Six-time Pro Stock world champion Greg Anderson has emphasized again and again that he loves racing at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip. Sunday night at the 66th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals, he drove that point home as he defeated KB Titan Racing teammate Dallas Glenn in a down-to-the-wire nailbiter to earn his 17th victory at the esteemed facility.
“I didn’t expect anything less for that round,” said Anderson. “The kid is absolutely out of control. He is a handful, and to try to beat him these days is so tough. But I felt good all day. I knew I had the racecar if I just did my job, and I did my job. I love this dragstrip. I just love this place.”
After securing the 142nd No. 1 qualifier award of his career on Saturday evening, Anderson steamed into raceday with NHRA’s 75th anniversary Diamond Wally in his direct line of vision. Methodic, steady, and incredibly fast, Anderson – who already owns the track record for elapsed time with a 6.476-second jaunt used to win the final here last year – clicked off a 6.496, 6.487, and 6.495 in respective defeats of Kenny Delco, Matt Latino, and Greg Stanfield to earn his berth in a monumental 193rd final round in an already illustrious career.
In the other lane, as has been the case many, many times over the past few seasons, Anderson found KB Titan Racing teammate Dallas Glenn. The reigning world champ and 2021 Rookie of the Year had been threatening all day, cutting the kinds of lights that earned him the moniker “Double-Oh Dallas,” but Anderson was unperturbed and cut his own best light of the weekend in their match, an .018 next to Glenn’s crisp .003. The HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Camaro had just enough HP to eclipse Glenn’s efforts and surge over the finish line first, 6.505, 209.88 to 6.526, 208.94. The margin of victory was by a miniscule six-thousandths of a second.
“The KB Titan team, top to bottom, was impressive all weekend, but that meant it was going to be really hard for me to find a way to win on Sunday,” said Anderson, who was strong at the hit with reaction times of .028, .031, and .038 leading into the final. “We had to be perfect, we had to be error free, and my HendrickCars.com Chevrolet was flawless.
“Everybody in the Pro Stock class knows Dallas Glenn is riding a wave right now, and I love the kid – it’s a blast to race him, and I’m so damn happy he’s on my team. There’s no telling how many wins this kid is going to have; he’s going to be a threat for the most amount of race-wins someday. It’s incredible to see, and I’m just trying to hold him off as long as I can. Today was a hard-fought win, and we can all be proud. I’m proud of everybody on this race team, and I’m even a little proud of myself right now. This is pretty darn cool.”
The victory was Anderson’s 17th at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, tying him with John Force for the most Pomona wins, and his eighth at the Winternationals, which tied him with Bob Glidden.
While the weekend had been full of sunshine, come Sunday, wet weather returned to Pomona. That, coupled with a lengthy Top Fuel oil down in the first round, stretched day into night, and the final round was run under the lights. Anderson, the most winning driver in the history of the class, kept his composure all day long as he battled for and ultimately won the 113th victory of his career.
“It was definitely a long day; you just had to find a way to stay in the moment,” said Anderson. “I came to the racetrack today with a lot of confidence because I knew I was going to have a great hot rod. It was great all weekend, and it loves this racetrack, it absolutely loves it.”
The next event on the 2026 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series tour is a home game for Anderson and the Mooresville, N.C.-based KB Titan Racing team: The NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway in Charlotte, April 23-26.
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