Featured Volume 27 Number 10, October 2010 of the Dusty Times for its first place in VORRA’s July Fallon 250 Night Race, NV race, the Green Booger makes the magazine again in both write-up and photogenic representation. A special thank you to Troy Robinson and the Dusty Times for another great article on VORRA’s race, as well as a wonderful portrayal of the Class 11’s and their antics! With the accounts from the VORRA forum included, what a great read!
Article and photos by Troy Robinson
“…The class 11 victory went to Gary Herrod (1112, the green one). Herrod and co-driver got stuck in the silt once and learned that they can lift the front and rear ends out of the silt onto a more firm part of the track. Herrod even managed to stay in front of a ‘certain racing truck’ during the rough section for quite a ways due to the thick dust until the truck was able to get the top speed up and make a clean desert pass (I’m not mentioning any numbers here). At the finish Herrod had a 52 minute victory over 2nd place.
Bob Messer (1177, the silver one) was running 3rd place most of the day with some long first laps. He gathered it up in the end and finished 2nd place. At one point they pulled over for a car and later found out it was a pass for position but got the place back a few miles later.
Richard Palasik (1107, the white one) had some misfortunte during the pre-running. The ball joint broke on the car and while this is normally not a big deal for the 11’s it wasn’t without drama. During the repairs a pry bar slipped smashing Richard’s hand sending him to the hospital for stitches, antibiotics, and a thumb splint but not before they fixed the car to drive it out of the desert. During a test run they determine that he can’t drive without opposable thumbs so a relief driver was put in. The race starts and they take a quart of oil a lap (normal for an air cooled isn’t it) and later make a pass on the above Messer, only to pull over a few miles later to add oil – they didn’t realize it was for position and they were on the same lap. Oh yeah, one other note on their way to third place, the steering wheel came off just before check point one at top speed (45mph), doesn’t that only happen in cartoons?….”
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