Trotter Fun Ford champion
Congratulations Chuck Trotter for your wins at the Fun Ford event in Orlando Speed world dragway March 2005. Chuck drove his big block Ford powered Thunderbird to double wins winning both saturday and sunday at the 2 day event.

Chuck and Wendy Trotter

Janne Ahonen  

Ericksmoen wins his first national event
Congratulations Larry Ericksmoen for your well deserved win at the Lucas oil Nationals Brainerd Minnesota
Larry drove his big block powered super comp dragster trough 6 rounds of competition and ran an almost perfect 8.908 coupled with a stout .010 reaction time in the final to take the win. Good Job.

Larry Eriksmoen
 

Ashworth wins from the #1 spot
Pete Ashworth won Summer nationals at Santa Pod Dragway June 13 with his Autoshop Racing Engines powered Outlaw Anglia. Pete did it all, qualified #1 with a great pass saturday and turned on the win light all day sunday.

Pete Ashworth

Anderson goes .900 under in Gainesville
Jeff Anderson qualified in Super Stock as the fastest GT/DA with a .912under 9.88/137mph
with his Autoshop Racing Engines tuned 358 small block Chevy powered Camaro.

IHRA World Finals toughest ever for Pro Stock
Team Autoshop made its best Pro Stock effort so far at the World finals in Rockingham dragway. With a tune up by Lennart the team recorded an excellent  6.535 that rewarded them with the #5 qualifying spot. Their speed 212.69mph was top speed of the meet until the last qualifying run when Rick Jones ran a 213 and the bump spot was an incredible 6.560
Driver Jerry Haas won first round in the postponed rain out event taking out #1 qualifier Pete Berner. In the second round the team outrun Mike Bell with a loosing 6.535 against Bells 6.565 due to a slower reaction time.
Racers luck strikes the team in the main event when the shifter arm broke in the burn out for first run and the car could not be shifted.

Team Autoshop qualifies well at World Street Nationals
Driver John Bartunek qualified the Team Autoshop Racing Pontiac Grand Am 9.th out of 56 cars in the Super Pro Street class with a 6.840 @ 206.7mph at the Orlando World Street Nationals event.
The team won first round against Richard Earls/Voss racing 57 Ford Fairlaine Hemi. A redlight start  put the team on the trailer in second round but everybody was pretty happy with the effort, being the only normally aspirated car in the class they probably hurt most by the bad air this weekend.

 John Bartunek

Team Autoshop Racing Engines outruns the pointsleader
The Autoshop race team qualified for the tough Pro Stock field at the President Cup Nationals  Maryland International raceway september 26-28
Driver Jerry Haas drove the team Autoshop Pontiac Grand Am to a solid 12.th qualifying spot out of 29 cars making qualifying runs. The team went on to win first round over 5.th qualifier Doug Kirk and outran points leader Carl Baker in the second round but a slower reaction time put the team on the trailer this time.


 

2003 Comp eliminator winner and Record holder.
Congratulations Micke Callin winner of the 2003 Scandinavian Dragracing Championship Series and set the European D/A record with a stout 7.75 / 174mph
357ci Small block Chevy built and tuned by Lennart at Autoshop Racing Engines 

Micke Callin winner in Comp eliminator with his Autoshop Racing Engines powered Chevy Monte Carlo.
C/A 7.53 @180 mph   D/A 7.75 @174 mph

Micke Callin goes way under the index
Swedish Customer Michael Callin ran a record quick 7.452 @ 182mph and recorded an impressive 1.04 60'  with the Autoshop Racing Engines powered Jerry Haas built C/A Olds Cutlass at a test session in Bradenton Florida. The 357ci small block Chevy engine is built and tuned in house by Lennart at Autoshop Racing Engines.

Micke Callin 

Scott Perin fastest C/A at the Dutch classic
The Autoshop race team recorded  new best et and speed at the Dutch classic event in Maple Grove raceway PA.
Driver Scott Perin ran a  7.531 @ 180.10mph to qualify #16 in one of the toughest comp fields of the season. 49 cars made qualifying runs and it took a stout .460 under to even qualify. The team also won class in C/A Unfortunately the race got canceled due to persistent rain.
We want to thank Nolan and Scott Perin for their great hospitality and help this weekend.  

Scott Perin

Team Autoshop Racing Engines qualified at INDY
with a 7.66@176 Driver Scott Perin came up just shy of an perfect light with a .499 against Comp driver of the year David Rampy in a first round loss. The car worked good and a 1.065 60' 3.11 330' in that run would have translated to a ~7.62 

Legendary engine builder Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins looks at our sparkplugs.

European Pro Stock Champion qualifies well in US
 Pro stock champ Niclas Andersson competed at the Florida Nationals in Orlando and the Gatornationals driving the Autoshop Racing Engines Olds Cutlass.
The team recorded a new top speed in Orlando with a 178.11mph clocking. They qualified #16 and lost first round to Michael Hardee.
At the gators the team qualified as the fastest C/A with a good 7.604
A red light start in the first round ended a otherwise great weekend for the team.
We want to thank Magnus Lindahl for the great help with VP fuel sales, and Markus Svensson and Tim Freeman for their professional inputs.
We also want to thank John Gant for the help and support.

Niclas Andersson

Jerry Haas qualifies #2
Renowned chassis builder Jerry Haas drove Autoshop racing engines C/A Olds cutlass to the #2 qualifying spot at the Orlando Sportsman open event December 7-9.
The Autoshop race team recorded a best 60' time of 1.07 but the unusually hot weather prevented the them from bettering their speed and et marks andended up with the #2 spot.
The team lost a close first round decision against comp top runner Charlie Westcott despite a excellent .512 reaction time by Jerry Haas.

Jerry Haas

Tim Freeman sets new IHRA National record
The Autoshop Racing team established a new 1/4 mile national record in C/Altered at Darlington dragway during the Holley championship drag racing series event July 7.
Driver Tim Freeman established the new E.T and mph records at 7.82 / 173.31 in the 3000 feet adjusted altitude conditions.
The 5speed stick shift Jerry Haas built 92 Cutlass is powered by a 357ci normally aspirated small block Chevy that is built and tuned by Lennart at Autoshop Racing Engines.

Tim Freeman