Somebody has to be the bad guy, and Greg Anderson is all too willing to fill the bill.

“There’s not a person in the pits who wants to see a KB Racing car when they race the rest of the season,” Anderson admitted.

Anderson scored his seventh Pro Stock win of the season, and took over the championship point lead by winning the Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals at Sonoma Raceway. He won an all-KB Racing final by beating teammate and No. 1 qualifier Bo Butner in the final round.

KB Racing has now won 14 of the first 15 races of 2016. This kind of dominance creates disdain as Anderson learned from a race fan on Friday.

Anderson, along with Denver Pro Stock winner Allen Johnson and a handful of nitro racers, shared an elevator ride following a driver’s meeting. A race fan made it in the elevator just as the doors closed.

“I was sitting in the corner, out of sight, when this race fan started talking to Allen Johnson,” Anderson recalled. “They started congratulating Allen, ‘We are so glad you beat KB Racing, we hate those guys.”

“I was in the corner, and the guy looked over at me and said, ‘I’m not ashamed of what I said.”

Anderson looked at the fan and smiled, uttering, “I’m not ashamed either, it’s great to be hated.”

Anderson doesn’t mind beating Butner either, the only winless member of the team.

Butner did what he could do as a driver, leaving the starting line .016 quicker than Anderson, only to have the red Summit Racing Equipment Camaro pass him at the finish line with a 6.580 elapsed time at 210.54. Butner lost despite a respectable 6.622, 210.70.

“He was down at the finish line, and I had to remind him John Force had 11 runner-ups before he got his first win,” Anderson explained. “You’re at three, don’t panic. He has 145 wins now. So what, you have three runner-ups.

“No one is going to hand you a win out here,” Anderson said. “Your turn will always come in due time, and Bo doesn’t want a win handed to him. He’s doing great and is getting better each time out. He’s going to win, and no one is going to hand it to him when he does. You gotta go take them.”

Anderson reached the final round on the strength of round wins over Alan Prusiensky (6.567), Vincent Nobile (6.571) and Shane Gray (6.620) to reach the finals.

As strong as Anderson was all day, eliminations opened on an odd note.

Anderson, while waiting his turn to race in the first round, was struck by a projectile rock from a car doing a burnout. The rock hit him in the temple leaving a visible knot hours later.

“It hit me in the best place, my head, which is like a rock,” Anderson said with a smile. “The crazy thing is anytime I’ve ever suffered an injury, I’ve gone on to win. My wife laughed as she was dabbing the blood, and reminded me, ‘everytime you get hurt you win. Just saying.”