Category: Racing

The World’s First Road Racing Pickup Truck

How many of you know that Banks’ Race Shop is building a roadracing truck? Did you know that the truck is going to be diesel powered? That’s right! A diesel powered roadracing truck! And it will be twin-turbocharged!

What’s the big deal you say? Well, diesels have several advantages over gasoline. First is mileage. Diesels generally achieve 20-40% higher mileage than gasoline-powered equivalents. Improving mileage means less fuel stops in an endurance race. This is a huge advantage and one that can shave critical minutes off of a team’s total time.

July 6, 2005

A Ragin’ Good Read

I just finished reading an article in the May 2005 issue of Four Wheeler magazine entitled “Rage Against the Machine.” Awesome! Robin Stover details the success of Kent Kroeker’s virtually stock Dodge truck in the 2004 Baja 1000 (http://www.koreperformance.com). Check out this preview article on Four Wheeler online: (http://www.fourwheeler.com/brandpages/129_0411_500/) This adventure impresses me for many reason’s, but I think I just love to absorb as much off-road racing as I can, and this article offers a healthy dose of it.

May 2, 2005

Mastering Teamwork at the Baja 1000

Banks Power teams up with Kent Kroeker and his KORE racing Dodge Ram.

April 30, 2005

Donahoe Racing Baja 1000 Ford Super-Duty Race Truck

Baja 1000 Ford Power Stroke, with Gale driving and Bob Bower navigating, they finish first leg out of Ensenada on schedule but the power kills the drivetrain

January 1, 2005

Banks Sidewinder GMC Sierra

The World’s First Roadracing Diesel Pickup, Banks GMC Sierra is another in a string of racing vehicles created to display both Banks high engineering standards for the creation of all its products and the innovative nature of the company as a whole.

January 1, 2005

Racing Into the Future

Gale Banks Builds a Road-Racing Diesel Pickup

September 30, 2004

Twin-Turbo Revival: Part 1

The History and Evolution of the Gale Banks Engineering Twin-Turbo Chevrolet V-8s Shown is one of Banks’ original blow-through-design twin-turbo small-block Chevrolet engines. These first-design “production” twin-turbos

August 31, 2004

Twin-Turbo Revival: Part 2

Back to the Future: Fast-Forward Firebird Now for the kicker. Gale Banks recently pulled one of his original twin-turbo Firebirds out of mothballs, and it’s about to

August 31, 2004

Banks Readies for 2004 Bonneville

The Banks Race Shop makes preparations to break its own diesel truck land speed record at Bonneville

July 31, 2004

Engineering: Banks Runs for the Records

Project Sidewinder’s goal is to break the Land Speed Record for any pickup, any class, gas or diesel…

February 1, 2004