Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320

Behind The Ropes Part 4: The Boys Confront A Monster In Round One – Can They Advance?

So we have followed the Michalek Brothers Racing Team through qualifying and now we are with them for round number one competition. They have to face young phenom Justin Ashley who came onto the top...

Morning Symphony: A Big-Block Malibu Suffering From A Condition Called “Swine Flew”

Racing isn’t going to happen around my neck of the woods anytime soon, it seems. Even my weather app on my phone is getting pretty specific about which body parts are going to freeze off if I...

Behind The Ropes Part Three: In The Show! The Guys Pull Off A Hail Mary Pass And Bust In

In Behind The Ropes part three you are going to get a little taste of triumph as the Michalek Brothers Racing team, on their last possible opportunity to qualify manage to do just that and make the...

All Rocket, No Rice: 1320Video Shares The Baddest Imports They Filmed In 2017

Cracking a cheap Fast and Furious joke at a Honda revving their way through a Cars and Coffee meet-up is one thing. But writing off an entire swath of car culture just because they don’t do...

Here’s Something We All Can Enjoy: A Small-Block Powered Porsche 914 Running Elevens!

The Porsche 914…the half-hearted Porsche. If you’re unfamiliar with these things, here’s the quick and dirty version: Porsche wanted to replace the 912 and Volkswagen wanted to...

This Shop Tour Video Of Don Schumacher Racing Is Wild – 125,000 Square Feet, 130+ Employees

Normally when we think of a shop tour video we think of cars on lifts, guys welding stuff, parts being installed, and while all of those things are kind of a part of this one, it’s a little...

Behind the Ropes Part 2: After An Early Shutoff The MBR A/Fuel Team Sets Its Sights On Qualifying

Here is the second installment of the Michalek Brothers Racing team blog series called Behind The Ropes. This series follows the team’s first outing with their own equipment at the 2017 NHRA...

Behind The Ropes Part 1: Live A Weekend In The Life Of An NHRA A/Fuel Dragster Team As They Make Their Debut

Here’s the first of a seven part series written by Corey Michalek about the competitive debut of he and his brother Kyle’s NHRA A/fuel dragster team. After years of crewing on top fuel...

The NHRA’s Wild Rides 2017 Video Is A Collection Of High Impact Experiences

With the 2018 NHRA Winternationals little more than a month away, the drag racing organization took the last week to look back over stuff that happened during the 2017 campaign. While there were a...

Best of BS 2017: Sinister Sentra: Meet The 2017 LS Fest Winner For The Most Creative Swap Ever!

One notable thing about this year’s LS Fest that was far different that any other LS Fest I’ve attended…or, for that matter, any other event I have attended…is that for a good...

Best of BS 2017: This 9.62-second Mazda Savanna Blasts Down The Strip!

When Mazda dumped the 10A rotary into the Grand Familia series of cars, the goal was not to build a hot rod powered by the triangle of death…instead, it was meant to circumvent Japan’s...

Best of BS 2017: Rod Saboury And His Wild 1953 Corvette At Maple Grove In 1998!

The wildly painted, real-deal 1953 Chevrolet Corvette that wore the license plate “INTHE6S” was the stuff of legends for a young teenager who spent more than his fair share of time...

Best of BS 2017: Watch Stevie Jackson Reset The All-Time Drag Radial Record in Front Of A Packed House At SGMP

It was the session that we had all been waiting for. Last night’s Radial vs The World qualifier was awesome with 3-second runs falling out of the sky and the world record being reset multiple...

Best of 2017: Watch The Wild Ride Stevie Fast Had At Lights Out 8 And Read His Statement As Well!

It was the highest of highs and some interesting lows for Stevie Fast, Phil Shuler, and the rest of the Shadow 2.0 team during Lights Out 8 last weekend. They were running a car that was virtually...