Best wishes to Rick Harrah, Locations Racing #8006

[smt racing]

For those of you who don’t know Rick Harrah from Locations Racing #8006 , Rick suffered a broken back this weekend at the start of the HDRA Fireworks 500 and about mile 20ish. Rick and Brian were the second truck off the line starting just behind Kyle & John. While out on the course on the first of 3 clover leaf loops the four friends were having a great time teasing each back and forth on the radio as everyone assumed it was only a matter of time before Rick took Kyle to school out there. This was Kyle’s first start in a Heavy Metal truck and he had gotten the fastest qualifying time for the combined class in heavy metal and class 8 trucks which gave him a front row start out in front of Rick in the #8006 truck. Kyle & John had gotten off course somewhere about mile 13ish and Rick passed them in the dust somewhere about that time, Im am not sure if they knew that or not as I had just talked with Brian and he said Kyle was a few hundred yards out in front of them. When the trucks came around the mountain into view from the pits, Rick and Brian were in the lead and Kyle and John were nowhere to be seen, had Kyle not gotten off course it very well may have been Kyle and John that hit the dip that put Rick in the hospital. It was estimated Rick was doing about 90 MPH when he came up on the roller leaving the top of it and slamming into the far side of it.

Kyle and John after leading the race on lap 1 later fell out of the race due to a broken axle at the beginning of lap 3. Evan Vaughan took over as the driver for Locations Racing after Rick was safely on his way to the hospital. It was a difficult race, Brian Busby was co-dawg on lap 1 when they had the accident and then gave the seat up to Phillip Mullins for laps 2, 3 & 4. Locations Racing put Kyle in to co-dawg with Evan for lap #5 and they brought the #8006 Locations Racing truck in for a 1st place finish in class.

Our hearts and thoughts go out the Harrah family from all of us here at SMT Racing, we consider the Harrah family not only friends, but part of our family and we feel their pain in this difficult time…

Best wishes Rick and get well soon!

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[LIL-WHIT]

The Harrah Family is in my thoughts & prayers. Get well soon Rick!!!

Congratulations to the whole Locations Racing team for an awesome race and a 1st place finish.

[pdailey]

Best wishes Rick. Get well soon

[Layton]

get well Rick!

[hnunez]

Best wishes and get well soon.

[wanda]

Best wishes for a quick recovery.

[BEAM BRIGADE]

Stumpys Dude Ranch HDRA #1201 prays for a quick recovery---

[spooner]

first off, great job to everybody with Locations Racing. Second we are thinking and praying for Ricks recovery. get well soon and get home soon too.

[BUSBY]

It was a hard hit. All I have to say. 90 to zero in 2 seconds hurts. Rick was instantly asking for help. I called it out to pits and HDRA. Thanks to paramedics and HDRA staff for getting on scene quickly.
Thanks to Phillip Mullins for getting in and letting me get out so soon. Thanks to Evan Vaughn for his awesome driving skills bringing the truck home for a win. Thanks to the team for keeping it going and kicking butt in the pits.
Rick is in Reno still and stable, out of ICU. Just trying to figure out how to get him home to Vegas.
Thanks for all of the texts, calls and PM's.

[fishd00d]

Anyone know what kind of seats were in the truck?

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!!