2008 Race Season

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Draven Takes Home 2-3rd Place Finishes In The MMRA Touring Series

2-12-08 Draven and his family headed out after school and work, Florida bound to participate in the MMRA Speedweeks at Bronson Motor Speedway in Bronson, Florida. They made a stop in Adel, Georgia in order to get some rest and then head out again.

2-13-08 Draven and his family-get up, leave Adel and head out. They arrive at Bronson Motor Speedway and start getting the car ready for practice. The car passes tech and is ready to go. Draven had not raced a Minicup car since November 2006, but went out and did a great job during all the practice sessions for the day.

2-14-08 Draven and his family arrive at the track and get the needed work done on the car. Practice begins and Draven has a great practice session. Draven goes out to qualify and gets the 3rd place starting position for the heat race. Draven races the heat race and maintains his 3rd place position for the start of the feature race. Draven races a good, clean race and comes out with a 3rd place finish. Way to go Draven! Your family is very proud of you.

2-15-08 Draven and his family arrive at the track and get ready to go out for practice. Draven realizes his brakes are going out, so after one round of practice-the work on the brakes begins. Draven misses practice and qualifying, due to his brake failure. The crew finally get the brakes working, but have no time to work on the setup. Draven gets to run the heat race and places towards the back. Draven goes into the feature race and somehow pulls off a 3rd place finish. What a challenging day, but everyone did their job and got a good finish. Congratulations Draven!

* We would like to thank MMRA for providing all the racers and their supporters with a cookout Friday night after the races. The food was great and we appreciate the family friendly environment that MMRA provides us with.

2-16-08 Draven and his family arrive at the track, get everything ready to go and the day begins. The crew chief finally gets the brakes working at 100 %. Draven completes practice and goes to qualify. The set up is still not where it needs to be-and he gets 4th place to start the heat races. Draven goes to the feature race and gets involved in 3 seperate cautions which under the MMRA rules gets him the black flag. That gave us a 9th place finish for the feature race.

*Draven would like to thank Pete Neimeier, Vic Johnson, Marty Dunn and all the MMRA staff for putting on this event. Everything ran smoothly and to the posted schedule. After competing at Orlando's Speedweeks in 2006, this event was a welcomed relief. A big thank you also goes out to the management and staff at Bronson Motor Speedway for hosting the event.

Draven Finishes 5th At Tri-County Motor Speedway

3-18-08 Draven and his family headed to participate in the Race Dog 50 at Tri-County Speedway in Hudson, North Carolina. It was an extremely cold day and the weather dished out everything from rain, sleet, snow to 20-30 m.p.h. winds. Only 2 Future Stars Racers showed up for the event and it was decided that they would race with the Open Division. On the 1st round of practice, Draven got in two laps, when the fuel lines to the carburator cracked from the cold. By the time the pit crew could get the lines switched out, both practices were over, and the track went straight into qualifying. Draven qualified towards the back of the line up, and then it was time to race. Because of no track time, the pit crew did not realize that the lack of fuel to the carburator had caused the spark plug to foul. During the 50 lap race the car kept cutting in and out. Draven would go towards the front, the car would cut out and one could watch everyone just pass him by, but Draven hung in there and ended up with a 5th place finish. Draven's parents were very proud of him. He showed perserverance in a hard situation, he drove a good clean race, and he managed to avoid the numerous wrecks that took place in the race. Great Job Draven!

4-12-08 Draven decided that instead of running a complete schedule with the MMRA Future Stars, he would instead run with the South East Super Mini Cup Series. This is an Open division, so there will be a few races that he will not be old enough to participate in, but he plans on competing in as many of their races as possible. He participated in the Franklin County Speedway Race in Virginia and finished 5th. You can check out the news and race information for this series at http://www.southeastsuperminicups.com/

4-19-08 Franklin County Speedway Race-Rainout

5-2-08 Draven finished up his school day and then headed out to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to compete at Myrtle Beach Speedway in the South East Super Minicup Series Race. Draven and his family arrived late Friday night, headed to bed so that they could get up early and be at the track around 7:30 a.m. the next morning.

5-2-08 Draven arrives at Myrtle Beach Speedway, gets signed in and after a few tweaks on the car hits the track for practice. Draven does well at practice-this is his first time at this track and he quickly learns the track and works on getting faster. From practice, the racers begin qualifying. Draven qualifies in the 4th position. The competitors then get a few hours for a break, so Draven heads back to the hotel for a quick shower. The Harrison family venture out for dinner at the Crab House and then head to Myrtle Beach so that Draven can get wet, cool off and relax for a few minutes. They then head back to the track to work on the car and get ready for the nights race. The minicup race begins at around 9:00 p.m. and Draven takes the lead and gains a very good lead. Draven holds the lead for 17 laps when he realizes that something feels different with the engine. He falls back to 3rd place and is able to hang there until about lap 32. The car then begins to fall even further off and Draven lets his Crew Chief know that something is very wrong. The car is struggling and has to be brought off the track. The header had broken on the engine, fell down into the tire and rubbed the tire which caused it to go flat. Lady luck was just not on Draven's side that night, but he knows that it won't be long before he will get a top 3 and hopes for a win by the end of this season.

Motormile Speedway May 17, 2008 Draven With Three Of His Biggest Fans Walt Green, Bobby Edwards, & Bobby Anderson

5-17-08 Draven headed to the Motormile Speedway in Virginia to compete with the Southeast Super MiniCups. Draven had a great day of practice and his crew chief kept improving on the car. Draven was very excited to have Walt Green, Bobby , & Bobby Anderson come out to watch him race that evening and hoped for a good finish. The race started and during the 1st lap of the race, a wreck in front of Draven, left him with no where to go. He ended up involved with another car that left his toe knocked out and his left rear tire slowly going down. Draven managed to struggle through the race and finished 5th despite his bad luck.

5-24-08 Draven and his family made the long haul to the Franklin County Speedway in Virginia. The best lap in the second practice was his qualifying time and he qualified 7th. The Super MiniCups took the field and the race began and it was a great race. Draven raced a good clean race during which he showed just how much he is maturing as a driver. The competion with the Southeast group is second to none, and Draven feels very fortunate to be a part of such a talented group. Draven finished 5th and did an excellent job driving.

Draven Places 3rd In Kilkare Speedway's Double Feature

8-15-08 Draven and his family head to Kilkare Speedway in Xenia, Ohio
to let Draven compete in a Double Feature presented by the I.K.O. Division
8-16-08 It was a great day of hard racing and Draven would like to give a shout out to Steve Smith and everyone envolved in the I.K.O. Series for their gracious hospitality. They went out of there way to let those of us who traveled 7-10 hours, know how much they appreciated having us there. The racers were given more practice at this event than almost any event we have been to. It was good, hard racing with lots of trophies and prizes for all participants, as well as great food and a live band at the end of the day.

Draven will also be racing in some of the MMRA Touring season, with the MMRA Future Stars You can visit their website at www.MMRARACING.COM

The following is the 2008 Touring Races that Draven has participated in:

Feb. 14 Bronson Motor Speedway Bronson, FL Tour 1 (completed)
Feb. 15 Bronson Motor Speedway Bronson, FL Tour 2 (completed)
Feb. 16 Bronson Motor Speedway Bronson, FL Tour 3 (completed)

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