Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, BangShift 1320, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos
Meet Mendy: This Long Form Interview With Two Time Heritage Series Top Fuel Champion Mendy Fry Is Great!
Mendy Fry is a bad ass. No two ways around it. A woman who has lived basically her entire life in drag racing, she has amazing abilities behind the wheel and a genuine love of the sport that was...
100% BangShift Approved: This 1964 Opel Kadett Wagon Is Kind of Weird, Kind Of Rough, and 100% Totally Awesome
The land of old drag race cars can be a scary one. It can also be a boring and repetitive one as well. The car you see here is neither scary nor boring, in fact it is one of the neatest little gems...
Drag Racing Action Coverage: Race Report And Killer Photos From The 2019 Fall Mad Mule Event at GALOT Motorsports Park
(Words by Greg Parker/ Photos by David Whealon and Benoit Pigeon) When the Mad Mule Shootout weekend comes to GALOT Motorsports Park, it never fails to bring the best racing. Seven different classes...
2019 Mopar Southern Classic Coverage: More Tire Smoke And Killer Chryslers Drag Racing In Kentucky!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The phrase ‘Mopar or no car’ is manifest in the folks wailing and wrenching on their machines at this event. Anyone can see their pride for the...
Motorcycle Drag Racing Coverage: Arnold, Deck and Lee are Big NHDRO Winners
Doubling up wins on an NHDRO race weekend is a big enough achievement, but doubling up AND securing a championship at the Midwest’s largest all-motorcycle drag racing series is something else all...
Video: The Good, The Bad, and the Completely Insane – Watch This Brazilian Small Tire Opala Haul, Fly, and Bounce!
Lest you think that small tire drag racing is only difficult in the USA we present this video from Brazil to show you that the hard work being done by racers all over the globe looks to be one and...
Get Your Cack On: The Recreated Sour Sisters Top Fuel Car Is For Sale – Nitro Burning Oldsmobile Fun!
It’s pretty fair to say that “nostalgia” drag racing really found another gear right around the year 2000. This was when the Cacklefest was created and a time period where people...
NHRA Insider Podcast 30: Jack Beckman and Jeg Coughlin Jr Talk, Pressure, Championships, and Owning It In The Countdown
Pretty insane to think that we have made 30 episodes of the NHRA Insider Podcast already this year. It has been a fun way to explore the world of drag racing from the inside out and to expose the...
2019 GALOT Motorsports Park Nostalgia Drags and Muscle Car Shakedown: More Action Photos From The Event
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – We’re back with more great Benoit Pigeon photos from GALOT Motorsports Park in North Carolina and courage of their fall Nostalgia Drags and Muscle Car...
Flamin’ Videos: It Was A Tough Weekend To Be A Top Fuel Engine In Dallas – A Couple Of Flaming Boomers Here
It’s never an easy gig to be a top fuel engine, right? Even on the best days you are trying to contain and harness the impossible fury of 11,000 horsepower and fighting all of the strains and...
Watch David “Little Evil” Pearson Reset The PRO 275 Record At No Mercy 10 With A 3.90-Second Rip
There are certain cars that transcend time, they transcend classes, and they really help to define a genre of drag racing. David and Tracy’s Pearson’s Calypso Green Mustang is one of...
2019 Nostalgia Drags and Muscle Car Shakedown Photo Coverage: History Roared To Life At GALOT Motorsports Park
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Drag strips are interesting because they all seem to gain identity from the events that they are best known for holding. A place that runs a lot of small tire...
2019 NHRA Carolina Nationals Action Photos: The NHRA Season Is Almost Over, The Action Is Still Red Hot!
(Photos by David Whealon) – The 2019 NHRA Carolina Nationals ran into overtime. Driving rains on Sunday forced all the professional categories to be contested on Monday. NHRA officials ran all...
NHRA AAA Fall Nationals Saturday Final Qualifying Results Are Right Here
NHRA’s AAA Fall Nationals is tearing up the 1320 at the Texas Motorplex near Ennis. BRITTANY FORCE TOP FUEL NO. 1 QUALIFIER ADVANCE AUTO PARTS DRAGSTER 3.651 SEC., 331.28 MPH NOTE: Top...