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Chris Harmon Takes The World 300 At The Sportsdrome Speedway

By: Harold Adams

Jeffersonville, IN (October 11, 2009) - It was the final weekend of racing at the Sportsdrome Speedway. The World 300 consisted of 2 days of action starting on Saturday with qualifying and qualifying races for the Xtreme Winged Figure 8 World 300 cars. Gerry Isgrigg set fast time with a lap of 20.439. Cory Harmon won the first qualifying heat and therefore would have the pole for the main event on Sunday. Other qualifying heat winners were Mike Berry and Josh Logsdon. On Sunday, the 31 car field started 3-wide on the tight quarter-mile asphalt track. In the feature, the race was full of action early on with lots of close crossover misses and plenty of fender banging. The race was first stopped on lap 2 for Zeke Skaggs who got stuck in the mud near the track. Then, another strong contender Rick Heine, got tangled with Cory Harmon forcing him to the pits on lap 8. Meanwhile, Chris Harmon was pacing the race with Artie Ware right behind him. Then on lap 18, Mike Berry had problems and was stranded near the track bringing out another red. On lap 18, Ware made a pass and slipped into the lead. Then, after another race stoppage, Gerry Isgrigg who had won the last 2 big races for this division, suddenly went out with a broken timing chain. Also, Chris Harmon retook the lead away from Ware as they continued their battle for the top spot. Then on lap 45, we had our only intersection crash of the race involving Josh Logsdon and Dalibor Mitrovich. Both cars were out of the event with heavy damage. Another red came out on lap 62 and this time Ware jumped out to the lead on the restart. In this enduro style race, each driver is required to pit at least once to refuel and take on new tires if they wish. Ware pitted on lap 170 and only went down one lap to Chris Harmon. Then, Harmon pitted on lap 188 and came back out on the next lap about 8 car lengths ahead of Ware. A couple of drivers having good runs had some bad luck creep up on them. Raymond Johnson had rearend problems and dropped out on lap 191 while running 5th. Then 4 laps later, Jeff Harmon, who was running 3rd, dropped out with mechanical problems as well. Chris Harmon continued to lead the race with Artie Ware staying about a straightaway behind. Ware started seeing smoke coming from his machine on lap 214 but continued at about the same pace. This was transmission issues that were upon him, but he kept going in his strong 2nd place position. Then near the end of the race, Ware slowed and limped into the pits on lap 288 with rearend issues forcing him out for good. This pretty much sealed the deal for Harmon, as he went on to take the checkered flag. Mark Harmon ended up 2nd at 6 laps down. Ware, even though he missed the last 12 laps, still got a 3rd place out of it. Gerald Poe ran 4th and Chris Workman ran 5th in his Dromer car.

In other action on this final weekend, the Chuck Winders Memorial 100 for Oval Xtreme cars was held on Saturday with a field of 28 cars taking the green flag. Fast qualifier Allan Williams Jr jumped out in the lead while season points champion Tommy Brown Jr had some issues early and eventually dropped out of the race on lap 20. On lap 5, Rodney Bruce was putting the heat on the leader, when the 2 of them made contact on the backstretch sending Williams into a big slide thru the infield. James Wayne while running 2nd, looked like he may have challenged Bruce, but he slowed and was out on lap 45. A nice battle for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th waged on the rest of the way between Gerry Isgrigg, Troy Phillips, and Williams. Rodney Bruce went on to take the victory with Isgrigg holding on to 2nd followed by Phillips and Williams.Chris Bailey rounded out the top 5.

In the Dromer Oval feature, an all time low of 13 cars made the start for their 20 lap event. But it turned out to be the most entertaining race of the night. A lot of wrestling for positions culminated in a wild final lap. On the backstretch during lap 18, the leader Dave Parsons, came up on a slower car and went high. The 2nd place car of Ronnie Basham III went low into turn 3 and emerged as the leader taking the white flag.. As they went into turns 1 and 2, the two cars made lots of contact but did not spin. It appeared that Craig Rogers, the 3rd place car or Chris Workman in 4th would move around them as they beat on one another. But they both bolted ahead with Parsons inching out the victory with Basham in 2nd. Rogers was 3rd, Workman 4th, and Jeff Bissinger 5th.

