{"id":97090,"date":"2024-11-18T22:18:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T22:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/chris-powers-earns-second-pdra-extreme-pro-stock-world-championship\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T22:18:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T22:18:31","slug":"chris-powers-earns-second-pdra-extreme-pro-stock-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/chris-powers-earns-second-pdra-extreme-pro-stock-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Powers Earns Second PDRA Extreme Pro Stock World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pennsylvania\u2019s Chris Powers is now a two-time world champion in the Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series after securing the 2024 Liberty\u2019s Gears Extreme Pro Stock presented by AED Competition world championship. Representing the late Sonny Leonard and Sonny\u2019s Racing Engines, Powers won two events in three final-round appearances to add another title to his 2021 world championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Powers in his Chuck Samuel-tuned Sonny\u2019s Racing Engines \u201921 Camaro went rounds at the first two races of the season, then he charged to the final round at the American Doorslammer Challenge at Summit Motorsports Park. Two races later, he won the Northern Nationals at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park. He notched a semifinal finish at the inaugural Thunder Valley Throwdown, then he won again at DragWars at GALOT Motorsports Park to carry a significant points lead into the Brian Olson Memorial World Finals at Virginia Motorsports Park. Powers clinched the championship when he won his first-round match at the World Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis means a lot to us,\u201d said Powers, who finished second in 2023. \u201cWe\u2019ve been working really hard. Last year didn\u2019t work out. This year, we just knew we had to do a better job. We\u2019re happy with this year. We did a good job. We went rounds. We got a fresh bullet. Sonny\u2019s worked really hard on the power and it showed. We had a really good car here at the World Finals. It didn\u2019t work out in the [second] round. I couldn\u2019t see the tree, so we kind of just threw it away, but we\u2019re happy. We came and did what we wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Powers has competed in Extreme Pro Stock since 2017, but he made strides as a driver this season, especially as the second half of the season began. He took the points lead from rival and two-time world champion Johnny Pluchino, who won the first two races of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI just had to settle down a little bit and just relax and just go up there and just act like every round was nothing more than a qualifying round,\u201d Powers said. \u201cIt just took off from there. The more rounds we won, the easier it seemed to get for me driving the car. As long as we run like that, we\u2019re pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Powers and his family-based team have been a consistent force in the PDRA since they broke onto the scene. This season, they proved yet again that they have what it takes to go the distance while competing against Mountain Motor Pro Stock veterans and newcomers alike.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cChuck Samuel and Rob Bealko did a hell of a job on the race car the entire season,\u201d Powers said. \u201cThanks to my wife and my kids for everything they do, as well as Sonny\u2019s and ATI Performance Products for all their support. Thanks to Tommy Franklin and everybody here at PDRA for everything they\u2019ve done this season. They did an awesome job. Thanks to all the fans that come out and watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pluchino in his Kaase-powered Feather-Lite Batteries \u201913 Mustang finished second behind Powers with three victories and two No. 1 qualifier awards. Relative newcomer Jeremy Huffman had a career-best season in his 3V Performance-powered Patriot Axe Throwing \u201910 Cobalt, reaching two final rounds and qualifying No. 1 twice to finish third in the championship standings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series will celebrate its 2024 world champions at the annual PDRA Championship Awards Banquet on Friday, Dec. 13 in downtown Indianapolis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This story was originally published on November 18, 2024. \"Drag<\/p>\n

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Pennsylvania\u2019s Chris Powers is now a two-time world champion in the Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series after securing the 2024 Liberty\u2019s Gears Extreme Pro Stock presented by AED Competition world championship. Representing the late Sonny Leonard and Sonny\u2019s Racing Engines, Powers won two events in three final-round appearances to add another title to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97090","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}