Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320, Barnstormin'
Barnstormin’: An Overnight Success Talks About How Long The Night Really Was
(Lead photo by Courtney Enders) – Perhaps by now a few of you have heard that I was offered and accepted the job of being the lead play by play guy for the NHRA on FOX in 2019 and beyond. I...
Barnstormin’: Pro Mod Is The Deep End Of The NHRA Competition Pool Now, Get Used To It
I loves me some pro mod. As a kid that grew up in the 1980s and hung on the words of the drag racing magazines that flooded into the house each month, pro mod was this weird and wonderful thing that...
Father’s Day Memories: How You Cordially Tell The Local Chevy Dealer That They Suck – Circa 1957
(Being that this is Father’s Day I wanted to remember my late grandfather with one of the more fun reminders of how awesome he was with this blog site that originally ran back in 2014. I LOVE...
Barnstormin’: Lawyerin’ – Everyone’s Pleading Their Case At All Times In Drag Racing
One of my favorite all-time Saturday Night Live skits starred the amazing Phil Hartman as Andy Griffith’s character Matlock. For those of you who have no idea who Matlock was, the character was...
Barnstormin’: How The Sausage Is Made
(Photo by Chuck Danbom) – There’s an old saying out there that goes something like, “You never want to see how the sausage is made.” The point being that while you may enjoy...
Barnstormin’: Upper and Downers – Drag Racing Performance Marks Are Falling Weekly, Is That Good?
While at the various races I have worked over the last few weeks, I have been thinking a lot about how people relate to performance barriers. Of course last weekend in Gainesville was the 25th...
Barnstormin’: A Full Drag Strip Is A Happy Drag Strip, But Tracks Cannot Rest On Their Laurels
2017 has gotten off to a flying start on just about every level in the sport of drag racing. Since late January I have been at a track just about every weekend and the events at said tracks have...
Barnstormin’: Why The March Meet Still Matters
If drag racing truly has hallowed ground like some people believe (me included), than Auto Club Famoso Raceway is it. More than Pomona, more than Indy, more than Englishtown, Famoso is a place where...
Barnstormin’: Lights Out 8 – A Space Odyssey
I knew working at Lights Out 8 was going to be something. I knew it was going to be crazy. I knew it was going to be long days and very short nights, but even I could not conceive of what I would see...
Barnstormin’: Of Demons, Drag Racing, And A Hype Machine That’s Captured The Nation
It has been a good long while since I’ve seen anything the likes of what Chrysler has drummed up with respect to the upcoming Challenger Demon model. The hype that has been created based on the...
Banrstormin’: A Weekend With The Outlaws
(Lead image credit: SpeedVideo.com) – I’m not going to lie, rolling into Bradenton Motorsports Park last weekend felt pretty damned good. It isn’t like it has been a great while...
Barnstormin’: All The Records Great And Small
I write this as I am about to hit the sack and get a night’s sleep before heading off to the NMCA World Street Finals at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio. We’re...
Barnstormin’: Winners and Losers – The World Needs Both, Even If You Cannot Admit It
The most basic concept of a race is that someone wins the race and someone loses the race, right? That’s the whole freaking reason that any sort of event like racing, sports of all types, etc...
Barnstormin’ : The Slow Disappearance Of The Gearhead Classroom Is Bad For Us All
It’s kind of funny (and totally off-topic) that this space/column/whatever we want to label “Barnstormin” actually started as a concept for a video series on Car Junkie TV all those...