Andreas Sjödin « Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing

16
JUN

Good night from Tierp Arena, exciting day tomorrow!

It’s been a pretty messy day today instead of the soft day at the track that we planned for! 😉

But we have got awesome weather today, eaten great food, the car is inspected and approved and we starts to get the Vette ready for the first pass ever for it tomorrow, it will be around 1:00 Swedish time and we will go out first of all in Pro Mod on a single pass (that we wanted) just to see how the car works!

We will take this weekend in baby steps and plan is hopefully to make a 100-150 feet pass just to get some data on the car so we can see that everything is ok!

Wish us luck and stay tuned for updates tomorrow!

15
JUN

We got an exiting weeken in front of us!

Andreas Sjödin / Jörgen Berg teams up with Andreas as driver and tuner of Jörgens brand new Chevrolet Corvette -79 Pro Modified car! News link to Eurodragster!

http://www.eurodragster.com/news/news.asp#andreas

Written by Andreas Sjödin on June 15, 2023 at 4:39 pm

15
JUN

Jörgen Berg / Andreas Sjödin, we are ready for some Pro Modified Racing!

Good morning from Tierp Arena!

Preparations are done! We are ready for some Pro Modified Racing at Tierp Arena this coming weekend! 🙂

And here we are at Tierp Arena for the first event in 2023!

When we arrived to the track yesterday we unloaded a brand new car with Jörgen Berg as car owner, Andreas Sjödin as driver and tuner!

I got the question from Jörgen in august last year when he went with us to the race at Sundsvall Raceway if I would like to drive his brand new but unfinished Chevrolet Corvette -79 at two events at Tierp Arena this year and help him finish it, set up the chassis, fix the fuel system, help out with what’s needed and then of course tune it!

Me Jörgen and Bengt have spent a huge amount of hours getting the car ready and for me to drive the car I wanted to change some stuff in the drivers area and throw out the dirty clutch and put in my converter, Bruno drive and Lenco transmission!

I still have my own crew with me, Dad (Åke) Sofi, Max, Dennis, Krille and John the Sneaky Snake!

This will be a fun challenge and an opportunity to do something new, qualifying starts Friday and we will take in small steps because like I said, the car is brand spanking new!

Thanks to Jörgen Berg for giving me this opportunity and for making this happen!

We did arrive to the track yesterday afternoon!

After we got the pit area all done we did some small things in the Vette and after that best of all Taco Wednesday presented by our great friend Kaare and ICA Gärdet cooked by our awesome chef Dennis!

Today Thursday we will have a whole day at the track just preparing stuff for the first test round tomorrow Friday!

Of course we did get some breakfast presented by ICA Gärdet this morning, and the weather is awesome!!

Now it’s time to do some stuff on the Vette! 🙂

With the situation today with so few competitors in the Top Doorslammer class I felt that I needed to do something to make racing a little more fun again and on top of that the schedule for the Top Doorslammer series in 2023 does not fit us at all!

So for the 2023 season we are going to make two events in Pro Modified for the first time for Andreas and Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing, our event calendar looks like below!

Tierp Arena June 15-18 Pro Modified, Corvette.

Finland Kauhava Raceway July 13-16 Top Doorslammer, Chevelle,

Tierp Arena August 10-13 Pro Modified, Corvette.

Dala-Järna Raceway August 19-20 Top Doorslammer – Exhibition Race, Chevelle.

We are excited and look forward to do something new and challenging for us!

Stay tuned! 😀

Written by Andreas Sjödin on June 15, 2023 at 9:42 am

23
APR

Homepage update, no Santa Pod in 2023!… WSOPM, Silly Season, we have started to work on the Chevelle.

I decided a while ago that we won’t go to England and Santa Pod Raceway for The Doorslammers and Main Event in 2023 either!… 🙁

It wasn’t enough cars / teams from Sweden that was interested to go to the events and only 3 cars in the class for the Main Event weekend is not fun, it’s also way too expensive ferry’s and diesel fuel and also still not simple enough when it comes to customs etc due to Brexit!…. All above takes too much time and cost too much compared to what it gives back so we can’t make the trip!..

