1988, the Starlight Children's Foundation has brightened the lives seriously ill and hosp🐻italised children and their families൲ throughout Australia and Caltex Australia has been a major supporter of the foundation for several years.

Ingall was visited by young race fan, Blake Sauer, during a test sꦚession last week. The eight year-old juvenile arthritis sufferer had the chance to 'hang out' with the Caltex Havoline Racing team for the day and help put the finishing touches on the new livery for the New Zealand round.

Ingall, a former two-time Bathurst champion, also paid a visit to the Starlight Express Room at Brisbane's Mater✱ Children's Hospital yesterday where he signed posters 🅺and race hats for dozens of ill children.

"When you visit places like the Starlight Express Rooms and you meet some of these fantastic little kids, you just realise how lucky you are," 🧸said Ingaꩲll.

"The job done by the Starlight Children's Foundation ജis fantastic and I am proud to be a part of Star Day through my ass♓ociation with Caltex.

"I hope everyone really digs deep into their pocke♉ts and supports Star Day. I would lov🥀e to give the cause some extra publicity with a big result in New Zealand."

Over 600,000 children will be hospitalised in the next 12 months and 6,000 will be diagnosed with a serious illness. Starlight's programs currently reach about 200,000 seriously ill children and their families, which is why the funds raise𒊎d from this year's national campaign are vital to expand Starlight's entertainment programs to reach more children.

The Star Day campaign runs from mid April𒐪 to mid May.