Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320

March Meet 2015 Wreckage Sequence – Big Doorslammer Contact And The Curse Of The Front Page?

Two machines competing in the Hot Rod class at the 2015 Good Vibrations March Meet were involved in a pretty hardcore wreck on Friday. The red Chevelle reportedly suffered some sort of mechanical...

Our Final Blast Of Cool Cars From Bradenton Motorsports Park – Sun, Fun, and Wheelies!

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Well it is a busy weekend at BangShift and while it is only Thursday we’re still qualifying this as a weekend because Chad’s parked up in the...

Cincinnati Cavalcade Of Customs Coverage: Race Cars Without Doors Only!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory)This gallery has a bunch of racers without doors and is dominated by rear-engine dragsters – more specifically Top Dragsters.  This class of rail is really...

Drag Racing Test Action From Bradenton – Small Tires, Funny Cars, Sportsman Stuff

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – A little while back we showed you some great Pro Mod action from Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida which was part of the US Street Nationals event. Well...

Photo Blast: NHRA Sportsman Action From Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park In Phoenix

(Photos by Jeff and Mike Burghardt) – If there is one thing that I love more than all else at the NHRA national events I go to, it is the sportsman racing categories. Last weekend at Wild...

Killer 1980s Vintage Pro Street Photos From The Street Machine Nationals!

(Photos by BS forum member DragBike425) – The last gallery of 1980s pro street photos from the famous Street Machine Nationals in Du Quoin, Illinois was a big smash hit so we’re back for...

Merrill Ice Drags 2015 Coverage: A Second (Arctic) Blast Of Photos From The Wisconsin Ice

(Photos by Jacob Marshall) –  Intrepid BangShift contributor Jacob Marshall really crushed it with his photos from the Merrill Ice Drags which we first showed you yesterday and are back with a...

Merrill Ice Drags Coverage – 100+ MPH In The Eighth On ICE! 100% BangShift Approved Mayhem

(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – For us Midwestern gearheads it’s not often that we get to hear open headers and smell the sweet scent of race gas in the cold winter months. And even...

Pro Mod Action: More Great Photos From The Pro Mod Class At The 2015 US Street Nationals

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – As we showed you earlier in the week, there was a great variety of iron at the US Street Nationals this winter. Racers from all over the country escaped the...

Pro Mod Action Photos From The 2015 US Street Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park

(Photos and words by Benoit Pigeon) – I went down to this year’s edition of the Street Nationals knowing that there would be a tv crew from Canada filming Pro Mods.  Sure enough, all week...

Wheels Up Sportsman Drag Racing Photos From The NHRA Winternationals 2015 Right Here

If you liked the NHRA Pro stuff that we ran yesterday, you are really going to dig the Sportsman class action photos that the Burghardt boys shot out at Pomona last weekend. Brian and I both grew up...

NHRA Winternationals Photos: Team Force, Erica Enders, Matt Hagan, Shawn Langdon, Guy Fieri, And More.

(Photos by The Burghardts) We’ve got all the heavy hitters from the NHRA Winternationals this past weekend, with the wheels up, tires smoking, and some of them on FIRE!!! All these photos come...

55th NHRA Winternationals – Professional And Sportsman Champions Repeat

The first race of the 2015 season for NHRA’s Mello Yello Drag Racing Series brings with it a surge of optimism for all the race teams. With a clean slate in a new year to build upon most teams...

IHRA Nitro Jam – Explosive Opener In Tucson Qualifying

Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Bob Snyder and Darr Hawthorne   The International Hot Rod Association’s 2015 Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series season opened Friday afternoon at...