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Aronson and Medenica supervise the fund-raising and mechanical aspects of the team, but the really essential member is 23-year-old Herne, whose hair-raising driving exploits earned him the sobriquet "Hero" at the beginning of the season. A soft-spoken native of Williamstown, Mass., Herne is so devoted to the sport that he poured all of his savings into the team. Currently, Herne's finances are so tight that he is forced to sleep on a friend's couch. He is now looking for a job to help meet expenses for next year. Herne says that like every...
...Medenica, a former driver, knows all too well about what that one little mistake can mean. On Labor Day, 1976, while in third place in New England Formula Ford standings, Medenica crashed in a practice session at Lime Rock, plowing into another car that had spun out into a blind spot over a rise. Medenica's fragile car collapsed around his legs, fracturing both ankles. It was five months before he could walk without rutches, and he may still need another operation to regain full use in his right foot...
Although he could no longer drive, Medenica wanted to stay in motoring racing, so last spring he decided to form a team with Aronson. After shelling out $6000 for a car, the next necessity was a driver. Medenica had seen Herne in races the previous year, so he wrote to the young racer and offered him a job. "The whole thing just snowballed from there," Medenica says. After several fits and starts, the team got untracked late in the spring, racing through mid-September whenever possible. Herne rolled up 30 points to the runner-up's 27 to capture...
TheFormula Ford division in which the Medenica team competes occupies the bottom rung of the Sports Car Club of America's (SCCA) racing structure. This organization, which sanctions all American road racing and is the official U.S. representative of the international regulatory body of road racing, also sponsors Super Vee and the new Atlantic series, which compares roughly to European Formula Two. In all, the SCCA covers 28 classes of racing, from weekend drivers to professionals. In every class, racers must begin at the regional level of competition. There are 80 regions in the United States, among which New England...
...Ford division, chock-full of young drivers seeking a permanent career in racing and teams looking for a way to hold on, is the most competitive, Herne says. Founded in 1968. Formula Ford is an internationally recognized beginners' class. The successful first season cost the Medenica team about $12,000, but they managed to break even when they sold their car at the end of the year. A normal weekend of Formula Ford racing costs about $500, Medenica says, including entry fees, a set of tires, gas, hotel and travel expenses and repair work on the car. The $500 figure...