Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
Milestone: Danny Thompson’s Challenger II Is On The Bonneville Salt Right Now! Test Session This Weekend – Check Here For Details
(Photos by Peter Vincent and Holly Martin) – Well the dream has become a reality for Danny Thompson and now the rest of the world will get to see how that reality plays out because the awesome...
Dragway 42 Opening Delayed Until 2015 – Construction Work Slowed Due To Poor Weather Conditions
Ma Nature can take the best laid plans and make mince meat of them and that’s about what’s happened to the team at Dragway 42 out in Ohio this Spring/Summer. The issue is rain and they...
Awesome News For Northwest Drag Fans – Spokane County Raceway Joins IHRA
Ever since Orville Moe, the longtime owner and operator of Spokane Raceway Park was thrown out of his facility in 2008 by track investors and the courts, the County-owned facility has been in...
The Places They Raced: An Abandoned Street Racing Haven
It is a straightaway to nowhere located off a bustling secondary road in Braintree, Massachsuetts. Ironically, it is now part of a nature reservation, but for several years in the 1960s and early...
Extreme Outlaw Pro Mods In Atlanta – Wild Cars, Wild Weather, And Great Times
(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – My last visit at Atlanta dragway was back in 1989 for some heads up Top Sportsman racing. Not too surprisingly, this new visit took me for the same kind...
Nitro Cars Test For Famoso’s Saturday Night Nitro
In the third year, Saturday Night Nitro at Auto Club Famoso Raceway has become an awesome event for west coaster nitro racers and fans of the exotic racing fuel. Reminiscent of battles at Saturday...
NMCA West JE Pistons West Coast Shootout Winners Circle Photos
Marc Lewis at Hedman was out at the NMCA West JE Pistons West Coast Shootout this weekend running his car around the Hotchkis Autocross, and made it over to the winners circle to grab photos of all...
Exclusive First Look: Pro Mod C7 Corvettes Are On The Way!
BangShift sources are telling us that Tim McAmis Race Cars is working on a new C7 Corvette Pro Mod Body that looks like this! Based on the rendering we have here, this might be the sleekest Pro Mod...
NHRA Bristol Pro Mod Coverage: Peter Farber Goes The Distance For First Time In NHRA Competition
(Photos/words by Benoit Pigeon) – For the first time in his career, pal-o-BangShift Peter Farber left an NHRA Pro Mod race with a Wally. Farber took on all comers at the recently completed...
TED PETERS WINS 2014 NOSTALGIA PRO STOCK “BLACK ARROW CUP” AT SIKESTON – Photo Coverage And Results HERE!
(Words: Bret Kepner – Photos: James Sisk) – Chrysler fans gained a bit of revenge when Ted Peters wheeled his 1974 Plymouth Duster to a stunning holeshot victory over Chuck Weck at the...
Andy Green Is Getting Ready To Drive 1,000 MPH And The Cockpit Of The Car Looks Like A Movie Spaceship
Andy Green is the guy who will drive the Bloodhound SSC land speed car in 2015 and 2016 with the goal of running 1,000-mph on land. Green has gone 763 mph previously as he was the driver of the famed...
City Of Topeka To Buy Heartland Park Racing, Seek New Operator For Sprawling Facility
I recently had the chance to work at Heartland Park Topeka for the weekend when the NHRA tour rolled through town. I was struck by several things at the track. The first was the sheer size of the...
FREE LIVE Streaming Video Coverage Of The 2014 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Today! CACKLEFEST TONIGHT!
RIGHT NOW WE ARE WORKING THROUGH SERIOUS CONNECTIVITY ISSUES AT THE TRACK – THE ISSUE IS THAT WE HAVE VIRTUALLY NO SIGNAL TO WORK WITH AND WE’RE DOING WHAT WE CAN TO FIX THAT. WE’RE...
‘Big Daddy’ Don Garlits Will Be Grand Marshal At IHRA Mopar Nitro Jam In Canada Next Weekend
Last week you saw our exclusive coverage of Don Garlits attempt to to be the first person to run over 200 mph in a quarter mile using batteries. The team got close, but after smoking an electric...