Doug Kalitta, Mac Tools Top Fuel Dragster​


2025 Texas NHRA FallNationals Recap: Qualified No. 2; defeated Rob Passey and Bye, lost to Shawn Langdon.

Doug Kalitta Career Stats: 644 events, 63 wins, 71 runners-up, 881 round wins, 72 No. 1 qualifiers.

Current Points Position: 2

Pre-Race Notes:

  • Doug Kalitta enters the Mopar NHRA Las Vegas Nationals in second place in the NHRA Top Fuel point standings. He trails his teammate, Shawn Langdon, by 139 points and leads third-place Antron Brown by 85 points with two races remaining in the season.
  • Kalitta and his Mac Tools 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. The reigning and two-time Top Fuel champion will need a similar effort in the season’s last two races to catch his teammate.
  • 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 18 races and competed in 68 of the 71 rounds of racing. Neither driver reached the final round at Pomona, Calif., Norwalk, Ohio or Ennis, Texas.
  • The 2026 season has been one for the Kalitta Motorsports record book. The team has 14 race wins this year (Langdon 8, Kalitta 4 and Todd 2), more than any other season in team history.
  • The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway has been good to Doug Kalitta. He has three wins in nine final rounds in Las Vegas along with four No. 1 qualifiers.
  • 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 still have a shot at this thing, but it’ll have to be perfect. I know my guys will do everything they can to make it happen, but we’ll need a little help from Shawn (Langdon) and Brian (Husen) with what they’ve got going on. At this point, the goal is to just try to win those last two and see where it leads us. Things went pretty well with the testing in Dallas, so I think we’re in pretty good shape heading to Vegas for sure.

“The good news for this Mac Tools team is that the last two tracks have been really good to us over the years so it should be interesting. My guys are hungry and looking forward to it. The guys are making sure everything is ready to go for Vegas.

“This weekend is a hell of an opportunity for my team – it’s been a good place for us over the years. The fans there are awesome really; it’s kinda cool that they run early enough that people can still do what they do on the strip. It’s a beautiful facility, and we’re super excited to get there. I definitely like going to Vegas – it’s always exciting to hit the last two races at the end of the year, be in contention to win those and see where you shake out. It’s definitely a crap shoot when it comes to these last two races with points and a half at the last one. You never count yourself out, but we definitely have to collect as many points as we can to make it happen.”

Kalitta Photo Courtesy: Kalitta Motorsports

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

TV Schedule (All times eastern):

  • Qualifying Show: 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1 on FS1
  • Finals: 5-8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1 on FS1

The post Doug Kalitta Tries to Win the Last Two first appeared on Team Kalitta Motorsports.

Continue reading...