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Jason Harris has endured a wild 2026 season, full of ups and downs across multiple sanctioning bodies. He capped it off on the highest of high notes, however, winning the PDRA World Finals for the second consecutive year and capturing an astonishing fifth PDRA world championship in the process \u2013 two in Pro Nitrous and three in Pro Boost.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
After securing the points championship on Saturday night with a round-one win over Ethan Steding combined with then-points leader Johnny Camp losing to Carson Perry, Harris was nearly flawless on Sunday, culminating in a final-round victory over Joel Wensley. Harris got a massive jump on the tree (.027 to .163) in his Brandon Stroud-tuned, Harts Charger-equipped \u201cParty Time\u201d \u201969 Camaro en route to a 3.601-second pass at 211.16 mph to defeat Wensley, who ran a 3.619 at 209.26 in his ProCharger-boosted, Liberty Gears \u201918 Camaro.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been surreal,\u201d Harris said in the winner\u2019s circle regarding his season. \u201cYou know, we raced really hard in the beginning of the season. We were going back and forth between two organizations. PDRA\u2019s always been my home, so I knew I wasn\u2019t gonna leave this one behind. My goal was to win a championship this year and we accomplished that. My team is a testament to that. Brandon Stroud and all he\u2019s done. All my crew, they stuck with me. We started out really hot and we just had a kind of a lull in the middle there. And if you go back and look at history, that\u2019s kind of my forte. I start out hot and end up hot. What can I say? It\u2019s just been one of those years, with ups and downs, goods and bads, but at the end of the day, if you can end on a good note, that carries your momentum into the next season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris started off Sunday by facing Perry, the Pro Mod young gun who had just defeated Camp the night before in the\u00a0Harts Charger-boosted Redd Topp Motorsports C7 Corvette owned by Vaughn Myles and Eric Holland. Harris left the line first and never trailed, running 3.605 at 211.36 to Perry\u2019s 3.643 at 208.10. In the semifinals, Harris would face Mike Decker III in his Decker\u2019s Auto Salvage \u201926 Camaro. The two left with identical .036 reaction times, but Decker\u2019s 3.641 at 206.45 mph couldn\u2019t quite match the 3.617 at 210.90 of Harris.<\/p>\n
While Harris is already well-known as being one of the most skilled drivers in Pro Mod, his nearly perfect performance all day on Sunday can also be partially attributed to him feeling relaxed after having already clinched the championship the night before. With no added pressure, Harris was simply unbeatable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, and that\u2019s happened in the past, too\u2026I think in 2018, I did the same thing. You just relax after that,\u201d said Harris about not feeling any added pressure on Sunday. \u201cI really didn\u2019t know last night. I knew when Johnny went out behind me that it was gonna be close. They (PDRA) couldn\u2019t really confirm, but we sat down with pencils and papers and calculators, and we figured out that it was over, that Ty [Tutterow] couldn\u2019t catch me. Johnny and Ty are super tough competitors, and you just do the best you can and hope at the end of the year you come out on top. I\u2019ve been fortunate enough for this to happen five times. I feel like I\u2019m getting in the presence of Rickie Smith and all his championships. I just hope the Lord allows me to keep continuing and we\u2019ll just keep pushing on.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wensley\u2019s path to the final\u00a0round\u00a0started\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday night\u00a0against Bakersfield, California\u2019s Brylon Holder. The race was over at the hit, as Holder went -.006 red, while Wensley powered through to a 3.586 at 212.06. He then started out Sunday by defeating Randy Weatherford by a mere five thousandths of a second on a holeshot (.033 to .048), with Wensley\u2019s 3.634 holding on against Weatherford\u2019s 3.624. In the semifinals, Wensley would benefit from another red light, this time from former Super Bowl champion Fletcher Cox in his screw-blown, KTR \u201cFixed Income\u201d \u201969 Camaro. Wensley would run 3.633 seconds at 209.59 mph to reach the finals against Harris.<\/p>\n
PRO NITROUS<\/strong><\/p>\n While the majority of fans watching the PDRA World Finals were focused on the points championship battle going on between Marcus Butner and Tommy Franklin, class veteran Billy Albert quietly put together a dream weekend in Virginia, capped off by his first career win in the class. Driving his Albert Racing Engines-equipped, Structural Mechanical \u201920 Camaro, Albert used a 3.679 elapsed time at 207.08 mph to narrowly take down No. 1 qualifier Tim Paap\u2019s 3.687 at 206.16 in his\u00a0Killin\u2019 Time Racing Paap Auto Body \u201916 Corvette.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming. It feels really good,\u201d Albert said when asked about holding his very first PDRA 660 Man. \u201cWe\u2019ve been fighting a problem almost all year with the car; it had to do with the lockup, the Ty-Drive, and the transmission. So we\u2019ve had a fast car all year, it just looked like it wasn\u2019t. Once Todd Tutterow and Rickie Smith helped us get it sorted out and we got everything working properly, then it showed itself and it gives you more confidence in your driving and in your car. Having them is everything. You can\u2019t buy knowledge like that.