John Walko III

• 1999 US F2000 ACC Champion with 5 class wins with Guy Cosmo; Runner-up at SCCA Valvoline Runoffs
• 2000 Chris Winkler, who designed the fuel and exhaust system for VIper, had John engineer his Formula Ford Van Deimen, and won the national championship.
• 2000 - US F2000 ACC Champion with 6 class wins (Tom Dyer, factory Carbir program); SCCA FF National Champion (Chris Winkler)
• 2001 Dan Andersen, who owned the F2000 series had John prepare his son Mike Andersen's car. Mike won the runoffs in 2001 and 2003 with John.
• 2001 - 2 poles, 2 seconds, 1 third, 4 top-5s, 5 top-10s in US F2000 National Championship with drivers Paul Dana and Tom Dyer, through AIM Autosport; plus Mike Andersen at Watkins Glen.
• 2002 1 win, 11 top-5s, 16 top-10s in FF2000 Zetec Championship with drivers Tom Dyer, Josh Schreiber, Mike Andersen, Joel Nelson and Doug Prendeville
• 2003 saw the creation of Andersen Walko Racing. Ran cars in 3 different series. 10 cars on the team. The Team had Two Semi's for transport and the team was growing.
• John was chosen as "Engineer of the Year" for 2003 in the FF2000 Zetec series.
• 2005 Anderson Walko Racing scored the top number of team championship points and their driver, Robbie Pecorari came in second for the drivers championship.
• 2005 Anderson Walko Racing won the SCCA Formula Atlantic National Championship with Graham Rahal driving.
• 2006 - 2007 John reformed JWR Racing and worked out of his new shop in Trafford, PA. In 2006 won the team championship and the start fo two great seasons. The focus was on Pro Mazda and the team finished second in Team Championship for Pro Mazda. Kate Gundlach had started working with John in 2004 and became the right hand of the teams success until 2009. Kate went on to become famous as the engineer who helped win Scott Dixon the 2018 Indy Car Championship.
• 2008 - 2010. In 2008 JWR Racing ran an abbreviated Pro Mazda schedule and started working with Pittsburgh Power, formerly named Diesel Injection of Pittsburgh, doing special projects. John started exploring ways to remove carbon and soot from the recirculated exhaust gases before it reached the intake manifold and contaminated the engine.
• 2010 Won a single race as an underdog in F2000 Championship Series. John also started doing race engineering can driver coaching in vintage racing with s2 cars. John began to do "Fly in Enginerering" for various race teams and ran the Prototype Challenge Team.
• 2011 Chris Livengood finished second in the F2000 championship series.
• 2012 Began development of the Ralph Firman Car with Chris Livengood as the driver.
• 2013 Continued develop of the Furman Car. John started engineering development for PRL Motorsports.
• 2014 John started working with Arms Up Motorsports, John's son, Trent continued to drive the development of the Firman car.
• 2015 - 2018 John committed most of his time to Arms Up Motorsports in the USF2000 Road to Indy Series. John also ran the F2000 Championship Series and F1600 Championship Series with Spectrum Cars for the Exclusive Autosport Team. His Driver, Scott Andrews, won the F1600 Championship.
• 2019 - currently John has been working with JDC Motorsports for the Prototype 3 Engineer & Strategist. Multiple podiums and Second Place in 2020 IPC Championship.
• 2021 SCCA Runoffs (national championships)
  FC class pole position
  Formula Race Promotions F2000 Champion
• 2022 SCCA FE class national champion.
• 2022 - Current - John began working with MG1 Motorsports as a Ferrari Challenge Engineer. MG1 won the COPA Team championship for the Ferrari Challenge Series
• 2023 SCCA Prototype 1 National Champion.
• 2023 MG1 Places second in the COPA Team championship for the Ferrari Challenge Series

In November of 2015, John took a hiatus from racing and joined the team at Pittsburgh Power as Technical Director and Product Development and again took on special projects. John was tasked with developing products and services.

Special Projects that John pioneered and developed included:

• Aftertreatment EGR Maintenance Program,
• Pittsburgh Power Remote Tuning Program
• In the Spring of 2016 he invented Dorothy Tornadic EGR Cleaner.

John and his Dad designed and built their first vacuum truck. The Vacuum truck loosened soil with air for for underground utilities. Part of the design on the Vacuum truck was the design of a vacuum separator that became the basis of Dorothy ERGZ Diesel soot separator which John patented in 2016.

John worked at Diesel Injection of Pittsburgh doing fabrication and eventually all the 'special projects'. He built a twin turbo system.