History of Go America Racing

The Go America Racing team has been racing in one form or another for more than 40 years. The team leader Ed Akam has been involved in NHRA drag racing in many classes, APBA offshore power boat racing and circle track racing. Ed founded A&P Automotive in the 1960s and started making noise on the NHRA circuit almost immediately.

Most of Ed's time was spent running the AA/FD (Top Fuel Dragster) and AA/FC (Top Fuel Funny Car) classes. These are both professional racing classes that normally require large sponsorships. Ed and the A&P Automotive team were able to run their cars successfully for many years without any major sponsorships..

Team Timeline
1965
- Spring Nationals (Bristol, TN) - Won A/D - Whitey James driver
1966
- Set the 1/4 mile A/ Fuel Dragster National Record at Island Dragway with an elapsed time of 8.31 seconds - Claude Pardi driver
- Spring Nationals (Bristol, TN) - Low qualifier A/FD 8.01 - Claude Pardi driver
1968
- Indy Nationals (Indy) - Qualified 17th out of some 110 cars in AA/FD - Sam Hagen driver
1969
- Top Speed Bakersfield Smokers - AA/FD Meet - 232 mph - Casey Powell driver
1971
- Gator Nationals (FL) - Qualified AA/FC - Casey Powell driver
1972
- Summer Nationals (Englishtown, NJ) - Qualified AA/FC - Casey Powell driver
1973
- Summer Nationals (Englishtown, NJ) - 1st Alternate AA/FD  - 6.01 ET - Jimmy Kowchefski driver
- Runner-up AA/FC, Division 1  to Phil Castranove, the eventual winner at National Championships - Casey Powell driver
1991
- Summer Nationals (Englishtown, NJ) - Winner Super Comp Dragster - Gene Wagner driver
1995
- Ed Akam built Dragster for Cristen Powell.  Wins Best Engineered car - NHRA World Championship Series    ( Portland, OR)