The winner in the NHRA Mello Yello Series Pro Stock class Sunday was the Coughlin family.

Jeg Coughlin Jr., winner of five Pro Stock world championships, bested his nephew, Troy Coughlin Jr., who was competing in just his second career Pro Stock event Sunday at the inaugural Dodge NHRA Indy Nationals presented by Pennzoil at Indianapolis.

Jeg Jr. clocked a 6.680-second elapsed time at 206.92 mph in his JEGS.com Elite Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro to defeat Troy Jr., who slowed because of tire shake to 18.623-seconds in his JEGS.com Elite Motorsports Ford Mustang.

“It feels like the U.S. Nationals,” Jeg Jr. said about the win. “For what our country has been through here in the recent past and the foreseeable future, to be able to be out here doing what we love to do is just phenomenal. It feels good. Feels nice to have some fans on the property and everybody following the guidelines the state of Indiana has put before us and CDC and obviously the NHRA to, makes it exciting for us as racers to be able to compete and not only compete, but compete before at least a moderate amount of fans.

We know we got tens of thousands of fans that would like to be here with us this weekend. We appreciate them supporting us on the live FOX coverage today. We'll get this back hopefully to the standard normal and everyone can come back out and have a good time with us. But the race today, this weekend, was just phenomenal for us.”

Especially the final round.

“It felt really good behind the wheel from the time I let the clutch out yesterday in Q1, really all the way to the final in E4 here,” Jeg Jr. said. “I made my worst personal run there in the final run next to my nephew, which was…what a storybook tale for me to be able to experience. He and I have spent so much time together. It feels great to see him out here competing not only competing but competitively and obviously picking off some of our foes one at a time. To see him next to me in the final was just like running his dad Troy Sr. in a final was an all-family affair. We were all winner(s) at that point. It feels good and I look forward to getting back here, good Lord willing, in a couple of weeks for our granddaddy of them all, the U.S. Nationals.”

Troy Jr. echoed his uncle.

“It's absolutely huge for our brand of Jegs and Elite Motorsports,” said Troy Jr. about meeting his uncle in the finals. “So hopefully it sells a lot of parts tomorrow. Hopefully, it's selling parts right now. It's exciting. I can't say anything else about just how awesome everyone here at Elite Motorsports is between Richard Freeman, Jake, everybody here, everybody on the engine staff, you got Kyle, you got everybody. It's incredible.

There are 28 employees here at Elite Motorsports and I mean heck we're celebrating here right now, all of them. They're incredible. They make me want to drive better, every single lap I make, they make me want to learn better, drive better and be better. So, it's just so exciting. There's nothing like it driving for family and with family. It's hard to describe. You got to be here to see it, you got to feel it.”

Troy Jr. knows his immediate trek to a Pro Stock final round isn’t the norm.

“A class like Pro Stock and the 50th anniversary of the class, it's an honor,” Troy Jr. said. “You get to race guys like Jason Line and girls like Erica Enders and it's an honor. I’ve been watching Pro Stock my whole life. My father started racing Pro Stock in 1994, and I've been coming around since I was a tyke so it's almost just normal to be here, but an absolute honor just to even be here.

“So, to make a final was absolutely surreal. Just kind of taking it all in and looking at all the couple of mistakes I've made over the weekend and some of the driving errors I've made and just going to try and correct my errors each race I go and continue the learning process and enjoy each moment.”

Jeg Jr. arrived this weekend in Indy with the points lead and will keep it after his second victory this season, his first coming at the season-opening Winternationals in Pomona, Calif., in February.

Jeg Jr. won his 65th career NHRA Pro Stock national event in his 451st career Pro Stock start. On Sunday, he beat Val Smeland, Alex Laughlin, Greg Anderson and Troy Jr.

In four NHRA national events – a scheduled completely sabotaged by the COVID-19 pandemic – Jeg Jr. has been in three final rounds and has a 12-2 elimination-round record.