Antron Brown has done it all.

He has won championships - three to be exact. He has set national records and he has taken home more than 60 Wally trophies.

So what does it say about the state of Top Fuel racing today that just another win on just another weekend feels like conquering the world?

But that is just what it felt like for Brown, who collected his 63rd national event win and snapped Steve Torrence’s two-race winning streak with a win Sunday at the Menards NHRA Heartland Nationals presented by Minties at Heartland Park Topeka.

“It feels really good to win at Topeka. We have wanted to win this race for so long,” Brown said. “We really didn’t think about the fact that we hadn’t won it, we just went out there and attacked like we do every race.

“But it is special. The competition has been so tight. You have to run these cars on the edge every lap. The Funny Cars were running 3.90s and we were still running 3.70s. That’s what it takes to win rounds these days.

“All of these cars are capable of winning and we know it. These crew chiefs are getting smarter every year and everyone is raising the bar. When you can go out there on a 114 degree track and run a 70, that is phenomenal. We used to have to wait until night time and the right air conditions to throw a run like that. Now we are doing it in the middle of the day.”

Brown collected the win on a historic weekend over Steve Torrence in the Top Fuel final. Brown piloted the Matco Tools dragster to a 3.709-second run at 332.75 mph in the final, while Torrence saw his half-track lead go up in a puff of smoke - literally - as his car began to expire just past the eighth-mile mark. Torrence finished with a 3.836 at 256.70 and saw his two-race win streak come to an end.

With the win, Brown also added another notch to his impressive winning streak against Torrence in head-to-head competition, holding a 22-1 career mark against the driver of the Capco Contractors dragster.

“My hats off to the whole team. We kept our heads down, stayed poised and put it all together,” Brown said. “I don’t like to look at stats, people tell me all these different stats all of the time, but I forget about them the next day. I’ll look at the stats when I retire some day. All we can do right now is race as hard as we can every lap. This sport is very humbling and the racing right now is at an all-time high.”

Brown added wins over Kebin Kinsley, Shawn Langdon and teammate Leah Pritchett in reaching his 111th career final round. And he used a small hiccup in the first round to help propel him past his competition.

“I’ve been beat up this last month and a half. When I came to race in the first round, I messed up on the tree a little bit because I was getting upset with the guy I was racing because he was taking a long time to stage. He’s a new guy, he hasn’t been in a lot of race rounds, but I let it get to me,” Brown said. “I can tell you distinctly that I came back in that trailer and my crew chief looked at me and said, ‘Hey B, just do what you do. Why are you worried about it. Just because they take too long, that doesn’t affect you.’

“He kind of slapped me around a little bit. The next three rounds I got back into that old groove that we always get into and we just went out there and raced our hearts out.”

Of course, a big part of this weekend were the records.

While Funny Car stole the show with more than half a dozen record-setting laps over the course of the weekend, Top Fuel saw its own fair share of records broken.

Tony Schumacher set the track elapsed time record, while the speed record was broken by a couple of different drivers - including Brown - until Brittany Force took it for good with a pass of 333.66 mph in the first round on Sunday.

“When we came in here, I was flying from Vegas and I looked at the weather and I saw the weather being cool and I thought, this is going to be fast in Topeka,” Brown said. “Typically, we worry about tornadoes when we come here, but this weekend we had a bunch of hurricanes out there.”

Of course, Brown wasn’t riding alone during this historic weekend. A simple act of kindness led to a big weekend, not only for Brown, but for a local family who had just one wish for a recently deceased family member.

“The coolest part of the weekend, for me, was a family that came out and brought with them the ashes of a gentleman named Bruce who had recently passed away,” Brown said. “They brought out his ashes in a little zipped up bag. He was a huge drag racing fan and all he ever wanted to do was go over 300 mph. So we zip-tied him to the roll cage and he rode with me on that world record mile-per-hour run that the Monster car eventually took back from us.

“He rode with us this entire weekend and when I gave him back to his family, I gave them the timeslips from our runs. He didn’t just get to go down the race track, he made it to the winner’s circle with us today.”