We really wanted to go but if I can’t find enough fundings for it and it won’t be enough cars there to make the event I feel it’s wrong to work on it, and to be honest I do not think we will see a lot of cars from Scandinavia attending races at Santa Pod I the future due to Brexit and how expensive everything have got….. But I really hope that I’m wrong about that!

And I really hope it will be different in 2024! 🙂

And when it comes to the EDRS Top Doorslammer series in 2023…

It does not fit us at all, I can’t be away from work for more than 3 weeks to make Piteå, Kauhava and Sundsvall that are 3 weeks in a row! July is a typical vacation month for most people in Sweden and my team can’t spend 3 whole weeks on the road just for racing…

Drag racing in Sweden is not a work that you get payed for, it’s just spending money!

And the price money is not enough to pay for what it really cost, of course more partners would make it possible but still it’s too much time away from everything back home!

And after the 2022 series finals at Gardermoen in Norway I did learn that it’s way too late to have that race in September, it was way too cold to be able to use the car and go fast!… So I can’t see that we will go to that event either.

But what I do know is that we are going to Tierp Arena in June, and we are going to Kauhava in Finland in July if they solve the problems so they can continue to use the track…

And we will for sure go to Dala-Järna in August for the race Dala Street Open, this is just an exhibition thing and we will do it just for fun because this is today my home track and my home motor club SHRA Vansbro – Äppelbo is one of the organizers so we will be there and do some burn outs just for fun and see if we can get the Chevelle down the track even that the track won’t be prepped for an high powered race car like ours! 🙂

Not much have happened since the 2022 season ended except that I have made a lot of posts on Instagram and Facebook with great memories from last year, it’s really fun to look back at the first real season we made in years that also ended up just amazing good for us! 🙂

In the beginning of March me Krille and Fredrik went to Florida and Bradenton Motorsports Park for the World Series Of Pro Mod, that was a crazy good race with the top of the line Pro Mods, drivers and tuners in the world!

It was fun to meet up with some friends I haven’t seen in many years!

This is something I look forward to do again in the future!

And we have just started to work a little on the Chevelle again after sitting in the shop untouched for about 6 months except for our little event at our partner Swedol in Arninge in October last year.

Me and Max did service the converter and converter drive some weeks ago and both are ready to go back into the car whenever it’s time for it!

Stay tuned, more to come soon!

Written by Andreas Sjödin on April 23, 2023 at 7:47 pm

13
JAN

End of 2022 & beginning of 2023, Santa Pod plans and homepage update!

Here is a little report from what’s been going on after the last race in 2022 and our going to Santa Pod plans for the 2023 season as it looks today if we get the fundings for it.

The 2023 season is here already! Thanks for the support to all of you out there during our Summit EDRS Top Doorslammer Championship Winning 2022 Season!

I hope that all of you out there did have a really great Christmas and New Years!

The truck and trailer got the yearly inspection in the mid of November last year and are ready to hit the roads in 2023.

We did have a great time at the price giving banquet in the end of November at Aronsborgs Konferanshotell in Bålsta together with a lot of other drag racing friends!

After winning the Top Doorslammer series in 2022 and as far as I know today there is no schedule out yet for the series in 2023.

So, I’m looking at what I want the most during 2023 and that is going to England and Santa Pod Raceway again for The Doorslammers and Main Event in May and we are looking for partners to get the founding’s for it!

I want to go there and get the Chevelle into 3.7? on the 1/8 mile and 5.7? on the 1/4 mile! I’m pretty sure I got it in the car after looking on the data from when we were at Santa Pod in 2019!

I will still be using the same motor that we got in the car in 2019 without any updates except small changes on the tuning part! I’m just looking to beat my own world record with a conventional headed big block Chevrolet!

