and my team is so great. We’ ve been doing this a long time. We know how to win. The people that stand behind me – Harts, Pro Line, TKM, Carbon Watch Company, Southern Diamond Company, LAT Oils, Hoosier Race Tires – they know if I get my act together and my team’ s here, we can win every race we go to.”
The Snowbirds victory is the latest headline-grabbing accomplishment for Harris, whose drag racing career began at North Carolina’ s small-town dragstrips. He had a dominant season to win the first-ever PDRA Pro Nitrous world championship in 2014. He won another Pro Nitrous title in 2018 before moving to Pro
WITH TUNERS JEFF PIERCE AND STEVIE JACKSON AND THE KILLIN’ TIME RACING GROUP IN HIS CORNER, FRIGO CHARGED THROUGH ELIMINATIONS, KNOCKING DOWN ALL THREE REIGNING WINTER SERIES EVENT WINNERS ALONG THE WAY.
Boost, where he won back-to-back world championships in 2023 and 2024. His next target is winning the Winter Series championship.
“ To me it’ s like winning the World Series if you were a baseball player or winning the Super Bowl in football,” Harris said.“ This is the biggest stage we’ ve got for our sport, and this felt like the World Series of Pro Mod. To qualify No. 1 amongst this group of guys is just phenomenal, but to win against this group of guys, it’ s unbelievable. I didn’ t have easy pickings. I had Micke, Jimmy Taylor, Randy, Rivenbark, and Frigo in the finals. These guys work really hard and they’ ve got the best equipment there is. It’ s just absolutely amazing that somebody like me can do this.”
It was a meaningful win for Harris in more ways than one, as he got to pay tribute to a family friend, mentor, and drag racing pioneer.
“ I’ m just so happy and thankful that we got the win and I could do it for Harold Denton in tribute and put the‘ Party Time’ car back in the winner’ s circle,” Harris said.
Frigo, driver of the screw-blown Artivinco Racing’ 23 Camaro, qualified No. 23 with a 3.607 at 210.08. With tuning by the Killin’ Time Racing brain trust led by Jeff Pierce and Stevie“ Fast” Jackson, Frigo then started a consistent charge through eliminations. He ran a 3.620 at 209.46 to get past Isaias Rojas’ 3.630 at 208.20 in the opening round before facing three of the heaviest hitters in the Winter Series. His 3.627 at 209.20 beat 2025 World Series of Pro Mod champion Steve King’ s 5.106 at 95.77, then he stepped up to a 3.607 at 210.08 to knock down defending event champion Kye Kelley and his 3.608 at 208.14 in a side-by-side quarterfinal match. To complete the trifecta and earn a spot in the final, Frigo threw down a 3.594 at 210.54 in the semis to beat the 3.601 at 207.69 of Ken Quartuccio, who won the 2025 U. S. Street Nationals and the 2024 / 2025 Winter Series championship. DI
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