Momentum bodes well for Top Fuel driver Antron Brown.

The combination of winning the most recent event and heading into a race where his crew chiefs are defending champions only ups the ante for the former Pro Stock Motorcycle standout turned nitro frontrunner.

Ask Brown how excited he is about this weekend’s event and chances are he won’t hold back much.

"Man, I'm fired up about going to Bristol,” Brown proclaimed. “We've got 'big blue' back for Bristol with our Matco Tools colors and our car is running great. Mark (Oswald) and Brian (Corradi) have this Matco dragster hauling and we have such a great team here at MAR. Bristol is an awesome track and our goal is to continue to go rounds and stay consistent with the performance of this Matco dragster.”

Winner at last race, Crew Chiefs are Defending Event Champions … Good Mojo for Antron

Momentum bodes well for Top Fuel driver Antron Brown.

The combination of winning the most recent event and heading into a race where his crew chiefs are defending champions only ups the ante for the former Pro Stock Motorcycle standout turned nitro frontrunner.

Ask Brown how excited he is about this weekend’s event and chances are he won’t hold back much.

"Man, I'm fired up about going to Bristol,” Brown proclaimed. “We've got 'big blue' back for Bristol with our Matco Tools colors and our car is running great. Mark (Oswald) and Brian (Corradi) have this Matco dragster hauling and we have such a great team here at MAR. Bristol is an awesome track and our goal is to continue to go rounds and stay consistent with the performance of this Matco dragster.”

Last year Brown’s talented tuning duo of Brian Corradi and Mark Oswald tuned Melanie Troxel to a soggy winner’s circle after rains wreaked havoc on the day’s schedule.

Last year’s triumph was great but for Corradi there’s no better time than the present.

"The goal is to pick up where we left off at St. Louis,” Corradi explained. “As boring as it sounds, we're going to try and qualify well, a little better than we did at St. Louis, and stay consistent and go some rounds on race day. Qualifying well is important to having success on race day and those qualifying points can add up too."

Brown enters the eighth race on the 2009 NHRA schedule leading the NHRA Top Fuel standings, a position he’s held following four of seven races this season. The second-year Top Fuel racer has two wins in three final round appearances along with two No. 1 qualifying efforts this season.

Brown qualified fourth at this event last year and reached the quarters.
 

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