Top Fuel teammates Morgan Lucas and Shawn Langdon will both enter race day at the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals in the top half of the field for the fourth time in six races. This weekend’s performance marked the fifth consecutive for Langdon.

"The car has made significant improvements this weekend," said Lucas, who was the provisional leader Friday night before settling for third place overall.

"I'm really happy with everything we're doing right now. The car's not set up to be too aggressive. It's just working the way we need it to work and going down the track every time. It's really fun to drive this thing.

Top Fuel teammates Morgan Lucas and Shawn Langdon will both enter race day at the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals in the top half of the field for the fourth time in six races. This weekend’s performance marked the fifth consecutive for Langdon.

"The car has made significant improvements this weekend," said Lucas, who was the provisional leader Friday night before settling for third place overall.

"I'm really happy with everything we're doing right now. The car's not set up to be too aggressive. It's just working the way we need it to work and going down the track every time. It's really fun to drive this thing.

"I feel so confident in the way Jimmy (Walsh, crew chief) is getting after the tune-up. We're doing it the right way, taking our time with the car and not letting little things frustrate us and force us to make bad decisions. We're putting together a solid tune-up that's going to work for a long time and win us some races."

Langdon ended up eighth, one run after pacing the Top Fuel show.

"We have a great baseline tune-up but we'll have to be up for Doug (Kalitta) because he's a great racecar driver," Langdon said. "We put up a good run in Q3 that ended up being the one we qualified with. We came back in the final session and tried to run with the big dogs and just went a bit too far and smoked the tires. So we'll go back to our reliable set-up and try to win the race.

"This is the fifth race in a row where we've qualified in the top half of the field, which is no small accomplishment. It's a real credit to my crew and to everyone in this organization. They've got it together. Now we just need to win a race to make all this hard work worthwhile." 

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