Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
This Shop Tour Video Of Don Schumacher Racing Is Wild – 125,000 Square Feet, 130+ Employees
Normally when we think of a shop tour video we think of cars on lifts, guys welding stuff, parts being installed, and while all of those things are kind of a part of this one, it’s a little...
Behind the Ropes Part 2: After An Early Shutoff The MBR A/Fuel Team Sets Its Sights On Qualifying
Here is the second installment of the Michalek Brothers Racing team blog series called Behind The Ropes. This series follows the team’s first outing with their own equipment at the 2017 NHRA...
Pioneering Drag Racing Legend Raymond Godman Has Died – War Hero Helped Set Foundation For Mid-South Drag Racing
(Photo by Paul Broughton) – He was paralyzed by a sniper’s bullet during the Korean War and while he was restricted to a wheelchair for the majority of his life, Raymond Godman rose to...
Behind The Ropes Part 1: Live A Weekend In The Life Of An NHRA A/Fuel Dragster Team As They Make Their Debut
Here’s the first of a seven part series written by Corey Michalek about the competitive debut of he and his brother Kyle’s NHRA A/fuel dragster team. After years of crewing on top fuel...
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...