Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, BangShift 1320, BangShift News
Long Island Needs A Drag Strip: Newsday Reports on The Efforts To Bring Drag Racing Back To The Area
It is a process akin to splitting a block of granite with dripping water. Working through hurdles, resistance, obstacles, and red tape to advance any sort of cause is hard but doing it in the name of...
2019 PDRA Mid-Atlantic Showdown Photo Coverage: Before The Thunder and Lightning, It Was Both on The Track!
(Photos by David Whealon) – Yes, thunder and lightning storms put an early end to the PDRA Mid-Atlantic Showdown but before that stuff came from the sky, it was emanating up from the track as...
2019 PDRA Mid-Atlantic Showdown: More Action Photos From Virginia’s Doorslammer Throwdown!
(Photos by David Whealon) – We promised you a follow up load of photos and results after yesterday’s opening batch from Benoit Pigeon and we’re delivering, baby! Today’s...
PDRA Action Photos: 2019 Mid-Atlantic Nationals Images From Virginia Motorsports Park
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – The 2019 Mid-Atlantic Nationals were fantastic and the surface at Virginia Motorsports Park was on absolute kill. Mother nature did not cooperate with the PDRA just...
Turbo Twin Tuesday: Yamaha Files For Patents On Turbocharged Engine Designs – 1980s Part 2?
Ok, for starters, let’s hope it is not the 1980s again because we’d loose loads of awesome technology and performance, but the question in the title is valid. Why? If you dig motorcycles...
The Bob Glidden Story: This Ford Made 1980s Film Gives An Awesome Look Into Glidden’s Career At Its Peak
Being that the NHRA is racing in Atlanta this weekend, we couldn’t help but think about the late Bob Glidden. Remembering legends and their careers is a fun thing. Part of that is thinking...
RacingJunk: Take Your (Sling) Shot With This Blown Small Block Woody Gilmore Built Dragster
With all of our talk of nostalgia drag racing and history today, we figured we’d tie that bow up nicely by showing you this killer and historic slingshot that is for sale on RacingJunk right...
Drag Racing Action Photos: Throwing Down Old School At The Restoration Reunion In Virginia
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Nostalgia drag racing continues to be a vibrant and important part of the entire sport. Events happen with regularity all over the country each weekend. Some are...
All The Blower: Watch Carl Scott’s Whipple-Charged Honey Badger Take Care Of Business
We have known Carl Scott since 2005 when he won the first Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week ever held. At that point he had a Chevy Nova with a nitrous engine in it and for all intents and purposes it was...
NGK NHRA 4-Wide Nationals Nitro Photos: Flames Up, Pig Piles, Tire Smoke, Action and More!
(Photos by David Whealon) – It’s a noise that you literally can hear in only one other place on Earth. It’s a feeling that makes some people, like my buddy Joe, so physically...
Watch The 1989 NHRA Southern Nationals – Wreckage, Upsets, Unscripted Fun!
The first NHRA Southern Nationals were held in 1981 at a track that had originally been designed as an airport and lived a pretty sleepy life before hosting one of the biggest races on the NHRA tour...
2019 NGK NHRA 4-Wide Nationals Coverage: Pro Mod Quads! The Doorslammers Go Four Wide
(Photos by David Whealon) – The 2019 NHRA E3 Spark Plugs pro modified series, presented by J&A Service rolled into Charlotte on a competition high. The first two races of the years at...
Top Fuel Pro Mod Video: Scott Palmer’s Studebaker May Not Be Perfected Yet, But It Sure is Amazing
To know Scott Palmer is to love Scott Palmer. Not in a weird way, but in a drag racer/hot rodder way. In the kind of way that any awesome person you’ve ever seen do cool things is. Scott is one...
Funny Car Chaos: Watch Ron Ooms Suffer A Bizarre Crash During A Burnout That Broke His Leg In Five Places
Now this is a weird one. During the Funny Car Chaos event at MoKan Dragway last weekend racer Ron Ooms was beginning a burnout in his beautiful Camaro bodied funny car when things went wrong in a way...