Hey everyone. It’s Sunday morning at Reading and it’s a beautiful day here at Maple Grove, one of my favorite race tracks. We just got done warming-up our MAR Matco Tools dragster and doing NHRA Race Day on ESPN2 with Dave Rieff, Mike Dunn and Grandma Brown, and, of course, all the awesome fans here at Maple Grove. That was an awesome fan turnout for Race Day.

It’s been more than a week and I have a few minutes before our tough first-round race with Brandon Bernstein and the Budweiser team, so I thought I’d jump on the laptop for a quick NHRA.com blog update. I told ya’ll last time, the brothaman is going to be a better blogger. I’m not going to be Bob Wilber, but I’ll do my best to update once a week now.

It’s been a busy week, but they all are when we have back-to-back races. I need to start by giving a shout out to Morgan Lucas, Jimmy Walsh and that entire Geico/Lucas Oil team. They ran awesome last weekend at Brainerd. Anytime you can out-run that Al-Anabi car, you’re doing something right. Those Lucas boys have it going again because Morgan ran two 3.86s here at Reading and qualified second. We also want to thank Forrest Lucas and everyone at Lucas Oil for the great support and the awesome ad they took out in National DRAGSTER to congratulate our team on our sweep of the Western Swing.

After Brainerd, we flew home on Monday morning and spent a few days at home and flew into Reading on Wednesday morning. I flew with my beautiful wife, Billie Jo. We flew into Philly and went over to New Jersey to visit with my family for the day and then came over to Reading and our nice digs at the Country Inn and Suites. We were right by the VF outlet mall, so Billie and I did some school shopping and let me tell you, the Brown kids are going to be looking right and tight when school starts real soon. They all have a bunch of new outfits and my little boy Anson is going to be looking sharp. They’re going to call him “Best Dressed Brown.” LOL

On Thursday morning, we made the quick drive over to Pottstown to hang out with my boy Doug Rauco, one of our family of Matco Tools distributors. Doug came up to T.Y. or PR Ted at the Matco Tools Expo way back in February and said he wanted to do a tool truck ride. Doug hooked it up. He worked with the folks at Tri-County Toyota to set-up a fan meet-and-greet from 9 a.m.-Noon. Doug did an awesome job. He had the local newspaper out there and everything. So, I need to give a big shout out to Doug for hooking up the awesome Matco Tools/Toyota visit. Matco Tools and Toyota, now that has a nice ring to it.

That night, we did another Matco Tools customer appreciation dinner at the track at our Iron Eagle Club hospitality. We had a great turn-out of Matco distributors and customers and it’s an awesome time to meet with all the great folks that support Matco and buy tools. Our boy Chef Joe does up a great dinner and the guests get to see the Matco Tools dragster and our hauler too. Plus, we do a bunch of giveaways like connecting rods and pistons and blower belts and hats and t-shirts. We done like five or six dinners at the track and it’s an awesome time for all.

It’s been typical Reading with the rain and overcast lousy weather. It looks good so far today though and we’re hoping the rain stays this way. I think Hurricane Bill may have hurt us here this weekend. I don’t know what it is about this race because it always rains. No matter when they run the race, it rains. It’s lousy because this is always a great race with awesome, die-hard fan turnout. I love hanging out with all the hometown folks from PA and Jersey. We did some autograph sessions at the NitroMall and sold a bunch of Antron Brown hats and t-shirts, and you too can get your own A.B. gear online at www.NitroMall.com. Make sure when you come out to the races you’re supporting this MAR Matco Tools team.

We also have to thank my boy Sonny Croughn from Croughn’s Auto Styling. Maybe you saw on ESPN his “Trike.” It’s a combo motorcycle and dragster. It looks a lot like a Super Comp car. It’s really cool and when we saw it back in Englishtown, we knew we had to do something for the TV show. Sonny also gave me a really nice, custom plaque for sweeping the Western Swing. So, thanks Sonny. That’ll look good on the wall at the shop in Brownsburg.

Ok folks, it’s time to wrap it up and race, and with that, some time for a little love, peace, hometown Jersey hair grease. And I’m out like shout to the staging lanes.

Antron