The 2023 NHRA Countdown to the Championship has, so far, been a time to shine for the powerful KB Titan Racing (KBT) team. In the first two events of the six-race playoffs, KBT has populated both positions in the final round, and the first two trophies of the most critical races of the season have come home to their shop in Mooresville, N.C. This weekend\u2019s event at the illustrious zMAX Dragway concluded with KB Titan\u2019s Greg Anderson earning a fourth Charlotte trophy in front of family, friends, and a ton of HendrickCars.com supporters to keep the points lead in the hands of KBT.
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\nAnderson didn\u2019t have an easy go of it in the final as he had to race fellow KB Titan driver Dallas Glenn \u2013 the 2021 NHRA Rookie of the Year and the Pro Stock driver who led the points for the majority of the season \u2013 but their meeting proved fruitful for the now 102-time Pro Stock winner and the most winning driver in the history of the class. Anderson, a five-time world champion, used an efficiently quick .018-second reaction time to get the jump on his friendly opponent\u2019s .043, and he closed the deal with a powerful 6.554-second pass at 209.23 mph to defeat Glenn\u2019s strong 6.590, 206.73.
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\n\u201cThat was incredible,\u201d said Anderson, who has raced in an incredible 174 final rounds. \u201cIt was my day, and I haven\u2019t really had many \u2018my days\u2019 this year. It\u2019s definitely sweet to do it here at Charlotte, my home track, with all my family, my friends, all the support, the Hendrick group. This is just perfect, absolutely perfect. I had a couple of storybook wins last year, and this one is right up there.\u201d
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\nAnderson\u2019s most recent win was at the NHRA Finals in 2022, when he defeated Erica Enders on a holeshot. At this weekend\u2019s event, he came up against Enders again, this time in the semifinals after collecting round wins over Jerry Tucker and Cristian Cuadra \u2013 and he simply had a better car. His well-tuned, aptly equipped HendrickCars.com Chevrolet flew down the quarter-mile to a 6.546, 209.30 to defeat the defending Pro Stock champion\u2019s 6.590, 208.97 and set up the seventh all-KB Titan Racing final of the season. The win over Enders also protected KBT\u2019s position at the top of the standings, which is currently held by back-to-back Indy and Reading winner Matt Hartford.
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\n\u201cMy team has been doing a great job all year long, and I\u2019m very proud of that,\u201d said Anderson, who claimed the 10th win of the season for the hard-hitting KB Titan group. \u201c[My car] has just been a tick off each race; we\u2019re capable of winning, we just haven\u2019t been able to make four perfect runs down the racetrack without the car or driver making a mistake. Well, we did that today. We did not make any mistakes, the car was fantastic, and I didn\u2019t screw it up.\u201d
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\nAfter two consecutive \u2013 and very uncharacteristic \u2013 first-round losses heading into this event, Anderson was ecstatic to be back in the game. He now has an astounding 929 round wins in 530 career races. With the victory, he moved up from eighth to No. 4 in the Pro Stock standings and only 61 points (just over three rounds) out of first.
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\n\u201cIt\u2019s tough out there,\u201d said Anderson. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to win, especially in the playoffs because everybody brings their A-game. Everybody\u2019s effort ratcheted up for the playoffs, but we found a way to race better than they did on Sunday these last two races.
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\n\u201cTo make a final round with two KB Titan Racing cars last weekend and again this weekend, it\u2019s just a fantastic team effort. I couldn\u2019t be prouder, because we didn\u2019t back into a win today \u2013 we earned a win today. We outran everybody and did a better job racing, and to have Dallas in the final right alongside me \u2013 it shows that it\u2019s not just one car in the fleet; it\u2019s all of them. That\u2019s a pretty great feeling. Today scrambled the points up quite a bit. We climbed the mountain this week, and we\u2019re back in the hunt. It\u2019s going to be exciting, these next four races. I can\u2019t wait to get to St. Louis on Friday.\u201d
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\nThe next event on the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series tour will be the NHRA Midwest Nationals at World Wide Technology Raceway near St. Louis, Sept. 29 \u2013 Oct. 1.<\/p>\n
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