With temperatures climbing into the low 90's, and track temps at 140 degrees, Antron Brown and the Matco Tools crew got down to the business of finding the right tune-up to carry the teams through four rounds of competition on Sunday.
“The track, right now, has been as hot as it has been all weekend,” said Brown after clinching the number one spot in his Top Fuel dragster. “We like when it gets hot out there. I think tomorrow we are going to back her down a little bit so it doesn't pop the chutes out before the finish line; try to run some high 3.90's. I think if you can do that tomorrow, run anywhere between 3.97 to 4.01, that is what it is going to take to win these rounds tomorrow.”
Brown knows what he is talking about. He was second fastest in the third and fastest in the fourth round of qualifying under the increasing summer heat with passes of 3.990 seconds at 302.48 mph and 4.006 seconds at 291.89 mph, respectively.