Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
BREAKING NEWS: Captain Jack McClure Will Race His Famous Rocket Go Kart In Two Weeks At Motec Word Finals In Florida
WOW! About six months ago, Captain Jack McClure contacted us and said that he was close in getting permission to run his famed hydrogen peroxide rocket kart at a drag strip here in the USA for the...
In Japan They Run Top Fuel Cars On Unprepped Surfaces And The Results Are As Wild As You’d Expect (Video)
Yes, there are top fuel cars in Japan. Yes, they get run. No they don’t prep the tracks…at all. Why? People we have spoken to told us that prepping the track is viewed as...
Watch Frankie Taylor’s Pro Mod Battle Howard Farris’s War Wagon Fuel Altered In A Match Race At North Star Dragway
We often hear the lament that showmanship is dead in drag racing and that the whole thing has gotten stale. Those cries come from people who keep a very narrow view of the sport and don’t...
The Parting Shift: A Look Inside The Stick Shift Life Of Super Stock Racers At The 2014 NHRA US Nationals
There were more stick shift drag cars at the 2014 Chevrolet Performance US Nationals than I had ever seen in one place before. I’m not sure how I missed this awesome Les Mayhew video that he...
Watch Corey Michalek Record His First NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster National Event Win In His First Attempt – Raw Video And Announcer Audio
Back in the Spring, fresh of the weekend of announcing the races at zMax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina I shared with you the story of the Michalek Brothers Racing team and their event win in the...
Relive The Incredible Winged Express “Passing” Burnout From The 2010 California Hot Rod Reunion HERE – Video
Of all the great things we have caught on film over the year at Famoso Raceway over the years on our live broadcasts, the footage you see below ranks pretty darned near close to the top. Why?...
Watch Don Fezell Make The Quickest Stock Eliminator Pass In History 8.50!
It was May of 2001 when the first nine second pass was made in stock eliminator. It was April of 2012 when Don Fezell punched his Cobra Jet into the eight second zone, smashing the eight second...
Watch This Race Pull A Massive Wheelstand At The Dutch Classic And Power Through The Run Like A Boss
They don’t always turn out this good, but when they do it is true poetry in motion. This video was taken last weekend at the Dutch Classic, one of the great sportsman drag races in the world....
Watch One Of The Most Valiant Drag Race Driving Efforts We Have Ever Seen – Sideways, Stuck Throttle(?), Almost Saves It Completely
To be fair, we consider this a save. Yeah, the guy scraped the wall but when you watch this video and see how bad it could have been, that wall scrape is a drop in the bucket, literally. We’re...
Ride With Tony Bartone On His 271mph Run In Epping – The Listen To Him Issue Vow, “Wait ‘Till Bakersfield”
Tony Bartone, Steve Boggs, and the rest of the crew have been romping and stomping their way through every round of competition they have seen this year. The car has won ever race it has appeared at...
Ride In A Cool Hot Rod For A Few Laps Down The Beach During the 2014 Oilers Car Club Race Of Gentlemen
The Oilers Car Club Race Of Gentleman is officially a automotive cultural phenomenon. Three years after the initial running of the event, it is drawing cars and people from across the country to...
This Behind The Scenes Look At The Hot Rodding Film “This Is Long Beach” Is Pretty Awesome
The history of hot rodding needs to be preserved and films like This is Long Beach by Brian Darwas are just the ticket to making that happen. The film tells the story of the Cavilers car club,...
Watch And Hear This 510ci Big Block Spin To 9,500 RPM – Pay Attention To The Distributor, It Has A Mind Of Its Own Up There
The people who populate the NHRA’s Competition Eliminator class are among the craziest and braniest in the sport. They have not problem looking convention in the eye and spitting. They have no...
Watch NMRA Racer Drew Lyons Pull A Three Gear Wheelstand In His Coyote Stock Mustang! Multiple Angles Of This One
The NMRA’s Coyote Stock class is one of the neatest in drag racing, especially if you are a fan of late model Ford performance. Competitors must obviously derive the power for their cars from a...