Ride Along With Todd Paton As He Drives The BS Roof Hatch Equipped Crusher Camaro Funny Car Into The 5.80s At Famoso!
Mar 12, 2014Brian Lohnes1
We loves us some in-car video around here, especially when our pals are driving and the cars have a BS connection! In this film, you’ll ride over the left shoulder of nitro funny car driver...
Project Fat Lane Update: Tweaks and New Pieces Made On The Fairlane Before It Heads To Paint
Mar 12, 2014Brian Lohnes2
The adventure of Project Fat Lane continues. The radical, blown drag car will be ready for Heavy Street competition and lots of testing before drag racing season kicks off here in New England in a...
Radial Revenge Tour Invades Tulsa! X275 And MX235 Cars Standing On The Bumper!
Mar 11, 2014Chad Reynolds2
We can’t wait to see this one folks. We’re fans of X275, and pretty much any other drag radial class, and when Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park announced that they were running three...
Titanic Weekend Of Pro Mod Action Set For Gainesville – 28 Cars Entered At GatorNationals!
Mar 11, 2014Brian Lohnes1
In March of 2001, the NHRA held the first ever Pro Mod exhibition at the Gatornationals. 13-years later and here we are again, the Pro Mods are still around and still a super exciting part of the...
Wild Video: Watch An RX7 Use An Altered As A Launch Ramp At A Drag Race In Australia
Mar 11, 2014Brian Lohnes4
The shutdown area is one of the most dangerous places to be at a drag strip when cars are running. Logic would probably tell you that, right? After all, at that point on the course the cars are...
Bartone, Day, Hix, Score March Meet Victories – Full NItro Results Here – Bonus Gallery, Too!
Mar 11, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Bartone, Day, Hix, Score March Meet Victories – Full NItro Results Here – Bonus Gallery, Too!
When the dust settled at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California, a New Yorker, a Canadian, a couple Arizonians, and a fistful of Californians had won their respective classes at the coolest...
Tulsa Raceway Park Brings Prep To The Next Level. Pro Teams Rejoice!
Mar 10, 2014Chad Reynolds1
You know how much we love going to Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park, and now there is even more reason to love it. Track owners Keith Haney and Todd Martin have just stepped up and spent some real...
CLICK HERE To Watch Our REPLAY Of The 2014 Bakersfield March Meet!
Mar 07, 2014Brian Lohnes21
Thanks to the management of Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California and our great sponsors, BangShift will return to The Patch in just a couple of weeks to live broadcast the 2014 Bakersfield March...
Sammy Miller’s Restored Spirit Of ’76 Rocket Funny Car To Make Public Debut At Detroit Autorama This Weekend – Awesome
Mar 05, 2014Brian Lohnes10
Michigander Steve Atwell has had possession of the world’s first hydrogen peroxide rocket car at his shop for a couple of years and after hearing that he was getting to work on restoring the...
Click Here For The 2014 March Meet Event Schedule
Mar 05, 2014Brian Lohnes6
Here is the full event schedule for the 2014 Bakersfield March Meet held at Famoso Raceway. This schedule tells you who is running when and on what days. It lays out the qualifying and eliminations...
Odds Makers: We Handicap The Top 26 Contenders For March Meet 2014 Nitro Glory – Are We Right, Wrong, Clueless or All Three?
Mar 04, 2014Brian Lohnes4
(Words and photos: Darr Hawthorne) – As the nitro funny car class continues to grow and grow, any one of the following owners and drivers could make it the 2014 March Meet Winners Circle at...
The Cars, The Classes, And The Drivers You NEED To Know For The 2014 March Meet This Weekend!
Mar 04, 2014Brian Lohnes1
(Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos as credited) – (Editor’s note: This weekend it is GO TIME for the greatest nostalgia drag race known to man, the Bakersfield March Meet....
Gallery: Never Before Published 1960s Drag Photos From Great Lakes, Cordova, More!
Mar 04, 2014Brian Lohnes6
(Photos by Darwin Busch) – Yesterday, photographer Brent Busch sent me a note and invited me to look at a bunch of photos that his dad took in the late 1960s at places like Grat Lakes...
Video Of 88-Year Old Jack McClure Testing His Rocket Go Kart Emerges – The Hero Rides Again!
Mar 03, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Video Of 88-Year Old Jack McClure Testing His Rocket Go Kart Emerges – The Hero Rides Again!
On a lonely and deserted road somewhere in Florida history was made recently when Captain Jack McClure sat it, staged, and fired the hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that powers his legendary go kart...