Antron Brown Motorsports
AB Motorsports Ready to mix it up at the Gators
Gainesville, FL – Antron Brown, driver of the Matco Tools Top Fuel Dragster NHRA Gatornationals Event Highlights: 2013 event champion
four-time runner-up: Top Fuel: 2010, 2014, 2017, Pro Stock Motorcycle: 2006
Two-time No. 1 qualifier: Top Fuel: 2010
Pro Stock Motorcycle: 2001
2021 Gainesville Recap: Qualified 10th; Semifinal finish (defeated Mike Salinas in E1, Billy Torrence in E2; defeated by Shawn Langdon in E3)
Last Event (Phoenix): Qualified 10th; First round exit (defeated by Shawn Langdon in E1)
Career Statistics:
463 races; 68 wins (16 Pro Stock Motorcycle); 49 No. 1 Qualifiers (11 PSM)
Noteworthy: Made his NHRA debut at the 1998 Gainesville event while competing in Pro Stock Motorcycle
AB Motorsports heads to Phoenix for the Arizona Nationals
Chandler, AZ – Anton Brown, driver of the Matco Tools/Lucas Oil/Toyota Top Fuel Dragster looking forward to race 2 as team owner!
History: NHRA Arizona Nationals Event Highlights: Three-time event champion (2009, 2012, 2014), 2011 runner-up
2020 Phoenix Recap:
Qualified 13th; Semifinal finish (defeated Terry McMillen in E1, Justin Ashley in E2; defeated by Doug Kalitta in E3)
Last Event (Pomona 1):
Qualified 10th; Quarterfinal finish (defeated Leah Pruett in E1; defeated by Justin Ashley in E2)
Career Statistics:
462 races; 68 wins (16 Pro Stock Motorcycle); 49 No. 1 Qualifiers (11 PSM)
AB Motorsports Advances to Quarterfinal Finish at Inaugural NHRA Outing
POMONA, CA – The season-opening NHRA Winternationals marked Antron Brown’s inaugural event as an NHRA team owner, and he and 
his AB Motorsports team are pleased with the weekend’s results.
Brown qualified his Matco Tools/Lucas Oil/Toyota Top Fuel dragster tenth out of a competitive 17-car field to draw former teammate Leah Pruett as his first opponent of the year. Brown and Pruett were the first pair of racers to hit the track on Sunday morning and delivered an exciting side-by-side race in the opening session. The three-time Top Fuel world champ snagged the holeshot advantage and took his 11,000-horsepower machine on its quickest pass of the weekend (3.724 seconds) to defeat Pruett’s 3.748-second effort and advance to round two.
In the quarterfinals, Brown faced friend and technical-alliance partner, Justin Ashley. Regarded as two of the best leavers in the sport, Brown and Ashley ripped off identical reaction times, but Ashley quickly started pulling ahead, clocking low E.T. of the session for the win, and ending Brown’s day after round two.
“We’re very happy that we came out and performed well this weekend at Pomona,” said Brown, a 68-time national event winner. “We were looking to qualify a little bit better than No. 10, but we’ll work on that next weekend. Pomona is in the books. We had a tough second-round match-up with Justin Ashley and Mike Green and that group, and they dropped low E.T. on us. Our hats off to them. Now it’s time for us to go back and great ready for Phoenix and our first time back at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in two years.
Brown also headed to the Winter Nationals as 1st TimeOwner/Driver
Pomona, CA – Brown’s team, AB Motorsports, will make its competition debut at the Winternationals. In 2022, Brown is seeking his fourth 
Top Fuel title, and first as a team owner. Brown earned his first No. 1 qualifier in the Top Fuel category during the 2008 Pomona 1 event.
While Brown has been triumphant at Pomona, all three of his wins have come from the NHRA Finals event contested at Pomona at the end of the season.
Quotable:
“I’m looking forward to getting to Pomona, the first race of the year. The team is in high spirits coming off of a really good test session where we learned a lot. We’re amped up, we’re motivated and we feel like we can compete with anyone out there. We’re ready to kick off our season on a high note. We’re so grateful to all of our partners who have helped us reach this point. Matco Tools, Toyota, SiriusXM, and the addition of Lucas Oil and now Summit Racing coming aboard to give us the right equipment when we need it out there on the race track, Darton Sleeves, and of course our longtime supporters at Hangsterfer’s.”
AB Motorsports adds Summit Racing Equipment to Roster of Marketing Partners as Team Approaches Inaugural NHRA Season
BROWNSBURG, IN – Longstanding NHRA supporter Summit Racing Equipment has joined AB Motorsports in a multi-year agreement, 
team owner and driver Antron Brown announced today.
The familiar Summit Racing Equipment red, white and blue logo will be featured on the canopy sides of Brown’s Matco Tools/Lucas Oil/Toyota dragster, along with additional AB Motorsports trackside assets.
Summit Racing Equipment owns title rights sponsorship of the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, June 23-26, at the Norwalk, Ohio track that also flies Summit’s flagship name, Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park, and the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Racing Series, the world’s largest motorsports program in terms of racer participation.
