DW: I have grown up with hot rods and American cars as my father built and raced cars which started my passion for drag racing. When I was 19 I built a 1934 Ford Roadster which was the first car I raced at RWYB at Santa Pod, I was working for Pete Knight Racing Engines at the time which gave me an ideal start into building my own engines. My next car was a 1932 Ford Coupe Gasser which was my first race car but my dream car was a 1969 Chevy Nova which I brought in 2008. I currently compete in Pro Et and Stock/Super Stock. I follow every stock eliminator NHRA round in the US, I love the way you can take a stock combination car and get them to run as fast as they do. Every car in these classes are beautiful show quality cars.

ÅK: The Stock Super Stock class is at the moment a very Scandinavian class with mainly teams in Sweden and Finland active. Do you see potential in the UK for the class also for the coming years?
DW: I think there is potential for a Stock/Super Stock class in the UK as there are a lot of good cars over here, a race event has started at Santa Pod called Super Stock Shootout for stock bodied American cars. I actually won the first event in this class in 2012. There was talk between myself and fellow Stock/Super Stock racer, Rick McCann (Heaven & Hell) about trying to organise a round at one of our National event, it would be great to get some of the Scandinavian racers and cars over.
ÅK: Can you tell us a bit about the car?
DW: The car is NHRA legal Stock eliminator with a 396, I am currently having a new motor built by Brian Tilburg ready for the 2013 season. The Gold livery is the original colour for the car (painted by OCS, Nic Williams, my brother). It has a moser rear axle with light weight gears, gun drilled shafts etc. Transmission is a TH350 built by ProTrans.