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Drag Gallery: Zane McNary’s Action Photos From Sunday At The 2013 March Meet

Posted in DRAG RACES March 16, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Photos by Zane McNary) – Here’s more of Zane’s great work from the 2013 March Meet that does not include any crashing Anglias. Instead, this gallery is full of wheels up, burnout, and launch shots from the famed starting line at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield where the March Meet was run for the 55th time [...]

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Wreckage Photo Sequence: Eddie Prenevost’s Anglia Hits The Wall At The March Meet

Posted in DRAG RACES March 16, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Photos by Zane McNary) – While shooting photos during the March Meet BangShift contributor Zane McNary caught Eddie Prenevost’s hairy ride at the starting line that resulted with he and his little Anglia getting into the center divider before the christmas tree. How did this happen? The car had water coming out of the motor [...]

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March Meet 2013 – Click Here To See All Of Our 2013 March Meet Photo Galleries!

Posted in DRAG RACES March 7, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

place where all of our great 2013 March Meet photo galleries will be posted. We’re going to smash photos up from every square inch of Famoso! We’ll have killer on track action, great pit thrash photos, car show photos from the grow, swap meet photos, sportsman action, head flamin’ nitro cars, celebrities, luminaries, and MORE! [...]

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March Meet 2013 – Live News And Updates From The Track And The Pits!

Posted in DRAG RACES March 7, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

While Chad stands atop our spacious and luxurious broadcast tower on the side of the strip bringing you all the live video you can handle from the 2013 March Meet, I’ll be running around the pits to bring you all the news and dirt from the event as it happens. Check back in here often [...]

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Galleries: Photos, and More Photos from the 2012 March Meet in Bakersfield! We’re LIVE Thursday!

Posted in DRAG RACES March 5, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

For 2012, the March Meet hds grown to four full days of racing action. Not only did that mean you got to watch even more FREE LIVE streaming video here at BangShift.com, but it also means an extra day of killer, wheels up, action photos for you to check out. By the time we got [...]

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Drag Action Gallery: Wheelstands And Fire Breathing Cars From Lights Out Four By DRD Photos

Posted in DRAG RACES March 5, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

( Words and photos by Dom Damato) – Lights Out Four was the 7th race the Outlaw Radial Tire Championship (ORTC) has hosted at South Georgia Motorsports Park and was killer as ever. A huge rain storm was project to roll through on Friday, so they decided to bump up qualifying to Thursday night and [...]

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Our 15 Favorite Door Slammers From the 2012 March Meet

Posted in DRAG RACES March 1, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

The two things that put the March Meet in a different class than other nostalgia drag races are the history that surrounds the event and the cars. Simply put, there are hot rods you’ll see at The Patch that you just are not going to see anywhere else. While we drool over virtually every car [...]

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Nostalgia Drags Gallery: The 2012 Orange Drag Strip Reunion – Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Posted in DRAG RACES February 19, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – One of the coolest nostalgia drag racing and hot rod events in New England doesn’t happen at a drag strip at all. Instead it happens at an airport in central Massachusetts. The Orange Drag Strip Reunion is an event that celebrates the long lost strip that operated in Orange, Massachusetts [...]

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Photo Coverage: More PSCA Record Breaker Nationals, Including Great Pit Shots

Posted in DRAG RACES February 15, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

Thanks to BangShifter Dave Stoltz, we’ve got some great photo coverage of the 2013 PSCA Record Breaker Nationals. Dave shot plenty of on track and pit shots all weekend, and this is our second gallery featuring lots of cool pit and driver shots. These shots really let you in to what is going on behind [...]

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Event Coverage: PSCA Record Breaker Nationals Wheels Up Photos

Posted in DRAG RACES February 13, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

Thanks to BangShifter Dave Stoltz, we’ve got some great photo coverage of the 2013 PSCA Record Breaker Nationals. Dave shot plenty of on track and pit shots all weekend, and this is our first gallery featuring all on track action. Pro Stock, Funny Cars, 10.5, Drag Radial, and more are captured with air up front [...]

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2013 PRO Winter Warm Up Action Gallery: Nitro Funny Cars and Top Fuelers At Palm Beach Intl Raceway

Posted in DRAG RACES January 21, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Despite the Saturday rain, we had a killer time at the 2013 PRO Winter Warm Up at Palm Beach International Raceway in Florida. We saw Courtney Force make the fastest 1000′ funny car pass in NHRA history at 322 mph, a bunch of top fuel dragsters run into the 3.70 time zone, and racers like [...]

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NITRO GALLERY: PRO Winter Warm Up 2013 -Early Thursday Action Photos!

Posted in DRAG RACES January 17, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

We’re here at PBIR  for the 2013 PRO Winter Warm Up and the teams are making runs hot and heavy. All of the NHRA’s big nitro hitters are making runs and working on their combos for the Winternationals that are coming in only a few weeks. The PRO Winter Warm Up is the place to [...]

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Gallery: The Cordova Dragway Park 2013 Hangover Nationals – Drag Strip Action At 14-Degrees! BRRR!

Posted in DRAG RACES January 2, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Cordova Dragway Park in Cordova, Illinois again hosted the Hangover Nationals. Held on New Years Day for the past 14 years, they plow snow off the track, return road, and most of the pits, and open the gates. Today it was sunny and cold with a high about [...]

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Drag Gallery: Gassers At Greer Dragway – Period Correct, Gear Jamming Greatness! Must See!

Posted in DRAG RACES November 26, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Photos by Daron Gray) – Recently, the grounds of Greer Dragway in Greer, South Carolina served as the backdrop for one hell of a nostalgia drag race featuring 12 of the baddest ass period gassers in the world. The group with cars like Quain Stott’s Executioner, Greg Porter’s Night Stalker, and the awesome Bone Shaker [...]

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Galleries:Our Photos From the PSCA’s Street Car Supernationals VIII – Door Slammer Action!

Posted in DRAG RACES November 19, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Photos by Rob Kinnan) – If you missed our live streaming broadcast of the 2012 PSCA Street Car Supernationals you failed to see one of the great door slammer drag races of all time. ET records were set and reset, Al Jiminez became the first racer to run more than 200mph on a damned leaf [...]

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Gallery: 50 Photos of Gassers and Gasser Style Cars From All Over The Country And The World!

Posted in DRAG RACES November 15, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Photos from the BangShift Archives) – Starting tomorrow, we’ll be LIVE streaming the 2012 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals from Las Vegas. This event features the baddest ass doorslammers on the planet. These cars are at the bleeding edge of chassis and tuning technology like the cars of the gasser era were in the 1950s [...]

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