Langdon wins 1,000th Top Fuel race; Prock, Glenn, Smith also victorious in Charlotte

Shawn Langdon won in the 1,000th Top Fuel race in NHRA history during the American Rebel Light NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway. Additionally, Austin Prock (Funny Car), Dallas Glenn (Pro Stock), and Matt Smith (Pro Stock Motorcycle) claimed wins at the fifth event of the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season.

Shawn Langdon claimed victory in the 1,000th Top Fuel race in NHRA history on Sunday at zMAX Dragway, overcoming Tony Stewart, Justin Ashley, and reigning world champion Antron Brown in the final quad at the 15th annual American Rebel Light NHRA 4-Wide Nationals.

Austin Prock (Funny Car), Dallas Glenn (Pro Stock), and Matt Smith (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also achieved wins in the fifth of 20 races in the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season.

In the championship round, Langdon scored 3.714 seconds at 330.63 mph in his 11,000-horsepower Future Energy Solutions dragster, edging out Ashley at the finish line. Langdon, who continued to lead in points, secured his second win of the season for Kalitta Motorsports and the 21st victory of his career, marking a special milestone in the process.

The legendary Don Garlits, who won the first-ever Top Fuel race at the 1963 NHRA Winternationals, was at the top end to hand the special 1,000th Top Fuel race trophy to Langdon, who was sure to take in the memorable and historic moment. The former Top Fuel world champion has been stellar to open 2025, advancing to three finals in the first five races, and he had a spectacular car this weekend.

He qualified second with a 3.665 – running 300-mph to the eighth-mile – and then won both quads to advance to the final round. Langdon was the only driver to reach 3.71 on Sunday and the reward was a significant one in his standout career.

“To be honest with you, coming into the weekend, I was asked about racing in the 1,000th event and all that, and I just thought I’d treat it like any other event. That way, any situation, everything's the same because you just treat everything the same. But I’m not going to lie, rolling around the corner, and I see ‘Big Daddy’ there, there was this realization of what transpired and obviously it's a great feeling,” Langdon said. “It's something that I know years down the road I'll be very proud of that.”

“Honestly, the competition so tough, really, so it's not like you really get any easy rounds. In the final. with Tony, he's been having a great year, and then obviously, Antron the champ, and Justin Ashley, the best leaver of the class, hands down. So, when I'm in that situation, it's like I got to step it up, and I the problem was I went the other way, except I felt like I tried a little too hard. But the about being part of great team is they carry you when you miss the tree a little bit.”

Ashley finished as the runner-up for the first time this season, while Stewart, who won the four-wide race in Las Vegas, stayed second in points.