{"id":82852,"date":"2021-12-07T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T23:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=82852"},"modified":"2021-12-07T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T23:15:20","slug":"anton-brown-justin-ashley-form-multi-level-top-fuel-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/anton-brown-justin-ashley-form-multi-level-top-fuel-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Anton Brown, Justin Ashley Form Multi-Level Top Fuel Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For nearly the past two years, it\u2019s been known that three-time NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Top Fuel champion, and former Pro Stock Motorcycle standout Antron Brown is starting his own team, AB Motorsports. The COVID-19 pandemic brought a pause to this start-up but, with the 2021 season complete and ch-ch-changes throughout NHRA\u2019s nitro ranks, AB Motorsports is ready to spread its wings and become more than a one-driver enterprise.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, December 7th, both Antron Brown and Justin Ashley announced they\u2019ve formed a multi-faceted alliance that will allow both entities to be enriched through shared experiences. Ashley, 26, who has shared ownership of his one-car Justin Ashley Racing Top Fuel team with Dustin Davis\u2019 Davis Motorsports and is the 2020 NHRA Rookie of the year, together with Brown\u2019s AB Motorsports are forming a Research and Development and Marketing alliance between their two organizations.<\/p>\n

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Both drivers are thoroughly marketable, Ashley through his youth and quick success, and their alliance will add to both drivers\u2019 abilities to enjoin and keep partners that are good for the sport and for both teams. Both AB Motorsports and Justin Ashley Racing\/Davis Motorsports use an enclosed cockpit, which will aid their technical work together and both have two truly successful crew chiefs at their helms: Brian Corradi for AB Motorsports and Mike Green with Justin Ashley Racing\/Davis Motorsports.<\/p>\n

For Brown, taking the helm of his own team for the first time since he began racing Pro Stock Motorcycle in 1998, taking on the dual role of owner\/driver of the Matco Tools Toyota Top Fuel dragster is vital to having long-time friend Ashley, who has shared ownership interest for two seasons, along with Dustin Davis, in the Vita C Shot Top Fuel dragster team, as a partner. \u201cThe goal with this partnership is to make both of our programs stronger overall,\u201d Brown said. Ranked in the NHRA Top 10 for the 24th straight year, Brown knows that \u201ceven though we\u2019re two separate teams with two separate operations, having this partnership will allow us to enjoy many of the advantages that multi-car teams have.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just about the collaboration between our brain trust of crew chiefs,\u201d Brown acknowledged, \u201cbut this will also help us in being able to secure the best parts and pieces. We\u2019ll have stronger purchasing power. We\u2019re both looking to this alliance to help us compete on a high level and go toe-to-toe with the heavy hitters in our category.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This research and development alliance includes sharing on-track data as well as consultation between the teams during and between NHRA\u2019s 2022 national events. Additionally, Ashley will benefit from Brown\u2019s long-running, 14-year partnership with Toyota. Through this alliance, Ashley and his team will have access to engineering and on-track technical assistance at every one of NHRA\u2019s 22 Camping World national events.<\/p>\n

Away from the dragstrips and the trackside NHRA community, both Brown and Ashley are looking forward to working together to present programs to potential partners and to create one of the most marketable one-two punches in the straight-line arena.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to be joining forces with Antron and his team,\u201d Ashley said. \u201cThis alliance is going to improve the performance of both our programs on and off the racetrack. My team has made great strides the past two seasons with our Vita C Shot Top Fuel dragster and now is the time to keep moving forward in an effort to establish a high level of success for years to come. Getting our crew chiefs together to share on-track and off-track technical information is invaluable, and when it comes to marketing, working together opens the door to so many possibilities for our existing partners and any new relationships we start in 2022 and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those keeping track at home, the addition of Ashley to the Toyota Top Fuel family makes for a powerhouse of racers: four-time and reigning champ Steve Torrence, his father Billy Torrence, Kalitta Motorsports\u2019 Doug Kalitta and Shawn Langdon were already set to compete under the Toyota banner, along with Brown. The addition of Ashley to this group makes it a win-win situation for the Japanese manufacturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For nearly the past two years, it\u2019s been known that three-time NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Top Fuel champion, and former Pro Stock Motorcycle standout Antron Brown is starting his own team, AB Motorsports<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":82854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,3470,3399,22],"tags":[82,2,8558,41,7,1632],"class_list":["post-82852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-column","category-news","category-nhra","category-event-coverage","tag-antron-brown","tag-drag-racing","tag-justin-ashley","tag-news","tag-nhra","tag-racing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Justin-Ashley-and-Antron-Brown-min-e1638918814720.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-lyk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82856,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82852\/revisions\/82856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}