“What a great way to kick off the 2022 season, announcing our partnership with Antron’s (Brown) new team, AB Motorsports,” said Jim Greenleaf, Motorsports & Events Manager for Summit Racing Equipment. “We’ve been associated with Antron through the Jr. Dragster programs over the years and now we look forward to Summit Racing riding along on his Top Fuel dragster and to an exciting season of NHRA Drag Racing and celebrating with Antron and his team in the winner’s circle.”
Antron Brown Makes Long-Awaited Owner-Driver Debut at PRO Nitro Spring Training
CHANDLER, AZ – It was just over two years ago when three-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion Antron Brown announced the formation
56th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals
of AB Motorsports with the goal of one day fielding his own Top Fuel operation in the NHRA’s Camping World Series. While the timeline was fluid, Brown was targeting the start of the 2021 NHRA season for AB Motorsports to make its on-track debut, allowing him all of 2020 to get everything in order as he transitioned from ‘hired driver’ to owner-driver. Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic and all of the disruptions that went along with it threw a major wrench in Brown’s plans, delaying his team launch by a year. Now, with the 2022 NHRA pre-season test session set to kick off today at the PRO Nitro Spring Training event in Chandler, Ariz., Brown is experiencing a ‘pinch me’ moment as he gets to enjoy the culmination of years of hard work, and will see his dreams become a reality when he takes the AB Motorsports Matco Tools/Toyota Top Fuel dragster on its inaugural ride.
“It feels very surreal to actually be in this spot,” said Brown, who will celebrate his ‘silver’ 25th NHRA season in 2022. “This has been a long time coming, not just for me, but for my entire team and all of our wonderful sponsors who have joined us on this new adventure. All of the members of this operation have a vested stake in it, and we’re all doing this together. It feels so good to open a new chapter, and have a fresh start here in 2022.”
Lucas Oil Returns to NHRA’s Nitro Ranks with Antron Brown’s New AB Motorsports Operation
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Three-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion Antron Brown announced today that longtime motorsports industry 
supporter, Lucas Oil Products, Inc., has joined his team, AB Motorsports, as its official lubricants partner for the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season.
Lucas Oil has manufactured and distributed automotive oil, additives, and lubricants since it was founded by the husband-and-wife team, Forrest and Charlotte Lucas, in 1989, and has been a fixture in the NHRA community ever since. Brown has enjoyed a longtime relationship with the Lucas family for decades, and part of what spurred this new partnership between Lucas Oil and AB Motorsports was the family values shared by the owners on both sides.
Brown’s relationship with the Lucas family extends back to when he first embarked on his NHRA career in 1998 aboard a Pro Stock Motorcycle, and Lucas Oil signed on to support the young upstart. Brown credits Forrest and Charlotte for helping him to be able to compete on a full-time basis during his earliest NHRA years, stepping in to fulfill any open races on Brown’s schedule. Since that time, Lucas Oil has remained a part of the Brown family racing operation, having supported all three of Brown’s children’s Jr. Drag Racing careers, and Brown’s father, Al, and uncle Andre’s Super Comp team, all of which still proudly banner the Lucas Oil logo to this day.
AB Motorsports Forms Multi-Faceted Alliance with Justin Ashley Racing/Davis Motorsports
BROWNSBURG, IN – In another positive move to solidify their teams’ positions as top contenders in the NHRA Camping World Drag 
Racing Series, AB Motorsports, led by three-time Top Fuel world champion Antron Brown, and Justin Ashley Racing/Davis Motorsports, which campaigns the Top Fueler driven and co-owned by 2020 NHRA Rookie of the Year Justin Ashley, today announced they will be forming a Research & Development and Marketing Alliance between their organizations. The alliance will not only pair two of the most marketable Top Fuel stars behind the wheel but also two of the most decorated Top Fuel crew chiefs, with Brown’s Brian Corradi and Ashley’s Mike Green calling the shots on their teams’ 11,000-horsepower machines.
For the first time in his career, which began aboard a Pro Stock Motorcycle in 1998, Brown will take on the dual role of owner/driver of the Matco Tools Toyota Top Fuel dragster in its rookie season operating under the AB Motorsports umbrella. Brown views this strategic pact with long-time friend Ashley, who has had an ownership interest for two seasons along with Dustin Davis in the Vita C Shot Top Fuel dragster team, as a partnership which will benefit both up-and-coming team owners on and off the race track.
“The goal with this partnership is to make both of our programs stronger overall,” explained Brown, who closed out 2021 ranked in the Top 10 for the 24th consecutive year. “Even though we’re two separate teams with two separate operations, having this partnership will allow us to enjoy many of the advantages that the multi-car teams have. It’s not just about the collaboration between our brain trust of crew chiefs, but this will also help us in being able to secure the best parts and pieces; we’ll have stronger purchasing power. We’re both looking to this alliance to help us compete on a high level and go toe-to-toe with the heavy-hitters in our category.”
