{"id":93944,"date":"2023-12-11T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=93944"},"modified":"2023-12-11T07:16:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:16:50","slug":"shawn-reed-forms-new-top-fuel-team-with-ab-motorsports-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/shawn-reed-forms-new-top-fuel-team-with-ab-motorsports-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Reed Forms new Top Fuel Team with AB Motorsports Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shawn Reed’s new Top Fuel entry’s graphics – courtesy Shawn Reed Racing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series is welcoming a new Top Fuel team to its 2024 roster, as veteran Top Fuel and drag boat racer Shawn Reed returns to full-time competition as the owner\/driver of the Shawn Reed Racing (SRR) Reed Truck & Excavating Top Fuel dragster. Reed made the announcement during the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) show in Indianapolis the first week of December.<\/p>\n

Reed entered the first two races of the 2020 season, one that was protracted when the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the world.<\/p>\n

The racer is going about his entry in a most professional manner, having hired Rob Wendland as his crew chief, together with assistant crew chief Ryan Elliott. The crew for SRR most recently worked with Cruz Pedregon Racing and were, before then, in charge of Tommy Johnson Jr.\u2019s successful Funny Car team at Don Schumacher Racing (DSR).<\/p>\n

This new team will have a technical and advancement alliance with Antron Brown\u2019s AB Motorsports; three-time NHRA Top Fuel champion Brown and his team will work closely with Wendland and Elliott, with the tuning duo of Brian Corradi and Mark Oswald, who have led 56 of Brown\u2019s 58 Top Fuel victories assisting the crew as they start their journey.<\/p>\n

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Antron Brown joined Shawn Reed at PRI as he made his announcement – Shawn Reed Racing photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The SRR team will have its workshops within the large, Brownsburg, IN building that, at one time solely housed Don Schumacher Racing. They\u2019ve taken delivery of a new Morgan Lucas Racing chassis, constructed at Lucas\u2019 Brownsburg fabrication shop near DSR\u2019s facility and secured a race trailer from Pegasus Trailers in Ohio. A second trailer is scheduled for spring delivery.<\/p>\n

Shawn Reed Racing will be using many of the same race car components as AB Motorsports, which earned three 2023 Top Fuel victories, including the prestigious U.S. Nationals, arguably the biggest drag race of the year. The two teams will share developmental data, they said.<\/p>\n

Reed grew up in the Pacific Northwest, not far from Pacific Raceways in Kent, WA. He has won five International Hot Boat Association (IHBA) championships prior to securing his NHRA Top Fuel license in 2014 at Frank Hawley\u2019s drag racing school. He made his NHRA Top Fuel debut at the Gatornationals in Gainesville, FL in 2015 and, three years later, advanced to the final round of the 2018 Gainesville event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love to compete, especially at the highest level, against the best racers in the world. There isn\u2019t a more competitive class in the NHRA than Top Fuel,\u201d Reed attested. \u201cThe need for speed is what really drives and motivates me. I\u2019m not getting younger, and I want to live this dream. It\u2019s truly a YOLO moment for me,\u201d to be announcing his presence on a full-time basis. \u201cMy ultimate goal is to make this a business and give others the opportunity to be successful in the NHRA.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to Barbara and Floyd Hughes of Hughes Oilfield and Transportation. I wouldn\u2019t have this opportunity without their funding and friendship. They have inspired me to live my dream and pursue driving full time,\u201d Reed said.<\/p>\n

The new SRR team has a busy winter ahead of it before the season begins the second weekend of March at the 55th Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida. They\u2019ll be building their car and establishing an inventory go new parts and components before testing in February and March.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to learn from Antron like he did from Don Schumacher all of those years, before becoming an owner\/driver,\u201d Reed allowed. \u201cRob (Wendland) talked to Antron about a second car. He didn\u2019t want to expand ABM that quickly, so we continued to talk and develop a friendship. He\u2019s been a great mentor,\u201d Reed said, \u201cproviding good counsel these past few years. We\u2019ll run identical parts and work closely with Brian, Mark and Brad Mason at ABM. Rob and that team work together very well, and I\u2019m super stoked to get started. I wish it was next March already!\u201d<\/p>\n

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