Burton Brown proved that persistence and consistency pays off as he captured the 2001 Golden Sands Speedway track championship in dramatic fashion.  Brown who had been among the point leaders all season long found himself in a late race point battle with defending track champion Mark Eswein as the season was drawing to a close.

With remarkable consistency, and the fact that he was the only driver to start every feature race in the Late Model division in 2001, Brown was able to close the point gap and take the lead in the standings heading into the final night of action.  On that final night, Brown was able to set a conservative pace, and in spite of not matching the performance of Eswein, he was able to secure the title by a mere five points on one of the closest point battles in track history.

Brown would record 17 top ten feature finishes in 19 nights of action on the third-mile paved oval.  Though he would not record a feature win this season, it was the consistency, coupled with two fast qualifying efforts and nine top five feature finishes that put Brown atop the standings.

A versatile racer, Brown has competed on both and dirt racing surfaces.  Though a majority of his career he spent on asphalt he ran a season in the IMCA Modified ranks at the Sunnyview Speedzone Raceway in Oshkosh during the 1999 season. While Brown has settled into running weekly at local race tracks he formerly toured with the Mid-American Stock Car series having won feature events in that division.  Brown has also topped the Sportsman division at the during the Fall Specials at Wisconsin International Raceway during that events heyday and has recorded victories at the high banked Slinger Super Speedway.

Raised in Nestor Falls, Ontario, Canada he began his racing career in Figure Eights at Wisconsin International Raceway in 1983.   In 1984 he competed in the "Bump N' Run" class at 141 Speedway.  The division mandated you needed to bump, but not spin, a car before making a pass.  He finished second in points in the division. After finishing fifth in Figure Eight points in 1985 he took some time off but returned to racing in 1988.  For the next several seasons he competed in the Midwest Enduro Stock Car Series, which hosts long distance events (200 laps or more) for basically stock cars. He won an event during that time and had numerous second place runs.

In 1992 he stepped up to the Street Stock division winning six features at Wisconsin International Raceway in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. The next season he joined the Mid-American Stock Car Series and toured the upper Midwest finishing ninth in the overall standings.  He competed in the tour again the following season with a sixth place point finish and established a track record for Mid-American cars on the quarter-mile track at Kaukauna.

The 1995 season saw Brown again compete in the Mid-American tour climbing to fourth in points, along the way he also competed with the same car in the Limited Late Model class at Kaukauna where he claimed third in points in the class.  In 1996 Brown would make a trip to Golden Sands and earn a fast qualifying effort in the Mid-American Series.

His first ventures in Late Model racing began in 1997 competing off and on at Kaukauna and Slinger Super Speedway. During the next two seasons he would claim some heat and semi-feature wins along the way, before concentrating his efforts full time on Golden Sands.

In his first season at Sands he earned his first fast qualifying effort behind the wheel of a Late Model as well as scoring his first career Late Model feature victory enroute to a 14th place finish in the standings.   During the 2000 season Brown earned two victories, scored six top five runs and finished in the top 10 on fifteen occasions.  Those performances resulted in a sixth place point finish, which was his best performance behind a wheel of a Late Model until his championship winning season this year.