Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Watch Mark Taliaferro Suffer One Of The Worst Top Alcohol Dragster Wrecks We’ve Ever Seen – He Walked Away!
(Editor’s note: Mike English was on the call in Seattle when Mark Taliaferro suffered a horrendous wreck in his alky dragster. As we’re looking back at 2014, this moment of the NHRA...
This ESPN Sports Science Profile Of A Top Fuel Dragster Is Pretty Awesome – Not Just The Same Old Facts
There are two things that struck me about this cool ESPN Sports Science profile of a top fuel dragster. The first is that they attack the topic with a different angle than most of the other...
Watch Quain Stott Make The Greatest Gasser Save We Have Ever Seen – In Car And Out of Car Video
(We love great driving “saves” around here and the best save we saw in 2014 came from Rockingham Dragway and featured the legendary driving skills of Quain Stott. A Champion pro mod racer...
Watch A Fuel Altered Crash And Then Come Back Up The Drag Strip The Wrong Way At Full Throttle Before Exploding – Terrifying!
(Editor’s note: Looking back at the stuff we posted in 2014, this is by far the more terrifying video we showed you. It bears watching again, even if you have already seen it. Watching a AA/FA...
Video: The Wildest Starting Line Crash In Drag Racing History – Funny Car Rear Ends Mustang!
Thanks to BangShift forum member BigDad, I found this footage of the wildest drag strip crash I have ever seen. My eyes have witnessed some true weirdness over the years at tracks. I thought the time...
Five Minutes Of Drag Wheelies, Wrecks, And Saves From All Over The Country Including Rare Footage Of A Thundering Injected Nitro Pro Mod
More Urban Hillbilly Action Video perfection here in the form of Sean Melton’s latest YouTube release from his vaults. In this video we see everything from oil pan bashing wheelies at Orlando...
Watch The Hybrid Rocket Engine That Will Help Power Bloodhound SSC Get Tested In Norway – Will The Extra Boost Push Them To 1,000 MPH?
We have been showing you some videos of the progress and basic system testing that has been going on around the massive effort behind the Bloodhound SSC land speed vehicle that will attempt to become...
Land Speed Video: Watch Brandon Leggitt Thunder Down The El Mirage Course Setting A Record A 231 And Making Wonderful Noise
There’s a beauty to this video that gearheads will get an most others will totally not understand. Whether it is the vastness of the setting that the car is racing through, whether is is the...
Watch Mike Finnegan’s Blasphemi ’55 Dominate A Hellcat Challenger, A Tank Tracked FC170, And A Breadbox With Wheels In A Drag Race
This is a fun watch from our pals over the at the Motor Trend channel on YouTube as it pits Mike Finnegan’s Blasphemi 1955 Chevy against a brand new 707hp Hellcat Challenger, a mildly breathed...
Awful Windy In Here: Watch This Turbocharged Nova’s Passenger Door Do All Kinds Of Creepy Stuff At High Speed
(By Jason Sands) – Good buddy Brian Peterson decided that the 9.0’s at 149mph that his nitrous Nova was running wasn’t good enough so he switched to twin turbos instead. The car...
Video: A Young (and Uncomfortable) John Force Hosts A Bitchin’ Profile Of Connie Kalitta From The Mid-1990s
If there is one thing that you’d never call John Force these days it is camera shy, but even Force took some time to get the level of comfort he has on the small screen today. This video stands...
Watch Top Sportsman Racer Jerry Holt’s Massive Inferno In Tulsa – Manifold Explosion And Gas Fed Fire!
This is a starting line inferno of the highest order right here. Top Sportsman competitor Jerry Holt had completed his burnout and had staged his car at the Lucas Oil event on the strip at Tulsa...
Watch Mike Knowles and Kevin Fiscus Experience About As Close A Call As You’ll Ever See In Pro Mod WITHOUT A Wreck
The St. Louis NHRA races as a crazy one for Pro Mod. Peter Farber’s car smashed the wall, Rickie Smith went out early and extended the championship hopes of competitors like Von Smith and Troy...
Three Minutes Of Wheelstands And Edge Of Control Action From Small Tire Cars At The APSA Grand Final In Sydney, Australia
The other day we showed you some cool footage of a radial tire car in Australia pulling the front end at half track and deeper into some runs. Now we’re back with some starting line action...