Shawn Langdon, Kalitta Air Careers Top Fuel Dragster​


2025 Texas NHRA FallNationals Recap: Qualified No. 1; defeated Mitch King and Clay Millican; lost to Doug Kalitta

Shawn Langdon Career Stats: 389 events, 30 wins, 32 runners-up, 456 round wins, 29 No. 1 qualifiers.

Current Points Position: 1

Pre-Race Notes:

  • Shawn Langdon enters the Texas NHRA FallNationals in first place in the NHRA Top Fuel point standings. Entering the fourth of six playoff races, Langdon leads his teammate, Doug Kalitta, by 116 points.
  • Langdon won the NHRA Midwest Nationals two weeks ago. With the win, he:
    • Won his eighth race of the season and his fourth-straight race. His eight wins also include a three-race win streak in the spring.
    • Swept the first three of six Countdown to the Championship NHRA Playoff races.
    • Won his 16th-consecutive round of racing; his last round loss was in the second round at Brainerd, Minn., on Aug. 23.
  • Langdon has now won four-straight races for the first time since Steve Torrence did it in 2019. He will go for his fifth-straight this weekend. Only Torrence (2019) and Tony Schumacher (2005) have won five-straight races in Top Fuel.
  • With Langdon’s race wins in Indianapolis, Martin, Mich., Rockingham, N.C., and St. Louis and Kalitta’s wins in Sonoma, Calif., Seattle and Brainerd, Minn., the Team Kalitta Top Fuel teams are on a seven-race win streak. With Langdon’s eight wins and Kalitta’s four wins, the Team Kalitta dragsters won 12 of the season’s 17 races and competed in 65 of the 67 rounds of racing.
  • Langdon’s 28-career Top Fuel wins place him 10th all-time in Top Fuel victories. His 30 wins overall place him tied for 30th in overall Mission Foods Drag Racing wins.
  • Langdon owns the four fastest runs in NHRA history. At the Great Lakes Nationals in Michigan, he recorded speeds of 346.95 and 346.15. At the Southern Nationals in Georgia in May, he recorded speeds of 345.00 mph and 344.91 mph.
  • Langdon has three runners-up and three No. 1 qualifiers at Texas Motorplex, but he has yet to win a race at the suburban Dallas track.
  • Langdon is the 2013 NHRA Top Fuel Champion and has 29 wins in his career.

Pre-Race Quotes:

“The results we’re showing now are from the hard work from the last couple of years. We’ve had some good results since Brian (Crew Chief Brian Husen) came on board. We finished fourth the first year, finished second the second year, finished second in the regular season both years, but I knew the capabilities of this team. It just was a matter of time until things started coming together.

“Kalitta has had some great success in the past, but we had a couple years that the Top Fuel cars struggled a little bit. Connie (Team Owner Connie Kalitta) allowed Chad Head, our General Manager, to make some changes. Some great people worked on these cars, but for whatever reason, things didn’t work out. Right now, I think we have absolutely the best of the best across the board, from crew chiefs to car chiefs to assistant crew chiefs to crew guys to drivers. We have a great organization that’s never satisfied, always striving for perfection. A lot of hard work’s gone into it, and fortunately, now we’re able to get some of the dividends.

“I try not to really think about it (the 16-round win streak). I just try to do the task at hand, take each run for what it is and address each run in that moment. I try not to dwell on the past or think too far ahead. I try to live in the moment and think about the next run. The thing for me is a simple-minded approach and try not to think about it too much. The car is good; it’s making smooth runs and responding very well to the changes Brian makes. It’s a great listener so it’s a great-racing car. We just have to try not to mess up. We need to keep doing what we’ve been doing, continue to attack it and keep our game plan.

“Brian talks about peaking at the right time, and I feel like we’re peaking at the right time. Everything’s working, the parts look good (after runs). Everything works consistently, so we almost have a plug and play deal right now so that’s what we’re going to do. We’ll go to Dallas, look back at the notes from last year, and see if we can make more good runs.”

Crew Chief Brian Husen: “We have a hell of a lot of confidence right now. The guys are doing a superb job. We get to go all these rounds, and we’re just gaining more advantage on our competitors, really, is what it is. We just get deeper in the rounds and get a lot more experience racing on Sunday. That’s all paying off right now, and everything’s going our way. We still have a lot of racing to do, so we need to get prepared for that.”

Langdon Photo Courtesy: NHRA

For Shawn Langdon’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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