Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
HUGE NEWS: BangShift To Provide LIVE Streaming Coverage Of 10th Annual NMCA/NMRA Super Bowl!
From July 30th through August 2nd BangShift.com will provide live streaming video coverage of the 10th annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing. This is a race that combines the...
Hodgson Racing Debuts Awesome New Camaro Nitro Funny Car
Successful businessman and Canadian Hall of Fame drag racer Ron Hodgson teamed up with his son Ryan a few years ago to field their own family alcohol funny car. Now the Hodgson family has stepped...
Kalitta Motorsports Continues New Growth With New Sponsor
Team Kalitta is pleased to announce its newest multi-year associate partnership with Autodesk, Inc. Beginning this weekend at the Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio, Autodesk branding...
Third Qualifying Session Added To California Hot Rod Reunion! Darr Loses His Mind!
Darr Hawthorne has been beating the drum like a mad man, trying to convince everyone that will listen that having a third qualifying session, rather than just two, for the nitro cars at the...
NHRA Names Peter Clifford As New President – New Era At The Top Of Drag Racing’s Largest Sanctioning Body
(Photo credit: NHRA) – Yesterday it was announced that the NHRA had promoted Peter Clifford to the role of the organization’s president. Previous to this promotion, Clifford was the...
Tennessee’s I-40 Dragway SOLD!!!! Another Drag Strip Saved!
We have it on very good authority that papers were signed today for the sale of I-40 Dragway in Tennessee! That’s great news for racers as the track recently came up for sale and it’s...
Jim Murphy’s WW2 Top Fueler Back On Track
Spotted at Auto Club Famoso Raceway’s Good Vibrations Motorsports Saturday Night Nitro event over the weekend was the legendary Hawaiian himself, Roland Leong, but not with a nitro funny car team,...
Sad News: “Rapid” Roger Garten Passes Away From Injuries Sustained In Funny Car Crash At Bakersfield
Last night during a “Saturday Night Nitro” event at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California there was a serious crash involving the driver of the War Horse funny car Roger Garten and...
Drag Strip For Sale! Buy Great River Road Raceway In Tennessee And Revive This Track
Great River Road Raceway in Dyersburg, Tennessee may not be a place that the NHRA, IHRA, or PDRA tours will ever visit but it looks like it has the bones of a great little hometown drag strip and it...
Mopar Unveils New Drag Pack Challengers – Blown And Naturally Aspirated Combos Available – Look Out Ford And GM!
In a move we have been hotly anticipating since Indy of last year, Mopar has pulled the curtain off a pair of new Challenger Drag Pack options for their sportsman drag racing customers. One is a...
Drag A Friend To The Strip – Announced By NHRA
The National Hot Rod Association has announced a newly created program offered exclusively for NHRA member tracks across the country. The initiative implemented by NHRA Field Marketing will inspire...
Dunlap Stuns Bartone As “High Speed” Top Fuel Dragster Returns To Winners Circle
In a spectacular return to form, 74-year-old Bill Dunlap captured Top Fuel Eliminator in his California-based “High Speed Motorsports” entry at the 13th Holley National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling...
IHRA Nitro Jam Action: Professional And Sportsman Photos From The President’s Cup At MIR
(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – This past week end, IHRA was racing at Maryland International for the President’s Cup Nationals. Unfortunately for the Nitro Jam program, after...
