Top Fuel driver Doug Kalitta celebrates with his wife Josie after clinching his second World Championship at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip in Pomona on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. Kalitta secured the title after qualifying was cancelled due to weather making the points differential for second place driver Shawn Langdon to make up the difference mathematically impossible. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

POMONA — It took Doug Kalitta 26 years to win his first NHRA championship. But it only took two years for him to score his second Top Fuel title.

The 61-year-old from Ann Arbor, Michigan, did not even need to pull his dragster out of the team hauler at In-N-Out Pomona Dragstrip at Fairplex Saturday to claim the title. For the second consecutive day, rain prevented

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