| Larry Nash - Owner and President
Assisting with his first engine
rebuild at the age of 12, Larry’s enthusiasm for performance and
horsepower truly began at the dragstrip. Larry was one of the
original six founding members of the Missouri Valley Timing
Association (Scribner Raceway) now known as the Nebraska
Motorplex in Scribner, Nebraska. His first Hot Rod was a 1969
Plymouth Roadrunner. His first race car, which he modified by
hand from the showroom floor was a 1974 Duster - built as an
NHRA Super Stock J Stick car and won the “Best Appearing Car”
award on its debut NHRA race weekend.
In 1983, with a desire to go racing at
the highest level, Larry moved to Indianapolis and got his start
in Indy cars working with Gary Bettenhausen. Within a very short
time, he became Gary’s chief mechanic and established a
reputation for uncompromising attention to detail. Larry’s
passion for pristine equipment soon brought opportunity with
other teams and drivers.
In 1985 while working for Gohr Racing
and Galen Fox, Larry and Galen went to England and created the
only purpose-built March Indy car with a naturally aspirated 355
cubic inch ‘stock block’ Chevy engine. In the same year, this
combination went on to set the 1 and 4 lap records at The
Indianapolis Motor Speedway for an 8-cylinder Unsupercharged
Stock Block with a top speed of 204.443mph. The driver was Steve
Chassey. Despite other attempts with naturally aspirated
engines, this record held until 1997 when the Indy Racing League
returned to Indianapolis utilizing the naturally aspirated
Oldsmobile Aurora V-8 engine.
After several years in Indy cars,
Larry seized the opportunity and realized his goal to run his
own operation, LP Racing, Inc., now renamed the Nash Performance
Group, Inc., focusing initially on support racing series. Again,
his attention to detail, driver coaching abilities as well as
his talent in making horsepower and getting it to the ground
have made Nash Performance a successful preparation facility
that has established records, earned pole positions and won
races in numerous series competed in including:
Indy Racing League Formula Ford 2000
Formula Atlantic Formula Ford Shelby Can Am Pro Sports 2000
Motorola Cup SCCA Sports Renault Formula Mazda Firehawk
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