{"id":17304,"date":"2009-07-24T11:32:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T18:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17304"},"modified":"2012-08-05T12:49:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T19:49:10","slug":"automobile-drag-racing-brown-taking-top-fuel-by-storm-races-to-top-of-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17304","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drag Racing &#8211; Brown taking Top Fuel by storm, races to top of standings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17305\" title=\"anton-brown\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/07\/anton-brown.bmp\" alt=\"anton-brown\" \/>Antron Brown is well aware that two months from now his 137-point lead on six-time Top Fuel champion Tony Schumacher will basically amount to zero when the standings are reset for the Countdown to the Championship.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Considering his overall performance in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, that might ignite another hot streak for the second-year dragster driver, who could join an elite group by winning this weekend&#8217;s Fram-Autolite NHRA Nationals at Sonoma, Calif. Brown is primed to become the fifth Top Fuel racer to sweep the series&#8217; three-race Western Swing that began this month with wins at Denver and Seattle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No matter how it ends, Brown&#8217;s objective is &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/nhra\/2009-07-23-antron-brown-top-fuel_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antron Brown is well aware that two months from now his 137-point lead on six-time Top Fuel champion Tony Schumacher will basically amount to zero when the standings are reset for the Countdown to the Championship. Considering his overall performance in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, that might ignite another hot streak for [&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-17304","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\/17304","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=17304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67815,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17304\/revisions\/67815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}