Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, Apex Racing News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
It Lives Again! Irwindale Speedway Gets A Reprieve From Becoming Yet Another Mall
Eff you, shopping mall, Irwindale will live on. The track, which was supposed to run it’s last ever event at the end of January before being leveled down and turned into yet another shrine to...
The NHRA’s Wild Rides 2017 Video Is A Collection Of High Impact Experiences
With the 2018 NHRA Winternationals little more than a month away, the drag racing organization took the last week to look back over stuff that happened during the 2017 campaign. While there were a...
Best of BS 2017: Watch Stevie Jackson Reset The All-Time Drag Radial Record in Front Of A Packed House At SGMP
It was the session that we had all been waiting for. Last night’s Radial vs The World qualifier was awesome with 3-second runs falling out of the sky and the world record being reset multiple...
Best of 2017: Watch The Wild Ride Stevie Fast Had At Lights Out 8 And Read His Statement As Well!
It was the highest of highs and some interesting lows for Stevie Fast, Phil Shuler, and the rest of the Shadow 2.0 team during Lights Out 8 last weekend. They were running a car that was virtually...
Best of 2017: EKanoo Racing Lexus Resets All-Time Doorslammer Record With 5.44 (Quarter Mile) Blast!
(Lead photo credit EKanoo Racing, time slip photo – Arabian Drag Racing League) – (Editor’s note: This number was supplanted by Jose Gonzales at a PDRA race later in the 2017...
Watch Chuck Little Pull Off The Greatest Single Round Upset Of The 2017 NHRA Pro Mod Season
I have been thinking about great runs and great rounds of competition from the last year as we approach 2018 and the one captured on video below is one of my favorites. You are going to see 72-year...
2017 NHRA Dutch Classic Coverge: Our Last Blast Of Photos Is A Mixed Bag Of Classes!
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – The Pennsylvania Dutch Classic is sort of regarded as a showcase for the Stock and Super Stock classes but all the other NHRA Sportsman classes are there...
Summit Motorsports Park To Undergo $1.6 Million Track Reconstruction Project – It’s Getting Fast Up In Here
When one wants to look at the state of the sport of drag racing, peeking in at the facilities across the country is a fantastic idea. We mention this because Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park...
Bob Glidden Has Died At 73 – One Of The Most Singularly Dominant Drag Racers In History Is Gone
Bob Glidden, the 10-time NHRA pro stock champion, an IHRA pro stock champion, a native of Whiteland, Indiana, and one of the greatest drag racers of all time has died at age 73, surrounded by his...
Phoenix Race Tires Has A Bunch Of New Sizes Of Slicks That Excite The Hell Out Of Us!
I grew up with an NHRA Stock Eliminator car in the garage. A car that had to run a 9.00/30/15 inch tire by the rules. We ran Firestones for most of my childhood and then Firestone quit making slicks...
2017 NHRA Dutch Classic Coverage: More Super Stock Fun In All Shapes and Sizes
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – You may be wondering why we are running these photos from the 2017 NHRA Dutch Classic at Maple Grove Raceway a pretty decent stretch after the event was held. No, we...
2018 Legends Of Nitro Calendars Are Yours – FREE – Just For The Asking!
Four years ago Kevin Stith wanted to create a calendar to promote the popularity of NHRA Heritage Series and IHRA nitro funny cars, jumping at the opportunity to publish it under his Legends of Nitro...
Performance Racing Industry Show 2017: Joe Fisher’s New Copper Plated Dragster Is Really Cool
Believe it or not, one of the hardest things to do in motorsports is to show up at the PRI show on any given year with a race car and stand apart from the crowd. You have to remember that this is a...
Hell Yes! The Whack Is Back, Baby! Scott Palmer Inks Multi-Year Extension Wit Cat Spot, Dom Lagana To Fly Colors As Well!
One of the true good guys in the sport of professional drag racing has inked a multi-year deal to keep himself out on the road and chugging nitro for seasons to come. Scott Palmer Racing announced...