Tanner Gray may be only 19 years old, but he’s making competing in NHRA’s Pro Stock class look like second nature.

Gray, a rookie, has now won four national events this season, his latest coming when he captured the title at the Lucas Oil Nationals Sunday at Brainerd (Minn.) International Raceway.

Gray clocked a 6.610-second lap at 207.56 mph to defeat Bo Butner’s 6.629-second run at 207.85 mph in the finals.

Gray, who drives the Gray Motorsports Chevy Camaro, has wins at Las Vegas, Topeka, Kan., Sonoma (Calif.) and Brainerd this year. His win in Brainerd moved him from third to second in the season points standings.

Gray, qualified No. 1, received a first-round bye and then beat Erica Enders, Jason Line and Butner to reach the winner’s circle.

“I don’t know what these guys have done, but they have a handle on this car the last few races,” Gray said. “They have something going right for them over there and they are making my job a h*ll of a lot easier. I’m just blessed to be able to be sitting in the driver’s seat.”

At the final race of the regular season, the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis (Aug. 30-Sept. 4) Tanner will get a special treat as he will get to compete against his father, Shane, and grandfather, Johnny in the Pro Stock class.

“That will be a lot of fun,” Tanner said. “That will be the first time getting to race my grandpa. I’ve got to race my dad over the years, but I’m really looking forward to that (racing my grandpa). Hopefully we will go out there and give my grandpa a good car so he can go out there and maybe win the thing, that would be cooler than me winning it. It’s definitely going to be a busy weekend, but it will all be worth it at the end of it.”

Tanner was quick to thank his family for this opportunity.

“I wouldn’t be here without him (his father) and my grandpa, my mom, any of them, this is crazy,” Tanner said. “If you would’ve told me I was going to win four races my first year, I would have told you that you were crazy. We’re definitely have something going right over there and it’s clicking at the right time.”

This weekend, Shane, Tanner’s father, was racing and in the process, he was breaking in new tires and doing long burnouts and even a dry hop. The actions of his father didn’t go unnoticed by Tanner.

“It was cool,” Tanner said. “I love long burnouts. I love dry hops. I can sit there on YouTube all day and go back and watch that stuff. I think it’s awesome. I think it needs to be mandatory. When you get to the race, you have to buy a new set of tires and that’s what you race on for the weekend. You don’t have tire choices. Go to Goodyear when you get there and select your tires and obviously you’re going to have to do some big burnouts to get them broke in before race day. That’s my opinion on it. I think the fans like it and it is fun for us drivers. I would have been doing them to, but the crew chief wasn’t too happy about me getting the motor hot. I’m just enjoying myself and we’re all having a really fun time and hopefully we will keep it up.”

Tanner now has a 4-0 record against Butner this season, including 3-0 in finals rounds.

“I just tried to treat this like any other race,” he said. “It was kind of cool to be able to leave on him. I went in there and pre-staged and looked down at my brake pressure and I looked back up and he went in and double-bulbed me. I think that’s awesome. I think it’s part of racing and I think it is good for the fans and brings some excitement and I was cool with it. I’m having a lot of fun.”