Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, BangShift 1320
Chris McGaha Announces Full Time Return To NHRA Pro Stock – Hires Adam Hornberger As Crew Chief
If you are a fan of Chris McGaha and his pro stock team, you’ll be seeing a lot more of them in 2018 than you did in 2017. After a limited schedule last season, the Texas based team will be...
NHRA Museum Hosts AA/Fuel Altered Legends During 58th Winternationals!
(Photos by Tom West, James Drew, Jeff Burghardt, Mike Burghardt) The historic Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals, presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com opens the Mello Yello season this year, as every year...
NHRA Silly Season Begins With Force’s Mike “Zippy” Neff Moving To Schumacher Racing!
(Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt) Yeah, it is that time of the year, the Silly Season in all of motorsports, the time when crew chiefs and drivers consider better deals, better positions, more...
Brittany Force, Jack Beckman, Greg Anderson & Chip Ellis Lead First Day Qualifying At Pomona World Finals!
(Photos by Will Lester and Wesley Allison) Top Fuel title contender Brittany Force piloted her Brian Husan/Alan Johnson-tuned Monster Energy dragster to the quickest pass in Auto Club Raceway at...
BANGshift’s Nitro Funny Car Gypsy Lays Out Odds For The 26th California Hot Rod Reunion!
As nitro funny car racing matures, the task of picking the final rounds and a top ten in the class is getting tougher and tougher with each event. The 26th California Hot Rod Reunion at Auto Club...
NHRA Top Fuel Champion Shawn Langdon Moves Into A Kalitta Funny Car In 2018!
(Photos by Mike Burghardt, Bob Wingfield and NHRA Media) It’s that time of the year called the Silly Season, where drivers in all forms of motorsport are rumored to be moving from team to team,...
Jimmy Daniels Two-For-Two At US Nationals Mopar HEMI® Challenge
(Photos courtesy of Mopar Motorsports) Second generation Mopar racer Jimmy Daniels is now two-for-two in the Mopar HEMI® Challenge. The 21-year-old driver from Yardley, Pennsylvania, made...
BangShift Candidate Endorsement: Scott Palmer Needs Your Votes To Race In The Traxxas Shootout At Indy!
So here’s the deal, we like all three of the guys up for the 8th spot in the Traxxas Top Fuel shootout at the US Nationals. Terry McMillan, Troy Coughlin Jr., and Scott Palmer are the three...
Bobby Cottrell And Bucky Austin Power Win UNFC Seattle Invitational!
(Photos by Dyan Lover, Frank L. Smith & Jim Doyle) It took a couple of record setting performances, but the Bucky Austin-Mike O’Brien “Northwest Hitter” Bardahl-backed Camaro driven by...
NAPA Auto Parts Ignitor Features Tough Nitro Funny Car Field And A First Timer
The oldest major event in the Pacific Northwest, the NAPA Auto Parts Ignitor Opener returns to Boise, Idaho this weekend, May 5-7. This year’s Ignitor commemorates 50 years of racing at Firebird...
Three-Time Top Fuel Champion Larry Dixon Returns To NHRA Competiton With IHRA Backing!
Two of drag racing’s marquee events will come together with one of the sport’s most decorated champions this weekend at Gainesville (Fla.) Raceway Three-time NHRA world champion and IHRA...
Strong 8-Car Field Of Top Fuel Dragsters Vie For Good Vibrations March Meet Title!
(Words by All American Fuel Dragsters – Photos by Chris & Tera Graves and Darr Hawthorne) Mendy Fry and High Speed Motorsports Run Career Best Quickest Elapsed Times in Top Fuel Victory....
Hodgson Takes Home March Meet Wally With Aeromotive!
The legendary 59th Good Vibrations March Meet is in the books and Aeromotive Fuel Systems once again fueled Canadian Ryan Hodgson to a nitro funny car win at Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield,...
