Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320

Tuesday’s Reason To Go Home And Drink: Accelaquarter Raceway In Illinois Has Canceled The 2019 Season, For Sale

There’s no way to sugar-coat this kind of news…it sucks. We learned yesterday that Accelaquarter Raceway, a neat little eighth-mile joint in Harrisburg, Illinois has canceled out their...

Video: 1991 IHRA Winternationals Pro Mod Action – Kuhlmann, Hoover, McAmis, Cannon, More!

The NHRA  Pro Mod series  kicked off in Gainesville as it has each season since 2000 and has only gotten crazier from there. The level of competition has been insane and that’s not a new...

Not Good: Watch This Racer Suffer A Nitrous System Failure, Filling The Car With Gas!

This is a crazy one right here. During a recent grudge race in the Carolinas, the driver of this Mustang quite literally got a face full of the very nitrous that was supposed to be headed into his...

Nitro Bike Race Report: Vantine Nitrosports Off To A Slightly Destructive But Flying Start in 2019

Just like last year, David Vantine and his screaming yellow Vantine Nitrosports bike have started off 2019 undefeated with the Top Fuel win at the Manufacturers Cup Spring Cup at South Georgia...

Mark Williams Enterprises Introduces New 5 on 4.75 Bolt Circle Full Floater Hub!

When you are a company that prides itself on making the highest quality racing parts in every respect, you take measured approach to developing, engineering, and rolling out products. Mark Williams...

Incredible 1974 Video Takes Us in the Pits And On The Track With The Immaculate Green Elephant Funny Car Team

There are cars that transcend the decades of drag racing and continue to stand out amongst others of their era. Maybe we’re talking about machines like the Sox and Martin Barracuda,...

Watch Jader Krolow Use All The Wheel And Every Inch Of Track To Run 6.60s at 218 In His Brazil Based Nova!

Sometimes I watch people drive race cars and wonder where they get the guts to do what they do. Where they get the guts to make those split second decisions that determine whether the run will be a...

These 1960s 8mm Movies From Byron Dragway Are Nothing Short Of Astounding – Check This Footage Out!

From super stock to Turbonique, these 1960s 8mm movies from Byron Dragway are nothing short of astounding. They are running super stockers at least three wide in some of these clips, they are running...

PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Images: One Last Shot Of Photos From GALOT Motorsports Park

(Photos by David Whealon) – We had some lingering photos left at the tail end of our PDRA East Coast Nationals coverage and David Whealon who was the many that created these images was like,...

Truck For Sale: Larry Larson Selling The S10 He Won A Wally With, Won No-Preps With, Ran 1st Street Legal 5-Second Pass With!

It was built as a doomsday weapon of sorts and by the time the first phase of its career had finished, Larry Larson’s S10 truck he elevated itself to iconic status in the world of drag racing....

FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Race Coverage Is LIVE Right Here!

It’s time for the biggest payout in bracket racing history folks and that means SPRING FLING MILLION IN LAS VEGAS!!! And the live video all starts Tuesday afternoon thanks to Jegs and Hoosier!...

Video: This Is What Dag Racing Looked Like In Detroit Back In 1953 – Michigan Hot Rod Association Action

When we talk about drag racing’s roots, the 1950s were really the formative decade for the sport across the country. Sure it had sprouted some legs and began to drag itself out of the...

Watch The 1985 IHRA SummerNationals Right Here – Crazy Runs, Big Stars, More

It’s pretty wild to think about an era when there were two sanctioning bodies running nitro funny cars, and top fuel dragsters professionally in the USA. It wasn’t like it was 100 years...

Ryan Hodgson’s Pacemaker Wins UNFC Nitro Season Opener At Tucson Dragway Reunion!

(Photos by Bob and Ginger Snyder) – The United Nitro Funny Car Championship series, presented by Good Vibrations Motorsports held the first round of their five-race series over the weekend as...