Antron Brown figured with the infrastructure in place at David Powers Motorsports he would gain a measure of success during his rookie season. Four races into the freshman tour, he’s nailed down his first victory, not to mention a pole position in his first outing, Pomona.

Brown is reveling in the fact he’s undefeated in final rounds. Okay, so he’s only reached one. The facts are on his side at least until the next final. Antron Brown figured with the infrastructure in place at David Powers Motorsports he would gain a measure of success during his rookie season. Four races into the freshman tour, he’s nailed down his first victory, not to mention a pole position in his first outing, Pomona.

Brown is reveling in the fact he’s undefeated in final rounds. Okay, so he’s only reached one. The facts are on his side at least until the next final.

“This dream is unreal,” an elated Brown said. “It's something that I had as a little kid growing up and going to Summernationals and stuff like that.  Just out there sweating in my shorts and getting even darker in the sun.  You know the sun's beaming me down.  Watching all the grace of Kenny Bernstein, Don Garlits, and different guys like that go down the race track. I'm looking at them and it's like am I really here in the winner’s circle?”

The Houston victory made Brown the first driver to win a national event in both Top Fuel and Pro Stock Motorcycle.

“We went out to Pomona and we qualified number one; that was just an unbelievable feat,” Brown said. “That success showed me how great our team really is.  I knew how good our team was, I knew the chemistry we had but how we were going to compare to line up to everybody was unknowing, it was the first race.  It showed me when we went out there and qualified number one, I knew we had a team to come out here and we could win. 

“I didn't know what race it was going to be but I didn't think it was going to be a long term deal where we'd have to wait a whole year and come back out and try to win in the second year out.”  

Today’s victory marked the first time in Brown’s short driving career he’d surpassed the second round. When he defeated Cory McClenathan in the second round, he admitted a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

“The second round has been biting us but it felt good to bite back,” said Brown. “We qualified the back half of the field but it's how you feel that doesn't make a difference of where you're at as long as you have a good start.  We showed that today and that's what was really cool about it was that we marched forward and pulled the win off.”

The team chemistry at David Powers Motorsports is something Brown beams about when discussing the program.
 
“It starts from the top of course like any great race organization,” said Brown. “It starts first with David Powers and Tim Buckley and trickles down to the crew chiefs, Lee Beard and Rob Flynn and that whole team works well together.”   

“That's the cool part about working at DPM is that nobody has egos.  They don't go here or there.  By not having an ego it makes the team work together so much better.” 

In the end, Brown admitted he avoided embarrassment by remaining in the car longer than usual following the race.
 
“I didn't want to get out because I might not be able to stand up,” Brown admitted.  “I couldn't show everybody that I was weak in the knees like that.”