Jordan Vandergriff

Let's talk about a couple of the comebacks here.

Jordan Vandergriff started Monday morning ranked dead last in his group of 16 cars.

His car wouldn't get a clean run all weekend.

In his first race, the tires went up in smoke right off the line, and his day should have been over.

The Funny Car field does not wanna hear me say that.

Um, Prock took down his old ride, now driven by Jordan Vandergriff, with a 390.9 at 332.84 miles per hour to beat Vandergriff's 392.6 at 325.37 miles per hour for career win number 23.

This win jumps Prock to third in the standings, 106 back of points leader Matt Hagan, who still leads, uh, Vandergriff by 72 points.

I mean, Prock still definitely has some work to do, but he's back in contention now and could go on a tear in the back half of the Countdown to possibly win a third straight Funny Car title.

But, um, Hagan now has firm control of the points lead in a Funny Car class where control seems hard to come by.

Um, Hagan's now got an 84-point lead over Jordan Vandergriff and 106-point lead over Jeret'a, which is four races to go.

And bad news for Funny Car, Hagan enters St. Louis as the defending winner as he tries to secure that fifth Funny Car world title, which would only make him the second ever to reach that mark after, of course, the GOAT, John Force, with 16 Funny Car titles.

But in Pro Stock, Elite Motorsports stays a perfect two for two to start the countdown, this time with Aaron Stanfield taking his second win of the season over first-time finalist Cody Anderson, son of six-time Pro Stock champion Greg Anderson.