MADDI GORDON
Driver of the Carlyle Tools Top Fuel Dragster​


Countdown to the Championship Ranking: 6th (-79 points)

Last Event (Indianapolis):
Qualified 13th; Quarterfinal finish (defeated Billy Torrence in E1; defeated by Leah Pruett in E2)

2026/Career Statistics:

  • 14 races; one win, one runner-up finish
  • Career-best E.T.: 3.695 seconds (Brainerd 2026)
  • Career-best speed: 340.22 mph (Valdosta 2026)

Noteworthy:

  • Making her 2026 Countdown to the Championship playoff debut at this weekend’s inaugural event
  • The Rookie of the Year contender begins her Top Fuel title campaign from the No. 6 seed in the Mission Foods point standings. She enters the weekend 79 points (or four competition rounds) out of first
  • Gordon’s Carlyle Tools dragster will carry increased OKUMA branding at this weekend’s inaugural Martin, Mich. event as part of a six-race collaboration with the global leader in machine tool design and manufacturing

Fan Events:

  • Friday, 11:00 – 11:30 a.m., Ron Capps Motorsports driver autograph session, Carlyle Tools Outlaw trailer
  • Saturday, 10:00 – 10:30 a.m., Ron Capps Motorsports driver autograph session, Carlyle Tools Outlaw trailer

Quotable:
“It is officially that time of the season – we are starting the Countdown to the Championship, race one of six. These are the most important races of the year, and we’ve spent the first 14 preparing for this moment. Collecting data, researching, practicing; all for these six races, and I’m very excited for that.

“It’ll be not only my first Countdown to the Championship, but also the first for a couple of our Carlyle Tools guys, and we’re all going into this together as a team. I truly believe we have the best group of guys, and there’s nobody else I’d rather go into battle with on a Sunday morning than our Carlyle Tools boys. We’re going to a brand-new race track for everybody. So, we’re going in with the same amount of data as everyone else, and that’s zero. It’s going to be cool, it’s going to be fast, it’s going to be exciting. The pressure’s on but we’re going to keep our heads down, go to work, and focus on taking it one round at a time.”

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