Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320

NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Coverage: Double The Lanes, Noise, and Insanity!

(Photos by David Whealon – DW-photos.net) – In many ways it is the most controversial race on the entire NHRA Mello Yello drag racing tour. The NHRA Four-Wide Nationals presented by...

Watch Marie Ferriolo’s Insane Funny Car Wheelstand From The NHRA Four Wide Nationals

The wheelie bar is a very important tuning tool in many drag racing classes. Alcohol funny car is certainly one of them and when there’s a failure in setting the bar up properly or a failure...

Drag Radial World Record: “Stevie Fast” Jackson 3.751!!!! 1/8th Mile At The RTRA Spring Nationals – Pro Nitrous Camaro On Radials, Baby!

Update: For the 4th time tonight! 3.751!!! Stevie kills the record in the final against Valden who runs 3.80! Update: Next round he betters it again! 3.788! Update: One round after setting the new...

Want A Quarter Mile Drag Strip? Lonestar Motorsports Park In Texas Is For Sale! $2.7M

We thought it was pretty awesome when John Hennessey went into the drag strip business a couple of years ago with the purchase of Lonestar Motorsports Park in Sealy, Texas. After all, his shop is...

Video: A Longtime BangShifter’s Son Is Living The Dream As A Crew Guy For Brittany Force

Perhaps the coolest thing about BangShift and its evolution over the years are the people that have and still are fans, readers, and participants of this place. It is more than just some website that...

Good News! Leah Pritchett Returns For Four-Wide Nationals In Lagana Top Fueler!

Leah Pritchett will continue to compete in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series driving the Nitro Ninja Top Fuel Dragster owned by the Lagana family at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals this coming...

Someone On The Tiny Island Of Antigua Has A Nitro Funny Car (And Yes, They Have A Drag Strip!)

You have likely heard of the island of Antigua. It is a popular tourist resort destination but you likely do not know that it is a hotbed of drag racing as well. In fact the entire Caribbean is a hot...

Cruz Pedregon Picks His Top 5 Funny Cars – Which Cars Made The Cut? Some Good History Here

If your last name is Pedregon, you’re going to be a drag racer. One of the sport’s great legacy families their patriarch was known as a scrappy, hard running, bucks down guy who made a...

This Video Profile On NHRA Funny Car Racer Tim Wilkerson Rules – A Real Deal, Hardcore Racer

Tim Wilkerson is the most successful privateer professional funny car racer left in the world and we’re not stating that as opinion, that is a fact. The dude busts his ass, runs every event of...

Want To See Hardcore? How About A Drag Week Small Block Spun To 9,400 By A Spintron!

If you know Drag Week you know that name Jake Stelter. This is the guy that took home the bacon in his class back in ’12 with one of the nastiest small block powered Chevelles we have ever seen...

Dragstrip Rebirth: Lancaster Dragway Is Getting An Entirely New Surface Right Now!

There’s more fantastic news for drag racing fans of another track getting huge and much needed improvements this season. It has been a year of nearly unprecedented work and upgrades at tracks...

LIVE Right Here At 6 PM Pacific, IHRA President Mike Dunn & Street Outlaws On NitroReports.com!

It’s Tuesday (4/19) and on tonight’s Nitro Reports with Donnie Couch and Darr Hawthorne we’ve got IHRA President Mike Dunn to talk about the season so far and the upcoming IHRA President’s...

Northeast Outlaw Pro Mod Association Action: Door Wars At Maryland International Raceway

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – For years I have been looking to make a visit at Maryland International and witness Door Wars where the NEOPMA  – North East Outlaw Pro Mod...

Ouch! Here’s What It Looks Like When Two Slingshots Try To Occupy The Same Space

Jim Murphy and Bill Dunlap are two of the most decorated front engine dragster racers of all time. They are also two of the most long lasting as well. Both men have been in the sport for decades upon...