Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Miss Maverick: This Petrolicious Piece About A Street/Strip 1973 Maverick Is As Good As It Gets

We love the work that Petrolicious puts into their features on cars and people. We run many of them here because they are beautifully done, insightful, and they really are some of the best examples...

Want To Become A Carburetor Guru? Learn From The Guys That Build Them! Holley Announces New Holley Carburetor 101 Classes

Everyone seems to have EFI the brain in recent years, and we understand and love them for it, but carburetors are still way more plentiful in the hot rod and racing world and we still get asked about...

The Drag Illustrated Nationals World Doorslammer Nationals present by Elite Motorsports Coming In March – $50k To Win Pro Stock and Pro Mod!

Well this is going to be a brawl. The Drag Illustrated World Doorslammer Nationals presented by Elite Motorsports is slated to happen at Orlando Speed World Dragway March 6-8, one week before the...

SOLD: Maple Grove Raceway Reportedly Set To Be Sold To Pennsylvania Racing Development Company – Good News!

The wait for the answer to the question, “Has Maple Grove been sold yet,” is apparently over. The Reading Eagle newspaper is reporting that a King of Prussia, PA based company called...

NHRA Insider Podcast: Coming Into 2020 HOT! Inside News, Rumors, and The Story Behind Blake Alexander and Jim Head

The 2020 season will be chock full of really awesome action from the sportsman to the professional ranks and it’s finally time to start to dive into the storylines that are developing ahead of...

Squeakers! Here’s Five Minutes Of The Best Heads-Up Side By Side Races From 2019 – Radials to Nitro Funny Cars!

The coolest thing to witness at any drag race are two evenly matched cars being expertly wheeled by good drivers. Why? Because you know you’re going to get a really tight finish, that’s...

Oh The Places He Went: Benoit Pigeon’s 2019 Photo Year In Review – Great Images, Cool Cars and Places!

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – From hot rods on the streets to drag cars on the strip, Benoit Pigeon provided hundreds and hundreds of amazing images to check out in 2019. When he let us know...

Watch This New Zealand Drag Racing Crash That Seems As Though It Will Never End! Insane!

The scene is the Masterton Motorplex in Masterton, New Zealand. The cars are supercharged door slammers and while we’re not sure what the race is, we’re damned sure that it is...

Wonder No More: See How Much Horsepower Larry Larson’s Wild Cadillac ATS-V No Prep Car Makes On The Hub Dyno

Larry Larson likes rules. Well, no racer really likes rules but when we look at some of the neatest stuff this guy has ever built to race, the machines have been built around exploiting potential...

Listen Up Suckers: Stevie Fast Calls Out Every Pro Mod In the Country…And John Force?!

And we’re off! That’s exactly what I thought when I watched this video of Stevie Fast Jackson effectively calling out every pro mod racer in the country and the going the extra mile and...

Best of 2019: Watch X275 Eliminations From Sweet 16 2.0 – The Runs That Made The Bruder Brothers $50,000

If Radial vs The World was the headlining act at the DuckX Sweet 16 2.0 than X275 was the strongest undercard in drag racing history. As mental as Radial vs The World action was, X275 likely topped...

Best of 2019: The Most Insane Run At Lights Out 10 Didn’t Show Times: How About One Hit For $150,000?

Grudge racing is something that I have learned a lot about over the last few years while attending races like Lights Out and No Mercy. The culture, the people, the rules and regulations, all of that...

More Drag Week Bonus Photos: We Bring You More Cool Stuff From Cecil County

(Photos by Joe Grippo) Drag Week has long been one of our favorite events, as we were on the first one and many since, and we love running photos from the event’s many stops. When Grippo decided to...

Best of 2019: The Driver That Drove The Wrong Way Up Jackson Dragway And Crashed Into The Tree

(Lead Photo: Will Kinnard) Lohnes once said that one of his biggest fears at a racetrack was to see a car coming back up the strip towards the tower. As someone who is often around the area between...