PDRA Super Street rookie Carson Perry closed out a career-best weekend with his first career PDRA national event win Sunday night at the Brian Olson Memorial World Finals after defeating 2024 world champion Dan Whetstine in the final round at Virginia Motorsports Park. Perry in his Barry Allen AMC-powered Greenbrier Excavating & Paving ’00 Camaro won the Summit PDRA ProStars all-star race on Thursday night and claimed his first career No. 1 qualifier award on Saturday. He ran a pair of 4.50s to reach the final round, where he ran it out to a 4.595 at 156.57 after Whetstine went red by .029 seconds on a 4.780 at 154.00 pass.
“Well, to win ProStars was special because we’ve kind of been struggling all year,” said Perry, who thanked his family, Alan and Kevin O’Brien, Barry Allen, and Patrick Barnhill. “To finally get it together was something, then to win both of them, you can’t ask for a better weekend. And I can’t ask for a better car. It makes my job easy when the car runs good, so it just all came together at one time. I know [Whetstine] went red, but we were gonna give him a good run.”
Perry’s march through eliminations started with a 4.531 at 157.37 to knock out fellow rookie Brooks McMath and his 4.706 at 157.47. He drove around championship runner-up Austin Vincent, laying down a 4.589 at 156.46 to Vincent’s 4.666. Whetstine in his ProCharged “Red Velvet” ‘91 Mustang made the second-quickest pass of the first round, a 4.546 at 160.46, to get past Dustin Mewborn, who couldn’t make the run. Whetstine then had issues in the semis, pedaling to a 4.836 at 153.91, but opponent Billy Taylor had bigger issues and slowed to a 6.315.
This story was originally published on October 7, 2025. 
