In the midst of its first full season as an official NHRA category, the Holley EFI Factory X class has been inching toward the six-second zone with sleek entries of manually shifted, supercharged, lightweight hot rods. Friday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway played host to history as Jesse Alexandra became the first in the Holley EFI Factory X category to break the six-second barrier in the category packed with hard-to-tame, fun to watch hot rods.
The Holley EFI Factory X category was established as an eight-race series at the beginning of this season, and the beastly cars have seen plenty of attention-getting passes, including a pair of 7.009 jaunts laid down by Alexandra and Greg Stanfield at the NHRA Texas FallNationals three weeks ago.
Automotive Racing Products (ARP), an industry leader in fastener technology, welcomed Alexandra as the first entrant in the ARP Six-Second Club, which awards the first driver to make the historic six-second run a $10,000 bonus. Alexandra raced to a 6.988-second pass at 192.44 mph in his 2024 Chevrolet Camaro for bragging rights and the cash prize.
The second driver to go in the sixes, Aaron Stanfield, earned a $5,000 bonus, while his father, Greg Stanfield, scored a payout as well as the two made the quickest side-by-side runs in the history of the class directly behind Alexandra. Aaron Stanfield clocked a 6.976-second pass at 194.88 mph in his Janac Brothers/Lee Shepherd tribute car, while Greg Stanfield raced to a 6.980, 194.94 in his vintage-look The Rod Shop Chevrolet Camaro.
The ARP Six-Second Club was designed to include and award the first eight drivers to eclipse seven-seconds in the quarter-mile, and with two qualifying sessions remaining before eliminations, there will be opportunity for more additions as the weekend at the Ford Performance NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway goes on. The first series champion will also be crowned in Las Vegas, as it is the last of the season for the Holley EFI Factory X class.
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