Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, Apex Racing News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
Turbo Twin Tuesday: Yamaha Files For Patents On Turbocharged Engine Designs – 1980s Part 2?
Ok, for starters, let’s hope it is not the 1980s again because we’d loose loads of awesome technology and performance, but the question in the title is valid. Why? If you dig motorcycles...
The Bob Glidden Story: This Ford Made 1980s Film Gives An Awesome Look Into Glidden’s Career At Its Peak
Being that the NHRA is racing in Atlanta this weekend, we couldn’t help but think about the late Bob Glidden. Remembering legends and their careers is a fun thing. Part of that is thinking...
RacingJunk: Take Your (Sling) Shot With This Blown Small Block Woody Gilmore Built Dragster
With all of our talk of nostalgia drag racing and history today, we figured we’d tie that bow up nicely by showing you this killer and historic slingshot that is for sale on RacingJunk right...
Drag Racing Action Photos: Throwing Down Old School At The Restoration Reunion In Virginia
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Nostalgia drag racing continues to be a vibrant and important part of the entire sport. Events happen with regularity all over the country each weekend. Some are...
All The Blower: Watch Carl Scott’s Whipple-Charged Honey Badger Take Care Of Business
We have known Carl Scott since 2005 when he won the first Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week ever held. At that point he had a Chevy Nova with a nitrous engine in it and for all intents and purposes it was...
NGK NHRA 4-Wide Nationals Nitro Photos: Flames Up, Pig Piles, Tire Smoke, Action and More!
(Photos by David Whealon) – It’s a noise that you literally can hear in only one other place on Earth. It’s a feeling that makes some people, like my buddy Joe, so physically...
Watch The 1989 NHRA Southern Nationals – Wreckage, Upsets, Unscripted Fun!
The first NHRA Southern Nationals were held in 1981 at a track that had originally been designed as an airport and lived a pretty sleepy life before hosting one of the biggest races on the NHRA tour...
2019 NGK NHRA 4-Wide Nationals Coverage: Pro Mod Quads! The Doorslammers Go Four Wide
(Photos by David Whealon) – The 2019 NHRA E3 Spark Plugs pro modified series, presented by J&A Service rolled into Charlotte on a competition high. The first two races of the years at...
Top Fuel Pro Mod Video: Scott Palmer’s Studebaker May Not Be Perfected Yet, But It Sure is Amazing
To know Scott Palmer is to love Scott Palmer. Not in a weird way, but in a drag racer/hot rodder way. In the kind of way that any awesome person you’ve ever seen do cool things is. Scott is one...
Funny Car Chaos: Watch Ron Ooms Suffer A Bizarre Crash During A Burnout That Broke His Leg In Five Places
Now this is a weird one. During the Funny Car Chaos event at MoKan Dragway last weekend racer Ron Ooms was beginning a burnout in his beautiful Camaro bodied funny car when things went wrong in a way...
Tuesday’s Reason To Go Home And Drink: Accelaquarter Raceway In Illinois Has Canceled The 2019 Season, For Sale
There’s no way to sugar-coat this kind of news…it sucks. We learned yesterday that Accelaquarter Raceway, a neat little eighth-mile joint in Harrisburg, Illinois has canceled out their...
Video: 1991 IHRA Winternationals Pro Mod Action – Kuhlmann, Hoover, McAmis, Cannon, More!
The NHRA Pro Mod series kicked off in Gainesville as it has each season since 2000 and has only gotten crazier from there. The level of competition has been insane and that’s not a new...
Not Good: Watch This Racer Suffer A Nitrous System Failure, Filling The Car With Gas!
This is a crazy one right here. During a recent grudge race in the Carolinas, the driver of this Mustang quite literally got a face full of the very nitrous that was supposed to be headed into his...
