Elite Motorsports Pro Stock Team Caps NHRA’s 75th Anniversary Season at Pomona

Elite Motorsports isn’t limping into the final race of 2026. The multi-car Pro Stock powerhouse arrives at the historic In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip for the season-ending In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals riding one of the most dominant postseason stretches in recent memory.

As NHRA wraps up its historic 75th anniversary season, Elite Motorsports enters the final event of the Countdown to the Championship having swept three consecutive Countdown races and putting a driver in the final round at five of the last six events. Leading the charge are veteran Greg Stanfield, still mathematically in the title fight, and a red-hot Troy Coughlin Jr., who has climbed from the bottom of the Countdown field into the top five.

Greg Stanfield heads into the finale third in the Pro Stock standings, 99 points out of the lead, with 191 points up for grabs at points-and-a-half Pomona. It’s a tall order, but not an impossible one.

Stanfield’s 2026 campaign has been one of the best of his career. His first win of the season came at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals, where he successfully defended his 2025 title. That weekend capped a historic all-Elite Motorsports semifinal sweep, with Stanfield beating teammate Erica Enders in the final.

His second win, the eighth of his career, came in the second of six Countdown races at the NHRA Nationals at The Rock. That victory vaulted him into the points lead and was the middle chapter of Elite’s three-race Countdown sweep.

The stretch that followed was a mixed bag. Stanfield finished runner-up in St. Louis to his son, Aaron Stanfield, then suffered two uncharacteristic first-round losses to teammates Jeg Coughlin Jr. and Troy Coughlin Jr. Those early exits dropped him to third.

Beyond the two wins and the St. Louis runner-up, Stanfield also reached the final round in Seattle and has collected eight semifinal finishes in 2026. Earlier this season, he set a personal career-best of 6.460 seconds at 213.88 mph.

Despite the points gap, Stanfield isn’t fixating on the math.

“I’m not someone who is going to obsess over points. Not saying I don’t look at them, but it’s not my focus,” said Stanfield. “My focus is to do what we’ve been doing all season long: come out here and be the best we can, work hard and keep at it. We’ll try to qualify well, maybe earn some bonus points each session, and then come out on race day ready to win rounds. Our goal is to win the race, if we win the race, then we’ve given ourselves the best chance at the championship. At the end of the day, it’s been an amazing season, and this Janac Brothers team has nothing to hang our heads about. The entire Elite Motorsports camp has worked their butts off, and I just hope we can wrap up 2026 in the winners circle.”

If you’re looking for the hottest driver in Pro Stock heading into Pomona, Troy Coughlin Jr. belongs in the conversation.

Coughlin Jr. started Elite’s three-race Countdown sweep at the NHRA Great Lakes Nationals, wheeling his midnight JEGS Chevrolet Camaro to victory at 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan. He followed that with semifinal finishes at the NHRA Midwest Nationals in St. Louis and the Texas NHRA FallNationals. Most recently, he earned his second runner-up finish of the season at the NHRA Las Vegas Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

The result has been a big climb in the standings. Coughlin Jr. began the Countdown 10th, but he enters the season finale fifth, just 12 points out of fourth and 32 behind Stanfield in third.

His approach for the final race is the same one that got him here.

“We’re staying in the moment and enjoying the ride. Heading into Pomona, our approach doesn’t change—we’re bringing the exact same mindset that carried us through Las Vegas and the previous rounds,” said Troy Jr. “The goal is simple: be ready, put our best foot forward from the first qualifying pass straight through to the final round on Sunday, and let the chips fall where they may.”