Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
Pat Van Racing’s Tom Armitage Gives Us The Tech And Specs Behind The Team’s 10-second Mini-Slingshot Dragster – This Rules
After running the video of Team Pat Van Racing’s miniature, motorcycle powered slingshot running down into the 10-second zone at England’s York Raceway, we reached out to Tom and asked...
FireAde Joins With Gray Motorsports Pro Stock Camaro Driver Shane Gray
We get a lot of Press Releases landing into the email In-box, but this rendering of Shane Gray’s sleek Jerry Haas-built Chevy Camaro caught our eye. The new FireAde Camaro will debut at the...
Book Review: Liam Garritty’s Saturday Forever Drag Racing Photo Book And Bonus March Meet Photos
As a child growing up at Fremont Drag Strip, the romanticism of drag cars of all kinds was huge to my little mind. Thinking back to those days makes you feel like the Funny Cars and Top Fuel...
Video: Don Garlits Talks About His First Visit To The Track With The SR-37 Electric Dragster And Why He Believes In The Project
Don Garlits’ recent success in the seat of Swamp Rat 37 is well known around here as we’ve been following the project since we first head about it. While the team did not eclipse 200mph...
Matt Frost’s Drag Week Nova Project Looks And Sounds Like Serious Business – Will It Be Done In Time?
Self described Drag Week fanatic Matt Frost dropped us a quick note and a few photos of the project he is building for Drag Week 2014. The car is a late first generation Chevy Nova and the story of...
Drag Week Reader Build: This Boosted, Coyote Powered Mercury Capri Makes 900hp At The Tire And Eats Clutches
The Mercury Capri is a Fox-body that lots of people seem to either forget about or write off. Yes, the looks weren’t quite as good as the Fox-body Mustang, but there are less of them around,...
Sad News: “Clay” Jones, Vice-President Of Beech Bend Raceway Passes At Age 42
Exceptionally sad news to report today as Darren “Clay” Jones, the son of Beech Bend Raceway Park owner Dallas Jones, vice-president of the track and the amusement park, and all around...
Sunoco To Become Official Fuel Of NHRA In 2015
In what was undoubtedly a surprise to VP Race Fuels, the current Official Fuel Supplier of the NHRA, the Glendora-based sanctioning body, announced a ten-year deal for Sunoco to become an...
Radial Revenge Tour Tulsa Raceway Park – Small Tire Warfare In Oklahoma
(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) – The popularity of small radial shod drag cars is spreading across the nation like green grass sprouting in the Spring and that’s no exception here in the...
Our Last Blast Of Ford Drag Perfection From The 2014 FE Race And Reunion – Until Next Year!
Well, this is officially it. We’re through all of the awesome photos that Joe Grippo sent us from the 2014 FE Race and Reunion which was held about a week ago at Beaver Springs Dragway in...
Watch Don Garlits Make Runs In The SR-37 Electric Dragster From All Angles
As we have been reporting, Don Garlits and the SR-37 Quest team have been active over the last few days making test passes for the first time just days ago. While the team did not clip 200mph yet,...
More Sweet, Sweet FE Photos From The 2014 FE Race And Reunion – Beaver Springs, Dragway
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’re almost out of Joe Grippo photos from the 2014 FE Race and Reunion at Beaver Springs Dragway and that’s a shame because we have loved picking through...
High School Drags With 16X Champ John Force At Auto Club Dragway
Jeff Burghardt photo Local drag racing is evolving. For much of the last two decades your local track survived on hundreds of Super category racers and bracket programs. They all need cash...
Garlits Falls Short Of 200 On First Day of Testing – Second Session Should Yield Double Century Runs
A couple of days ago Don Garlits and and the SR-37 Questn team descended on Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida to attempt to break the 200mph (quarter mile) barrier in an all electric, battery...