Doug Kalitta, Mobil 1 Top Fuel Dragster​


Partnership Update: Doug Kalitta will drive the Mobil 1 Top Fuel dragster in this weekend’s fourth round of the Countdown to the Championship NHRA Playoffs. Mobil 1 is Mobil’s brand of full-synthetic motor oil for cars and light trucks. It is designed to help protect engines from wear, deposits and temperature extremes. The brand also offers different formulas and oil weights for specific vehicles and needs. For the third-straight year, Kalitta’s Mobil 1 team will display the Mobil 1 Top Fuel dragster at the ExxonMobil corporate headquarters in Houston on Wednesday, Oct. 14. Mobil 1 personnel will enjoy unprecedented access to the car and the team hauler while learning the ins and outs of the NHRA Top Fuel dragster.

2025 Texas NHRA FallNationals Recap: Qualified No. 5; defeated Jasmine Salinas, Ida Zetterstrom, Shawn Langdon and Steve Torrence.

Doug Kalitta Career Stats: 643 events, 63 wins, 70 runners-up, 879 round wins, 72 No. 1 qualifiers.

Current Points Position: 2

Pre-Race Notes:

  • Doug Kalitta enters the Texas NHRA FallNationals in second place in the NHRA Top Fuel point standings. He trails his teammate, Shawn Langdon, by 116 points and leads third-place Tony Stewart by 109 with three races remaining in the season.
  • Kalitta and his Mobil 1 team have experience in erasing points deficits. Entering the race in Sonoma in July, Langdon led Kalitta by 150 points with three races remaining in the regular season. Kalitta won the next three races and entered the final race of the regular season, the U.S. Nationals, leading Langdon by 67 points. Langdon won the U.S. Nationals, but Kalitta won the regular season title.
  • Kalitta is the defending champion of the Texas NHRA FallNationals. Last year’s win was his third in six Texas Motorplex final rounds; he also has one No. 1 qualifier.
  • Kalitta has four wins, four runners-up, six semifinals and six No. 1 qualifiers this season. With Kalitta’s wins and Langdon’s eight wins, the Team Kalitta dragsters won 12 of the season’s first 17 races and competed in 65 of the 67 rounds of racing.
  • With 63 race wins, Kalitta is third on NHRA’s all-time Top Fuel wins list and trails second-place Antron Brown by two wins. He is 11th in overall Mission Foods Drag Racing Series wins and trails 10th-place Robert Hight by two wins.
  • Kalitta is a two-time NHRA Top Fuel Champion (2023, ’25) and a member of the Michigan Motorsports Hall of Fame.

Pre-Race Quotes:

“We have three races to go, and the last one’s points and a half so we still have a lot of racing left. If Brian (Langdon Crew Chief Brian Husen), Shawn (Langdon) and those guys continue going to the final round, it’ll be tough to catch them so we’ll do the best we can and see how the chips fall in the remaining three races, but I’m feeling positive about the opportunity. We’ll see what happens.

“When the guys are all clicking, and everybody’s doing their thing, it’s great to be part of that for sure. That’s how I feel with my team, but going out first round (in St. Louis) got us a little behind. It’s not all just one race; the Countdown is six races, so we have time to catch up, but we definitely don’t need to be going out first round again, that’s for sure.

“As long as one of our two cars wins, that’s obviously the goal, but I guess at this point, if we’re going to catch them, Shawn’s gonna have to go out in the earlier rounds. I’m certainly not wishing any bad luck on Shawn. He’s a very deserving driver that’s been doing this a long time, and they’ve had a great season.

“To keep it competitive and keep it fun for everybody out there paying attention to what we’re doing, it’s always more fun when you have a couple cars competing that are close in points. That’s kind of where we are right now; 100 points is doable. We caught up from further back with the regular season championship that we ended up winning so we’ve proven we can do it. We were a little bit behind, won a couple races and all of a sudden, we got ahead of them so I’m hoping that’s how the rest of the year plays out.”

Kalitta Photo Courtesy: Kalitta Motorsports

For Doug Kalitta’s 2026 race-by-race results, please click here.

TV Schedule (All times eastern):

  • Qualifying Show: 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18 on FS1
  • Finals: 4-7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18 on FS1

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