Mike Harmon (racing driver)

He ran seven more races in the car that season, with a best finish of 23rd, but a sponsorship struggle caused his team to close down.

With a new team partner in Global Industrial Contractors, Harmon had his first career top-twenty finish at IRP and finished 23rd in points.

His best finish was a 28th at Indianapolis Raceway Park, the only race he finished that year.

He made two more starts that season, his best finish being 33rd at Memphis Motorsports Park for Oostlander Racing.

He made an additional start for Moy Racing at Talladega Superspeedway, finishing 35th, and competed in two Craftsman Truck races for MB Motorsports and Troxell Racing, respectively.

He made seven races with a best finish of 38th before handing the ride off to Jennifer Jo Cobb late in the season.

Michael Joseph Harmon (born January 24, 1958) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner.

He competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 74 Chevrolet Camaro for Mike Harmon Racing.

Harmon made his NASCAR debut in 1996 driving the No. 24 Chevrolet at South Boston Speedway, where he finished 31st after a transmission failure.

In the past, he drove in the NASCAR Slim Jim All Pro Series, finishing 8th in points in 1997.

He was scheduled to return to NASCAR in 1999, when he signed with Donlavey Racing to compete for NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year honors.

Harmon was reportedly fired from the team during preparation for that year's Daytona 500 when he refused to let another driver try to get more speed out of the car.

In 2001, Harmon returned to the Busch Series, driving fourteen races for Mixon Motorsports in the No. 44 Pontiac Grand Prix.

He made 25 starts for Mixon in 2002, with a best finish of 22nd at Daytona.

The following season, he competed in a career-high total of 32 races and finished seventeen of them.

Harmon is also famous for an incident at Bristol Motor Speedway in August 2002.

Harmon was practicing his No. 44 car, when he crashed into the track's infield entry gate in Turn 2.

The gate was improperly secured when Harmon's car crashed into it causing it to swing open.

His car then impacted the end of the concrete wall head-on.

The impact was so violent, the car was nearly split in half.

The remnants of the vehicle were then struck by the car of Johnny Sauter, fortunately hitting the half that Harmon was not sitting in.

Harmon walked away from the crash unharmed.

For the last several years, Harmon has primarily competed in NASCAR driving his self owned 74 car in the Xfinity Series, as well as part-time in the 74 truck for his own team, with additional drivers filling out the schedule.

Harmon is one of only two teams that still fields a Dodge Challenger in NASCAR and one of the few remaining owner/drivers.

Harmon's team usually relies on week to week sponsorships to help keep his team open.

GIC-Mixon switched to the No. 24 in 2004 and after the Aaron's 312, he was released from the team and replaced by Shane Hmiel.

In 2005, Harmon and Oostlander purchased part of the assets of Innovative Motorsports and ran the first four races of the season in the No. 21 Chevrolet Silverado, before focusing mainly on ARCA racing.

Harmon attempted a Busch Series race later in the year at Memphis for Bobby Norfleet, but did not qualify.

Harmon returned to NASCAR in 2007, driving the No. 44/No.

48 car for Richardson-Netzloff Racing in the Busch Series.

He attempted a larger part-time season in the No. 84 Chevrolet fielded by the new Elite 2 Racing team in 2008, for eighteen races.

In 2009, Harmon started racing in his own No. 84 car and then took over the No. 07 Chevrolet for SK Motorsports.

He would also start and park in his own No. 24 in four Camping World Truck Series races.

For 2010, Harmon has run part-time in the Truck Series for both Lafferty Motorsports and Daisy Ramirez Motorsports.

Harmon drove his own No. 74 Chevrolet in the 2011 season, running approximately half the season's races; he also competed in several Truck Series races later in the year.

He returned to the Nationwide Series in the No. 74 in 2012 and 2013.

Harmon posted his best finish in the Nationwide Series to date, finishing 17th at the Aaron's 312.

In 2017, the team partnered with Veterans Motorsports Inc., a company that provides jobs for veterans; in accordance with the deal, MHR allowed veterans to work for the team.

The team also fields vehicles in the Truck Series, with the ride being filled primarily by Jordan Anderson.

In the 2020 Xfinity season opener at Daytona, Harmon scored a career high finish of 16th.