{"id":29458,"date":"2016-08-12T16:35:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T23:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=29458"},"modified":"2018-08-16T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T19:36:13","slug":"big-chief-plans-to-run-at-chevy-performance-u-s-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/big-chief-plans-to-run-at-chevy-performance-u-s-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Chief Plans to Run at Chevy Performance U.S. Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21461\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/justin-big-chief-shearer-injured-in-street-race\/street-outlaws-crow-feature-pic\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Street-Outlaws-Crow-Feature-Pic.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,433\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Street Outlaws Crow Feature Pic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Street-Outlaws-Crow-Feature-Pic-300x203.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Street-Outlaws-Crow-Feature-Pic.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21461\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Street-Outlaws-Crow-Feature-Pic.jpg\" alt=\"Street Outlaws Crow Feature Pic\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Street-Outlaws-Crow-Feature-Pic.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Street-Outlaws-Crow-Feature-Pic-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looks like the NHRA and Street Outlaws star Justin &#8220;Big Chief&#8221; Shearer are playing nice once again to promote legal drag racing. \u00a0Recently, Shearer appeared in an NHRA sponsored PSA encouraging people to find safe, legal outlets for drag racing, like the NHRA&#8217;s many on-track options.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he&#8217;s putting his money where his mouth is. The\u00a0Discovery Channel star\u00a0plans to compete in his Pro Mod car in the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals <span data-term=\"goog_1971317419\">Aug. 31-Sept. 5<\/span> at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m super excited to have a chance to be part of the U.S. Nationals,\u2019\u2019 Shearer said. \u201cIt\u2019s the biggest and most prestigious drag race in the world, so for me, it\u2019s a dream come true. As a kid who always wanted to be a racecar driver, I\u2019m getting closer to that goal. I have a lot of things to finalize first, but I\u2019m smiling from ear-to-ear and just can\u2019t stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24876\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/street-outlaws-justin-big-chief-shearer-well-be-back-and-better-than-ever\/so-season1c-big-chief-bio-panel\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/so-season1c-big-chief-bio-panel-e1457121603582.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"so-season1c-big-chief-bio-panel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/so-season1c-big-chief-bio-panel-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/so-season1c-big-chief-bio-panel-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24876\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/so-season1c-big-chief-bio-panel-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"so-season1c-big-chief-bio-panel\" width=\"638\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are happy to see Justin take this next step in his career to encourage all his fans to race legally at NHRA member tracks,\u201d said Terry Blount, NHRA vice president of communications and public relations. \u201cWe realize Justin has a large following of dedicated fans across the country, and this is a way to emphasize the NHRA\u2019s message of everyone racing legally. We want all of Justin\u2019s fans to know they are welcome at NHRA events and encouraged to race at NHRAmember tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Crow, as Shearer&#8217;s Pro Mod is called, has a mean reputation on the streets, but how will it handle on the &#8220;official&#8221; track. Tune in to the Chevy US Nats over Labor Day to find out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Justin &#8220;Big Chief&#8221; Shearer is prepping his pro mod car to race at the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3465,3470,3399],"tags":[4152,2,3724,7,1666,2013,2012,4791],"class_list":["post-29458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-news","category-nhra","tag-big-chief","tag-drag-racing","tag-justin-shearer","tag-nhra","tag-pro-mod","tag-street-outlaws","tag-street-racing","tag-the-crow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Street-Outlaws.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-7F8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29459,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29458\/revisions\/29459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}