After getting the win against Steve Torrence in the rain delayed final from Seattle, Antron Brown almost doubled up at Brainerd.

In the fourth and final qualifying session, Brown clocked a career-best 3.679 at 328 mph to earn his second No. 1 qualifying position of the season.

"The weather was the same as Seattle but the altitude's not the same. Coming here, we have a really good racetrack but we just can't make enough power. So you have to really crank on it, and Brian and Mark and all of our Matco Tools/U.S. Army boys really knew how to make it better run after run after run.

"Sometime we might not come out the first run and set the world on fire. The second run, the third run, we'll find something else out that'll go our way. But, by the fourth run, our guys are always spot on. That run for the trophy with Torrence in Q3, we both were trying to run way better than we'd been running and the track just ate us up and we snuck away with a win. But we went back to the house and assessed it and realized we couldn't play around, anymore, and 'Old Nellie' went right down Broadway, and I mean it was ripping."

Brown ran his career best elapsed time of 3.679 to earn the No. 1 qualifying position for Sunday's Brainerd eliminations. Things were going well until the final round.

Brown had a .043-second reaction time to Force's .080 before a mechanical failure slowed the Matco Tools dragster and left Brown with a front row seat to see Force's fiery win.

"In the final, they were going for it and tore their car up," he said. "We had a part that never fails, fail. Our clutch locked up about 40 feet out."

If anything good came of the weekend for Steve Torrence, it was he didn’t lose position in the point standings and will move on to Indianapolis in third place behind Brown and Doug Kalitta.

On Saturday in the delayed final round from Seattle, Torrence lost to Brown when his Capco Contractors/Rio Ammunition dragster lost traction. Then on Sunday, an engine misfire at the hit of the throttle meant a first-round loss to Terry McMillen.

“Between the rain and the racing, it was kind of a miserable weekend, the Texan said. “But you can’t dwell on that. You have to accet what happens and just move on.”