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Harris said he watched every minute of the race, though, giving him a fan\u2019s perspective of the ultra-competitive Pro Mod series that includes the $50,000-to-win Snowbirds, $75,000-to-win U.S. Street Nationals, and $150,000-to-win WSOPM.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Winter Series has brought all the organizations together \u2013 NHRA, Mid-West, PDRA \u2013 so we can run in one platform,\u201d Harris said. \u201cIt\u2019s a total combined effort of a lot of tuners and a lot of drivers to make a really fast program. I think it\u2019s been life-changing for Pro Mod racing in general. Kye [Kelley] winning Snowbirds really brought in some newer fanbase that maybe knew about Pro Mod, but just didn\u2019t realize the level of competition that it brought.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt adds a difficulty level because you\u2019re racing guys you haven\u2019t raced,\u201d Harris added. \u201cAnd the chip draw adds a whole different ballgame to it because I\u2019m a terrible chip drawer.\u201d<\/p>\n Harris isn\u2019t wrong there. At the 2024 WSOPM, he drew past NEOPMA champion Steve King in the first round, then ended up facing No. 1 qualifier Mark Micke in the second round. He became every other driver\u2019s favorite driver by eliminating Micke in a side-by-side race. Another tough draw, four-time PDRA Pro Nitrous world champion Jim Halsey, knocked out Harris with low E.T. of the third round.\u00a0<\/p>\n Harris paired up with another fellow former Pro Nitrous competitor in the opening round of the Snowbirds. He drew Jay Cox, who made his return to driving after a one-year hiatus, this time with a brand-new, twin-turbocharged combination in his \u201cPumpkin\u201d \u201969 Camaro. The reaction to the pairing during the chip draw on Saturday night foreshadowed a marquee matchup, but the race was over before it started as Harris went red by .006 seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was an uncharacteristic early exit for Harris, who has used a consistent, level-headed approach to race to four PDRA world championships in the 11-year history of the series. That\u2019s the approach he\u2019s going to use at the World Series, working with tuner Brandon Stroud to get his ProCharged Southern Diamond Company \u201cParty Time\u201d \u201969 Camaro into the winner\u2019s circle at the big-money event.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cBeing that I missed the U.S. Street Nationals, I\u2019m probably gonna be a little bit behind as far as tuning and trying to figure out where we\u2019re at,\u201d Harris said. \u201cI think the person that can go down the track the most consistently will probably be the winner. I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll necessarily be the fastest car. Me and Micke, we haven\u2019t won anything and we\u2019re normally pretty fast, but I think you\u2019ve got to be consistent. I think you\u2019re gonna have to go down in the daylight. I think you\u2019re gonna have to be really fast when the sun goes down.\u201d<\/p>\n Just because he plans to be consistent doesn\u2019t mean Harris will be conservative. He reached the semifinals in 2023 and the quarterfinals last year. This year, he\u2019ll settle for nothing less than a win.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m gonna go into the World Series of Pro Mod with all guns blazing,\u201d Harris said. \u201cI\u2019m coming on a mission. I\u2019ve been close the last two years. I just haven\u2019t been able to seal the deal. This time, I\u2019m coming for blood.\u201d<\/p>\n This story was originally published on February 17, 2025. The post Reigning PDRA Pro Boost Champion Jason Harris Ready to Bounce Back at WSOPM<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two-time and reigning PDRA Pro Boost world champion Jason Harris watched the U.S. Street Nationals presented by M&M Transmission from his couch. Not by choice, of course, as he was fighting a two-week illness. It was another hard blow to Harris\u2019s championship hopes in the inaugural Drag Illustrated Winter Series presented by J&A Service following […]<\/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-98958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98958","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=98958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Harris_WSOPM-Day-2-195_Luke-Nieuwhof-photo.jpg\")
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