{"id":96845,"date":"2024-11-04T19:18:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T19:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/antron-brown-holds-on-to-second-place-points-position-after-second-round-exit-in-las-vegas\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T19:18:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T19:18:22","slug":"antron-brown-holds-on-to-second-place-points-position-after-second-round-exit-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/antron-brown-holds-on-to-second-place-points-position-after-second-round-exit-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Antron Brown Holds On To Second-Place Points Position After Second-Round Exit in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antron Brown\u2019s effort to earn more points towards a fourth NHRA Top Fuel world championship at the NHRA Nevada Nationals hit a snag in the second round when he lost a close race to reigning world champion Doug Kalitta. Brown and the Matco Tools team kept themselves in the hunt, though, as he moved past the opening round that saw several other drivers drop out of contention Sunday morning at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The driver of the Matco Tools Toyota dragster will move on to the final race of the NHRA Countdown to the Championship ranked second in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Top Fuel standings.
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Brown started qualifying in Las Vegas sitting second in points, just 44 points behind leader Justin Ashley. He hazed the tires in the first qualifying session, then threw down a flame-throwing 3.735-second pass at 321.65 mph in the second session to move up to No. 7. It was also the third-quickest pass of the round, giving Brown one bonus point. He matched that E.T. in the third session on Saturday, but slipped to ninth in the qualifying order. Finally, severe tire shake forced Brown to shut the car off early in the final qualifying session. He ended up No. 11 on the final order.
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Brown paired up with motorsports icon Tony Stewart in Sunday\u2019s first round of eliminations. The AB Motorsports driver and team owner moved first with a .053-second reaction time and ran a 3.724 E.T. at 330.39 mph to hold off Stewart\u2019s 3.735 E.T. In the second round, Brown nearly repeated his first-round performance with a 3.728 E.T. at 330.72 mph, but Doug Kalitta beat him to the finish line with a 3.692 E.T.
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\u201cWe were fighting all weekend,\u201d said Brown, who\u2019s the class leader in terms of race wins this season with five, including two in the Countdown. \u201cWe had a good first round, then second round, lost a good race to Doug Kalitta. Right now, everybody is still all in and we still have a good shot for the championship going into Pomona. Our main focus is to stay after (the race), get right, get tight, get tested, get ready, and we\u2019re going to go after it in Pomona and just leave it on the table and see where we end up.\u201d
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Along with testing at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Monday, Brown will stay in Las Vegas for the SEMA Show, where he will lead the event\u2019s prayer breakfast on Weds., Nov. 6 from 7-8:30 a.m. at the Las Vegas Convention Center. To attend the breakfast, visit:\u00a0https:\/\/theprayerbreakfast.com\/#rsvp<\/a>
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The battle for Brown\u2019s first world championship as a team owner and fourth overall will wrap up at the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals, Nov. 15-17, at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip in Pomona, Calif.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published on November 4, 2024. \"Drag<\/p>\n

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Antron Brown\u2019s effort to earn more points towards a fourth NHRA Top Fuel world championship at the NHRA Nevada Nationals hit a snag in the second round when he lost a close race to reigning world champion Doug Kalitta. Brown and the Matco Tools team kept themselves in the hunt, though, as he moved past […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}