Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
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...
Jeff Arend Dominates NHRA Heritage Series Nitro Funny Cars at Firebird’s Ignitor!
(Photos by Annette Barton, Kim Fuller & Robert Grice) – With consistent 5.70’s during eliminations, four-time NHRA Mello Yello event winner Jeff Arend dominated NHRA Heritage Series nitro...
Cowboy Up! NHRA Pro Stock Veteran Mark Pawuk Joins Don Schumacher Racing As Driver Of Second Factory Stock Effort
One of the neatest moments for me at the recently passed NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina was hanging out with Mark “The Coyboy” Pawuk who was a longtime...
It’s Time For The Throwdown In T-Town LIVE From Tulsa Raceway Park: Watch Starting Friday!
It is that time again. Time for one of the coolest drag races of the year, live right here on BANGshift.com. It’s the spring Throwdown in T-Town and we’ll be live for all the action...
25 Years Ago Jim Epler Ripped The Heartland Park Topeka Quarter Mile At 300mph For The First Time In A Funny Car (Video)
Next weekend I’ll be a yellin’ and a screamin’ at Heartland Park Topeka one of the finest drag strips in the country. This is a place that came back from literal death a couple of...
NHRA Heritage Series Racers Roast At Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park!
(Photos by Bob Snyder – Words by NHRA-Steven Justice) – The third race this year for Groups 1 and 2 of the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series was held at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park May 5...
