Jason Harris knew the importance of putting an exclamation mark on the 2024 season. The second-generation drag racer did just that in scoring the PDRA Pro Line Racing Brian Olson Memorial World Finals Pro Boost title and his second consecutive series championship. 

Along with Harris, the Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series professional class world champions are Fredy Scriba, who pulled off the double in Pro Nitrous. While Johnny Pluchino won the battle at Virginia Motorsports, Chris Powers won the war for the Extreme Pro Stock title. 

Harris secured the Pro Boost title earlier in the day. In the final round, Harris recorded a 3.595-second pass at 209.20 MPH to defeat Jason Lee and his 3.629 at 209.33. 

His championship was secured in the second round of eliminations when the only other contender, Kurt Steding, lost his match with eventual race runner-up Jason Lee. 
 
“This has been a very stressful weekend,” Harris said. “Coming in only two rounds up, everything had to go our way. Steding and Todd [Tutterow], they’re such a tough team, and [Johnny] Camp and those guys. We qualified good. Right now, you can’t ask for anything better. Three-in-a-row race wins. I’ve got one bad tuner, Brandon Stroud. A great car with ProCharged Pro Line power. Everything just worked out great for us. We struggled a little bit the last couple of rounds, then we got it figured out. The car pulled me out when it needed to, and I pulled the car out when I needed to. That’s how you win races.”
 
Harris is now a four-time PDRA world champion, having also won Pro Nitrous titles in 2014 and 2018. His road to the winner’s circle was highlighted by wins over Randy Weatherford, Cameron Hensley, and Jeff Rudolf. 

 
Scriba secured his first Pro Nitrous series championship by stopping first-time finalist Dane Wood. He outlasted four-time champion Jim Halsey and three-time defending champion Tommy Franklin in the points battle. 

In the final round, Scriba beat Wood, running a 3.669 at 208.65 to Wood’s slowing 5.298 at 93.48. Scriba is the first driver other than Halsey or Franklin to win the title since 2018, when Jason Harris won his second title in the class. 
 
“I tried not to think about [the championship] too much, but we knew what path we were on that it was probably going to be Tommy and I in the final,” said Scriba, who thanked parents Fred and Anne, his crew, his wife and kids, as well as chassis builder Robert Hayes, engine builder Pat Musi, and manufacturers like Neal Chance Converters, Ty-Drive, Liberty’s Gears, EFI Tech, and PRS Shocks. “We made it that far, but it didn’t work out that way [with Franklin in the final]. I can’t say I’m sad about that. It was hard to celebrate because, after the semis, we had some broken parts we had to go back and fix, so we couldn’t really celebrate too much. We had to focus on getting the car ready. Tommy is a great competitor, and so is Jimmy and the rest of the guys. There are no gimme rounds in this class. It’s just awesome to race against these guys.”
 
Scriba qualified No. 2 and set low E.T. of the opening round with his 3.628 at 209.23 to beat John Vergotz, then Buddy Perkinson in the second round, and a red-lighting Chris Rini in the semis.

Pluchino missed a race late in the season and that kept him from winning the championship, but it did little to slow his momentum tino the winner’s circle. He walked a gauntlet of champions en route to facing and beating Matt Giangrande in the final round. He outran him to the finish line winning with a 4.047 at 179.42 to Giangrande’s 4.075 at 176.65. 
 
“There’s a lot of really good cars here, so it’s extra special to win when there’s really good competition,” said Pluchino, crediting his father and past world champion, John Pluchino, his team, and partners like Feather-Lite Batteries, Kelling Equipment Repair, Jon Kaase Racing Engines, Ram Clutches, and Maxima Racing Oil. “Any time you can hold a trophy with your team, who put so much hard work into everything, it’s just very special for everybody. Winning at the beginning of the year, middle of the year, end of the year, at the end of the day, they’re all wins and they’re all extra special in their own way.”
 
Pluchino, who earned back-to-back wins to start the season, beat Kurt Neighbor, crowned 2024 world champion Chris Powers, and 2019 world champion John Montecalvo in the semi-finals.

Other PDRA professional winners included Richard Reagan (Pro Street), Lexi Tanner (Pro 632), Brad McBride (Super Street), and Brunson Grothus (Pro Extreme Motorcycle).

Sportsman winners included Vonnie Mills (Elite Top Sportsman), Travis Butler (Top Sportsman 48), Kyle Harris (Elite Top Dragster), and Nick Meloni (Top Dragsteer 48). 

Keith Dunkum Jr. collected the event win in Edelbrock Bracket Bash presented by COMP Cams when final-round opponent Al Moore went red by .006 seconds. Dunkum, in his ’91 Mustang, ran a 5.933 on a 5.91 dial-in. 
 
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 during the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Show weekend.