{"id":3965,"date":"2019-10-01T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2019-10-01T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:51:24","slug":"langdon-score-championship-contention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=3965","title":{"rendered":"Langdon Score = Championship Contention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shawn Langdon took control of race day at the NHRA Midwest Nationals and captured his second Funny Car win of the 2019 NHRA season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The win jumped Langdon into the Funny Car championship conversation with a move from 10th<\/sup> to 7th<\/sup> and an 80 point deficit from the points lead in the category. The Global Electronic Technology Toyota Camry Funny Car took out three Countdown contenders on the way to the winner\u2019s circle. This was Langdon\u2019s 16th career Mello Yello Drag Racing Series victory after registering 14 in Top Fuel.<\/p>\n

Langdon\u2019s race day started with a strong driver performance in his first round victory. The No. 10 qualifier took a starting line advantage all the way to a win light on a hole shot win over Johnson Jr.\u00a0 Langdon\u2019s 3.907 second elapsed time combined with his stellar .047 reaction time moved him into the quarterfinals. Johnson\u2019s elapsed time of 3.89 was the only run in the 3.80s and was not enough to defeat Langdon.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Racing against veteran driver Jim Campbell Langdon had lane choice and confidence on his side. At the hit of the throttle his Camry immediately smoked the tires as Campbell began to pull away. Luckily, Campbell also hazed his tires a split second later. Langdon took the opportunity to practice his pedaling skills and he feathered the throttle on his 11,000 hp Funny Car. He was able to regain traction and began reeling in Campbell and by 500 feet he flew past him for the win.<\/p>\n

A tough semifinal faced Langdon as he drew one of the quickest and most consistent racecars on the property the past three days. Bob Tasca III earned qualifying bonus points every round and made two solid runs on race day. Langdon and the Global Electronic Technology crew chief tandem of Del Worsham and Nicky Boninfante knew they could step it up and race to their third final round.<\/p>\n

The quickest run of the semifinals belonged to Langdon. His 3.953 second run trailered Tasca and gave him lane choice over teammate and final round opponent J.R. Todd.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Langdon faced J.R. Todd in the all-Kalitta final round and both Funny Cars launched hard and Langdon knew he would have his hands full.<\/p>\n

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(Shawn Langdon (far lane) defeated his teammate JR Todd in the “all Kalitta – all Toyota” fuel Funny Car finale at NHRA St. Louis)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not really sure what happened in the finals. I hit the gas and I heard that thing was laboring, but man it was the final round in the Countdown and I\u2019m not lifting.\u00a0\u00a0I was expecting to see the yellow car and I knew our car was struggling, but I never did and we got the win,\u201d said Langdon.<\/p>\n

The win moved Langdon up to seventh points and more importantly showed him and his Global Electronic Technology team that a championship is definitely within reach.<\/p>\n

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(With his strong “final four” event finish – Robert Hight has moved back into the overall Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship points lead)<\/p><\/div>\n

Event Essentials: \u00a0 NHRA AAA Midwest Nationals (Sep. 27-29th, 2019)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nNAME<\/strong><\/td>\nET<\/strong><\/td>\nMPH<\/strong><\/td>\nCAREER WIN<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Winner:<\/strong><\/td>\nShawn Langdon<\/td>\n\u00a04.068<\/td>\n310.41<\/td>\n\u00a0 \u00a016th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
R\/UP:<\/strong><\/td>\nJR Todd<\/td>\n\u00a04.276<\/td>\n223.32<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Low ET:<\/strong><\/td>\nJohn Force<\/td>\n\u00a03.842<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Top Speed:<\/strong><\/td>\nRobert Hight<\/td>\n<\/td>\n334.90<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bump Spot:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n\u00a04.232<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Event Entries:<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a018 Cars<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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(Legendary John Force – qualified #1 with a 3.842 secs – low ET of the meet run)<\/p><\/div>\n

Posted with files by Kalitta Motorsports and Bruce Biegler<\/em><\/p>\n

Photos by Gary Nastase & courtesy of NHRA Communications<\/em><\/p>\n

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Shawn Langdon took control of race day at the NHRA Midwest Nationals and captured his second Funny Car win of the 2019 NHRA season.\u00a0 The win jumped Langdon into the Funny Car championship conversation with a move from 10th to 7th and an 80 point deficit from the points lead in the category. The Global […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}