Published on Saturday, February 06, 2010
By JIM ALEXANDER
Shawn Langdon's story is an object lesson of the benefits of not forcing a kid to specialize in one sport.
Langdon, 27, is a young man with a bright future in drag racing. He's beginning his second season in Top Fuel dragsters, the top classification on the NHRA circuit, and will be in Pomona this week for the Winternationals, not far from his boyhood home in Mira Loma.
Langdon was exposed to drag racing at an early age by his father, Chad, who competed on the circuit and still does in a limited fashion. He was running in the junior dragster class at age 11, and to him Pomona was the NHRA equivalent of Yankee Stadium.
"When you lay in bed at night and you dream about stuff, you're like, 'man, I wonder what it would be like to race top fuel at Pomona,' " he said by phone. "To be able to do that now ... I looked in the grandstands (last year) and I said, Holy (cow), I made it."
Yet if things had gone another way, Langdon could have been aiming toward the real Yankee Stadium
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