COMMERCE, Ga. — Antron Brown grew to become the winningest High Gasoline driver in Atlanta Dragway historical past, racing his dragster to victory within the Lucas Oil NHRA Southern Nationals on Sunday.
Brown obtained his fifth profession win on the facility, beating reigning champion Steve Torrence within the closing spherical together with his 3.752-second lap at 325.22 mph. Torrence completed in 3.794 seconds at 323.81 mph.
“That is Rocky Balboa proper there,” Brown stated of Torrence. “And I am Apollo. To get this win, it was actually exceptional. We simply constructed on it each lap. Any time you are able to do this and get certainly one of these (Wally trophies), it is simply so particular.
“Atlanta has simply been so particular to all of us.”
Bob Tasca III in Humorous Automobile, Greg Anderson in Professional Inventory and Scotty Pollacheck in Professional Inventory Bike additionally gained their classes within the third occasion of the NHRA Tenting World Drag Racing Collection season.
Tasca earned his second straight Humorous Automobile win, beating 16-time champion John Power.
Anderson raced to his fifth victory at Atlanta Dragway, and 96th of his profession by topping Vincent Nobile within the Professional Inventory closing spherical.
Pollacheck beat Matt Smith in Professional Inventory Bike with a run of 6.921 seconds at 198.35 mph on his EBR.
The NHRA season resumes Could 14-16 on the NGK NTK NHRA 4-Vast Nationals at zMAX Dragway in Harmony, North Carolina.