The competition can only wonder when the sophomore jinx is going to kick for Antron Brown.

The former Pro Stock Bike standout turned Top Fuel championship
contender scored his fourth win of the season at the NHRA Northwest
Nationals in Seattle, Wash. The event represented his seventh final
round of 2009.

The six-time Top Fuel winner stands two-thirds of the way from a clean sweep of the NHRA’s Western Swing.

Brown wasn’t the quickest in qualifying or on race day but managed to
win when he needed to. Last race in Denver he was the quickest in
qualifying but on race day managed to get lost when the track heated
up.

NHRA Pro Stock Motorcyclist Peggy Llewellyn will be named Female
Athlete of the Year by The Elements of a Champion Foundation on tonight
at the Party with the Pros Awards and Gala Dinner held at Stonebriar
Country Club in Dallas.

The Elements of Champions, a non-profit organization dedicated to
re-depositing the elements which define champions back into sports, one
student at a time, will honor professional, collegiate, and high school
athletes for their extraordinary character on and off the field.

The
top two teams in Top Fuel squared off in a classic final round at the
22nd annual NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways Sunday with
Antron Brown edging Tony Schumacher by eight-thousandths of a second at
the stripe.

The other winners at the 14th of 24 races in the NHRA Full Throttle
Drag Racing Series were Tim Wilkerson (Funny Car) and Mike Edwards (Pro
Stock).

Brown won for the fourth time this season in the Matco Tools dragster
and extended his lead to 137 points over Schumacher with his
3.985-second pass (0.079 reaction time) at 301.07 mph to Schumacher’s
3.990 (0.082 RT) at 300.00. 

Point standings (top 10) for NHRA professional categories following the
22nd annual NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways, the 14th of
24 events in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series -

Point standings (top 10) for IHRA professional categories following the
Mopar Canadian Nationals at Grand Bend Motorplex, the sixth of 10
events in the 2009 Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series -

Sunday's final NHRA Full Throttle Series results from the 22nd
annual NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways. The race is the
14th of 24 in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series:

Final round-by-round results from the 22nd annual NHRA Northwest
Nationals at Pacific Raceways, the 14th of 24 events in the NHRA Full
Throttle Drag Racing Series:

Final round-by-round results from the Mopar Canadian Nationals at Grand
Bend Motorplex, the sixth of 10 events in the 2009 Nitro Jam Drag
Racing Series:

Despite three wins in the Northwest Nationals, Kurt Johnson is struggling at Pacific Raceways this year. Johnson
enters Sunday eliminations at the NHRA Northwest Nationals 14th on the
16-car grid and will face Greg Anderson in the first round.

Jack Beckman and the Valvoline/Mail Terminal Services Dodge Funny Car team had a tough time qualifying
for the NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways this weekend,
finally settling for No. 14 after recording a respectable 4.397-second
lap at 227.49 mph in the final qualifying round today.

Loss of traction in each of the three previous attempts produced a 9.323/76.94, a 5.577/132.13, and a 6.092/107.21.