CHP Nationals Features X275 Radial Shootout at Atlanta Dragway

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Santa Ana, CA—The inaugural Chevy High Performance Magazine Nationals will kick off June 1-3, 2012 and it will be featuring the exciting and popular X275 category at the famed Atlanta Dragway (Commerce, GA). The event is open to all Chevy/GM powered vehicles, including Mustangs and other non-Chevy 275 drag radial cars.

The racers will be competing for $2,000-to-win along with a generous contingency payout that offers $300-per-sticker to the winner and $100-per-sticker to the runner-up—42 leading performance companies are posting contingency awards for over 90 products.

“We are excited to have the X275 program as part of the Chevy High Performance Magazine national event,” says Henry De Los Santos, editor of Chevy High Performance Magazine. He continues, “the X275 racers can look forward to excellent media coverage by our magazine and many other major media outlets.”

The X275 category will be contested as a 1/8-mile eliminator and strictly follow the rules and regulations set-forth by the official X275 rules set forth by its founder, John Sears. He weighed in on the CHP Nationals running this heads-up class, “all the Chevy and Chevy-powered X275 cars might want to check this one out, the race should have a big crowd there.” The rules can be found at www.X275.net while payout and a full contingency listing is available on the NMCA website, www.NMCADigital.com

For those who are not familiar with the X275 brand of drag racing, the cars feature 275/60-15 drag radials and are limited to certain small-block and big-block engine sizes with limits on the turbocharger, supercharging, and nitrous oxide pumped into the engines. The events are contested on the 1/8-mile and times are in the high-4 second zone approaching 150 mph. The combination of over 1,500 hp, small tires, and no wheelie bars makes it a very exciting category for the racers and tuners as well as the spectators.