{"id":104424,"date":"2026-07-23T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/wsopm-lookback-erica-enders-mixes-it-up\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:44:07","slug":"wsopm-lookback-erica-enders-mixes-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/wsopm-lookback-erica-enders-mixes-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"WSOPM Lookback: Erica Enders Mixes It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

One year removed from a quarterfinal finish at the Drag Illustrated World Series of Pro Mod, six-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion Erica Enders arrived in Bradenton for the 2025-26 Drag Illustrated Winter Series presented by J&A Service with both a new car and new combination.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last year, Enders piloted Scott Tidwell\u2019s ProCharger-powered \u201969 Camaro, ultimately falling in the round of eight against event winner Steve King. This year, for the first time in her career, Enders was behind the wheel of a screw-blown Camaro with Elite Motorsports. While the results weren\u2019t what her team hoped for, Enders was still excited about the experience while figuring out the new car.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a blast at these races,\u201d Enders says. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be invited to them, first of all, but to be able to compete has been a lot of fun for me. Last year, I got to drive Scott Tidwell\u2019s ProCharger car, and this year we built our own screw-blower car. It\u2019s a new program. We didn\u2019t have the results that we wanted, but it\u2019s still a super awesome event that I was glad to be a part of, and we\u2019ll continue to support Wes [Buck] and whatever he does for however long he does it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the WSOPM, Enders just missed out on the field by .001, qualifying No. 34 with a 3.603 at 208.10 mph. From there, she entered the Outlaw Beer Wildcard Shootout for non-qualifiers, where she fell to Luis DeLeon in the second round.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her best showing of the Winter Series came at the U.S. Street Nationals presented by M&M Transmission, where she qualified for the quickest field in Pro Mod history with a 3.595 at 209.46 mph. In the first round of eliminations, she lost to Mike Decker III in heartbreaking fashion, once again by a miniscule .001. Enders had the advantage on the tree \u2013 .030 to Decker\u2019s .046 \u2013 but Decker\u2019s 3.582 at 209.72 mph was just enough to slip by Enders, who ran a 3.599 at 207.27.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to multiple drag racing historians, Enders also made history at the Winter Series, becoming the only known driver to have wheeled a Pro Mod with all four major power adders \u2013 screw blower, centrifugal supercharger, nitrous, and twin-turbos. It\u2019s an accomplishment not even Enders realized she\u2019d achieved.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s pretty cool,\u201d Enders says. \u201cWhen I drove Keith Haney\u2019s nitrous car back when I didn\u2019t have a Pro Stock sponsor, that was my first dabble in Pro Mod. Then I got my feet really wet in the twin turbo car and had a lot of success in the centrifugal car. I\u2019m hoping to have some success in our new car this year, but it\u2019s been cool to drive. I\u2019ve always prided myself on being able to get in anything and wheel it. Either way, it\u2019s a cool stat to have driven every different power adder.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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One year removed from a quarterfinal finish at the Drag Illustrated World Series of Pro Mod, six-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion Erica Enders arrived in Bradenton for the 2025-26 Drag Illustrated Winter Series presented by J&A Service with both a new car and new combination.\u00a0 Last year, Enders piloted Scott Tidwell\u2019s ProCharger-powered \u201969 Camaro, […]<\/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-104424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104424","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=104424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}