A pair of Illabo speed demons are set to lead a local race team at a wild 24-hour race in Goulburn at the weekend.
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Kerry Phelan and Joe Belling will spearhead team AVVRG - in support of the Australian Vietnam Volunteers Resource Group - along with 13-time Bathurst racing legend Bob Forbes at the 24 Hours of LeMons endurance race beginning October 29.
The event is inspired by renowned French race 24 Hours of Le Mans, and involves 42 cars being crammed onto a 2.2 km circuit.
When competition organisers dictated all competing cars must be valued at less than $999 at the inaugural event last year, the 24 Hours of LeMons name was born.
Team captain Kerry Phelan said the event was very much a tongue-in-cheek affair, but that his team still meant business.
“We’re going up there to have some fun, but having said that we’ve invested a lot of money in the car and we’ve got some really good drivers,” Phelan said.
The team dressed up their ED Falcon XR6 as a police car, joking that it would help them on race day.
“You get fined for various misdemeanours and one of the guys thought if we dress it up as a police car, we’d fly under the radar and that we’d be the ones issuing the fines,” Phelan said.
The event raises funds for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.
The team, which consists of three veterans including Phelan and Belling, will raise awareness for AVVRG, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid in Vietnam.
