{"id":38677,"date":"2020-06-01T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=38677"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:22:45","slug":"jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2020\/06\/jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Jack Beckman&#8217;s Hot Rod History a Quarter-Mile at a Time \u2013 Episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re at the part of hot rod history when most drag strips were running independently under 3 main sanctioning bodies: The NHRA, NASCAR and Automobile Timing Association of America (ATAA). But not all rules had been fully sanctioned yet. One of the most notable switches was standing quarter-mile runs becoming required as opposed to running starts. The 1950s also saw one of the most historic events in drag racing &#8211; the NHRA Drag Safari. Jack Beckman explains how it shaped the sport to be what it is today: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\" title=\"Hot Rod History A Quarter Mile at a Time: Jack Beckman - Episode 4\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/424666612?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news\/article\/racing\/2020\/05\/jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 1<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhra.com\/news\/2020\/hot-rod-history-jack-beckman-episode-2-how-nhra-created-sanctioned-drag-racing\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 2<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2537916919804128\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 3<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhra.com\/news\/2020\/hot-rod-history-jack-beckman-episode-5-1955-explosion-drag-racing-innovation-performance\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 5<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=608845629728956\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 6<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news\/article\/racing\/2020\/06\/jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-7.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 7<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhra.com\/news\/2020\/hot-rod-history-jack-beckman-episode-8-1958-drag-racing-innovation-booms\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 8<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news\/article\/racing\/2020\/07\/jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-9.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman&#8217;s Hot Rod History: Episode 9<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news\/article\/racing\/2020\/07\/jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-10.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman&#8217;s Hot Rod History: Episode 10<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re at the part of hot rod history when most drag strips were running independently under 3 main sanctioning bodies: The NHRA, NASCAR and Automobile Timing Association of America (ATAA). But not all rules had been fully sanctioned yet. One of the most notable switches was standing quarter-mile runs becoming required as opposed to running starts. The 1950s also saw one of the most historic events in drag racing &#8211; the NHRA Drag Safari. Jack Beckman explains how it shaped the sport to be what it is today: Jack Beckman\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":38686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,1921],"tags":[528,615],"class_list":["post-38677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","category-video","tag-drag-racing","tag-nhra"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/beckmanep4feature.png","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38677"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44401,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38677\/revisions\/44401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}