Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, 1320 Vile Rumors And Gossip, BangShift 1320
NHRA Announces Great Lakes Nationals At U.S. 131 Motorsports Park!
(Words by Darr Hawthorne) • The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) announced today that U.S. 131 Motorsports Park will host a Mission Foods Drag Racing Series event in 2026, with the inaugural...
IHRA Acquires Maple Grove Raceway
The International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) has acquired Maple Grove Raceway, securing the future of one of drag racing’s most historic venues. Founded in the early 1960s, Maple Grove Raceway is...
John Force And Prock Family Part Ways In The Next Chapter Of NHRA Silly Season
In a short, but sweet Press Release from John Force Racing, JFR confirms the rampant rumors of two-time NHRA Funny Car Champion Austin Prock’s departure, his Father Tom Prock and Crew from the...
Is Goliath Really Sold? Really Leaving The Country? Together And Loading Up For The Last Time? Watch.
We all know that Daddy Dave Comstock built a whole new NPK car that debuted last year at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas and that he’s been racing and winning with it all year long. But he also...
Wagon Fantastic: This Brazilian Opala Caravan Is A Straight Six, Small Tire, Go Machine!
In a world of drag racing videos from Brazil that are dominated by Opalas, this is a neat change. Yes, it is an Opala but it is an Opala Caravan, the wagon version of the popular model. Hell, the...
All American Fuel Dragsters Association To Vote On Boycott Of Hot Rod Reunion
(Photos by Darr Hawthorne) • With a record number of Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragsters slated to appear at NHRA’s Holley Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, KY, the Assoc. will vote this week on a...
Another One Bites The Dust: R.I.P. Auto Club Dragway
(Words and Photos by Darr Hawthorne) – In a terse Facebook page proclamation on Friday December 3, 2021, Auto Club Speedway management declared, “After careful consideration on the best...
Life Sized Slot Car: The Honda E Drag Car Is An 11-Second Electric Pocket Rocket
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Honda E, if you didn’t know, is about the coolest electric vehicle you can buy today. Well, YOU can’t buy it today, but our friends across the pond can. There are...
Kamikaze’s Crash: How To Kill An El Camino In 3…2…1
Wanna know what happened? Wanna know how this thing came to be a pile of bent up stuff? Watch the video to hear it from Kamikaze himself. There are always different sides to every story, but this is...
NHRA Insider Podcast: The Big Show About The Big Go – Talking Indy, Drag Week, and the State Of The Sport
Last week’s running of the 2019 Chevrolet Performance NHRA US Nationals was epic. It always is. This episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast recaps the running of the race, looks ahead fo Hot Rod...
27th California Hot Rod Reunion – BANGShift’s Gypsy Delivers The Nitro Funny Car Odds!
(Photos by Dyan Lover, Mike Burghardt, Jeff Burghardt, Bob Snyder, Kim Fuller and Darr Hawthorne) – The end of this 2018 nitro funny car drag racing season comes to a close at the 27th...
Worsham Parking His Family Funny Car – Will Return At Sonoma NHRA Mello Yello Event!
Drag racing or any motorsport has so many ingredients – the main one is money. If you or your family doesn’t have couple of million dollars to drop on a competitive Professional fuel...
Good Vibrations March Meet – BANGshift’s Nitro Funny Car Gypsy Delivers The Odds!
(Photos by Dyan Lover, Mike Burghardt, Jeff Burghardt, Bob Snyder and Darr Hawthorne) This season should be an awesome year for nitro funny cars, so many owners, drivers and crew chiefs have stepped...
