Highlights | 2026 Night Under Fire
The biggest names in top fuel and funny car racing battle to become the King of Nitro during Night Under Fire at Summit Motorsports Park.
Video Transcript
It is time for Top Fuel Dragster.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Woo-hoo-hoo.
Maddi Gordon, 377.30 miles an hour.
You saw the puff of dust.
Clay went long and through the sand trap.
Here's that instant replay.
Maddi g- Clay Millican had the better reaction time, but this one was all Maddi Gordon.
377.30.
The chutes were late for Clay.
He had no chutes.
You saw, on TV, he was applying brakes.
The chutes finally deployed, I'm gonna guess about 600 to 800 feet before the sand trap.
And at that point, Clay knew he was going on a ride.
I'm guessing the car's okay.
I know Clay's okay.
And, folks, how about a round of applause for Clay Millican?
Maddi Gordon is in the finals of Top Fuel.
Who will she race, Antron Brown or Doug Kalitta?
Oh.
It is Kalitta.
372.332 miles an hour, and Antron Brown, 377.
Antron had the better reaction time, but by the 660, a- or by the 60 and the 330 run, Kalitta had a three hundredths advantage.
I expect him to come out swinging here in round one.
There you go.
Spencer Hyde, better reaction time.
Cruz had a better 60-foot time, runs a four flat at 316.
Man, Spencer was on a lap.
398, 317.
Spencer is in the final of Funny Car.
I'm sure they've got that Cornwell Quality Tool car up to, the Nth degree right now, Bill.
Ron Capps, 389.331 miles an hour.
Well, look at Jordan Vandergrift.
Absolutely went after the Christmas tree and was still in the lead by virtue of the reaction time all the way up to the, 330 mark, but then you saw the car lost fire, the chutes came out, and that was all she wrote.
So here we go.
Maddi Gordon, Doug Kalitta, for the right to represent Top Fuel in the King of Nitro.
Summit Motorsports Park, get ready.
This is epic.
Maddi Gordon, Maddi Gordon, Maddi Gordon.
Are you freaking kidding me?
Maddi Gordon wins.
Maddi Gordon is going into the King of Nitro.
Unbelievable.
The margin of victory was eight one-thousandths of a second.
Summit Motorsports Park, you better make some noise.
Here we go.
The winner advances to the King of Nitro.
It's Capps.
389.2, 334 miles an hour.
And Ron Capps again finds himself in the same spot he was 26 years ago in the finals of the Winston Showdown, except this time, he's racing Maddi the Baddi.
We sold you the whole seat.
You're only using the edge.
It's time to crown the king or the queen of Nitro.
And it is going to be Ron Capps.
384.333 miles an hour.
I think Maddi Gordon got I think she got caught up with the tree.
I, I tell you, that would, that would be maybe a bit of a distraction, not leaving heads up.
I think she got caught off guard.
Capps was the slower car at a 45.
Maddi was late on the tree.
But I gotta tell you, that was epic.
Ladies and gentlemen, how about a round of applause for Ron Capps?
26 years later, he defeats a Top Fuel dragster, and he wins the King of Nitro.
How about a round of applause for Maddi Gordon?
Wow, what a drag race.
