Antron Brown made history as the first African-American to win a major motorsports championship when he won the 2012 NHRA Top Fuel championship, but it sure didn’t come easy.

Antron Brown won 42 races and three championships during the 2010s, a tremendous achievement that served as a true coming-out party for the former Pro Stock Motorcycle rider.

Antron Brown had a fairly good idea of what he was getting into when he set to work building a Top Fuel team of his own, and he came to know rather quickly exactly what he'd signed up for as owner of his own team.