Fan favorite and winningest NHRA racer never to have won a championship has been stuck on 49 career wins for nearly three years.
With 49 career wins, Doug Kalitta is the winningest driver never to have won a championship.
Unfortunately, he's also been staring at that 49-win total next to his name ever since he won the Midwest Nationals at Madison, Ill., in October of 2020. Nearly every press release coming out of the Kalitta Motorsports camp since his last win touts, "this could be the week" that Kalitta gets No. 50. "It's just a rebuilding thing," the 58-year-old Kalitta said. "It's a team effort and you just got to pull together. Keep everybody motivated. We all know what the mission is. I've got a lot of great fans, and a lot of great support. Connie obviously is still out here and doing his thing, and he's probably my biggest cheerleader."
Doug Kalitta's winless streak came has come rather out of the blue. He won twice in 2020 and finished second to Steve Torrence in the championship that year. He finally scratched a career itch by winning the U.S. Nationals one year earlier in 2019."Now, I'm really just all about trying to keep this program going, supporting our sponsors and obviously we've got a three-car team and we're trying to build on everything we're doing right, all three cars, just a team effort.
One thing making it easier for Kalitta is that his son Mitch, a recent graduate of Northwood University, is working with the team this year on the finance side. Just one more piece to the family atmosphere that surrounds Kalitta Motorsports.
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