1st Black to win a major American auto racing season championship

[eyer]

His name is Antron Brown and he and his team are the 2012 NHRA (National Hot Rod Association) Top Fuel Champions...

..**** Fuelers are America's badazz race cars - employing over 3,000 horsepower, Top Fuelers reach almost 330 mph in 1000 feet of race track in less than 3.8 seconds.

Watch the following vid and be struck by the controlled explosiveness of man and machine...

...it begins by the yellow car closest to the camera doing a "burn-out" (scrubbing its tires clean while also cleaning the wheel tracks it'll will launch from when the "Christmas tree" lights go green to start the race), then the other Top Fueler does his burn-out. Both then reverse direction to line-up and "stage" for the start of the race

Once the green shows, it's instant human reaction to mashing the throttle and trying to keep the car straight...

...this video highlights the quickest run in NHRA Top Fuel history at the time, recorded by the yellow car: 3.728 seconds @ 329.91mph.

Interesting to note that that record has been bested by the new Top Fuel Champion - Antron Brown - with a 3.70 run...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84aBtmTDd8

For more go to:

http://antronbrown.com/

 

[Tryharder62]

I think it is great but I also think it is too bad that his accomplishment can't be enough. That we still have to bring up the color of his skin. Great job though guy!!!!

 

[RoryN]

I think it is great but I also think it is too bad that his accomplishment can't be enough. That we still have to bring up the color of his skin.

Agreed.

Eyer made this thread because he's racist scum, and he's trying to cover. Love how progressive he is with "1st Black". I guess it's 1974 all over again.

 

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[ms_ann_thrope]

Nobody ever singles out Danica Patrick for being from Wisconsin.

 

[koalabear]

Back in my drag racing says these guys were my heroes. This AA/Gas Supercharged 41 Willys was the first car in America to break the 9 second barrier. It was the baddest of the bad in it's day. I traveled to watch them many times all over California when they were racing. It was known as the the "Stone Woods & Cook "Swindler A." Fred Stone and Leonard Woods were both black men. Hot Rod Magazine called it the most famous drag car in America. In fact their B/Gas version was never beaten in 400 races.

So back to the point of the thread, I don't see why it's important to highlight the driver's race, black guys have been kicking ass on race tracks for as long as I've been familiar with the sport.

 

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[RjThoughts]

I'm from Shirley Muldowney's hometown, where she is remembered mostly as a heroine, though some of the cops that were still around when I was growing up didn't care much for her.

Far too long in coming. He's a talent, and his skin color never should have been a factor in it.

 

[renard_ruse]

Agreed.

Eyer made this thread because he's racist scum, and he's trying to cover. Love how progressive he is with "1st Black". I guess it's 1974 all over again.

Not that Eyer is a "racist," but for sake of argument what makes a "racist" "scum" in your opinion, why is it so unspeakably terrible if nobody is being hurt or harmed by it? Why the obsession?

My guess is that its a way for you to hide behind some made up moral cause to cover for the fact that you are not a very moral person in other ways. By ranting about real or imagined "racism" you can play the moral hero standing against evil without having to do anything or be anything yourself. You can be a Saturday morning cartoon hero from behind your comfy keyboard battling against a socially unpopular phantom menace.

 

[eyer]

So back to the point of the thread, I don't see why it's important to highlight the driver's race, black guys have been kicking ass on race tracks for as long as I've been familiar with the sport.

"the point of the thread" is news, history...

...you know, news like an accomplishment no other has ever before attained, a historic feat never before witnessed.

Now, alongside names like Robinson and Obama, and Ribbs and Douglas...

...stands Antron Brown on his own little patch of historic ground.

No doubt wiki will soon record his exceptionalism, too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_firsts

 

[hogjack]

Morgan Freeman is the best car driver.

Ever.