\u00a0\u00a0You can only get that help to you and I\u2019m glad they\u2019re there to help us and lead us in the right direction. It just fell into place and worked.\u201d<\/p>\n Starting out of the No. 3 qualifying position Saturday night, Albert would defeat Elizabeth City, North Carolina\u2019s Brian Teachman in the opening round with a 3.646 at 207.75 mph. In the quarterfinals on Sunday afternoon, Albert would briefly throw the season championship into chaos, using a starting line advantage and 3.702 at 206.13 mph to take down points leader Marcus Butner in the Pat Musi-powered \u201cHeartbreaker\u201d \u201969 Camaro and his 3.714 at 205.91. In the semifinals, Albert lined up against John Vergotz Jr., whose impressive Pro Nitrous debut would come to an end. Vergotz Jr. visibly left the line first with a .051 reaction time to Albert\u2019s .133, but encountered issues and slowed to a 4.036 at 185.87. Albert, meanwhile, stayed consistent with a 3.706 at 205.41.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite his round two loss to Albert, reigning world champion Marcus Butner still clinched his second consecutive Pro Nitrous championship shortly thereafter, as Tommy Franklin would also bow out in the second round. Despite a quicker 3.701 at 210.28 in his Musi-powered \u201cJungle Rat 3.0,\u201d Franklin lost on a holeshot to Dale Brinsfield, who ran 3.746 at 202.70.<\/p>\n PRO STREET<\/strong><\/p>\n Entering round one of eliminations on Saturday night, there were still an incredible six drivers with a mathematical shot at winning the Pro Street points championship. Andy Mac was not one of them, but when the dust settled on Sunday evening, he was the one holding the coveted PDRA 660 Man trophy. Driving the nitrous-fed \u201cTraining Day\u201d \u201969 Camaro owned by Fletcher Cox, Mac used a 3.943 e.t. at 192.77 mph to outpace the 4.103 at 195.05 by Tim Essick, who was making his third consecutive final round appearance in his ProCharger-powered \u201cBrown Sugar\u201d \u201918 Mustang.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s pretty easy,\u201d Mac said regarding having the opportunity to drive for the KTR brain trust of \u201cStevie Fast\u201d Jackson, Jeffrey Barker, and Phil Shuler. \u201cIt\u2019s still a little stressful because you don\u2019t want to mess up on your job because you know that they have their job covered. That\u2019s what they do for a living. Stevie, Jeffrey, Phil, and some of my crew guys that filled in this year, you just trust and believe in them and let the work show what we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of good guys and fast cars,\u201d added Mac. \u201cCompetition is what makes it interesting and fun to try to go out and win. If there was no competition, it\u2019d be boring. Competition is what motivates you, makes you do better, change things. Everybody gets faster, so you just have to work on your program to be with them on race day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Mac qualified seventh and promptly unleashed a 3.905 at 193.57 on Tim Lyons, who went -.094 red in the opening round Saturday night. In the quarterfinals, Mac used a 3.967 at 192.17 mph to eliminate championship hopeful Richard Reagan, who ran a 3.985 at 195.36 in his\u00a0screw-blown \u201991 Mustang. To reach the finals, Mac laid down a 3.981 at 191.89 mph to defeat 2026 points champion Blake Denton, who went -.006 red.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Entering the quarterfinals, a trio of Pro Street drivers were still alive for the season championship. Denton, driving the Pat Musi-powered, nitrous-assisted \u201cBonnie\u201d \u201869 Camaro formerly made famous by the late Lizzy Musi, did his part in the first pair out, defeating Derrick Brown with a 3.986 at 193.24 mph to Brown\u2019s 4.046 at 194.07. He then watched from the top end as the two other contenders \u2013 Richard Reagan and Joel Wensley Jr. \u2013 both lost right behind him, giving him his second career PDRA points championship, and first in Pro Street.<\/p>\n PRO 632<\/strong><\/p>\n The 2026 PDRA season has been all about J.C. Beattie Jr. in the Pro 632 class, and the World Finals was no different. Beattie Jr. took his nitrous-fed ATI Performance Products \u201918 Camaro to the No. 1 qualifying spot and ran the table to his fourth win in six races, using a 4.104 at 176.01 mph in the final round to defeat Jeff Pittman\u2019s 4.170 at 170.99 in his Hickory Enclosed Trailer Sales \u201968 Chevelle.\u00a0<\/p>\n Beattie Jr.\u2019s dominance is a far cry from where his program was just a year and a half ago, a sign of all the time and effort poured into his program.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been playing around for a couple years with NA (naturally aspirated), trying to make it work, and then this bullet showed up,\u201d said Beattie Jr. \u201cWe had our growing pains, like anybody else \u2013 anything from forgetting to turn the nitrous on, a steering wheel falling off, relays turning off and shutting the car off, just all the gremlins.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI try not to take anything for granted with everything we have,\u201d Beattie Jr. continued. \u201cMy son, he\u2019s like, \u2018When we get nitrous, are we gonna win a race?\u2019 I said, \u2018We\u2019re gonna win a race, that\u2019s all there is to it.\u2019 Did I expect to win four? Absolutely not. I\u2019ve got a good hot rod, and we just executed everything we could do this weekend.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Making the event win and season championship even more memorable for Beattie Jr. was getting to share the moment with his son, James Beattie III, whose final-round appearance in Pro Jr. Dragster on Sunday night earned him the 2026 points championship as well. It is his second championship, as he previously won the title in Top Jr. Dragster.