It has taken a while, but Shawn Langdon appears to finally found his groove at Don Schumacher Racing.

Langdon, who joined DSR during the 2015 Countdown to the Championship, won his second race in a row, his latest victory came Sunday at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio.

Langdon clocked a 3.846-second elapsed time at 319.75 mph to edge Todd’s 3.937-second lap at 285.05 mph.

“This is unbelievable,” Langdon said. “From where we started in the beginning of the year with this team all the changes that we made through the first couple of races, the test sessions, this is what we worked for. Phil (Shuler) and Todd (Okuhara) (Langdon’s crew chiefs), they kind of had to take a step back and we started to progress the car, but we just weren’t getting the luck on Sunday. We kept the mentality that we have got to ride the waves. Drag racing is very streaky, you’re going to have the highs and the lows, but you have to not get down from the lows and not just soak in all the highs. You have to continue to work and that’s just what these guys did and it’s paying off now. They’re reaping the benefits of all their hard work. Two straight wins is a great way to end a four-race swing.”

Langdon, who pilots the Red Fuel Powered dragster, won the Thunder Valley Nationals June 19 in Bristol, Tenn. This was Langdon’s 13th career NHRA Top Fuel national event win and second this season.

“This definitely gives us confidence and when you have a good car like what we have right now, I think it puts a little pressure on the other teams where they have to start pushing their cars,” said Langdon, who was the 2013 NHRA Top Fuel world champion. “Rather than see a good drag race at the finish line, we’re starting to see some teams smoke the tires and take some chances against us. It’s just a good feeling and I’m happy to be a part of the team. This is good, the thing with Todd and Phil and I and all the crew guys is nobody over there has a big ego. Everybody is there to win and we work well together. If I make a little mistake inside the car, they’re very quick to pull me inside and show me where my mistake was, and I’m willing to accept that. I told them if there are any mistakes, tell me, I want to learn, I want to be better and continue to improve as a driver. They are also very good as far as if I have any changes I want to make, they are right on it. It’s a good working relationship and that’s why we’re able to have a little bit of success like we are right now, but because of continuous hard work.”

Langdon beat Troy Buff, Antron Brown, Brittany Force and then J.R. Todd in the finals.

“I think now we’re starting to see a little bit of luck go our way,” Langdon said. “Really we should’ve been out first round (with an 8.819-second run) and we were fortunate Troy Buff red lit first round. We went back and we looked at everything and we couldn’t really figure why it did what it did. We just kind of shrugged our shoulders and threw it out and the window and said let’s go back to what we did in qualifying Saturday with the hot weather tuneup. We were able to put together three straight good runs and I felt like we had a very strong car (Sunday).”

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