![]() you can't ask for a bigger precedent.”īrown and Capps shared the winners podium with Pro Stock’s Greg Anderson, who earned his 100th victory and seventh at Indianapolis, and Pro Stock Motorcycle’s Matt Smith, who’s going for his sixth championship. I said, ‘If we can get in that winner’s circle together, that's going to be a special moment for when we start this offseason.’ To do it at the U.S. It's coming,’” Brown said of the preceding months. We started performing, starting to jump up. We got to put the right pieces in place.’ Once I saw our guys have that different attitude where we got through the hard times a lot easier than we were in the beginning of the year. “We're like, ‘All right, guys, we got to build. ![]() You know, how they happen in slow motion.” Nationals, it's keeping our head down, knowing that we could compete and race with any car out here.”īrown said the Indianapolis victory was a relief: “When we got to that final, when that win light came on, I can tell you all right now, that was the longest 3.7 seconds in my entire life. ![]() Then we got to Topeka, we stuck out there, and then we had some really good performance in Brainerd. "We thought we had a car that we could win Seattle, didn't go our way. Like, we had to put trailers together, cars together, deals, and we got a lot of good parts from DSR and DSM (Don Schumacher Manufacturing), and then we bought some other stuff from all over the place.” So with new equipment, new cars, and new team members, “we started putting this team together, and lo and behold, right now is that it all started coming together. We're going to get there.’īrown, who was part of the Toyota family first, said, “In the beginning of this year, we started off with everything new-from scratch, everything. Then they got a little extra edge and then the team has left off where they left off from last year when he came out, started winning rounds, winning races, qualified No. So they got part of TRD that enhanced their performance, where they already had great performance. “But they're running the same stuff they ran last year, except for they even got a boost up with Toyota with the Supra bodies. “Man, I tell you what, Capps, when they took off, I ain’t gonna lie to you, I was a little jealous because they took off out the gate like gangbusters,” Brown said. For Capps, it was his first at the “Big Go,” the sport’s marquee event that he had tried to win since 1995, one at which he never reached the final round once until 2017. But finally, in the season’s 16th event, they shared the winners circle as first-time team owners.įor Brown, the victory at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park was his fourth there, second in Top Fuel to match his two in the Pro Stock Motorcycle class in 20. They had stepped away from the safety net of Don Schumacher Racing this past December, as veteran drivers, series champions, and well-prepared, well-connected businessmen. Nationals that he had been a wee bit jealous of Funny Car buddy Ron Capps’ early-season success. Only a little chagrined, Top Fuel ace Antron Brown admitted after winning the NHRA’s U.S. “It’s such a surreal feeling, I can’t even put it into words,” Capps said of his finally winning the U.S. ![]()
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