Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320
NMCA West Street Car Nationals Race Coverage – We Were In Fontana For The Season Opener
It was a great weekend in Fontana, California at Auto Club Dragway recently when the NMCA West series held their season opener and drew some of the hottest door slammers on the west coast out to the...
Ever Wondered What New Zealand’s Home Version Of The US Nationals Looks Like? This Great Race Report Will Tell You
(Photo credit: Drag News Australia) – We love shining the light in places where you may not be expecting us to and in this case the spotlight is aimed at the racers and fans who attended the...
Big News: NASCAR To Reenter Sport Of Drag Racing – National Series Planned For 2016
It has been about 50 years since NASCAR abandoned their burgeoning drag racing division in 1967 and stepped clearly away from the sport but reports from inside the halls of the company indicate that...
Father And Son English Drag Racers Sentenced To Decades In Prison For Leading Drug Smuggling Operation
This is the second time that Graham Ellis’s name has appeared on the front page of BangShift and sadly, neither time has it been in celebration of good news. The first time was due to a massive...
Irwindale Speedway Likely To Be Demolished To Make Room For An Outlet Mall
California speed freaks, got some bad news for you. Irwindale Speedway is all but condemned to be razed and repurposed as an outlet mall. City officials and Irwindale Outlet Partners, LLC will meet...
Houston Holds “Legalized Street Racing” Event, With Police Assistance. Is This The Way To Fix The Problems With Street Racing?
Street racing is one of the big hot-button issues of the year, with the Chatsworth, California crash bringing the dangers back into the public eye. But in Houston, Texas, an event called “Dig...
Boychuk, Bealko, Kile, Moller win IHRA Nitro Jam Mardi Gras Nationals
Photos by Chris Simmons – Courtesy of IHRA Communications IHRA was forced to postpone qualifying for the Nitro Jam Mardi Gras Nationals due to rain and wet condition and, with continued...
March 9th Was The 83rd Birthday of the Ford V8!
We’d be remiss if we didn’t recognize one of the coolest gearhead birthdays in the world. On March 9th 1932 the first Ford V8 engines began rolling off the production line in Dearborn,...
Exclusive: In-Car Footage From the Dart and Chevelle Crash At The 2015 March Meet!
We’ve managed to obtain in-car footage of the accident that took out a Dart and a Chevelle at the 2015 March Meet. Riding along with Will Matsch inside the Dart, you can see Dave Jones’...
March Meet 2015 Wreckage Sequence – Big Doorslammer Contact And The Curse Of The Front Page?
Two machines competing in the Hot Rod class at the 2015 Good Vibrations March Meet were involved in a pretty hardcore wreck on Friday. The red Chevelle reportedly suffered some sort of mechanical...
Breaking News: One Driver Charged In Fatal Chatsworth, California Street Race Has Appeared On Street Outlaws
(Lead image credit: TMZ.com) – In a turn of events that no one could have scripted, TMZ.com is reporting that one of the drivers involved in the fatal street racing crash that happened in...
Jiffy-tite Is Now The Official Quick-Connect Fluid Fitting Of The IHRA
BangShift LIVE Broadcast Sponsor Jiffy-tite is proud to announce that they have been named the Official Quick-Connect Fluid Fittings of the IHRA. With lightweight, precision machining, and effortless...
Chatsworth Street Racing Crash: Attorney Says Mustang Driver Wasn’t In The Car When The Accident Occurs
More news is coming out about the Chatsworth street racing crash that killed two people and injured one. Friends of Henry Gevorgyan have indicated that he was not driving the Ford Mustang that lost...
Wow! New Dragster Enters The Chase For 200mph On Batteries – Melanie Troxel To Drive Machine – Quest For 200 Reborn
In all great technological pursuits there are differences of approach, opinion, direction, and design. Sometimes these differences are small enough to be worked through and sometimes these...