{"id":102938,"date":"2026-01-29T18:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/jason-harris-reflects-on-first-elite-motorsports-million-attempt\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:44:04","slug":"jason-harris-reflects-on-first-elite-motorsports-million-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/jason-harris-reflects-on-first-elite-motorsports-million-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Harris Reflects on First Elite Motorsports Million Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pro Modified\u2019s first million-dollar prize will have to wait at least another year, as Snowbird Outlaw Nationals winner Jason Harris\u2019s attempt at the inaugural Elite Motorsports Million came to an end Sunday when he lost in the second round at the U.S. Street Nationals presented by M&M Transmission at Bradenton Motorsports Park. After winning the Snowbirds, Harris needed to win the other two races in the Drag Illustrated Winter Series presented by J&A Service, the U.S. Street Nationals and the DI World Series of Pro Mod, to win the $1 million bonus from Elite Motorsports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harris was understandably dejected after his second-round loss to Derek Menholt, but he also recognized the odds were against him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we all looked at the Million when it first came out and thought it\u2019s not feasible, but then I think when you actually get in the seat where you think you can do it, then it is feasible,\u201d Harris said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like I lost it by a thousandth. I lost it by a lot of rounds. I had to go 10 more rounds to be perfect [after the Snowbirds], so everything had to be perfect. Car had to be perfect. I had to be perfect. That\u2019s going to be a hard feat. Is it impossible? No, but it\u2019s a very, very hard task.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ricky Hord and Rick Hord of Jerry Bickel Race Cars present Jason Harris with his Snowbirds #1 qualifier check. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By qualifying No. 1 at the Snowbirds, Harris was also contending for the Jerry Bickel Race Cars Clean Sweep Challenge, which offered up a brand-new Pro Mod rolling chassis for any driver who could qualify No. 1 at all three races. Harris ended up No. 2 on the final qualifying order for the U.S. Street Nationals with a 3.556 at 2111.33 behind Jimmy Taylor\u2019s 3.555 at 224.77.<\/p>\n

Once qualifying was over, Harris came out swinging. He drew former PDRA Pro Nitrous rival Jim Halsey in the opening round. Harris unleashed a .009 reaction time and a 3.547 at 211.89 \u2013 second-quickest of the round \u2013 to get past Halsey, who lifted to a 5.443. He was aggressive again in the second round against Menholt, leaving first with a .017 to Menholt\u2019s .037. Harris\u2019s Harts Charger-boosted \u201cParty Time\u201d \u201969 Camaro was ahead at the 60-foot mark, but he lost traction and coasted to a 5.156 while Menholt ran a 3.565, eventually reaching the final round.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Harris and Halsey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just like that, the dream was over. Never before had Harris raced for so much on the line, and similarly, losing the round stung a little more than the average second-round loss.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of pressure on me this weekend,\u201d Harris admitted. \u201cLosing No. 1 by a couple thousandths hurt. I lost a lot of money this weekend. I lost $12,000 for No. 1 and Off the Trailer bonuses. I lost a $250,000 race car, and I lost a million dollars and $75,000 for winning here. I feel like Vegas has kicked my butt this weekend. But, it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Harris wasn\u2019t sulking for too long after the second-round exit. He was back in the Strange Engineering VIP Tent for the third-round chip draw to support teammate John Doc, who ended up losing to Menholt as well in the quarterfinals. Harris noted that he\u2019s already moving on to the Winter Series finale, the World Series of Pro Mod, Feb. 26-28, at Bradenton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a great team. We just missed it a little bit. That\u2019s all it is,\u201d Harris said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re running mid-.50s, and with the competition you\u2019ve got right now, you\u2019ve got to keep it at the fastest possible. Maybe we got a little greedy there, but that\u2019s something you don\u2019t really see out of my team, shaking the tires like that. I\u2019ve been driving great. I feel like I was on my game. We win as a team, lose as a driver, but this weekend, we\u2019re gonna pick ourselves back up, come back to the World Series, and I\u2019m looking forward to that because that\u2019s one I\u2019d like to put on my resume.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was originally published on January 29, 2026. \"Drag<\/p>\n

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Pro Modified\u2019s first million-dollar prize will have to wait at least another year, as Snowbird Outlaw Nationals winner Jason Harris\u2019s attempt at the inaugural Elite Motorsports Million came to an end Sunday when he lost in the second round at the U.S. Street Nationals presented by M&M Transmission at Bradenton Motorsports Park. After winning the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}