Life is pretty good for NHRA Pro Stock driver Greg Anderson.

At his sponsor’s home track during his sponsor’s national event in front of a multitude of his sponsor’s employees, Anderson won his fourth Wally of the season, taking over the points lead to boot.

He didn’t qualify well, ending up seventh on the ladder, and had a slight hiccup in the first round that could have been catastrophic, but the rest of the event was one long victory lap for the Summit Racing Equipment.

Anderson defeated Drew Skillman to win the Pro Stock title at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk. He drove his 2015 Camaro to a .022-induced 6.592 at 212.19 miles per hour to top Skillman’s .026/6.594/211.43 package by six thousandths of a second.

It was Anderson’s fourth national event title of the season (in seven final rounds) and gave him the points lead by 60 points over Erica Enders heading into Chicago.

Defeating Skillman in the final was as good as beating Enders, Anderson said.

“(Erica) went out in the first round so the entire two-team crew, and there is a lot of firepower over there, they had three rounds to get that car right,” Anderson explained. “It got better every round so you knew it was going to be no different than facing Erica in the final.

“It wasn’t like he was out there cutting bad lights, he was at a .20 every round. As far as I was concerned that was Erica over there. They have a great race team. I knew they were going to run great and knew it was going to take a great run and great reaction time from us. Luckily I was six thousandths good enough.”

The first round was almost a nightmare as Anderson had a sluggish .062 light. He was able to drive around Allen Johnson, however, to move on to the second round. Regardless, Anderson did beat up on himself for the first-round hiccup.

“I was a little off and certainly could have been stung in the first round,” he said. “I’ve got to find a way to get more mentally tough. It doesn’t matter who you race in the first round. Erica Enders, the number one qualifier, the low ET of the weekend and she lost to the number 16 qualifier.

“That’s what NHRA Pro Stock is. There are so many ways you can lose, so many ways you can make a mistake and anybody can win. You just never know.”

At the end of the day, winning the Wally in front of legions of Summit Racing Equipment employees was a feeling he had difficulty describing.

“I feel so proud,” he said. “At the end of the day when you can win your sponsor’s event…it just doesn’t get any better than that. You feel your lowest if you let them down and feel your highest if you pull through.

“It’s great to have them here and is a huge home field advantage to have all those employees that work over in Tallmadge over there.

“They show up at the race track and pull for you. They stop by and see you and cheer for you. I can’t explain what that means. It means the world to us and that’s what got us to the winner’s circle.”

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