{"id":644690,"date":"2026-05-02T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644690\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:16:11","slug":"news-2026-shawn-langdon-breaks-nhra-speed-record-top-fuel-dragster-555km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644690\/","title":{"rendered":"News 2026: Shawn Langdon breaks NHRA speed record Top Fuel dragster, 555km"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shawn Langdon broke the NHRA speed record on Saturday (AEST), reaching a mind-blowing 555km\/h in a Top Fuel qualifying run at South Georgia Motorsports Park.<\/p>\n

Langdon topped the previous record of 552.8km\/h set by Brittany Force last year in Indianapolis and he covered the 305 metre track in 3.7 seconds, not far behind Force’s record run of 3.6 during that same run in 2025.<\/p>\n

Langdon’s record-breaking pass came during the NHRA debut at South Georgia Motorsports Park, one of the newest stops on the drag-racing series’ 20-event schedule.<\/p>\n

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The 2013 Top Fuel champion turned heads with several 547.1km\/h runs during preseason testing and entered the weekend second in points, trailing only Doug Kalitta after four events.<\/p>\n

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Shawn Langdon broke the NHRA speed record.\u00a0Top Fuel<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was special for the guys,” Langdon said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was happy for them, especially (crew chief) Brian (Husen). We were able to do that testing, and some people had different ideas on what they thought – if it was legit or not. We kind of talked about it and Brian was like, \u2018Well, we\u2019ll just do it in the season to prove it was legit.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Three-time NASCAR<\/a> champion Tony Stewart, racing his third full season in NHRA’s top division, was second in qualifying with a 3.7 second run at 538.6km\/h.<\/p>\n

\"Shawn<\/p>\n

Shawn Langdon drove 555km\/h on Saturday. \u00a0Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The NHRA added two new tracks to its 2026 schedule, marking the drag-racing series\u2019 first expansion in more than a dozen years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shawn Langdon broke the NHRA speed record on Saturday (AEST), reaching a mind-blowing 555km\/h in a Top Fuel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-644690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}