{"id":16316,"date":"2009-07-12T13:43:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T20:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16316"},"modified":"2009-07-12T13:43:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T20:43:47","slug":"automobile-drag-racing-antron-brown-blazes-out-to-lead-in-top-fuel-division-at-mopar-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16316","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drag Racing &#8211; Antron Brown blazes out to lead in top fuel division at Mopar Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As a sprinter in college, Antron Brown had fast wheels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now a top fuel driver, his wheels are even quicker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Brown has the top dragster going this season, leading the NHRA points standings heading into this weekend&#8217;s competition at the Mopar Mile-High Nationals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;This has been like a fairy tale season,&#8221; said Brown, who retained the second-fastest time down the track after the third round of qualifying Saturday. &#8220;This is just a big dream of mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Brown was once at a crossroads in his career, trying to decide between racing tracks or dragsters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A 100-metre thunderbolt at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey, Brown was fast enough to qualify for the U.S. championships in &#8217;97&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5gx7yAtgYf7atVJqFj8OA7EfpzlTQ\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a sprinter in college, Antron Brown had fast wheels. Now a top fuel driver, his wheels are even quicker. Brown has the top dragster going this season, leading the NHRA points standings heading into this weekend&#8217;s competition at the Mopar Mile-High Nationals. &#8220;This has been like a fairy tale season,&#8221; said Brown, who retained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16317,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316\/revisions\/16317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}