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what else to do now. How do you top this?\u201d said Beattie Jr. \u201cHim and I need to win a race together, I guess. That\u2019s the only box we didn\u2019t check. This is his first year in 7.90, and we knew we could do well, but to win the championship, a lot of stuff had to go right this weekend. It\u2019s a blast to be a part of it by having him win.\u201d<\/p>\n Pittman, who finished the season second in points, earned his trip to the final round by defeating Ryan Altman and Jason Ventura, earning him a bye in the semifinals.<\/p>\n SUPER STREET<\/strong><\/p>\n The season-long clash between Super Street young guns Austin Vincent and Connor McGee reached its conclusion on Sunday at Virginia Motorsports Park, and while Vincent won the season-long war with his first career world championship, it was McGee who came out on top in the final battle of the season, winning the PDRA World Finals with a 4.506 at 164.17 mph over Vincent\u2019s 4.559 at 159.85.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the next best thing (to a championship), and to beat him twice this weekend, it\u2019s kind of the cherry on top,\u201d said McGee. \u201cEven though we had a rough midway through the season, to pick up three wins, it just really makes me feel good, confident in my team, ready to go into next year with that same energy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n McGee had the quickest car all weekend, qualifying No. 1 in his Fulton-powered Brian\u2019s Heating & Cooling \u201990 Mustang with a 4.504. He defeated Richie Stine in round one, setting himself up for a second-round bye. In the semifinals, he used a 4.531 at 163.29 mph to outrun Brooks McMath, who could only muster a 4.839 at 148.49, to set up the final-round showdown with Vincent. The two drivers combined to win all six events this year, with each taking home three PDRA 660 Man trophies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a fun, fun battle,\u201d McGee said. \u201cHopefully next year it evens out a little bit more, so it\u2019s not just us two at the top alone. It\u2019s starting to come around, starting to be a more even class with the rest of the classes out here. It\u2019s gonna be exciting to see how everyone else shapes up after the end of year rules adjustment, but I think we\u2019re still gonna be in front.\u201d<\/p>\n Vincent clinched the season championship by defeating Frank Saffelle III and Dan Whetstine in the first two rounds of competition in his\u00a0Vincent Performance \u201988 Mustang, then took down recent two-time finalist Troy Hill in the semifinals with a 4.547 at 167.80 mph to Hill\u2019s 4.628 at 158.56.<\/p>\n TOP SPORTSMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n By virtue of his event win in Elite Top Sportsman, Scott Duggins also secured the 2026 season points championship, overcoming previous points leader Bryan LaFlam, who lost in round one. Driving his centrifugally supercharged, PAR Racing engines \u201963 Corvette, Duggins could ease on through to a 4.005 on a 3.83 dial-in after his opponent, Jamie Fowler, went -.011 red in his nitrous-fed Pee Dee Fleet \u201969 Camaro.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Mooresville, North Carolina\u2019s TJ Luther grabbed the Top Sportsman 48 win on a double breakout. Luther\u2019s 4.607 on a 4.61 dial in his \u201902 Camaro was closer than opponent Seth Garrison\u2019s 4.305 on his 4.32 dial-in. Despite an opening-round loss, Joe Roubicek held on to the points championship for 2026.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n TOP DRAGSTER<\/strong><\/p>\n Asheville, North Carolina\u2019s Tony Careccia qualified No. 1 in his brand-new, screw-blown \u201926 NexGen dragster, then proceeded to capture his first PDRA event win with the car in Elite Top Dragster. Both Careccia and opponent Chaz Silance fell off their posted times, but Careccia\u2019s 3.777 on his 3.68 dial-in was enough to get around Silance\u2019s 3.903 on a 3.77 dial.<\/p>\n With a semifinal finish, Josh Duggins earned the Elite Top Dragster points championship, joining his father, Scott Duggins, as world champions in the same season.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n In Top Dragster 48, it was over on the starting line as Lee Dixon went -.006 red, giving the event win to Henrico, Virginia\u2019s JB Donati, who was .008 on the tree and went 4.266 on his 4.25 dial-in. Boiling Springs, South Carolina\u2019s Joe Gary lost in round two, but still clinched the season championship.<\/p>\n The Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series will celebrate its 2026\u00a0world champions at the PDRA Championship Awards Banquet on Friday, Dec.\u00a011\u00a0during the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Show weekend in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n This story was originally published on September 21, 2026. The post Harris, Albert, Mac, Beattie Jr., and McGee Finish Season Strong With Wins at PDRA World Finals<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jason Harris completed his \u201cDrive for Five\u201d in style on Sunday evening, taking home the event win and the season points championship in\u00a0WS Construction Pro Boost presented by P2 Contracting and Ty-Drive at the\u00a0Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series ProLine Racing Brian Olson Memorial World Finals presented by ProCharger at Virginia Motorsports Park. 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