Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing

Today was exactly one year ago since I took the Chevelle down the track the last time, before this event I have done some changes to the ratio in the rear axle, in the transmission and then I’m trying some new stuff with the converter and also a new fuel tune up so I just wanted to take it down from A to B really safe!..

First round, the motor sounded really strange in the burn out, then when I launched it it was totally dead…. Found out that I messed up a thing in the MSD Grid so I activated a rew limiter that held down the motor at 5000rpm… no wonder it was tired! 😉

Second pass we went straight down on a 4.09s @ 293km/h like the past year never been, feels pretty good to know what my car wants to take it down the track!

Third pass was a messy one, I made the burn out then the crew told me to kill the motor due to some cars in the shut down area if I understand it right… anyway I just wanted to repeat the earlier round so I did not do any changes to the tune up and the car went down nice and smooth on a 4.06s @ 296km/h, reaction time is way bad because I could not see the pre-stage and stage bulbs in the left lane at all today during the two passes I made in it… Hopefully that is fixed until tomorrow’s qualifying..!

After the last round we have just spent the evening with some ordinary service, checking the motor, trans, eating an awesome dinner from our awesome partner Stockholm Gourmet / ICA Gärdet and then some repair welding on the chassis and stuff like that!… 🙂

Nothing we could not fix of course, the Chevelle is soon ready for tomorrow’s qualifying.

Tomorrow Saturday is a new day and it’s time to step it up a bit now when I got some new data on the car, track is way better than what thought it would be, excellent work by the Trackservice Team!

Qualifying list so far after 3 rounds.

Soon time to sleep some here at Mantorp Park, see y’all tomorrow!

It’s getting closer, we are warmed up and ready for a soft pass to check the track! Remember it’s 8 years since they got these kind of powerful cars at this track.

It’s Friday, the weather is awesome and we got our first qualifying round in about 3 hours at 12:00!

Only bad thing with a hot weather like this around 28 degrees Celsius this early in the morning is that it’s not a good power making weather, but I prefer hot before rain anyway! 😉

Breakfast time!

Raise and shine lady’s it’s racing time! =D

We are finally at Mantorp Park and Mantorp Drag Revival for our first event in 2018!! 🙂

This is pretty cool, it’s the first time Top Doorslammer have an event on this track!

Happy boys on the way to the track!

Time to unload and set up our camp for the first time in 2018.

This weekend we are sharing our pit with our awesome friends from Crowcastle Racing.

This will be a fun weekend, I just know it will be! 😀

The Chevelle is inspected and approved!

Dinner time!

Evening service and some small maintenance after warming up the motor.

Once again at our awesome partner Kaare at Stockholm Gourmet / ICA Gärdet picking up the weekends food and other groceries! This is too good to be true! 🙂

The entry list for this weekend, but what I found out we are having a couple of other teams coming to join us also!

The times for tomorrow’s qualifications are 12, 2 and 4, stay tuned!