Doug Kalitta and Mac Tools Top Fuel Make Strides at Las Vegas Four-Wide Race

Las Vegas – Through four rounds of qualifying at the NHRA Las Vegas Four-Wide Nationals 49-time Top Fuel national event winner Doug Kalitta posted the quickest run of the first session and the third quickest run of the second session on Friday. His overall effort driving the Mac Tools Toyota Top Fuel dragster positioned the perennial championship contender as the No. 6 qualifier going into race day. Last year Kalitta grabbed two win lights and was runner-up at this event.

Today his first round quad included his teammate Shawn Langdon, Leah Pruett and Ron Passey. Kalitta was second off the line and was blasting down lane one looking to advance to the next round. As the finish line was closing in his dragster suffered a quick engine explosion robbing the Mac Tools machine of much needed momentum and opening the door for two opponents to sneak around him.

The team will take the positive runs from qualifying and turn their attention to the upcoming NHRA SpringNationals in Houston an event where Kalitta posted a runner-up finish in 2021.

“Today was a tough race but we are taking the positives and moving on to Houston,” said Kalitta. “This Mac Tools team has a lot of talent so we know we will keep moving in the right direction.”

Statistics:
Qualified: No. 6 (3.759 sec., 325.37 mph)
Bonus points: +4 (Quickest of Q1 and 3rd quickest of Q2)

Race Details:

E1
Qual/Driver                                                     RT        ET        MPH
No. 11; Shawn Langdon                                 .069     3.853   316.01 (W)
No.3; Leah Pruett                                            .042     3.740   327.27 (W)
No. 6; Doug Kalitta                                        .065     4.100   227.80
No. 14; Rob Passey                                         .098     13.101 63.28