Six-time world champion Greg Anderson recorded the quickest elapsed time in NHRA Pro Stock history on Friday to open the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series campaign at the 56th annual Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway in Gainesville, Florida.

The reigning series champion drove his HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Camaro to a 6.443-second blast at 212.06 mph to provisionally qualify number one. Anderson’s national record lap was the cherry on top of a quick session under the lights that saw six drivers record sub-6.50 elapsed times, and six make career-best runs.

“This is beyond cool. I didn’t expect it, I honest to God did not expect it,” said Anderson, whose first national record for elapsed time came in 2003 at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. Since then, Anderson has reset the national elapsed time record seven more times, including this Friday night in Gainesville. Anderson’s run supplanted the previous mark of 6.450 seconds, recorded by Erica Enders at the very same race three seasons ago.

“When I was getting buckled into my car and watched a couple of my team cars – Eric Latino and Deric Kramer – go out there and run 6.46, I was like, ‘Wow, is it really that fast out here? Can I do that? Can I run .46 or even .45?’ And somehow, we surpassed them both,” he says. “It feels good to run that fast. We live for conditions like this and fast e.t’s. That’s what Pro Stock drivers love, and I can’t think of a better place to do it. I have a lot of great memories here; this is the very first race I came to as a spectator with my dad at the age of 10 or 12, and here we are down the road a few years, making magic.”

The KB-Titan camp closed the 2024 season with a small performance advantage, setting low e.t. at the final three races, and has carried that over into the new year; three of its drivers, Cory Reed, Dallas Glenn, and Anderson swept the top three in qualifying at the PRO Superstar Shootout in Bradenton last month, and clocked the only runs there in the 6.40s.

“It’s been a good winter of work, obviously the production has been great. You worry when you come to the first race of the year – how are we going to stack up? We know we think we’ve had a good winter, but what has the competition done? You never know until the first Friday, and now that day one is in the books, it looks like a successful off-season. I’m pretty damn happy,” Anderson added.

Sweeping rule changes that took effect in 2016 introducing electronic fuel injection and limiting engine RPM to 10,500 has had a profound effect on Pro Stock’s performance markers; a full decade ago, on March 29, 2015, Anderson’s former teammate, Jason Line, set the Pro Stock national record at 6.455, and it took six years for Enders to supersede it and 10 for Anderson to advance it more than a hundredth of a second.