JASON HARRIS SWEEPS SNOWBIRD OUTLAW NATIONALS WITH $ 50,000 PRO MOD VICTORY
JASON HARRIS SWEEPS SNOWBIRD OUTLAW NATIONALS WITH $ 50,000 PRO MOD VICTORY
BY NATE VAN WAGNEN
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LUKE NIEUWHOF
JASON HARRIS rolled into the first race of the 2025 / 2026 Drag Illustrated Winter Series presented by J & A Service, the Snowbird Outlaw Nationals presented by Motion Raceworks, on a mission to win one of the big-money Pro Mod races after multiple late-round finishes at the Drag Illustrated World Series of Pro Mod.
He entered the series with a special new look paying tribute to the late Pro Stock racer Harold Denton inspired by his“ Party Time” cars, as well as a new Harts Charger combination between the frame rails in his Brandon Stroud-tuned’ 69 Camaro.
The Party Time Racing team worked through some challenges in pre-race testing before ending Thursday qualifying as the provisional No. 1 qualifier with his 3.560 at 211.20 in the night
January / February 2026
WITH A SPECIAL HAROLD DENTON TRIBUTE LIVERY ON HIS“ PARTY TIME”’ 69 CAMARO, JASON HARRIS WAS MORE MOTIVATED THAN EVER TO PARK HIS HOT ROD IN THE WINNER’ S CIRCLE.
session. In the third qualifying session on Friday morning, he posted a 3.617 at 209.62. His 60- foot time on the fourth qualifying pass was on pace with the 3.56, but when his“ Party Time”’ 69 Camaro started to get out of shape, Harris wisely lifted off the throttle and coasted to a 4.066 at 133.49.
Jimmy Taylor, who made headlines before the Winter Series with his doorslammer world record passes behind the wheel of his twin-turbocharged Xtreme Racing Engines’ 69 Camaro, qualified No. 2 with a 3.567 at 223.36. Ty Tutterow, the 2025 PDRA Pro Boost world champion, also made a big move on Friday to jump up to the No. 3 position with a 3.572 at 208.39 in Justin Smith’ s screw-blown Quik Fuel’ 69 Camaro. Defending Snowbirds event champion Kye Kelley, who made waves last December when he drove his steel-roof-and-quarters’ 85 Camaro to the $ 50,000 win against a field full of purpose-built Pro Mods, qualified No. 4. Now also driving a purpose-built Pro Mod, a screw-blown Larry Jeffers Race Cars’ 25 Camaro dubbed“ Uncle Larry,” Kelley recorded a 3.575 at 209.62. Eric Gustafson, the 2020 NMCA Xtreme Pro Mod champion, rounded out the top five with a 3.576 at 210.01 in his ProCharged Coast Packing Co.“ Lard Machine”’ 69 Camaro.
Harris earned the $ 5,000 Jerry Bickel Race Cars No. 1 Qualifier Bonus, and as the Snowbirds No. 1 qualifier, he’ s also the only competitor contending for the Jerry Bickel Race Cars Clean Sweep Challenge, which awards a brand-new Pro Mod rolling chassis from JBRC to any driver who can qualify No. 1 at all three races.
“ When you can qualify No. 1 in this field right here, you’ ve gotta be one of the baddest guys out there, and that’ s kind of the way I feel like we are right now,” Harris said.“ We’ re a lower budgeted team, so it feels good to win that $ 5,000. I want to thank Jerry Bickel Race Cars for giving me the opportunity, and I’ m going to do my best to qualify No. 1 at the next two and see if I can get it. It would probably be the biggest highlight of my career to win. I’ ve got a Bickel car right now,
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