After a successful 2011 run, the four race LSx Challenge series will be back in 2012 per an announcement from GM Performance Parts. The series will comprised of five classes, four of which are heads up with one index class thrown in for good measure. The series will stay to the east of the Mississippi river, visiting Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, and Georgia throughout the season. 

If you plan on showing up to run the LSx All Motor or Real Street class, you better bring the kitchen sink with you. Both class champions were running deep in to the eight second range, Judson Massingill (a name most BS’ers should recognize from the School of Automotive Machinists) on the All Motor class last season and Adam Preston was the champ in Real Street.

The LSx Challenger races are held in conjunction with other events like the NMCA race at Indy, the Chevy High Performance Nationals in Georgia, the LSx Fest in Bowling Green, and the NMCA season opener in Florida.

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LSX
Challenge Series Heats the Tires for 2012

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Chevrolet
Performance LSX Challenge Series is back for 2012 – and more competitive than
ever. It is the premier racing series for street-based vehicles powered by Chevrolet’s
LS and LSX engines. 

Along
with supporting the LSX Shootout series, Chevrolet Performance enables racers
to compete and win with a growing range of LSX maximum-performance crate
engines and engine parts, including the LSX454R racing engine (part number
19257880). Chevrolet Performance also offers LSX Bowtie blocks – with the
tall-deck version for building large-displacement engines of up to 500 cubic
inches – as well new drag-race six-bolt cylinder heads, intake manifolds and
forged rotating components.

Chevrolet
Performance personnel will be on hand at all events to answer tech questions
and explain the key attributes of the latest parts.

It pays to win

Chevrolet
Performance will award the fastest LS-powered racers at the LSX Shootout event
and pay a $250 bonus to any racer who wins his or her category using an LSX
Bowtie engine block. Chevrolet Performance will
also supply awards to all racing class and show class winners.

LSX Series Champions

Chevrolet
Performance will recognize the 2011 LSX Series Champions at the NMCA Awards
Ceremony in Orlando
on Friday, December 2, 2011. 

The
champions of the landmark 2011 season – the first to feature the four-race
format – include:

• Michael Meeks in the LSX Drag
  Radial class – who won by a slim five-point margin over runner-up Mark
  Carlyle
• Jud Massingill in the LSX All
  Motor class – his Camaro runs in the low-8-second range without a power
  adder
• Adam Preston in the Real Street
  class – his Camaro is mid-8-secord performer
• Rob Farley in the LSX Rumble
  class – who topped more than 80 racers who accumulated points in the
  competitive class throughout the season
• Shawn Calabrese in the 5th Gen
  Camaro Challenge class – his tuned Camaro SS ran low 12s at the start of
  the season and kept going quicker.

2012 LSX Series
Schedule

The
four-race LSX Challenge Series for the 2012 season includes stops in Bradenton,
Fla., Atlanta, Ga. and Bowling Green, Ky. – with the championship again to be
decided at the annual LSX Shootout, held in conjunction with the NMCA World
Finals, in Indianapolis. The race dates and locations include:

• March 15-18
  (NMCA season opener), at Bradenton
  Motorsports Park,
  Bradenton, Florida
• June 1-3 (Chevy
  High Performance Nationals) at Atlanta
  Dragway, Commerce, Georgia
• October 11-14
  (NMCA World Finals/LSX Shootout), at Indianapolis
  Raceway Park,
  Indianapolis, Indiana.

The
fourth event will be the LS Fest, Sept. 7-9, 2012, in Bowling Green, Ky.,
at Beech Bend Raceway. As in the past, LS Fest organizers will allow racers to
follow the rules and classes of the LSX Challenge Series, with points awarded during
it applying to the championship.

Racers
competing for the championship must participate in three of the four races,
including the LSX Shootout. The results of each race will be tracked throughout
the season in NMCA’s Fastest Street Car.

The
LSX Challenge Series features five racing classes:

• LSX Drag Radial
• LSX All Motor
• LSX Real Street
• LSX Rumble
  (index)
• 5th Gen Camaro
  Challenge.

More
information about Chevrolet Performance is available at gmperformanceparts.com.
Details on the LSX Shootout are available at www.nmcadigital.com/lsx.