Make it 105 for Greg Anderson. 

Anderson increased his NHRA Pro Stock record of national-event wins to that number by capturing the 4-Wide Nationals on Sunday in Charlotte, N.C.

Anderson, who pilots the HendrickCars.com Chevy Camaro for KB Titan Racing, clocked a stout 6.502-second elapsed time at 210.77 mph to win the finals quad over Aaron Stanfield (6.551), Dallas Glenn (6.561) and Cristian Cuadra (6.549).

“Well, obviously it feels fantastic to stand here. To win one of these races anymore is so tough. It's so hard,” Anderson said. “There's so much talent in this class right now. I'm so damn proud to be a part of this class right now. It's become absolutely incredible, and anybody can win on any given Sunday, and you see it with the 16 cars. I think there was four hundredths from top to bottom of the field. So obviously anybody can win. A bunch of young guns, they can all drop the clutch, they can all cut a great light. And let me tell you, I have to dig deep to find that nowadays.

"But sometimes it happens, and it happened today, and I had the best race car on the grounds all weekend. And if I would've dropped the ball today, that would've been a heck of a disappointment to me, and I would've let the guys down. They gave me the greatest racehorse probably I've had racing in a few years, and we got the job done.

“So, an impressive victory, very proud. We certainly didn't back into it. We certainly think we went out and took it, and went out and won it, and feels good tonight to be out here at zMAX, my home track talking to y'all.”

Anderson, who was the No. 1 qualifier in Charlotte, has now won two races this season; the other came in Phoenix. Anderson has already equaled the number of wins that he had in the 2022 and 2023 seasons. He finished second in the points behind Erica Enders each time.

With his victory, Anderson is atop the season standings with 449 points, followed by Enders at 424. 

Anderson said his team’s rise to the top of the points standings in 2024 has been a impressive considering rule changes that were made in the class during the offseason.

“That's a testament to the great race team I've got. Yes, we were thrown for a loop January 1st when they dropped that bomb on us and said you got to completely change the inside of your manifold,” Anderson said. “So, I don't know that the layman can understand what was going on, but as the rules were written, we had a couple of dividers down the center of our intake manifold. No big deal; stuff we've done for 30 years. We did it with carburetors, we've done it with fuel injection, everything. There was nothing against that in the rulebook, but somehow the new regime of tech department, whatever you want to call it, decided that how they wrote the rules eight years ago, they wanted them written different, and they came up with a new rule this year where there could be nothing, absolutely nothing, on the inside of an intake manifold.” 

Outside of Pro Stock racing the new rule might not seem like a big deal, but Anderson knew it would be.

“People don't quite understand how hard it is to tune one of these race cars. When you have the air coming in the front of the engine ... and comes in and has to make a 90-degree turn and go down into the engine, it's very hard to tune each cylinder,” Anderson said. “And, yes, we tune them with a laptop computer, but let's say I'm going to add 5% of fuel to cylinder one, and I do that on the laptop computer. Four percent of that might go in cylinder eight or might go in cylinder six. It is just crazy what happens inside of there.

“Over the years, we've devised ways to try to build walls or whatever -- build a deflector here or a wall here -- to help fuel get into this cylinder, not in the other cylinder, just simple ways to tune the race car," he said. "They do it in every class out here from Stock Eliminator to Top Fuel, and no different in our deal. But they, for some reason, decided this year that they wanted nothing on the inside. So, it's made it tough to tune, but we're gaining on it, we're getting there. We're not there with every race car we've got under our stable. We've got eight race cars, and we've got two or three of them kind of happy right now. And it's taken four or five races to get there, but we're not there with all of them yet.”

Anderson said having absolutely nothing on the inside of an intake manifold has made an impact on some standout drivers in the Pro Stock class such as Matt Hartford. Hartford, who finished a career-best third in the points standings a year ago and won three races, has not qualified at the last two races.

