ProMedia Events & Publishing, the parent company of the NMCA, NMRA, and the LSX Challenge Series, have revealed their championship and speciality class lineups for the 2017 season, which will once again feature many of the traditional heads-up and index classes that have put each of the series on the map over the years.
The NMCA will again be headlined by its 1/8-mile Xtreme Pro Mod class, while its brand new Pro Stock eliminator will return for its sophomore season with the series. Radial Wars, Nitrous Pro Street, Xtreme Street, N/A 10.5, Chevrolet Performance Stock, and Factory Super Cars will all return, as well. On the index side of things, Open Comp, Nostalgia Super Stock, and Nostalgia Muscle Car, three of the eliminators dating back to the early years of the NMCA, will comprise the grassroots racing action. Nostalgia Super Stock and Nostalgia Muscle Car competitors will square off in the race-within-a-race Muscle Car Mayhem at the season opener in Bradenton, Florida, featuring the top four points earners in each class and four wild cards in a 16-car shootout.
As has been rumored for some time, NMCA officials have added a new class, coined S3 — or Stock/Super Stock combo — that will be a part of the season-long championship roster. Top Sportsman, which suffered from poor turnout and was removed as a championship class following the 2016 campaign, will compete at the Ohio and Indiana events.
The NMRA, likewise, will return ten of its heads-up and index eliminators, including Street Outlaw, Renegade, Coyote Modified, Coyote Stock, Factory Stock, Open Comp, Super Stang, Modular Muscle, Truck & Lightning, and Ford Muscle, with some minor tweaks taking place to the series’ specialty classes. Pure Street, a staple of the NMRA for many years, is the lone category to be shelved from the roster.
A new class, Modular Extreme, will be contested at the Spring Break Shootout in Florida and at the World Finals in Kentucky, while the Super Ford Bracket Showdown has been expanded to the Pennsylvania and Ohio races. Outlaw True Street will also be campaigned once again at the Florida and Kentucky events.
On the LSX Challenge side of things, all five of its categories will be contested again in 2017, headlined with Drag Radial and featuring the Real Street, Chevrolet Performance Stock, Street King, and Rumble eliminators. In a notable change for the series, each of the four classes with the exception of Chevrolet Performance Stock will now allow the use of any make and model of vehicle, provided it’s powered by a GM LS or LT engine.
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