Shawn Langdon, Kalitta Air Careers Top Fuel Dragster
2025 NHRA Potomac Nationals Recap: Inaugural Event.
Shawn Langdon Career Stats: 375 events, 25 wins, 30 runners-up, 430 round wins, 24 No. 1 qualifiers.
Current Points Position: 1
Pre-Race Notes:
Pre-Race Quotes:
“The sport goes in waves; you have to capitalize when you can, and fortunately, the Kalitta Air Careers team is able to capitalize right now. We’re making consistently good runs when we need to and making appropriate runs when we need to. All the guys are doing a great job putting the car together consistently with no mistakes, and Brian (Crew Chief Brian Husen) is doing a great job making last-minute calls, putting a good tuneup in the car. Fortunately, we’re making good runs, and the results are falling in our favor.
“Brian’s gotten really good lately, off his gut feeling, making those last-second little changes. At the last race (near Chicago), I could tell he kinda had two different game plans – one for when the sun was out and one for when we had cloud cover so they’re able to adapt to the conditions to provide a great race car.
“We’ve done really well and have a couple wins, but the Kalitta Air Careers team is not complacent; they’re not satisfied. They want to keep making the car better, and that’s why I really enjoy being a part of this team because they never settle. They always try to be better for the next race.
“I raced there (at Maryland International Raceway) a long time ago in a bracket race, but it’s a similar situation to South Georgia. I’ve never run a (Top) fuel car there – the only time I was there, it was in a bracket car so different track, same result is what we’re hoping for this weekend. Brian and the team have done a really good job going into situations like that by doing their homework and starting off well like we did in South Georgia – hopefully, we can keep that up.”
Langdon Photo Courtesy: Kalitta Motorsports
For Shawn Langdon’s 2026 race-by-race results, please click here.
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2025 NHRA Potomac Nationals Recap: Inaugural Event.
Shawn Langdon Career Stats: 375 events, 25 wins, 30 runners-up, 430 round wins, 24 No. 1 qualifiers.
Current Points Position: 1
Pre-Race Notes:
- Shawn Langdon enters the inaugural NHRA Potomac Nationals in first place in the NHRA Top Fuel point standings. His teammate, Doug Kalitta, is second making Team Kalitta one-two in points. With J.R. Todd atop the Funny Car standings, Team Kalitta leads the points in both Top Fuel and Funny Car.
- Langdon won the last two races and has three wins on the season (Phoenix, Valdosta, Ga., and Chicago). With Kalitta’s Charlotte win, the Team Kalitta dragsters have won four of the season’s six races and have competed in 23 of the 24 rounds of racing so far this season. Langdon has three wins, a runner-up and a semifinal showing along with two No. 1 qualifiers in the season’s first six races.
- With two-straight wins to his credit, Langdon will look for a hat trick at this weekend’s inaugural event. Should Langdon win this weekend, he would be the first Top Fuel driver to win three-straight races since Steve Torrence won Norwalk, Ohio, Denver and Sonoma, Calif., in 2021.
- Langdon owns the two fastest runs in NHRA history. At the Southern Nationals in Georgia earlier this month, he recorded speeds of 345.00 mph and 344.91 mph.
- This weekend’s race is NHRA’s second inaugural national event of the season. Langdon won the first at South Georgia Motorsports Park.
- Langdon is the 2013 NHRA Top Fuel Champion and now has 25 Top Fuel wins in his career.
Pre-Race Quotes:
“The sport goes in waves; you have to capitalize when you can, and fortunately, the Kalitta Air Careers team is able to capitalize right now. We’re making consistently good runs when we need to and making appropriate runs when we need to. All the guys are doing a great job putting the car together consistently with no mistakes, and Brian (Crew Chief Brian Husen) is doing a great job making last-minute calls, putting a good tuneup in the car. Fortunately, we’re making good runs, and the results are falling in our favor.
“Brian’s gotten really good lately, off his gut feeling, making those last-second little changes. At the last race (near Chicago), I could tell he kinda had two different game plans – one for when the sun was out and one for when we had cloud cover so they’re able to adapt to the conditions to provide a great race car.
“We’ve done really well and have a couple wins, but the Kalitta Air Careers team is not complacent; they’re not satisfied. They want to keep making the car better, and that’s why I really enjoy being a part of this team because they never settle. They always try to be better for the next race.
“I raced there (at Maryland International Raceway) a long time ago in a bracket race, but it’s a similar situation to South Georgia. I’ve never run a (Top) fuel car there – the only time I was there, it was in a bracket car so different track, same result is what we’re hoping for this weekend. Brian and the team have done a really good job going into situations like that by doing their homework and starting off well like we did in South Georgia – hopefully, we can keep that up.”
Langdon Photo Courtesy: Kalitta Motorsports
For Shawn Langdon’s 2026 race-by-race results, please click here.
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