NHRA Announcer Bob Frey best summed up Greg Anderson’s Pomona win by proclaiming, “He came, He saw, He crushed them.”

Anderson established the low elapsed time of the event with a 6.616  pass at 209.23 miles per hour. Just ask Anderson and he’ll tell you he expected a battle to the wire with Jeg Coughlin, Jr., his final round opponent.

“You better bring everything you've got,” Anderson said, when asked about the competition Jeg Coughlin, Jr. displayed in the final round. “I knew that no matter what we'd run he was going to be right there or quicker.  Somehow I had to dig down and find a way to leave the starting line with him.  He's kind of worn me out a few times on the starting line but anytime I can be within a couple thousandths of him on the starting line I feel that I did my job I guess. 

NHRA Announcer Bob Frey best summed up Greg Anderson’s Pomona win by proclaiming, “He came, He saw, He crushed them.”

Anderson established the low elapsed time of the event with a 6.616  pass at 209.23 miles per hour. Just ask Anderson and he’ll tell you he expected a battle to the wire with Jeg Coughlin, Jr., his final round opponent.

“You better bring everything you've got,” Anderson said, when asked about the competition Jeg Coughlin, Jr. displayed in the final round. “I knew that no matter what we'd run he was going to be right there or quicker.  Somehow I had to dig down and find a way to leave the starting line with him.  He's kind of worn me out a few times on the starting line but anytime I can be within a couple thousandths of him on the starting line I feel that I did my job I guess. 

“I'll let the guys take over with the race car and hopefully they can drive around in this with the horsepower.  We obviously did our homework over the winter and they obviously did too.  I think several cars in this class have made huge gains in the off season.”
 
Anderson’s observation leads him to believe this will be the toughest year for the Pro Stock division to date.

“It's probably going to be the best year ever for POWERade Pro Stock,” Anderson said. “I know I've said things like that before but it's the truth.  It gets tougher every year and these guys get smarter every year, more players figure out how to play tough every year and run tough every year.  If you think it's going to get easy one year you better get out of the sport because it's not going to happen. 

 

Anderson believes his team will employ a new strategy over the 2007 version where they tested at certain events instead of gunning for the victory.

“We had a good lead so we sat down and thought maybe we could try a few things and test a few things on the race car,” Anderson admitted. “I guess looking in hindsight it kind of got us out of the "go to the race to win the race" mode.  That's something that we've never done before.  I go to the races to try and win; not just to try and get more points than the next guy closest to me in the points.  I go to every race to win it.

“That's what gets me and that's what gets it for this race team.  That's what makes us work hard during the week so we kind of got out of that mode.  I learned a valuable lesson, it's not easy to get back into that mode and I cost us a championship I guess.  Sometimes you think you've got a great plan but it turns out to be not such a great plan.  Hopefully we'll be smarter this year and we just decided that this year we're going to go out and try to win every single race no matter what. 

“If we win a championship then great and if we don't maybe we'll win 15 races, I don't know.  You just can't play like we did last year and we learned a valuable lesson.  Obviously you can't win every race of the season if you don't win the first one.  I'm the only one in this class that can say I'm going to win a race this year.  I'm feeling really good right now and it's going to be a great week and a half.  We're going to go home and work hard.  This is obviously what makes us work harder and if we don't – we don’t win like this.”