Watch Don Garlits Make Runs In The SR-37 Electric Dragster From All Angles
As we have been reporting, Don Garlits and the SR-37 Quest team have been active over the last few days making test passes for the first time just days ago. While the team did not clip 200mph yet,...
More Sweet, Sweet FE Photos From The 2014 FE Race And Reunion – Beaver Springs, Dragway
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’re almost out of Joe Grippo photos from the 2014 FE Race and Reunion at Beaver Springs Dragway and that’s a shame because we have loved picking through...
LIVE: Super Stock and Stock Eliminator Wheels Up Racing Going On Right Now At National Trail
The Autometer Northern Class Nationals is on right now at National Trail Raceway, and thanks to Mark Walter and the gang we’ve got the live broadcast rolling right now. If you like big...
High School Drags With 16X Champ John Force At Auto Club Dragway
Jeff Burghardt photo Local drag racing is evolving. For much of the last two decades your local track survived on hundreds of Super category racers and bracket programs. They all need cash...
NHRA Houston 2014 – Top Fuel Gallery With Wadded Up Tires and BIG Header Flames
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Antron Brown walked out of Houston last weekend with a top fuel Wally as he has done so many times before. Brown piloted his Matco Tools sponsored dragster through...
2014 FE Race And Reunion – More Photos Of Historic And Rip Roaring Ford Machines From Beaver Springs
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The hits just keep on coming from the lens of Joe Grippo whose massive collection of photos from the 2014 FE Race and Reunion at Beaver Springs Dragway document one of...
Garlits Falls Short Of 200 On First Day of Testing – Second Session Should Yield Double Century Runs
A couple of days ago Don Garlits and and the SR-37 Questn team descended on Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida to attempt to break the 200mph (quarter mile) barrier in an all electric, battery...
Reader Drag Week Whips – How About A 1954 Chevy And A 1974 Opel Manta To Sum Up Daily Driver?
Here are two cars that will be part of the near 130 car field in the Daily Driver class at Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2014. They are wildly different and pretty much sum up the coolness that is daily...
Nitro Pits and Thrash Photos From NHRA Houston 2014 – Sweet, Sweet Nitro Parts!
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It isn’t too much of a stretch to say that nitro burning top fuel engines use the hardest core speed parts we know of inside of them. Believe it or not, the...
The Fantastic Fords Continue – More Coverage From the 2014 FE Race And Reunion At Beaver Springs
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’re continuing with more coverage by Joe Grippo from the 2014 FE Race and Reunion at Beaver Springs Dragway in Pennsylvania. Beaver Springs is a perfect...
UPDATE Breaking News: Garlits Attempting To Break 200 MPH Barrier On Batteries RIGHT NOW!
Update 3:30pm Eastern Time: On the third run with the dragster the power shut off unexpectedly at half track. The crew says that early numbers show that it would have easily been a 200 mph run, but a...
BangShifter Creates Drag Week “Scholarship” And Awards It To First Time Competitor – This Is Super Cool
In one of the coolest things to come out of the BangShift forums since their inception in 2008, multi-time Drag Week racer Kerby Suhre decided that since he wasn’t going to be able to make the...
This Music Video Has Awesome Drag Cars In It And Is Actually Pretty Neat
We have to thank ace BangShift photo contributor Benoit Pigeon for tipping us off to this cool music video for the song Summer by the artist Calvin Harris. While we’re not much for the tune...
