Chevrolet has unveiled its new NHRA Pro Stock car, which introduces the sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro’s styling to the popular all-motor drag racing class.
The bodywork on the new-look Camaro pro-stock car is more aerodynamically optimized and athletic looking than the fifth-generation Camaro body on the outgoing car, Chevy says. Camaro drivers won 23 of 24 Pro Stock events in the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season, with Chevy’s Jason Line taking the championship.
“Our goal was to minimize aerodynamic drag within the NHRA guidelines and incorporate as many design cues from the production car,” Camaro exterior design manager John Mack said of the new Pro Stock car. “The result is a sleeker and more aerodynamic Camaro SS.”
Track testing for the 2017 Pro Stock Camaro SS will begin in late December ahead of its competition debut next year. It will join Chevy’s new 2017 COPO Camaro program at the NHRA events, which competes in the drag racing series’ Stock Eliminator production-based class.
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Outside the hood, it looks like it has better visibility! Chevy should have used that side profile..
The glass closely follows the factory glass. But the car does have a carbon fiber shell that lacks the thick pillars in the A_B_C pillars since the roll cage takes the structure.
This is really a full blown race car sharing so very little anymore with the stock car.
Also this is a photo shopped photo. The car will change just a little from this years car in details but shape will still be similar.