Harrah's crew in the hot pits shook off the early race woes of a flat tire with a lightening fast tire change. Inadvertently helping the effort was a full course red flag that simultaneously ignited on the course when Curt LeDuc's engine engulfed in flames.

Midway into the race, at the competition yellow, Harrah had managed to make his way into the top seven for a furious dog fight to the front.

With rocks flying and mud flinging from all four wheels, the angst of 800-plus horsepower catapulted the pack of trucks around the turns like slingshots. The agressive race pace and fierce momentum to the finish was too much to handle going into turn two, when Steve Barlow crashed, causing a full course yellow. By this time, Harrah had fought his way into fifth.

Now behind the pace truck, turning several yellow flag laps while course workers performed cleanup of the carnage, the lead truck of Adrian Cenni began smoking profusely.

And at the relaunch of racing action, upon the white flag lap, Rick Huesman had the lead, followed by Travis Coyne, Carl Renezeder, Cenni and Harrah in fifth.

It was then that Harrah hammered down the horses of his Exotic Engine and unleashed an unrivaled effort. The full contact chaos shook up the dog pile that was three- and even four-wide into the turns.

With only a half lap to go, Harrah snatched his third slot upon the podium amid the mayhem-riddled wreckage of 4X4 trucks in his wake.