How many 17-year-olds could be identified by the chemical compound CH3NO2?
Or know that it is the product of a reaction between nitric acid and propane, and even less believed to measure the proper ratio and pour it into the fuel tank of a 11,000-horsepower race car that will jet a length of more than three NFL fields for less of four seconds and produces more horsepower than the first four or five rows of the Daiton 500?
It is nitromethane, a core that pumps through an NHRA Top Fuel engine at 11.2 gallons per second, just like a fully charged 747, but produces 25 percent more energy. And that is the topic of “Working on the top Dragster 101 engine” for future graduate Anson Brown.
Starting this weekend at the NHRA’s New England Nationals in Epping, NH, Brown, who already knew cars, joins his father Antron Brown’s AB Motorsports Matco Tools / Toyota Dragster team as a crew member during the summer break.
Three-time Top Fuel champion Anthron Brown plans to put his son - the middle of three children of him and his wife Billy Joe - in the seat of a dredger who hits the ground and accelerates madly.
“That is one of my future goals. I love it and I think I would be great at it, ”said Anson Brown, who will soon be leaving the Jr. program at the age of 17. A dragster in which he has been racing since he was 8 years old. “I love racing and I think it would be great to ride a top Fuel dragster.”
However, he said: “Right now, just take it easy. So that’s just the future goal. But I mean, honestly, I can’t wait. And I will work as long as I have to work to reach that goal. ”
First, his father wants to see Brown’s work ethic, which today spans four generations, in the most basic way.
“Right now, I’m just starting out, so I’m just an extra set of hands,” said Anson Brown. “Wherever someone needs me, I’m here to help. If they need me to wipe the car, I’ll wipe it. If I need to clean the clips, I’ll clean the clips.
“I am currently learning how to mix fuel. So it’s really fun and very interesting, “he said,” because it’s like a science class in high school, but on the track. “
Younger Brown said: “When I was eight, I didn’t work so much on the car. But as I got older, I started learning more about the car and how it works - because my dad always says there are always two sides to driving. You can drive, but you also need to know, and you need to know, mechanical knowledge. He started teaching me at a young age. I would always answer all the questions I asked. So I would say that the racing juniors have definitely improved my knowledge in racing a lot, and that way I know most of the things about the “big races” that he does today. “
It helped that the champion of the Super Series of the Midwest, the younger one, acquired his Super Comp license last year at the Drag Racing School of Frank Havlei. At the time, Anthron Brown was probably more proud than he was when he won the three crowns of the Top Fuel series. Dad said, “I remember seeing Anson’s face and his excitement when he came back from his first crossing a full quarter mile over 150 miles an hour and thought, ‘Wow, he’s grown up.'”
Havlei, the 1982 and 1983 NHRA champion Funny Car, runs a teaching academy to help aspiring runners (and even those who want a refresher course) learn in a safe and controlled environment.
And Holly said, after watching Anson Brown progress, that he “obviously learned a lot by watching and listening to his father.” Antron is a perfect example of how you can really make your dreams come true in our sport. He made his way to the champion driver, and now the owner of the NHRA Top Fuel team. He is one of the best drivers in our sport, and he does an amazing job for his sponsors. He really is a perfect role model for Anson. ”
Just like Anthron Brown, who is constantly finding ways to educate himself, Enson Brown said he wants to continue his education - following an ambitious plan - although he said he can’t wait to join the Camping World Drag Racing Series tour with his dad after high school. schools.
“I am going to the final year and I will graduate. “So I can’t wait to go after high school,” said Anson Brown. “I will participate in helping with something in my father’s team. But I also have plans to go to college. I want to get an MBA. ”
Anthron Brown has strong ties to automotive technical schools, and his son said he wants to attend one day as well.
“Technical schools, I love them, and I would like to go to one after I go to college. But I have another aspiration. I want to have my own business, “he said.” So I think going to a master’s degree in business administration would really teach me how to run a business, and even help with racing, because it teaches you how to run a business. And racing is business, so they help you manage the team if you want it. “
His dad received individual training from his former team owner Don Schumacher, who has been showing him what winning culture looks like for 13 years. And Anthron Brown said that he absorbed all the lessons he could by listening to and watching Troy Vincent, his first team boss, as well as Joe Amath, Darrell Gwyn and Tony Schumacher, among others. So Anson is planning his own trip.
About ten years ago, Anthron Brown won the Top Fuel trophy in the final in Pomona, California. In the sports part of the national newspaper the next morning, she said that “Enson Brown” won the race.
Anson Brown was barely in kindergarten when that typographical error occurred. One day, he could be among the winners of an NHRA event — both on the pages of a newspaper or on a car website. But first things.
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