In 2021, second-generation rider Chris Garner-Jones won the Professional Drag Racers Association (PDRA) Drag 965 Pro Nitrous Motorcycle world championship in memory of his late father and fellow rider, T.T. Jones. After a crushing runner-up finish in 2022, Garner-Jones charged to two wins in four final-round appearances during the 2023 season to claim his second PDRA world championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis one is a little more special,\u201d said Garner-Jones. \u201cThe first one was definitely special, but this one is more special because I want to dedicate it to my brother [William]. He works his ass off night in, night out on this bike. I\u2019m not there to work on it. He does all the work, tunes it, everything. It\u2019s really for these guys \u2013 my wife, all my brothers, my mom, and of course, my dad up in heaven. It\u2019s very special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garner-Jones started the season with a first-round exit, but bounced back with a No. 1 qualifier award and the event win at the second race on tour, the Mid-Atlantic Showdown presented by Classic Graphix at Virginia Motorsports Park. He was runner-up to rookie phenom Brayden Davis at the third race for the motorcycle class, then added another low qualifier award and win at the Red Line Oil Carolina Nationals at Darlington Dragway. Kuwait\u2019s Meshal Al-Saber took out Garner-Jones in the final round at the penultimate race of the season. He clinched the title at the Pro Line Racing Brian Olson Memorial World Finals presented by ProCharger at VMP.<\/p>\n
Throughout the season, Garner-Jones battled with Al-Saber, who finished second in the points standings, as well as Davis, the 17-year-old son of multi-time world champion Travis Davis.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be on it every pass,\u201d Garner-Jones said. \u201cBrayden is as hungry as all of us. Meshal is a veteran in the game so he knows the ins and outs of racing. All these guys are tough. The class is getting a lot tougher. Guys are stepping up and going a lot faster than what they normally do. All of us are running close.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gary Rowe photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
There\u2019s a chance Garner-Jones won\u2019t return to defend his title, though it\u2019s for a good reason. The family has an NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle entry in the works. William has been working with Pro Stock Motorcycle teams between races on the PDRA schedule, and he\u2019ll tune the brothers\u2019 bike while Chris rides.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to come back here [to PDRA] and race,\u201d said Garner-Jones, who thanked his family, Jerry Meddock of Red Line Motorsports Media, and the PDRA. \u201cI love racing with the cars. I love racing nitrous motorcycles. But I want to do NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle.\u201d<\/p>\n
The PDRA will recognize Garner-Jones and the other 2023 world champions during the annual PDRA Championship Awards Banquet on Friday, Dec. 8 in Indianapolis.<\/span><\/p>\n The post Chris Garner-Jones Secures Second PDRA Pro Nitrous Motorcycle World Championship<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated | Drag Racing News, Opinion, Interviews, Photos, Videos and More<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2021, second-generation rider Chris Garner-Jones won the Professional Drag Racers Association (PDRA) Drag 965 Pro Nitrous Motorcycle world championship in memory of his late father and fellow rider, T.T. Jones. After a crushing runner-up finish in 2022, Garner-Jones charged to two wins in four final-round appearances during the 2023 season to claim his second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,78117,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-race-pages","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90409","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=90409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91205,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90409\/revisions\/91205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}