{"id":104925,"date":"2026-10-01T14:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/jason-harris-completes-drive-for-five-with-historic-fifth-pdra-world-championship\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:44:06","slug":"jason-harris-completes-drive-for-five-with-historic-fifth-pdra-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/jason-harris-completes-drive-for-five-with-historic-fifth-pdra-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Harris Completes \u201cDrive for Five\u201d With Historic Fifth PDRA World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Harris completed his \u201cDrive for Five\u201d in style\u00a0at the\u00a0ProLine Racing Brian Olson Memorial World Finals presented by ProCharger at Virginia Motorsports Park, taking home the event win in\u00a0WS Construction Pro Boost presented by P2 Contracting and Ty-Drive and securing an unprecedented fifth world championship\u00a0in the Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series \u2013 his third in Pro Boost, as well as two in Pro Nitrous.\u00a0It was a fitting end for Harris, who endured a wild 2026 season, full of ups and downs across multiple sanctioning bodies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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. Right now, it\u2019s all about winning the fifth championship and winning this race is just icing on a cake.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harris started off the year strong in his Harts Charger-boosted \u201cParty Time\u201d \u201969 Camaro, qualifying in the No. 2 position at the first three races of the season and picking up a win at the PDRA East Coast Nationals at Galot Motorsports Park over Melanie Salemi and her screw-blown \u201cPurple Reign\u201d \u201968 Firebird.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Through the middle portion of the season, Harris pushed through what he deemed a \u201clull,\u201d with two semifinal appearances and a quarterfinal exit, ultimately losing the points lead he\u2019d maintained nearly all season at the second-to-last event of the year to Johnny Camp. He stepped up when it mattered most, however, ending the year with his second win of the season.\u00a0Harris clinched the points championship with a round-one win over Ethan Steding, combined with Camp\u2019s loss to Carson Perry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy team is a testament to that. They are the reason that I can do this,\u201d said Harris. \u201cBrandon Stroud and all he\u2019s done. All my crew, they stuck with me. My dad (Bob Harris), my wife (Crystal Harris), and Paul Paraskevas \u2013 he\u2019s been with me through all these championships. 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. I can\u2019t really explain it. 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

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While Harris is already well-known as being one of the most skilled drivers in Pro Mod, his nearly perfect performance throughout the rest of eliminations at the World Finals can be partially attributed to him feeling relaxed after capturing the championship. With no added pressure, Harris was simply unbeatable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s happened in the past, too\u2026I think in 2018, I did the same thing,\u201d Harris said. \u201cYou just relax after that. 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<\/p>\n

The win at Virginia Motorsports Park was also the second consecutive World Finals trophy for Harris, and required him to navigate the largest PDRA Pro Boost field in history with 31 entries vying for just 16 spots.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPro Boost is the hardest class in drag racing right now,\u201d said Harris. \u201cYou\u2019ve got great tuners, great equipment, and great guys that are driving. Just look at where guys are (on the tree). If you\u2019re .20 and .30, you\u2019re late. I mean, guys slip up, don\u2019t get me wrong, but at the end of the day, you better be on your game no matter who you draw, and there\u2019s no duck from No. 1-16. Different tracks I\u2019m good at and different tracks I\u2019m bad at, and it just seems like Virginia\u2019s always been good to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camp finished second in the championship points standings with two event wins in his ProCharger-equipped \u201cHell\u2019s Bells\u201d \u201969 Camaro: the rain-delayed PDRA Carolina Nationals which was completed at Galot Motorsports Park, and PDRA Drag Wars, the penultimate race of the season, also at Galot. Tutterow, the 2025 Pro Boost world champion, finished the season with four consecutive No. 1 Qualifier awards on his way to a third-place finish\u00a0driving the screw-blown\u00a0Quik Fuel \u201968 Camaro\u00a0owned by Justin Smith. Travis Harvey and Joel Wensley rounded out the top five. <\/p>\n

The Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series will celebrate its 2026 world champions at the PDRA Championship Awards Banquet on Friday, Dec. 11 during the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Show weekend in Indianapolis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jason Harris completed his \u201cDrive for Five\u201d in style\u00a0at the\u00a0ProLine Racing Brian Olson Memorial World Finals presented by ProCharger at Virginia Motorsports Park, taking home the event win in\u00a0WS Construction Pro Boost presented by P2 Contracting and Ty-Drive and securing an unprecedented fifth world championship\u00a0in the Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series \u2013 his […]<\/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-104925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104925","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=104925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}