Race Car Driver

Kris Martin hopes to one day join NASCAR. Born deaf, the 23-eary-old now has a Cochlear implant and has been racing in Ontario and the US since he turned 16. Racing officials initially tried to stop him from competing in a North Carolina Late Model ARCA race but eventually they relented and he finished 7th out of 28 racers. Hearing aid company Phonak Canada designed a special FM reciever to connect his implant to critical track information offered over the radio during to drivers during races. Martin plans to race full time in Ontario at London's Delaware Speedway to raise money for the London Health Sciences Centre's cochlear implant program.