Havoc Air Racing

09/09/2023

All packed and ready to go for one more time around the sticks! Huge thank you to all of our sponsors that help make this happen.

08/09/2023

After our less than desire-able 2019 season, the team felt like we left something out on the course that we had to go get back. had reached out directly to give us first offer at Mojo, and after quite a bit of deliberation, we decided that this was the best path forward for us. Obtaining a known fast airplane with a long racing pedigree and with the motivation to come back strong; we were making big plans and excited for the 2020 season… With that being what it was, a lot of momentum was lost. Once it finally became apparent NCAR ‘21 would happen, we got back to work, but the scope was limited. Back on the course at PRS was great, and flying with and around the sticks is always special! We made good progress in speed mod season, accomplished all of our primary objectives, and we were able to run more power than the airplane had ever seen before. We were constantly fighting fuel pressure issues though. The goal race week was to qual ASAP to get in the show, and then use the rest of early week to fiddle with the fuel system. Qual was flown around 70” MAP; engine temps were warm, and the airplane was about 30 mph off pace. Focusing on the fuel issue, we went to work that evening with the goal of testing during the next flight. At start up, the crew cheif noticed the port turbo spitting a size-able amount of oil. He commanded a shut down, we rolled the airplane back to the pit, and discovered one chowdered turbo and another on the brink of destruction. Draining the oil revealed a glitter show that would put a disco ball to shame: the engine was done, and so were we for ‘21. Retiring from the race, the team spent the rest of the week helping other teams and generally supporting the Sport Class.

08/09/2023

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2019. After experiencing a series of cascading catastrophic failures ultimately leading to an engine out approach with no instrumentation or radios and screeching to a fiery hault using 8500ft of runway, I was given a half a second to give my family and crew cheif a hug to show them I was alive prior to being whisked away to all of the debriefings. A few hours later, I was finally able to peel off the flight suit that was reeking of burnt fiberglass in our empty pit. Wandering over to the Bad Dingo tent, which was basically full of the entire sport class, I was greeted by many hugs, and then George Catalano who handed me a glass of “Bad Dingo” and a handshake. The greeting was, “I’m so glad you’re here…” and as our hands clasped, “…Skippy.” The entire tent went wild, and the call sign “Skippy” has remained ever since.

07/09/2023

Check out our local news spot!

Sean “Skippy” Van Hatten has been around planes his whole life, and is looking to take home a victory as the race pilot for Havoc Air Racing.

06/09/2023

If a few short days, we’ll be back here tearing it up one more time. Racing is awesome, but there’s nothing quite like the 45+ min course seesions at Pylon Racing Seminar in June. 📷

08/07/2023

Great story by our pilot Sean VanHatten about our first year racing as a team. Check out this story and all of his previous racing history on his page. Huge thanks to Joe and Ramp Rat Racing for helping us out in 2018!

03/06/2023

We’re out at Pylon Racing Seminar in Reno having a great time with out Mojo is running great, with her and providing lead and instruction support for the Sport Class rookies that are aspiring to obtain a race license foe this year’s races. Thanks for the great capture!

27/03/2023

🔥🔥 New intake complete! Intercooler delete, more efficient routing, and wiggins style clamps for the couplers. Can’t wait to get this in the air!

24/03/2023

New intake coming together nicely at

23/03/2023

Throwback to chasing us down the start chute in the original Havoc Reno 2019.

23/03/2023

New intake coming together.

22/03/2023

New turbos built for hs by for !!

19/03/2023

Let’s go back to those September morning views.

18/03/2023

Speed-mod season has been in full swing for us for quite a while now, so we have some catching up to do here! We received our overhauled and race modified engine built for us by and successfully hung it on the airframe. There’s a lot of cool stuff hiding under that pretty exterior, and when Pinnacle did the initial dyno runs prior to shipping the engine, the results were…. we’ll let’s just say that we’re excited about what’s on here 😈

17/03/2023

We’re gutted to hear the news that this is our final year in Stead, but we’re excited to show off one more time what our fire-breathing race plane can do! Time to light the fires for one last epic hurrah around the sticks in Reno! 📷

16/09/2022

Sometimes you have to make the tough call: Despite a monumental effort from the team this past year, we had to make the decision to not race this year as some critical components simply took longer to acquire and come together than anyone anticipated. We would like to extend a huge expression of gratitude to our team, our sponsors such as for getting the new race motor together, for fast tracking some new and larger Precision turbos, for their continued efforts supporting the race program, Thermodynamic Sciences for tweaking more and more fuel flow for us, for their support, for keeping our pilot safe and comfortable, for instrumentation, for eye protection, and finally our friends and family for putting up with our non-sense! We’ll be comin’ in hot with our new race motor and going for the gold in 2022!

01/04/2022

The new firewall forward for Mojo is coming along nicely…

15/09/2021

It’s been a disappointing few days for the team. During qualifying, we were about 30mph off the pace that was anticipated with the power setting that we were running. The next 24 hours were diagnosing the issues and trying to figure out where the speed went, and at the end of the day we discovered that the motor was burned up which forced us to retire from the races this year. We run these engines incredibly hard to go the speeds we do, and this is just a very real part of racing. Overall we’re in good spirits, the airplane is in one piece, and we’re working on a recovery plan and engine overhaul. A huge thank you to the team where everyone pulled it together to get here this year and also to our sponsors who help make this happen for us. We’ll be here the rest of the week, so come by the pits and say hi! At the end of the day, 335 on a hurt engine, which would have had us starting in 4th place, aint too shabby!

13/09/2021

We’re flying Sport 3, “Mojo” with for a qualification attempt at 1505 today at the

12/09/2021

Practice day. We can’t wait to get back in the course again this afternoon. 📷 Kevin Eccles

11/09/2021

Good morning race fans, Havoc Air Racing is HERE!!

11/09/2021

Let’s go racing!!!

03/09/2021

coming back after another successful test flight. “Mojo” is running better than ever!

03/09/2021

The many moods of a Glasair.

01/09/2021

Sure is a beautiful place to do some flight testing.

27/08/2021

No music needed. We love the sound of 580 turbo charged cubic inches coming to life.

25/08/2021

Making sure the landing gear is in tip top shape prior to the races. So far, looking great!

24/08/2021

Pylon 7. 📷

23/08/2021

Ladies and gentleman, start your engines.