Reed draws on his experience as a seasoned boat racer when it comes to not only driving his 11,000 horsepower machine but also managing his Shawn Reed Racing team.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe competitiveness is the same. I get worked up and amped up, and the will that I have to win and succeed is crazy. That\u2019s what I pride myself on. You know, to me, there\u2019s nobody better. I think I\u2019m pretty dang good,\u201d Reed chuckled.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut this thing will humble you real quick, right? It takes a lot more in motorsports racing than just the driver. It takes not only the crew chiefs \u2013 it\u2019s every single guy has a part in this team, and that\u2019s what I really learned about Top Fuel racing. Every single guy is important.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to the 2025 Mission Foods NHRA Drag Racing season, Reed has ambitious goals. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to win the thing,\u201d Reed answered. \u201cI want to be the oldest guy to ever win one. I\u2019m probably the oldest guy that ever stepped up and bought a complete team, all brand-new parts and pieces. We slid into the top ten last year, and you know we got a dang good car, and it takes a little bit of luck to win one of these things. I think everybody that wins on Sunday can look back at a round and go, wow, I probably shouldn\u2019t have won that round. The breaks need to come your way, and if they do, we can win the whole thing. <\/p>\n
\u201cRealistically, I want to be in the top five. My goal after last year is probably the same as right now. When we roll into Vegas for the last two races of the year, I want to be talked about as one of the cars that could win the thing. Whether that\u2019s from in the lead or whether that\u2019s just enough points back to where I got to win the race to win the championship. I love that kind of pressure, and I\u2019ve always done pretty good with that,\u201d Reed added.<\/p>\n
As he prepares to race in Phoenix, Reed is eager to add another milestone to his career while welcoming one of his new partners, ATRO Parts, a leading manufacturer of heavy-duty polyurethane truck parts. ATRO joins the team as an associate-level sponsor, kicking off a four-race agreement that will see Reed fly the ATRO logo on the side of his 11,000-horsepower machine starting with this weekend\u2019s NHRA Arizona Nationals near Phoenix.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to be the only guy to win on water and land here in Phoenix,\u201d Reed stated confidently.<\/p>\n With a rich history at Firebird Motorsports Park, he\u2019s determined to bring the same level of dominance from the water to the track and etch his name in history once again.<\/p>\n The post Shawn Reed Looks to Conquer Firebird Motorsports Park on Asphalt After Dominating on Water<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For years, Shawn Reed found much success at Firebird Motorsports Park\u2014but not on the dragstrip. Instead, his victories came on the water, where he won multiple International Hot Boat Association (IHBA) championships in the Blown Alcohol Hydro class. Now, Reed returns to the iconic Phoenix facility with a new challenge: to translate his dominance on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shawn-Reed-Racing.jpg\")
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