LANGDON, COUGHLIN TAKE TOP FUEL, PRO STOCK CROWNS - Titles decided in season finale

摘要

AS THEY CROSSED PATHS IN THE pressroom, 2011 Funny Car champion Matt Hagan grabbed newly crowned NHRA Top Fuel champion Shawn Langdon, pulled him close and offered congratulations and advice. "Enjoy this winter - enjoy every minute of it," Hagan told Langdon, driver of the Al-Anabi Racing Top Fuel dragster. Such moments were common for Langdon - now a five-year Top Fuel veteran - around Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, Calif., the weekend of Nov. 9 after he clinched his first professional championship. It seemed like Langdon couldn't walk 10 feet without someone offering a handshake or hand on the shoulder with comments about what it means to drag racing to have a racer's racer make it to the sport's pinnacle.