“We see Matt Hartford struggling mightily to get his race car tuned, and it's kind of disappointing and just don't quite understand why the change,” Anderson said. “We're Pro Stock Eliminator. We're not Stock Eliminator, and we have now more rules on us than Stock Eliminator has. So, for an old hardcore racer like me, I don't quite understand that.

"I went into this class because it was kind of a class where you could use ingenuity and you could use creativity and you could build whatever you came up with in your crazy mind. You could build that and put on your race car. There wasn't a lot of rules, wasn't a lot of restrictions, and it's kind of changed over the years. So, it's a different game, but you got to play the game that they give to you, so there's no sense crying about it, no sense whining about it. I don't like it, but it is what it is. And I've had to dig down and my race team has spent a lot of time trying to conquer this mountain and we're getting there."

Anderson continued, “We don't feel where we need to be yet, where we were at the end of last year, but we're doing good, and we're doing a good job of racing the racetracks we've been on and maximizing what the racetrack will give you. It has been a total team effort, the two wins we've had including today. But I also expect that as we go forward through the season, we should get better at this manifold issue or whatever you want to call it, and hopefully it becomes a non-issue. I'm not going to complain anymore about it or whine any more about it. It is what it is, and it was a tough pill to swallow, but we swallowed it, we're moving forward, and we'll get to where we want to be eventually.”

Anderson made his first start in NHRA’s Pro Stock class in 1998 at Columbus, Ohio, and has won championships in 2003-05, 2010 and 2021.

With all he’s accomplished, Anderson admitted he has to find ways to get himself pumped up when he pulls up to the starting line.

“I have to find ways to get my heart beating up there anymore,” he said. “To have the butterflies to have the nerves, I guess I've done it too long now and I can't create them. I can't artificially create them, so I wish I could, so I have to do whatever I can do to get myself jump-started. Sometimes you have to slap yourself in the face. Sometimes you have to yank a nose hair out of your nose. As crazy as it sounds, it was a trick I learned driving a truck for all those years with Warren Johnson. If you're falling asleep out in the middle of the night, you yank a nose hair and you cross your eyes and you shake your head like you just drank a whole bottle of horseradish. So, you do what you got to do. Yeah, you ... (have) to find new ways every day.”

Winning at his home track in Charlotte and the home of his sponsor Rick Hendrick wasn’t lost on Anderson.

“I don't know if I could properly explain what it means to me. It's such a huge honor to me just to wear that badge, to wear that name on the side of my race car,” Anderson said. “I've respected that group for so many years, watching them from a distance, and then just out of a quirky deal, I got to meet him probably 10 years ago. David Green used to run NASCAR, and his son went to preschool with my son, Cody, so that tells you how long ago that was. Cody's 25 years old, and he took me over to the campus and brought me up to the big office and introduced me to Mr. H., and we've stayed in touch ever since then. So, 20-some years, we've just stayed in touch. When I got to the point where I needed a little bit of help -- I was losing some of my sponsorship of my longtime sponsor of Summit Racing Equipment, decided to basically diversify and back down from a major sponsorship -- I gave Mr. H. a call.

“He basically did it for a favor because he just loved watching drag racing. He started out drag racing before he went into NASCAR. He gets a kick out of it. He loves it, and he loves to surround himself with people that he thinks can make him look good and win races. So he jumped on the side of the race car and everybody knows that the paint scheme that's on my race car and Kyle Larson's race car and all the other cars he run, that's his son, late son Ricky's last paint job he had on his (NASCAR) truck, so it's a special paint scheme to him and his wife Linda, and they just love seeing it out there. So now you see it on several different race cars, but that's why. They love seeing that paint scheme, and it just touches their heart.”

Hendrick is also doing more than just providing sponsorship funding according to Anderson.

“Obviously he's a great businessman and he understands how to go forward in business, but he props so many people up and he supports so many people and he motivates so many people,” Anderson said. “He called this morning, and he told me something this morning. And as I said, I have to find ways to motivate myself and to get up, and what he said did it. It absolutely did it today. He told me that something special was going to happen if I won this race today. ... I was not going to drop the football today, so thank the Lord I didn't.”