Antron Brown
Antron Brown (born March 1, 1976) is an American drag racer, currently driving the Matco Tools Top Fuel dragster for Don Schumacher Racing in NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series. He is known for winning 2012, 2015 and 2016 Top Fuel championships. Antron is the sport's first Black American champion. Early life. Brown lived in Trenton, New Jersey until age six, when his family moved to his grandmother's 10-acre farm in rural Chesterfield Township, New Jersey following the death of his grandfather. His father Albert ran a septic tank service, and was a drag racer  at the sportsman level. Antron maintained the cars as a child and began racing motorcycles at age six and motocross at age 12, practicing on a course he built on the farm. He ran his first competitive drag race as a high school senior. Brown studied at Northern Burlington County Regional High School before becoming a track star at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey as a sprinter and long jumper, graduating in 1997 with an associate's degree in business administration. After being offered a full scholarship to run track for Long Island University, he was contacted by  football player Troy Vincent (married to Brown's cousin) who was starting a racing team. Racing career. Brown raced in the NHRA's Pro Stock Motorcycle division from 1998 to 2007, running his first three years with Vincent's Team 23 Racing. Brown won 16 events in the motorcycle division, and had a best finish of 2nd in points in 2001 and 2006. In 2008 he switched to Top Fuel dragsters. Brown won the Top Fuel championship in 2012, 2015 and 2016. Personal life. Brown currently resides in Pittsboro, Indiana with his wife Billie Jo and three children, Anson, Adler , and Arianna. He is also an extremely devout Christian. In popular culture. Brown had an appearance as an appraiser in episode 8 ("The Fast and The Curious") of the third season of the A&E reality show "Storage Wars". He also appeared in episode 3 of Idris Elba: No Limits as Elba's drag racing instructor. He now co-hosts Top Gear America with Tom Ford and William Fichtner. Brown featured in the fifteenth season of Discovery's Wheeler Dealers, where he faced off against a 1965 Barracuda driven by Ant Antstead.