Top Fuel pilot Antron Brown is so close he can taste it. He won in Denver. He won in Seattle.

Now the points leader and sophomore dragster driver looks to do something that only six drivers in NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing history have ever done—sweep the Western Swing. With a victory at this weekend’s FRAM Autolite NHRA Nationals at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., Brown would join a list that includes Top Fuel greats Joe Amato, Tony Schumacher, Cory McClenathan and Larry Dixon, along with Funny Car legend John Force and three-time Pro Stock world champion Greg Anderson.

Top Fuel pilot Antron Brown is so close he can taste it. He won in Denver. He won in Seattle.

Now the points leader and sophomore dragster driver looks to do something that only six drivers in NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing history have ever done—sweep the Western Swing. With a victory at this weekend’s FRAM Autolite NHRA Nationals at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., Brown would join a list that includes Top Fuel greats Joe Amato, Tony Schumacher, Cory McClenathan and Larry Dixon, along with Funny Car legend John Force and three-time Pro Stock world champion Greg Anderson.

It’s a rare feat to see. Since the famed Western Swing was introduced to the schedule in 1989, many drivers have come close to sweeping the grueling three-races-in-three-weeks stretch through the hot summer days of July, but only six names stand in the record books as Western Swing Sweepers.

By Sunday evening, Brown could be the seventh driver to juggle the Wally and broom in Winner’s Circle at Infineon Raceway.
 

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