2026 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Results to Date
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Semi Finalist
Qualified No. 1; defeated Cameron Ferre and Billy Torrence; lost to Doug Kalitta.
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Semi Finalist
Qualified No. 1; defeated Jake Sanders and Will Smith, lost to Antron Brown.
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Winner
Qualified No. 1; defeated Tony Schumacher, Leah Pruett, Justin Ashley and Will Smith.
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Winner
Qualified No. 3; defeated Cameron Ferre, Billy Torrence, Shawn Reed and Doug Kalitta.
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Winner
Qualified No. 4; defeated Maddi Gordon, Will Smith, Doug Kalitta and Spencer Massey.
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Winner
Qualified No. 1; defeated Clay Millican, Justin Ashley, Leah Pruett and Tony Stewart.
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Second Round
Qualified No. 3; second round. Defeated Keith Murt; lost to Leah Pruett.
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First Round
Qualified No. 4; lost to Justin Ashley
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Second Round
Qualified No. 2; defeated Will Smith, lost to Jasmine Salinas.
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Semi Finalist
Qualified No. 1: defeated Bye and Doug Kalitta; lost to Maddie Gordon.
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Runner Up
Qualified No. 9; defeated Jasmine Salinas, Leah Pruett, Tony Stewart; lost to Antron Brown.
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Runner Up
Qualified No. 1; defeated Bye, Clay Millican and Doug Kalitta, lost to Leah Pruett.
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Winner
Qualified No. 1; defeated Bye, Justin Ashley, Billy Torrence and Doug Kalitta.
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Winner
Qualified No. 9; defeated Shawn Reed, Doug Kalitta, Josh Hart and Antron Brown
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Winner
Qualified No. 2; defeated Cameron Feree, Antron Brown, Clay Millican and Doug Kalitta.
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Runner Up
Qualified No. 1; defeated Jasmine Salinas and Dan Mercier; defeated Spencer Massey and Billy Torrence; lost to Doug Kalitta; defeated Leah Pruett and Tony Stewart.
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Semi Finalist
Qualified No. 3; defeated Tony Schumacher, Billy Torrence; lost to Tony Stewart.
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Winner
Qualified No. 1; defeated Bye, Tony Schumacher, Maddi Gordon and Leah Pruett.
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First Round
Qualified No. 2; lost to Maddie Gordon.
Fast Facts
About Shawn
Shawn Langdon
Kalitta Air Careers Top Fuel Dragster 2013 NHRA Top Fuel Champion
Fourth place in 2024; second place in 2025. If that progression continues, the 2026 season will be monumental for Shawn Langdon and his Kalitta Air Careers Top Fuel team. A championship in the 75th Anniversary NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season would be Langdon’s second. The 2013 NHRA Top Fuel champion has 22 Top Fuel victories and two Funny Car wins to his credit in addition to 29 Top Fuel runner-up finishes. He has 22 No. 1 qualifiers and more than 400 round wins in his career.
Langdon and crew chief Brian Husen finished second in the 2025 final standings – it was Langdon’s first-career runner-up finish. With teammate Doug Kalitta’s championship, it was the first one-two Top Fuel finish in Kalitta Motorsports history and just the second time in NHRA history that a team swept the top two positions in the Top Fuel season standings.
Langdon’s 2025 season included multiple memorable moments. In April, he won the 1,000th Top Fuel race in NHRA history at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in Charlotte. He also won in Phoenix and Seattle, but perhaps his most significant run was a second-round win over Justin Ashley in Las Vegas in November securing second place in the final season standings.
Langdon is a lifelong racer. He won the NHRA Jr. Dragster National title at age 14 in 1997. Ten years later, he captured back-to-back NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Super Comp national titles in 2007 and ‘08 in the highly competitive sportsman ranks.
He made his NHRA professional debut in Top Fuel in 2009 and was a finalist for NHRA Rookie of the Year. After joining Alan Johnson Racing in 2012, Langdon won his first Top Fuel national event at the fall Charlotte race that season.
The Mira Loma Calif., native enjoyed a historic run in 2013 winning seven races, including the historic NHRA U.S. Nationals, on the way to his first NHRA Top Fuel championship. Langdon appeared in 10 final rounds and qualified No. 1 seven times that season. He became the first competitor to win NHRA national championships in the Junior Drag Racing League, Lucas Oil Drag Racing and the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series.
After Alan Johnson Racing, Langdon drove for Don Schumacher Racing until joining Team Kalitta in 2017. He raced a Toyota Camry Funny Car for Kalitta Motorsports in 2018 and ’19 and collected two wins making him just the 17th NHRA racer to reach the winner’s circle in both the Top Fuel and Funny Car categories. In 2020, Langdon returned to Top Fuel.
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