Greg Anderson admitted Alan Johnson gave him an old fashioned spanking two weekends ago in Norwalk, Ohio, during the race-within-a-race, $50,000-to-win K&N Filters Horsepower Challenge. He returned the favor at Johnson’s sponsor’s race. The loss in Norwalk was also at Anderson’s sponsor’s race.

The victory marked the fourth consecutive victory in 2008 for the 56-time winner.

Greg Anderson admitted Alan Johnson gave him an old fashioned spanking two weekends ago in Norwalk, Ohio, during the race-within-a-race, $50,000-to-win K&N Filters Horsepower Challenge. He returned the favor at Johnson’s sponsor’s race. The loss in Norwalk was also at Anderson’s sponsor’s race.

The victory marked the fourth consecutive victory in 2008 for the 56-time winner.

“We ended up spoiling his party, but it wasn’t easy,” Anderson said. “He beat me pretty bad in Norwalk but when I got in the car for the final round I didn’t think about that stuff. If you think about those kinds of things, you’ll lose focus and get beat. That’s the tough part of being a driver, racing your own race.”

Anderson left on Johnson and led him to the stripe with a 7.024 elapsed time at 196.39 miles per hour. Johnson gave a close battle with a 7.028, 195.79.

THE HOT TIP - Anderson bragged in the post qualifying press conference about the Bandimere racing surface. His opinion didn’t change in the post-race.

“I don’t want to get off the mountain now,” said Anderson. “I can’t say enough about what the Bandimere family has done for this race track. This track is the wave of the future and I think you’ll see other track do this. Everything they’ve done to this track has made it for the better. It got hot and the track never gave an inch. I look forward to coming back next season and I can’t say that I’ve always felt that way.”

Anderson believes if Bandimere Speedway were at sea level, it could easily be the quickest and fastest on the tour.

“I think you’re going to see a lot of tracks follow what the Bandimeres have done if they can find the finances and time to do it,” Anderson said. “They need to do that. I’ve always wondered what we could do to improve the heat factor on these tracks; we can’t put an awning over them. These guys have figured it out.

“We have a race next weekend and it will be completely different.”