Langdon Tops Kalitta in All-Kalitta NHRA Final at Southern Nationals

Langdon Tops Kalitta in All-Kalitta NHRA Final Icon Sportswire - Getty Images Kalitta Motorsports owned the Top Fuel category throughout the weekend in the NHRA Southern Nationals, so it was only fitting for the final round to come down to Kalitta teammates Doug Kalitta and Shawn Langdon. On the first day of qualifying at South Georgia Motorsports Park, Langdon made the fastest ever Top Fuel run at 345 mph. A day later, Kalitta secured the No.

1 position with a 3. 657 e. t.

So, when they met in the final round, each racer knew his competitor well. In fact, Langdon’s crew chief Brian Husen told his driver he would try to get the car to match what he thought Kalitta would run, and then he would let them “have it out. ” “I didn’t particularly like that scenario because I wasn’t really hitting the tree well today (Sunday),” Langdon said after claiming his second victory this year and the 24th of his career.

Langdon got the jump on Kalitta with a . 070-second reaction time to Kalitta’s . 074, and he never trailed his teammate, taking the victory with a 3.