It’s not over until the fat lady sings.

Well whoever that person is, she hasn’t performed yet, but she is warming up.

Greg Anderson took one step closer to the fifth NHRA Pro Stock championship of his illustrious career with his sixth No. 1 start of the season to top the 53rd annual Auto Club NHRA Finals Saturday at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.

Anderson topped the Pro Stock field for the 93rd time in his career in his Summit Racing Equipment Chevrolet Camaro with a weekend-best 6.541-second pass at 209.79 mph set Friday afternoon in Q1, just edging teammate Jason Line who had a 6.546 at 210.14 mph.

Drew Skillman qualified third with a 6.555 at 211.69 mph, while Jeg Coughlin (6.558) and Bo Butner (6.559) round out the top five.

“The great news is, I have a great car. The bad news is, I have to race against two guys who have the same exact equipment that I’ve got,” Anderson said, referring to the battle between his KB Racing teammates Butner and Line. “It’s going to be a battle royale tomorrow. We knew that coming in and as the table was set throughout qualifying, we are exactly where we thought we were going to be. We were all within thousandths of each other and it’s all going to come down to who does what on the starting line and exactly how perfect a run the car makes.

“If I was a betting man, I couldn’t handicap it. We are all even, I just hope my experience comes through for me. But you just never know, anything can happen on race day.”

Anderson came into this weekend with a multiple round lead over Butner and Line, but no matter the final results, a KB Racing Camaro will emerge Sunday with a championship. Whether that is Anderson with his fifth, Line with his fourth or Butner with his very first, only time will tell.

“I said it yesterday, let’s just skip Saturday and get to it. It is a dream scenario for us at KB Racing to have all three of us and only the three of us involved in the championship,” Anderson said. “We’ve got three great cars, three even cars, and while I can’t tell you who is going to win, I know I am going to be excited when I get here in the morning and hopefully I will have a smile by the end of the day.”

With the stage set, Anderson will face Alan Prusiensky in round one, while Butner will square off with Shane Gray and Line draws Deric Kramer.

While Anderson still holds a sizable advantage, he admits that after 1,000 competitive rounds run in his career, he knows never to take anything for granted.

“People keep saying you are in a great position. You should have it in the bag. In the bag? We all run the same and one car has to go two rounds farther and the other has to go three. That can happen any given Sunday,” Anderson said. “Anybody can beat anybody out there in this class and that is the beauty of it. It can happen. It has happened. If I make it to the final, I’ve got it. If I don’t make it to the final, it could come down to those two cars. My job is to make it to the final and there is a long way to go until then.”