Once again I want to say a huge thanks to my awesome team, Dad (Åke), Max, Sofi, John, Krille, Dennis and Fredrik and to our partners, Åkes Bil & Motor, Birka Motorrenoveringar, Sjödin Motorsport Race Cars, Swecomposite, LSF Custom Lackering, Swelube Amalie Motor Oil, LVV AB, Bengtssons Smide, Loggamera, Clearwrap, SnapOn Pro Tools Peter Hult, ICA Gärdet, W-Linds Bärgning, Kustservice, Supra Trading, T. Grundström Plåtslageri, Jonnie Lindberg Motorsports, Swedol Arninge, CP-Carrillo, Alwerco Svets & Smide, Catch With Care, Edlunds Maskinservice that made our 2022 season so successful!

If you are interested and want to see us at Santa Pod Raceway again in 2023 and want to be a part of it and help us, please don’t hesitate to contact me at andreas@abmracing.se!

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Written by Andreas Sjödin on January 13, 2023 at 1:25 pm

21
OCT

T-shirts and hoodies soon done!

Thanks to all of you that ordered T-shirts and Hoodies! 🙂

It was so many orders placed so it took much longer to get all shirts but it’s getting closer, hopefully they will start going out to you in the end of next week!

Stay tuned and I will contact you about paying and get your address.

Written by Andreas Sjödin on October 21, 2022 at 3:33 pm

22
SEP

Sums up the Top Doorslammer finals at Gardermoen Raceway!

Last race report for 2022.

And, Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing are the 2022 Summit EDRS Top Doorslammer Champions!

Feels pretty good to win the championship when we for the first time in many years makes the series for real!

We ended up as runner up at Top Doorslammer round 5 and the finals this year in the series at Gardermoen Raceway in Norway September 9-11.

The weekend started already on Wednesday before the race when I drove the first part to my hometown Vansbro alone to meet up with parts of the team for this weekend for some team building dinner and then continue to the track on Thursday morning.

Before that we made sure to fix all we needed on the Chevelle, I bought the new parts we needed that got damaged on the race before in Sundsvall and got spares are fixed to make sure we would have parts if it would happen again and after that I got the trailer cleaned and organized! Max and Dennis also went the last time for the year to our awesome partner ICA Gärdet and got all the grocery’s we need to survive during the race weekend! They have been with us since 2014 and I can’t describe how much I appreciate my friend Kaare Naess support to my racing!

It wasn’t a lot of cars on this outing either but at least we were 5 cars in the TD class, and we were in the points lead and was for sure planning to stay there in the top when the weekend was over!

The roads we did chose on the way from Vansbro to Norway was not suited for our truck and trailer! They were so crazy narrow so it was really hard to drive, it was some road work that forced us to take roads that was even worse, we checked out a ditch a little too close with the right side of the trailer at a moment but it all went good! And then when it felt like nothing more can make the trip worse we almost fronted with another truck like ten minutes from the track that was in our lane heading straight against us when trying to go around a moped or something so I did step on the brake and turned around it and when I did stuff moved around in the trailer and damaged our winner trophy from Tierp this year, things could have been really bad because of this and I’m just happy I reacted fast to the situation!…

This was the first time in eight years we went to Gardermoen, I’m pretty sure we were there in 2014 the last time! The track did look good like always at Gardermoen but the weather wasn’t with us, it was really cold, around 10-12 degrees Celsius so I was not really sure how the car would react to my tune and I did overpower the track a bit and went into a shake in Q1! The car left pretty ok but then I felt it started to shake so I was off the throttle and just coasted down, Tee Cee made a decent pass after us with some pedaling where I started to shake!

But with some data to work from I made a 4.21 @ 293 km/h in Q2, better but not good, little shake and some pedaling to the number 1 position in the qualifying list for a moment! After that we ended the first qualifying day with a 4.11 @ 295 km/h in Q3 and we finally got a full pass even that the car moved around some! Track was a bit tricky due to the cold weather, the 10-12 degrees and no sun during the whole day of course makes the conditions with the track hard to figure out!

Tee Cee made a nice 4.02 @ 295 km/h against us in that round so we both started to find what the track could handle.

First round on Saturday was cancelled due to too cold weather and some rain during the night and morning!.. Sad but it’s nothing we can do anything about and they did working on the track to do the best of the situation and keep it under control so we could be out quickly whenever it stopped.

