KB Racing LLC: Anderson wins King Demon Crown and $50,000

KB RACING LLC
NHRA POWERADE DRAG RACING SERIES
SUMMIT RACING EQUIPMENT PONTIAC GTO PRO STOCK
GREG ANDERSON -- DRIVER

KING DEMON CROWN
A special event held in conjunction with the
NINTH ANNUAL NHRA CARQUEST AUTO PARTS NATIONALS
ROUTE 66 RACEWAY -- JOLIET, ILL.
JUNE 10, 2006
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*ELIMINATIONS:
Round 1: Anderson (6.664/206.89) def. V. Gaines (red light: 6.678/206.07)
Round 2 (Semifinals): Anderson (6.656/206.89) def. Richie Stevens 
(6.701/206.48)
Round 3 (Finals): Anderson (6.620/208.20) winner over Jason Line 
(6.637/207.53)*

*Anderson wins King Demon Crown and $50,000
/Blazes to quickest ever 6.620 seconds/*

JOLIET, Ill. (June 10, 2006) -- The reigning and three-time Pro Stock 
champion Greg Anderson showed why he still must be considered a favorite 
for his fourth consecutive POWERade championship when he won the King 
Demon Crown, a special event for Pro Stock drivers run in conjunction 
with this weekend's CARQUEST Auto Parts Nationals.  

Anderson, 45, who was born in Duluth, Minn., and now lives in the 
Charlotte, N. C. area, blazed the Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Ill., 
quarter-mile in 6.620 seconds at 208.20 mph, the quickest elapsed time 
ever recorded by a Pro Stock car.

In an all KB Racing LLC, Summit Racing Equipment final, it took all 
Anderson had to turn back his teammate Jason Line, from Wright, Minn., 
who currently lives in Terrell, N.C., near the team's shop in 
Mooresville.  Line ran a pass of 6.637 seconds, just .004 seconds off 
the national Pro Stock elapsed time record held by Anderson.

"That was the best drag race I've ever been a part of," Anderson said. 
"I shoved it in high gear and peeked over and we were dead even. I 
thought there was no way I could do anything else to get ahead because 
he has the exact same stuff as we do. Somehow I crept ahead by an inch 
or two in the last hundred feet.

"For Jason to have a light like that (a .017 second reaction time) and 
run a 6.63 and still not win is cruel. He's become quite a driver and he 
always races me tough. I think he just relaxes and has fun when we race 
one another and that's what it all about. We've got work to do tomorrow 
but we're going out as a team and celebrating this race tonight. We're 
gonna spend some of that King Demon money."

For co-crew chiefs Rob Downing and Jeff Perley, who oversee the 
operation of both Anderson's and Line's Pontiac GTOs, it was a win-win 
situation.   

It was an easy opening round for Anderson, who ran the quickest elapsed 
time in the first round, defeating V. Gaines, who red lighted by .026 
seconds.  Anderson recorded a pass of 6.664 seconds at 206.89 mph.

In the semifinals, matched against Richie Stevens, Jr., Stevens got a 
very small advantage at the green light but the power of Anderson's 
Pontiac GTO proved the difference.  It was a pass of 6.656 seconds for 
Anderson to 6.701 for Stevens.

Anderson, who won the King Demon Crown in 2004 and was runner-up in 
2003, collected $50,000 for today's work and is now eligible for the 
$10,000 "double-up" bonus from NHRA should he win Sunday's national event.

For co-crew chiefs Rob Downing and Jeff Perley, who oversee the 
operation of both Anderson's and Line's Pontiac GTOs, it was a win-win 
situation.   

To race in the King Demon Crown, racers accrue points based on their 
qualifying position at each of the 23 national events preceding the King 
Demon Crown event.  A No. 1 qualifying effort is worth 175 points, down 
to No. 16, which is worth 85 points. Drivers who do not qualify for an 
event do not earn points at that race.  The top eight point earners then 
are seeded into the King Demon Crown eliminations.

Although Anderson's final-round pass in the King Demon Crown is the 
quickest ever it will not count as a national record because it didn't 
take place as part of the qualifying or elimination racing at this 
weekend's national event.

/KB Racing LLC is owned by Las Vegas businessmen Ken Black and his son 
Kenny Black.  KB Racing LLC fields two Summit Racing Equipment Pro Stock 
Pontiac GTOs, one driven by Greg Anderson and the other by Jason Line in 
the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series. Anderson has won three consecutive 
POWERade Pro Stock Championships (2003-2005).  Line finished third in 
the 2005 POWERade point standings and was honored with the 2004 
Automobile Club of Southern California Road to the Future award, 
presented to the most outstanding rookie in a professional category.  
This year KB Racing LLC also began fielding a Top Fuel Dragster, managed 
by Kalitta Motorsports, with rookie Top Fuel driver Hillary Will 
handling the driving duties./