Hello everyone. The brothaman is back on the blog. It’s been a few weeks and I have some time at home, so I wanted to say hello for a few minutes. I got back home from Dallas on Monday morning and went straight over to see my girl Kelly-Kel, Kelly Bustos, at Impact! Racing to try on my new Toyota firesuit for this weekend at Memphis. Like always, it fit right and tight, and I’ll be looking good in my new red and white threads this weekend at Memphis.

OK folks. I have a confession to make. I have an addiction. I’m hooked on Farmville on Facebook. My wife turned me on to Farmville, and the competitive guy that I am, I’m gonna have the baddest farm on Facebook. By the way, thanks to all the fans for the gifts. I’ve gotten a lot of gifts over the weekend and I have to thank my boy T.Y. for the Twitter “Tweets” about me playing Farmville.

On to racing. The Countdown hasn’t been kind to us so far, but we’re nowhere near out of this thing yet. The Army car ran great at Dallas. We have to give it up to Tony and Mike Green for their performance in the brutal heat last weekend. They ran awesome. We’re 65 points out or about three rounds of racing. There are 16 rounds left, so we have a great shot to win this Top Fuel championship.

Our Matco Tools dragster is still running great. We qualified second at Charlotte and had top speed of the meet for the 11th time this season. We had a malfunction on our burnout that caused us to smoke the tires against Terry McMillen. That was a bummer for our team because we have very high expectation. Then we went back out there for the four-lane exhibition race and put down low e.t. in a green lane at 3.86. We expect to win the championship and lead this thing as we have for most of the season. We’re not cocky, just very confident in the ability of our entire MAR Matco Tools team. Then in Dallas, the high heat threw us a little curveball. We qualified sixth and ran well in the first round at 3.911, which was second quick of the round behind Tony’s and Larry Dixon’s 3.884, but it didn’t get us lane choice. We got put in the dreaded right lane, and the track just wouldn’t hold our tune-up. So, we’re going into Memphis with our heads held high, and we’re ready to get things back on track for both Matco and Toyota this weekend. We did great with the DirecTV colors at St. Louis in May and we’re hoping for the same result at Memphis this weekend with Toyota on the car.

I wanted to include a few photos from our first two legs of the Countdown. The Wednesday before Charlotte we took our Matco Tools dragster to CV Products in Mooresville, N.C., for a display. CV makes a lot of parts and pieces we use on our race car. On Thursday afternoon, I did the pre-race press conference at zMax Dragway with Tony and John and Ashley Force and “Fast” Jack Beckman. Tony was late, but when you’re the six-time champ, you can be late. The last photo is me as a Texas cowboy at the Motorplex. I had a fan come up to me to trade hats. He gave me his cowboy hat for my Matco Tools hat. That was a good deal for me because I have plenty of Matco hats.

OK folks. I think it’s time to get back to Farmville. LOL And with that, a little love, peace and hair grease, and I’m out like shout.

God bless,

Antron