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Dallas Glenn One Win Light Away From Locking Down Second Pro Stock World Championship

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Sunday at the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals sits on the horizon, and the KB Titan Racing Pro Stock team is situated on the cusp of locking down a 12th world title. Reigning world champion and incoming points leader Dallas Glenn, driving the RAD Torque Systems Chevrolet Camaro, nabbed the provisional pole on Friday with a cool 6.512-second pass, and it held through Saturday qualifying to place the young man in a unique position: he’ll have a bye run in the opening round of eliminations and will only need to activate the starting line system in his lane in order to secure a second consecutive world title.
 
“I’ll rest easier tomorrow night because I’ve seen a lot of weird things happen here at Pomona,” said Glenn. “Water leaks, oil leaks, you just never know what’s going to happen, so we’re trying to touch the car the least amount and inspect everything so that we can just go up and make a nice run. Then we can go ‘Hail Mary.’ “
 
The KB Titan Racing team was strong across the board in NHRA Finals qualifying, with Matt Latino and his FASS Diesel Systems Chevrolet coming up No. 3 in the qualifying order on a string of good passes. Latino earned 10 total bonus points in qualifying as one of the top cars through four sessions. He is matched with Erica Enders for first-round, with the driver advancing from that round squaring off with the winner of the Troy Coughlin Jr. vs. Jeg Coughlin Jr. rendezvous. On the same side of the ladder, KB Titan-powered Deric Kramer and his Get BioFuel Chevrolet landed the No. 7 position on a crisp 6.537. Kramer, who also earned a bonus point, will race Stephen Bell in round one. The winner of their duel will meet up with the victory in the father-and-son match of Greg and Aaron Stanfield.
 
On the opposite side of the ladder, Glenn will race whomever emerges from one of the most intriguing matches of the day: Rookie of the Year contender Cody Anderson – driver of the J&A Service/Humphrey Heating & Air/HendrickCars Chevrolet Camaro – vs. crew chief Dave Connolly, who is subbing for medically sidelined Eric Latino in the GESi Camaro. Connolly qualified No. 8 on a 6.541, while Cody Anderson is starting ninth on a 6.545. On the same branch of the ladder, Anderson’s father, Greg Anderson, clocked a 6.523 for the No. 4 spot in his HendrickCars.com Chevrolet. He’ll race Australia’s Shane Tucker, and the winner of their round will go on to race either KB Titan-propelled Matt Hartford in the No. 5-qualified (6.535) Total Seal Camaro or veteran Pro Stock competitor Kenny Delco.
 
For Glenn, the championship is all but done and decided, but there’s one final NHRA 75th Anniversary Diamond Wally on the line, and he’d like to be the guy taking it home.
 
“The ultimate goal tomorrow is to win the race; that’s the real goal,” said Glenn. “You don’t want to go up there, take the tree first round, and then get absolutely annihilated there second round. It’s definitely going to feel a lot better if we can go up there and collect two trophies instead of one. We want to go out with an exclamation point.”
 
Eliminations at the 61st annual In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals are set to begin at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.

This story was originally published on November 15, 2026. Drag Illustrated

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