Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320, BangShift News
Night Of Thunder! Come Hang Out With Us At Indy This Weekend For Pro Mods, Top Fuel, Grudge Racing, and More!
For the first time ever, Lucas Oil Raceway (purists will always call it Indianapolis Raceway Park) is holding a pre-Indy 500 match race called the Night of Thunder. They were slumming for an...
Incredible Sequence: Mark Rebilas Captured The Entire Steve Collier Blow Over In Stunning Detail
There’s something to be said about developing a reputation, especially if it is a positive one. Mark Rebilas has certainly done that over his career as a sports photographer. While drag racing...
Blow Over Video! Watch A/Fuel Racer Steve Collier Suffer The First Blow Over In 11 Years At An NHRA National Event
There were certain truths I held to be self evident when I started traveling on the NHRA Mello Yello national event tour. One of them was that I would never see a blow over when I was calling a race....
Auto Club Dragway’s Wednesday Night Drags Are A Welcome Distraction From The Rest Of The Week
(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Despite all the bitching and moaning that everyone does about not having dragstrips anymore, most places have more than ever. Here in Southern California everyone gripes...
NHRA Heartland Nationals Friday Pro Qualifying Videos: Torrence, Force, And Enders Lead Them All
The NHRA Heartland Nationals at Topeka are on, and Friday’s qualifying sessions had everyone chomping at the bit to see who could make it down the famed track quickest. After a few years of up...
Retro Cool Video: NHRA Today From The 1993 Heartland Nationals In Topeka, Kansas
As your eyeballs are scanning the page here, I’m making my way to Topeka, Kansas for the 2017 version of the NHRA Kansas Nationals. The facility in Topeka is a sprawling colossus of a place and...
Coming In Hot: Keith Haney Set To Make NHRA Pro Mod Debut This Weekend With Summit Racing Equipment Backing
This is going to be fun. Keith Haney, the 2017 Midwest Pro mod Series champion, drag radial racer, and yin to Stevie Fast’s yang will be suiting up for NHRA pro mod competition for the first...
’65 Hot Rod Magazine Drags – Watch Home Movies From The Day!
Fortunately for some of us, growing up in Southern California meant many of us also grew up around hot rods, racing and performance. As drag racing evolved at a number of Los Angeles area strips, a...
Sportsman Action Photo Coverage From NHRA Charlotte: From Factory Stock To Comp Eliminator, It Is Here
(Photos by David Whealon) – It was big fun watching the sportsman class eliminations at the 2018 NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina. Virtually the entire slate of...
Rain Nips NHDRO at the Stripe in Ohio – Despite Late Inning Wetness NHDRO Liguori Drag Racing May Bike Fest A Success
(By Tim Hailey) – A massive oildown delayed the finish of NHDRO’s Liguori Drag Racing May Bike Fest right into a line of advancing thunderstorms that washed out the last few pairs of...
Know Your Tech Guru: Aeromotive’s Brett Clow Personifies The Company’s Hands on Approach
The thing we really love about the high performance aftermarket is that the companies that produce the things racers and hot rodders use are not filled with drone-like worker bees. They are filled...
35 Years Later It’s Still Huge – Ride With Chuck Etchells For The First Funny Car 4
The late Chuck Etchells notched his name into the stone tablet of funny car history back in 1993 when he became the first driver to punch his way into the four second zone in a nitro funny car. On a...
The 48th Antique Nationals At Fontana’s Auto Club Dragway!
(Words and Photos by Darr Hawthorne) – The Antique Nationals is arguably the original nostalgia-racing event, long before large, multi-day reunions and cacklefests. Today, the single day 48th...