First round we made on Saturday the car left the line really good and felt good but it started to move left against the center line so I had to pedal it and made a 4.22 @ 248 km/h!

In the last qualifying pass for the weekend we manage to make the weekends first full pass with just a tiny shake but no pedaling! 4.0575 @ 299.63km/h and that did put on in the second place in the qualifying list on the last event for 2022! It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t beautiful, and it took a long time but the cold weather makes it really hard if you try to go fast… Well, we ended up with a 4.0575 @ 299.63km/h and I’m amazed it went that ET and speed with the little power I did put in it!.. Data and tuning changes gave results for sure in that qualifying round so I was happy with that!

Sunday and last race day for the season, and we did actually have some sun and blue sky and you could feel some heat finally!

We were out in first round against Kenneth Lingvald and KLR Motorsports that was struggling during the weekend with different problems but finally started to get the car to work, I was really lazy on the tree that I was during the whole event, really don’t know why because even if I really tried I got reaction times like a snail!… Well anyway I did have power enough to reach the finish line first with a millimeter or so! We won the round with a 4.0575 @ 296.42km/h! And we made sure we are THE EDRS TOP DOORSLAMMER CHAMPIONS in 2022!!!

After that it was time for elimination round 2 and the finals against Tee Cee Racing where they made a better job than us and also made the only 3 second pass for the weekend with a 3.9993 @ 298km/h! A huge congratulations to the whole Team Tee Cee Racing for an awesome performance this weekend and I’m happy that I did loose against just you and that you got an event win on your last race ever in the class!… Yes, this was the last pass for the team that have decided to end their drag racing career after about 25 years, we will miss you guys in the future for sure because you have always been around me since I got involved myself in Top Doorslammer back in 2008! But we did spend one last evening at the track together! 🙂

I gave it a bit too much in the final and the car went slower and to the right in the top end! So, I’m just happy we did have a car without damage with us back home to be honest! We made a 4.06 @ 295km/h in the finals and I must say that I’m happy anyway with figuring out the track so we could make some decent passes to end the year with!

And it’s not so bad making 4 outings and getting 4 trophies during the first real season we make in years! Also, I did say in December 2021 that we are going to make 4 events in the series in 2022 and its time to bring home the biggest trophy of the year and we did!

Nothing of this would have been possible without my awesome team, Dad (Åke), Max, Sofi, John, Krille, Dennis and Fredrik that went with us on the last event!

Our awesome partners during the 2022 season, Åkes Bil & Motor, Birka Motorrenoveringar, Sjödin Motorsport Race Cars, Swecomposite, LSF Custom Lackering, Swelube Amalie Motor Oil, LVV AB, Bengtssons Smide, Loggamera, Clearwrap, SnapOn Pro Tools Peter Hult, ICA Gärdet, W-Linds Bärgning, Kustservice, Supra Trading, T. Grundström Plåtslageri, Jonnie Lindberg Motorsports, Swedol Arninge, CP-Carrillo, Alwerco Svets & Smide, Catch With Care, Edlunds Maskinservice.

Last and absolutely the final event for Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing in 2022 is to fire up the Chevelle at our partner Swedol in Arninge / Täby (about a minute from our shop) on their event “Swedoldagarna” 25 of October! If you are around, please come by and say hi!

More info about that later.

After that it’s time to start think about what to do in 2023! What I want the most is going to England and Santa Pod Raceway again for The Doorslammers and Main Event in May if we get the opportunity and I find the founding’s for it! And main reason is that I’m looking to adjust my personal best of 3.84 on the 1/8 mile and 5.88 on the 1/4 mile to a 3.7? and a 5.7? I’m pretty sure I got it in the car after looking on the data from when we where at Santa Pod in 2019! And also, it will still be with the same motor that we got in 2019! Without any updates except on the tuning part!

If you are interested in seeing us at Santa Pod Raceway again and want to be a part of it and help us, please don’t hesitate to contact me at andreas@abmracing.se!