Big Prize For Norwalk Pro Stock All-Star Callout

NORWALK, Ohio — On the midpoint of the NHRA Mission Meals Drag Racing Collection season, the celebrities of the Professional Inventory class are equipped for the GETTRX Professional Inventory NHRA All-Star Callout, which takes place at this weekend’s Summit Racing Tools NHRA Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park.

The favored specialty race will happen Saturday and can see eight standout drivers within the extremely aggressive class battling for a high prize of $40,000. Atop that listing is reigning Professional Inventory world champion Greg Anderson.

From his qualifying efficiency relationship again to final season, Anderson has earned the No. 1 seed in his HendrickCars.com/Summit Racing Tools Chevrolet Camaro and may have his decide of the seven opponents.

Dallas Glenn, Anderson’s KB Titan Racing teammate, is the second seed whereas six-time champion Erica Enders is third. Matt Hartford, Aaron Stanfield, Jeg Coughlin, Eric Latino and Troy Coughlin Jr. make up the remainder of the Callout subject. Anderson will get the primary choice, with Glenn getting the following decide if the champ doesn’t name out his teammate.

The subsequent highest-seed picks subsequent till the first-round matchups are set. The motive force with the quickest profitable run within the first spherical additionally will get to pick out their semifinal opponent, because the GETTRX Professional Inventory All-Star Callout guarantees to be one thing particular on Saturday.

“If anyone may have requested me the place would we wish to have our GETTRX Professional Inventory All-Star Callout, clearly I’d have mentioned Summit Motorsports Park,” mentioned Anderson. “This racetrack is like residence and it’s all the pieces that the KB Titan Racing group has been about for the final 25 years. It’s Summit Racing Tools’s yard. They sponsor the race. They sponsor the monitor and now we’ve got the GETTRX Callout readily available this weekend and it simply makes for an amazing weekend from high to backside. It’s an awesome place to return and attempt to exhibit on your longtime sponsor, so it means the world to me to race right here.”

It’s the tenth of 20 races in the course of the 2025 NHRA season and the race in Norwalk is at all times a premier cease on the NHRA tour. The weekend contains two rounds of qualifying on Friday, together with a must-see evening session and fireworks, two rounds of qualifying – and the Mission #2Fast2Tasty Problem – on Saturday and eliminations on Sunday.

“It’s going to be a improbable weekend. It will likely be jammed full of motion on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,” Anderson mentioned. “Lots is happening and we’re wanting ahead to it. The upper the stakes for me, the extra I benefit from the weekend. Generally I would like just a little further push, and I definitely have it this weekend.”

After profitable the Callout in 2024, Anderson hopes to turn into the primary Professional Inventory driver to win the specialty occasion twice. He has already had his eye on the competitors and says he has his opponent picked for what will probably be a must-see first-round matchup on Saturday.

“I’ve positively acquired my thoughts made up and I’ve had it made up very long time in the past,” Anderson mentioned. “There’s no query who I’m going to name out and it’s going to be thrilling. It’s going to be an awesome battle. There are eight nice vehicles that may win it and there’s no sense making an attempt to weed by means of what you’d take into account to be the softer of the competitors. The gameplan the primary spherical is all or nothing. Both I’m going to win or I don’t appear like a idiot however that’s OK with me.”

The KB Titan Racing camp has seen ample success this season, with Anderson and Glenn accumulating all 2025 race wins whereas their long-time rival Elite Motorsports have struggled in the course of the early a part of the season. These two Professional Inventory juggernaut groups will undoubtably be prepared for motion with their sights set on the Callout and the race.

“I received it in Chicago final yr that was that was an awesome day and had a blast with that,” Anderson mentioned. “However for NHRA to maneuver it right here to Norwalk, to what I take into account form of my residence turf with Summit Motorsports Park, I’m a fortunate individual and somebody who’s making an attempt to profit from it.”