In the FWD Oval feature, it was once again, Billy Higgins taking the honors for his 5th oval win to go with 2 figure 8 tallies. He had to sweat this one out though, as the 55 car of Jim

Butner was right behind him at the end and settled for 2nd. Josh Mann was 3rd, Frank Stevenson 4th and Jason Zollman in 5th.

World 300
1st - 6 Chris Harmon
2nd- 35 Mark Harmon
3rd - 38 Artie Ware
4th - 91 Gerald Poe
5th - 46 Chris Workman
6th - 3 Harold Murphy
7th - 81 Willard Clark
8th - 95 Chris Stewart
9th - 26 Jeff Harmon
10th - 0 Raymond Johnson
11th - 51 Mike Berry
12th - 17 Earl Riley
13th - 79D Allen Douglas
14th - 75 John OBryan
15th - 56 Donnie Blanchard
16th - 27 Rick Heine
17th 20 BJ Lord -
18th -86 Jake McFelea
19th -69 Craig Rogers
20th- 33 John Groulx
21st- 99 Dalimor Mitrovich
22nd-73 Gary Hall
23rd 42 Josh Logsdon
24th -34 Ronnie Basham III
25th- 30 Tim McDonald
26th- 16 Cory Harmon
27th-5 Gerry Isgrigg
28th- 15 Zeke Skaggs
29th- 44 Jerry Ilari
30th- 77 Brian Ziegler
31st- 79 Larry Curry

Chuck Winders Memorial 100:

1st- 31 Rodney Bruce

2nd- 69 Gerry Isgrigg

3rd- 77 Troy Phillips

4th- 85 Allan Williams

5th- 90 Mike Bailey

6th-58 Vince Smith

7th- 24 Jeff Corbett

8th-46 Troy Courtney

9th- 44 Scott LeBlanc

10th- 46D Chris Workman

11th- 26 Craig Rogers

12th- 74 Jeff Elliott

13th 14 Roscoe Thompson

14th- 86D Theo Shelton

15th- 7 Troy Moore

16th-21 Matt Cranmer

17th- 36 Bryan Mantooth

18th- 34 Ronnie Basham III

19th- 25 James Wayne

20th- 17 Raemen Riley

21st- 99 Dalibor Mitrovich

22nd- 81 Willard Clark

23rd- 11 Nick Johnson

24th- 42 Nick Reed

25th- 30 Mark Bayens

26th- 12 Tommy Brown Jr

27th- 33 John Lee

28th- 56 Donnie Blanchard

DNS- 20 Marcus Elliott


FWD Oval 20 Lap Feature:

1st - 27 Billy Higgins
2nd - 55 Jim Butner
3rd - 18 Josh Mann
4th - 2 Frank Stevenson
5th - 1 Jason Zollman
6th - 12 Anthony Parrish
7th - 7 Colt Moore
8th - 93 Billy Saylor
9th - 67 Jeff Davis
10th - 17 William Chism
11th - 15 Brian Ferguson
12th - 94 Carl Sullivan
13th - 71 Cody Winters
14th - 43 Paul Franzell
15th - 72 Chris Redemann
17th - 56 Dillard Neighbors
18th - 26 Jeff Laws Jr
19th - 6 Scott Bruner
20th - 20 Mike Cottrell
21st - 9 Dale Clary Jr
DNS- 0 Ray Crain Jr.
DNS- 70 Donnie Garmon

Dromer Oval 20 Lap Feature:

1st- 79 Dave Parsons .
2nd- 34 Ronnie Basham III
3rd- 6 Craig Rogers
4th- 46 Chris Workman Sr.
5th- 12 Jeff Bissinger
6th- 21 Trevor Cranmer
7th- 59 Nick Cook
8th- 42 ?
9th- 86 Theo Shelton
10th- 77 Brian Ziegler
11th- 19 Tim Donahoo
12th- 75 James Goodman
13th- 25 Chris Anderson