Brian K. Brown (born October 19, 1978) is an American professional

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driver who primarily competes in

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such as the

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for his team Brian Brown Racing. He is a five-time track champion at

Knoxville Raceway Knoxville Raceway is a semi-banked half-mile dirt oval raceway (zook clay) located at the Marion County Fairgrounds in Knoxville, Iowa. Races at the "Sprint Car Capital of the World" are held on Saturday nights from April through September eac ...

with four in the 410 sprint car class and one in the 360 division. Brown has also competed in the

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and

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Racing career

In 1999, Brown won Rookie of the Year honors at Missouri State Fair Speedway while driving for his uncle

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. The following year, he claimed the Missouri State Fair's Winged Outlaw Warrior championship with 11 feature race wins. Brown began racing at Knoxville in 2002 for Lasoski, a seven-time champion at the track. Competing in the 360-cubic-inch sprint car division, he won six races, including three in a row, en route to the championship. He moved up to the 410 class in 2003 with new car owner Lonny Parsons, with whom he won his first 410 race and Rookie of the Year as he placed seventh in points. After one year with Parsons, Brown joined Tim and Gina Doogs. After finishing second in the 2006 410 standings by five points, Brown won the next season's championship. He was also awarded the Hard Charger in the 2007

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. He formed Brian Brown Racing in 2008. A second Knoxville 410 title came in 2010 as he won 12 races; he also started on the

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in that year's Nationals. From 2012 to 2014, he finished second three consecutive times in the Nationals. In 2014, he won his first

Sprint Car Series race at

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. Brown won a fourth Knoxville 410 championship in 2019, and also scored his first World of Outlaws victory at the track. He repeated as champion the next year, a campaign that saw him win his 50th career race at Knoxville. In May 2021, Brown set the fastest lap time in Knoxville history at 14.351 seconds to surpass the record set by Brooke Tatnell of 14.407 in 2006. A month later, he joined the

for the Knoxville race, where he drove a multi-driver local track champions car; he finished eighth in the feature. In July, he made his

debut at Knoxville in the No. 51 for

Kyle Busch Motorsports Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) is an American professional dirt racing team that competes in dirt divisions across the United States. They formerly competed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, CARS Tour, CRA Super Series, A ...

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

( key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Camping World Truck Series

Superstar Racing Experience

( key) * – Most laps led. ¹ – Heat 1 winner. ² – Heat 2 winner. Season still in progress
Ineligible for series points

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Brian Living people 1978 births People from Higginsville, Missouri NASCAR drivers Racing drivers from Missouri World of Outlaws drivers Kyle Busch Motorsports drivers