Rollie Miller, NMCA National Event Director, announced an all-new class for 2015 in both the NMCA Series and the LSX Showdown Challenge Series. The new Chevrolet Performance Stock (LS Stock) class will be using the brand new Chevrolet Performance DR525 drag racing sealed crate engine released May 30, 2014, and featured on NMCAdigital.com. The DR525 is scheduled to go on sale this summer on August 1.

"The all-new Chevrolet Performance Stock (LS Stock) class, signals an important advancement for drag racing, delivering exciting heads-up racing at a lower cost to our racers," said Miller. "The entire NMCA team is thrilled to be partnered with Chevrolet Performance to debut this new class. Chevrolet Performance Stock will provide some extremely close and exciting racing starting in 2015."

Chevrolet Performance Stock Class Overview:

Chevrolet Performance Stock (LS Stock) is a naturally aspirated heads-up class designed for 1955-and-later vehicles and is designed as a low-cost, entry-level heads-up class. All entries must compete on accepted suspensions and at the same base weight: 3,300 pounds. The class is an all-run, heads-up field using a .400 Pro Tree, Autostart.

Additionally, all entries are required to read and sign a racer's contract to prevent class participants from tampering with and/or altering the factory-sealed Chevrolet Performance DR525 crate engine and requisite engine control system.

For the complete NMCA/LSX Chevrolet Performance 2015 Rules Package, please go to http://www.nmcadigital.com/cat/rules_purses/docs/nmca/2014/2015-ls-stock-prelim.pdf