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For NHRA’s Shawn Langdon, zMAX Dragway Is Site of Some Life-Changing History
Kalitta Motorsports racer returns to site of first Funny Car victory.
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Kalitta Motorsports racer Shawn Langdon earned his first NHRA pro trophy, in the Top Fuel class, at zMAX Dragway in Charlotte, N.C., in the fall of 2012, The Funny Car breakthrough came just two weeks after Langdon promised a Wally trophy to his father, Chad Langdon, who was overcoming cancer and recuperating from a liver transplant.
Langdon and Del Worsham are the only drivers to win in both NHRA Top Fuel and Funny Car at zMAX Dragway.
Toyota Camry Funny Car Owns 3-Second Runs, Smashes Record Three Times 6 Apr 2021, 11:37 UTC ·
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Del Worsham is the new king of the funny car category, having set a new record in his Toyota Camry-lookalike dragster. Del smashed the record three times in a row at Funny Car Chaos at Texas Motorplex before settling for a 3.19-second benchmark. 1 photo
Funny cars may look funny, but they mean business. Especially those tuned and driven by Del Worsham. The California-born driver crushed all opposition at Texas Motorplex last week by running a handful of low three-second passes. Del set the first record at 3.21 seconds to go with a trap speed of 270.9 mph (435.97 kph).
8 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Milestones Worth Rooting for in 2021
NHRA turns 70 years young, but that s just the beginning of what should be a historic season.
By Susan Wade Icon SportswireGetty Images Racers in all classes of the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series have chances to reach milestones this season, starting with the season-opening Gatornationals at Gainesville, Florida, March 12-14.
Here s some of the things worth keeping an eye on:
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Erica Enders is eyeing a fifth Pro Stock title that would launch her into the class-legend stratosphere with Jeg Coughlin, Warren Johnson, and the late Bob Glidden.
Last week’s “Name a random racer” column drew an avalanche of emails that will be fodder for a feature column, but, as promised, this week I’m talking about my random guy: Top Fuel driver Yuichi Oyama.
Unless you lived in Japan, where he competed in Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Fuel, you’d probably never heard of him until his debut at the 2002 Winternationals, but by year’s end, everyone from Don Garlits to Kenny Bernstein had felt the sting of his brief eight-race appearance on the tour that season.
Oyama, who hailed from the Shinagawa ward in Tokyo Japan, purchased turnkey the ex-Don Prudhomme dragster owned by Southern Californian Robert Reehl and hired Reehl and his crew to run it for him.