{"id":90315,"date":"2023-11-11T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T14:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/greg-anderson-powers-to-provisional-pole-on-friday-in-heat-of-the-championship-battle-at-nhra-finals\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T23:51:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T23:51:24","slug":"greg-anderson-powers-to-provisional-pole-on-friday-in-heat-of-the-championship-battle-at-nhra-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/greg-anderson-powers-to-provisional-pole-on-friday-in-heat-of-the-championship-battle-at-nhra-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Anderson Powers to Provisional Pole on Friday In Heat of the Championship Battle at NHRA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

All Greg Anderson wanted coming into the final race of the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series was a chance. After a final-round finish in Las Vegas two weeks ago, he had that \u2013 and on the first day of qualifying at the In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip-hosted NHRA Finals, a chance at claiming the sixth Pro Stock world title of his career increased. With two strong runs on a picture-perfect day in Southern California, Anderson was quick and fast to grab the provisional pole with his HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Camaro.
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\n\u201cThe points deal is not exactly playing in my favor right now,\u201d said Anderson, who arrived in Pomona, where accolades count for points and a half, 114 points behind the leader. \u201cBut it\u2019s like the old line from the movie Dumb and Dumber: \u2018So you\u2019re saying there\u2019s a chance.\u2019 Until they tell me there\u2019s not a chance, I\u2019m not leaving. I\u2019m going to give it everything I\u2019ve got.\u201d
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\nIn the first qualifying session, the most winning driver in Pro Stock (103 victories) raced to a 6.501-second pass at 210.50 mph to move into the No. 3 position and pick up a pair of valuable bonus points. In the later session, Anderson used KB Titan Racing horsepower to blister the racetrack with a 6.495, 211.69 and rocket to the top spot. Four more points were awarded for the effort, for a total of six bonus marks. Points leader Erica Enders claimed a total of four, allowing Anderson to keep his championship hopes alive.
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\n\u201cComing into this race, I needed to find a way to have a great run in qualifying, score bonus points, and not lose bonus points to Erica,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the No. 1 goal, qualify ahead of her and not lose bonus points. Day one is in the books, so that\u2019s mission accomplished. We did great today, we did all we could do, and I\u2019ve got all the confidence in the world in this team. We\u2019ll do all we possibly can, the rest of it is up to the racing gods.\u201d
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\nAnderson is in the hunt for his third No. 1 of the season and 124th of his career. Weather conditions look similar throughout the weekend in Pomona, though possibly a bit warmer, and the 6.495 that Anderson recorded was the only run in the 6.4s \u2013 and not too far off the track record of 6.480, set in 2014. That gives the five-time champ a good feeling heading into Saturday, but he isn\u2019t counting anything until it\u2019s all said and done.
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\n\u201cYou just never know what\u2019s going to happen,\u201d he said. \u201cThese races are not raced on paper. It\u2019s not over until it\u2019s over, and we\u2019re going to keep swinging until they tell us it\u2019s over. It\u2019s been absolutely a great weekend so far, and it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun the rest of the weekend with great racing conditions. You\u2019re going to have a heck of a day on Sunday, and I can\u2019t wait. I wish we could fast forward and start racing first round right now.\u201d
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\nQualifying at the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals will continue on Saturday at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Raceway, with the final two qualifying sessions of the 2023 season scheduled to take place at noon and 3pm PST.
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\nKB Titan Racing Friday Qualifying Results:<\/strong>
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\nGreg Anderson, HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Camaro<\/strong>
\nBest qualifying time6.495, 211.69
\nCurrent qualifying position: No. 1
\nBonus points: +6
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\nMatt Hartford, Total Seal\/GETTRX\/CIP 1 Chevrolet Camaro<\/strong>
\nBest qualifying time: 6.511, 209.69
\nCurrent qualifying position: No. 6
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\nKyle Koretsky, Lucas Oil Chevrolet Camaro<\/strong>
\nBest qualifying time: 6.515, 210.11
\nCurrent qualifying position: No. 7
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\nCamrie Caruso, Tequila Comisario\/Fuel Juel \u00a0NBCF Chevrolet Camaro<\/strong>
\nBest qualifying time: 6.518, 210.54
\nCurrent qualifying position: No. 8
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\nDeric Kramer, GetBioFuel.com Chevrolet Camaro<\/strong>
\nBest qualifying time: 6.532, 209.82
\nCurrent qualifying position: No. 12
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\nDallas Glenn, RAD Torque Systems Chevrolet Camaro<\/strong>
\nBest qualifying time: 6.546, 209.98
\nCurrent qualifying position: No. 16
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\nEric Latino, GESi Emmissions Systems Chevrolet Camaro<\/strong>
\nBest qualifying time: 6.557, 208.17
\nCurrent qualifying position: No. 18
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All Greg Anderson wanted coming into the final race of the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series was a chance. After a final-round finish in Las Vegas two weeks ago, he had that \u2013 and on the first day of qualifying at the In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip-hosted NHRA Finals, a chance at claiming the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,78117,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-race-pages","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91234,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90315\/revisions\/91234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}