He could have won the lottery without buying a ticket. He could have landed the leading role in a blockbuster movie without auditioning. Or, he could have broken the world's land-speed record in Prius.

All of those ridiculous scenarios could have transpired, for three-time Top Fuel drag racing champion Antron Brown and he wouldn't have been more surprised than what he managed to pull off Sunday in Bradenton, Fla.

Brown, who won 16 NHRA national event titles on two-wheels, 55 in an 11,000-horse Top Fuel dragster, can now say he's won a race on radial tires, measuring 10.5 inches wide while pulling nearly 2,000 horsepower. He won the Pro275 Radial division at the annual Snowbird Nationals, a race headlined by Outlaw Pro Modifieds.

"Can you believe that?' Brown screamed. "I got to ask you. Can you believe that? I can't believe it. Can you believe it?"

Consider this, the first time Brown had ever sat in a Pro275 was on Thursday, and after two unsuccessful attempts on Thursday behind the wheel of a car team owner Manny Buginga describes as a 2003 Fred, he made his first full pass down the track. He claimed the provisional No. 1 qualifying position (3.76, 200, eighth-mile).

"I know one thing, they have a great race program, and Fred is a bad mofo, bad mofo," said Brown, referring to the non-descript Ford pony car. "[Manny's car] is no joke. I was like, 'Man if we just get it right."

Getting it right meant Buginga's team getting their rookie driver as many laps as possible.

"I was focused on just driving a car, making sure I did everything right and getting a feel for it," Brown admitted. "I didn't want to do anything stupid. Didn't want to wreck anybody's car; do none of that stupid stuff. What really gave me all my learning was all the runs on race day. I got better and better with every lap." Brown won with a 3.771 at 201.94 in the first round, a 3.757 at 202.12 in the second round, and a 3.78 at 201.49 over Mike Decker Jr. in the semifinals. Then a 3.713 at 201.91 to beat Marcus "the Axman" Birt and his 3.73 in the final round.

"I'll tell you what, this was the biggest Christmas present I could have – a race car that runs like that," said Brown said of Buginga, tuner Jamie Miller, and the whole Team Buginga crew. "All I could do was mess it up. With that being said, going into that final round, I knew I had to tune up a little bit. My lights haven't been where I want them to be. I staged shallow every time, and the most I could get out was like low .050s. I looked at Jamie and I said, 'You better tune this joker up,' and he did. They set it up and we had enough to hold [Birt] off by four thou."

While Buginga's team did the heavy lifting, Brown had members of his nitro posse there in Bradenton jumping in where needed.

"Brian, he's a student of the game where he looks at everything. But he worked good with Jamie, and then with all the crew guys here from Franny, from Brooksie, -- all the people. They all worked together. Brad [Mason] was here working on the engines and everything on the other car.

"They were changing main bearings and changing valve springs, changing valves, and popping the head off. So it was a group effort. Brian and Brad helped out a whole bunch. But these guys had it on lockdown, and it was just a team effort. You got all these other guys from Pro Line. It was like everybody was working together. That's what made it so good."

What made the experience even better was the level of last-minute he decided to compete.

"It was literally a week ago. It was a week ago because we couldn't even find hotel rooms." Brown admitted. "We ended up getting hotels up there near Tampa and Clearwater. We had to drive 55 minutes one way because all the rooms were sold out down here."

Brown made the process look effortless, but as he's compared himself to a duck, it's all calm on the surface, but underneath the water, it is a different story.

"I gave it everything I had," Brown said. 'there's a 95% chance I'll come back out and do it again. Next time, I will do that regardless because the more seat time I get, the better it gets; it becomes second nature."

And that's the thing about naturals; becoming second nature leaves little surprises.