The Race Shop aka Dragsters and Doorslammers is a chassis shop specializing in drag race and Pro Street cars. We have experience building cars for street and strip that date back to the 60's and have been in this location for about five years.  We have built Top Sportsman and Dragster class cars as well as Top Fuel, Nostalgia and Funny cars. We fabricate all aspects of the race car.  Most cars are Chromoly and we bend all our own bars and fabricate all tin work in house.  We build rears ends, Ford 9", that are as tough as any available anywhere.  Cars we have built range from 5.5 sec quarter mile to 13 seconds.

The Race Shop is a new introduction for 2007 that has been in the planning for three years.  The Race Shop is a full time hi-performance engine machine shop. We do all machining in-house except crank grinding.  We use all high end Sunnen equipment and Serti cutters.  We do head and manifold porting, flow bench testing and development services.  We have a new DTS engine dyno and dyno cell as well as two additional dynos with one more to be installed.

The Race Shop also maintains a full line of performance racing parts including VP Racing Fuels, Alcohols, lubricants. They maintain a 'WD' (warehouse distributor) status with many of their vendors including, Mark Williams, Strange Engineering, Brodix, Manley, Precision Engine and Turbo, Innovative Motorsports, Erson Cams, Callies, Probe, JE/SRP, MSD, RPM, Accel DFI, Aurora Bearing, PSI Driveshaft, Dart and World Products, Titan oil pumps and clutches, Peterson Fluid Systems dry sump products and much more. We  also stock the largest supply of Chromoly aircraft tubing in Wisconsin.

The Staff:

Mike Holdridge is the owner of The Race Shop. Mike has built drag and circle track cars dating to the late 60's and early 70's. Mike started out as a mechanic, worked as a body man and painter, has an electronics degree and 15 years experience, computer and computer network engineer, EMT, commercial diver, welder and finally returned to chassis building in the mid 90's. Mike's experience in chassis building encompasses all aspects of drag racing. He has built 5.5 sec fuel cars to alcohol and pro-mod cars, local pro-stock and funny cars and altereds to bracket and street cars. Mike has experience building, driving and tuning some of the fastest cars anywhere. Mike is also Wisconsin's IHRA Chassis Certification specialist. As such Mike performs chassis inspections, provides feedback and comments as to current and future needs as well as repetitive chassis problems being encountered in the field.

Evan Uerkwitz comes to The Race Shop via WyoTech also. Evan graduated at the top of his class in Motorsports Chassis Fabrication, Hi Performance Engine Building and Collision Refinishing. In high school, Evan excelled in shop, participating in the local Beat-The-Heat program, where students worked on a Drag Race project car designed to allow students to work on and race against other students or the local police race car.  Evan excelled in math and physics where he was allowed to enroll in Physics as a freshman. Prior to tech school, Evan worked as a welder in both a production shop MIG welding and in a custom tank shop, building and TIG welding stainless tank trucks. Evan has a broad interest and knowledge in turbo and hi performance drag race motors and chassis. Since coming to The Race Shop, Evan has built some of the "Baddest" turbo headers around. He has mounted pro-stock fiberglass bodies, front and back halved steel bodied cars, built or repaired 25.1e, 25.2, 25.4 and 25.5 chassis cars and is custom building turbo, headers and intercooler systems. Can't wait to see what he does next.
 

Thanks for taking the time to learn more about us,

Mike and Evan