As the easygoing Shawn Langdon soaked up the spotlight Sunday evening at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona for winning the Top Fuel final of the O'Reilly Auto Parts Winternationals, the memories flooded back to him.

He grew up in nearby Mira Loma, Calif., and this is the dragstrip where he grew up, watching dad Chad race in the NHRA's Super Gas class in the mid-1980s. It's where he started his own racing career in 1994 in the Jr. Dragster program.

In this video, Langdon discusses his second career victory Sunday in Pomona.

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