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Top Fuel foes on the racetrack and best buddies away from it, Antron Brown and Steve Torrence have a loosely organized off-road racing team upon which Brown (with a push from creative Torrence car chief Bobby Lagana) bestowed the name “Chocolate-And-Crème.” In March they raced a Polaris RZR in the Mint 400 off-road classic in the desert near Primm, Nev. Torrence called it “a damn good time,” despite having steering trouble twice. Brown encountered no problems while completing the entire 117-mile first lap of the three-mile event.

They broke up the monotony of the Western Swing this Wednesday by taking advantage of being in the neighborhood of DirtFish Rally School, at scenic Snoqualmie, Wash. There they honed their car-control skills behind the wheels of the turbocharged 4-cylinder, rear-wheel-drive Subaru Impreza STIs that are decidedly different from their 10,000-horsepower dragsters. DirtFish is considered North America’s premier rally school, one stars Ken Block and Travis Pastrana have visited.

They met Jim Beaver, driver of the Polaris Star entry and host of the Down & Dirty radio show. He’s sponsored by DirtFish.

“Anton got the invitation, and naturally he was going to choose someone he has a good time with, and naturally it was Steve. It was another Chocolate-And-Crème adventure,” Natalie Jahnke, Torrence’s girlfriend, said.

“It was a standard car, and because both of them have experience with that, they did pretty well,” Jahnke said. “They said by the end of the day, they would have been put in an advanced course, whereas a regular layman had come in off the street and tried to drive one, they probably still would have been novice, or beginner.”

She said Brown and Torrence don’t have any future Chocolate-And-Crème gigs set, but “I’m sure they will do something together again. They have the ultimate ‘bromance.’ You love the people that they are when they’re together. Their energy is so infectious. They make each other better people. Both of them are very strong Christian men, so the fun they have is clean fun, family fun. No matter who they’re around, they have fun.”  

Torrence said the outing was fun and “a good change of pace from the grind of the Western Swing. We really had fun at the Mint 400 and [off-road racing] is something we both promised to do again.  This was just a chance to keep ourselves sharp.”