Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
Awesome Home Movie: How Pro Line Racing Engines Air Mailed A Short Block Between Rounds Last Weekend!
There are thrash stories and then there are THRASH stories and this one certainly falls under the latter. During last weekend’s AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals, the J&A Service Pro Mod...
Watch Jay Payne Suffer A Huge Crash In His Pro Mod At The 2016 AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals – He’s OK
It began as a slight movement to the left off the starting line and then it turned into a wrestling match between the driver and the car with the driver ultimately going for the ride of his life. It...
The Brutally Awesome Drag Week Camaro Of Mike Wenzler Is For Sale – Nitrous Hammer!
First rule of drag race announcing: Don’t have favorites. That becomes virtually impossible when you see cars that you’d love to own or just stare at for hours. That’s my deal with...
Our Pal Cameron Ferre Is Going Rounds In Top Fuel Debut Today In Charlotte!
Update 09/18/2016 1:57pm Eastern: After kicking ass and qualifying in the number 14 spot in the Paton Family Racing, JBS, Racepak, Ted Wiens Tire and Auto, Precision Racing Suspension, Nitrohead,...
Drag Week Sleeper! This Chevy Caprice Runs 12’s And You Would Never Know By Looking At It!
(All photos by John Welsh) As you’ve probably heard by now, this week is Hot Rod Drag Week! As the rolling display of horsepower traverses the Midwestern United States all week long,...
Another New Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car Is Born! Bits and Pieces Is One Bad Ass Bird
When Keith Davidson sent me an email yesterday with the info and photos on their new Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car, I was super excited. First off it’s a Firebird body, which just looks as bad ass...
Watch The Quickest Pass Of Drag Week 2006 – Guess The Elapsed Time Before Pressing Play
This is kind of a fun game. Below we have video of the Hinson Supercars RX7 packing a turbocharged LS1 engine. This was the car that made the quickest pass of Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2006 and we...
Where It All Started: This Short Clip Of Hot Rod Drag Week 2005 Is A Far Cry From The Mania Of Today
Drag Week officially begins in a couple days and since we’ve got the fever we figured we would share this look back the the humble roots of the event. Oddly Drag Week had a lot to do with...
Kontinentals Day of the Drags 2016: Our Last Blast Of Photos From The Best Little Drag Race in Texas
(Photos by Robert Paxton) – It’s that time again, we are getting to the end of the excellent Kontinentals Day of the Drags photos that Robert Paxton shot for us at Little River Raceway...
Kris Krabill Scores 1st NHRA Heritage Championship As Jason Rupert 3-Petes IHRA Nitro Funny Car Title!
(Words by Darr Hawthorne – IHRA photos Courtesy of IHRA Communications) Kris Krabill and the Austin & O’Brien “Northwest Hitter” Firebird nitro funny car team wrapped up the 2016...
Schadenfreude: This Editorial From The Quad Cities Times Sums Up The Epic World Series Of Drag Racing Fail Perfectly
You can’t blame them and certainly we do not. The Quad Cities Times newspaper was quick to jump on the fact that the move of the famed World Series of Drag Racing from its ancestral home on...
Watch Anthony Vanetti Go Hurtling Into The Net After His Pro Stock Bike Lost The Brakes At Indy
Pro Stock motorcycle racer Anthony Vanetti made his national event debut at the 62nd running of the NHRA Chevrolet Performance US Nationals and yesterday did not go quite the way he planned. Vanetti...
62! Aaron Strong Wins Delayed Seattle Pro Stock Final At Indy – Amazing!
The history books will show that Aaron Strong won the 798th NHRA pro stock race in history and became the 62nd person to ever hoist an NHRA Wally with the words “Pro Stock Champion” on it...
