Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

The Rookie: A Conversation With Nitro Funny Car Racer Alex Miladinovich – How To Race A Funny Car On A Regular Guy Budget

There are always feel good stories in drag racing and most of them center around people who race with a lot of heart and soul. At the 2020 NHRA Winternationals, the drag racing world got to meet Alex...

NHRA Insider: A Conversation With A Privateer Top Fuel Team Owner and The Man Who Can Drive Anything

We’re still cranking out content at the NHRA Insider audio factory and this one is a gem. The guests on the show are Jim Maroney and Brad Plourd. Maroney is a privateer top fuel racer who has...

This Drone Video Of Brenden Mills Awful Woostock Fire Is Stunning – A Very Close Call, Mills OK

If you are a racer and you can watch this video without thinking about your own safety equipment and habits, you are either doing all the right stuff or you are out to lunch. Brenden Mills is a hard...

LIVE Streaming Drag Racing! Watch Mid West Pro Mods, Funny Cars, Dragsters, Big Tire & More From The Lonestar Nationals Pay Per View!

Drag Racing is finally getting rolling again! While we are not allowed to have spectators at the drag races here in Texas yet, we are excited to be able to be a part of the Lonestar Nationals Pay Per...

So You’re Craving Nitro, Right? Here Comes The National Day Of Nitro!

  So many of us crave the drag strip while much of the country is still on lockdown. There is a glimmer of hope with Arizona, Mississippi, Idaho, Florida and recently Washington State easing...

Insult To Injury: Watch This Street Racer Suffer A Manifold Explosion, A Fire, and Then A Visit From Johnny Law

There are bad days and then there are BAAAAD DAYS. The guy in the silver late model GTO suffers the latter in this video that was shot at some undisclosed street racing spot in Anywhere, USA. The...

Shag Nasty: Watch This 1,000 Wheel Horsepower 4-Rotor Mazda Get Dyno Tuned For Full Throttle Shifting!

This is insane. You are going to Watch This 1,000 wheel horsepower 4-Rotor Mazda get dyno tuned for full throttle shifting. The car actually runs on two dynos in this video. The first is a Mustang...

Updated ECTA Event Schedule! Come Party With Us In Arkansas For The Fourth of July!

We were looking forward to the ECTA Arkansas Mile event this year. We were excited to kick off the inaugural BangShift.com Street Car Shootout. And then…well, we all know what happened that...

NHRA Insider Podcast: Chatting With Champions – Great Conversations with Shawn Langdon and Luke Bogacki

It’s always fun to talk to people who are champions in a particular sport or dominant in a particular field. In drag racing, these are unique people who have channeled abilities and some of us...

The Throwdown In T-Town Is Happening This Weekend!!! Free Tickets Are Available Or Watch The PPV Livestream

What’s this?! Drag racing actually happening?! Yes!!! The Throwdown in T-Town is going to happen starting Friday evening and running all day Saturday at Tulsa Raceway Park. Thanks to some great...

Shop Closed? No Problem! Check Out The Home Machining Operation Of Nitro Wrench Donnie Bender

Donnie Bender is one of the guys that gets a lot of respect tin the nitro pits of NHRA drag racing. He has been around the sport a very long time, has worked for and tuned on some of the most famous...

Sportsman Drag Racing Fun: Watch the 1991 NHRA SportsNationals From Memphis, Alcohol Dragsters, Funny Cars, Competition Eliminator!

This is some fantastic video from the 1991 NHRA season and it is not fantastic because of fires, explosions, or mechanical disasters. It is spectacular because it’s the coverage from the 1991...

Hemi In The Basement: This Story Of An Amazing Car, A Hidden Collection, and Racing History Is Really Good!

This is one heck of a story and its one that we had never heard Tommy Lee Byrd tell until we watched this video. You know Tommy Lee Byrd as a contributor to loads of magazines, websites (including...

Birth Year Car Battle Slapfight: Burying McTag’s Race Car Choice With The Mighty 1980 Blue Max, Total Victory Declared

Welp, he done went and stepped in it. With an effort to make some sort of backhanded slap across my face, McTag ventured into the world of race cars as a second theater of war in this Birth Year Car...