(Photos by Sean Smyth) – While Chad was up on the scaffolding in Cordova, Illinois during the ADRL Spring Drags last weekend, BangShift contributing photographer Sean Smyth was at ground level blasting away with his still camera. He captured some great images before coming down with something and having to leave the track in a [...]

That’s right folks, LIVE ADRL Drag Racing is coming to BangShift.com and your intrepid host Chad Reynolds will be there guiding you through a weekend full of big and small tire drag racing. After getting a call from Kenny Knowling asking if we wanted to come hang out with the ADRL up in Cordova Illiinois [...]

(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – Well we’ve finally run to the end of Brad Klaassen’s great photos from the 2013 spring Throwdown in T-Town. The race was a smashing success with the track having full grandstands from the beginning on Friday all the way through the end of the deal late on Saturday night. There [...]

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Tommy Lee Byrd was at it again this weekend, shooting photos at yet another awesome event in the Southeast. This time it was the Spring Show N Go at Paradise Drag Strip in Calhoun, Georgia. You’ll see more photos from this event later, but for now you [...]

(Photos by Bras Klaassen) – The 2013 Spring version of the Throwdown in T-Town is officially in the books. If you missed our live broadcast, shame on you (we kid)! If you were one of the thousands of people who tuned in to see all the action, thanks and we’ll soon be telling you where [...]

It’s springtime, and that means the baddest group of Pro Mods, Outlaw 10.5s, and more are on their way to Tulsa Raceway Park for the 2013 $50k Throw Down in T-Town which starts Friday at 5:30PM Central Time. That’s 3:30 on the west coast and 6:30 on the east. BangShift.com will have exclusive LIVE Streaming [...]

This one may be the best yet thanks to all the great new improvements that are going on now at Eagle Field. Don’t worry, they aren’t ruining the place with all kinds of modern touches, just dust control, some new paving, and better access. Here is what Rocky has to say, Lots going on behind [...]

otos by Brad Klaassen) – Yesterday we brought you the first of a couple galleries we have from the recent running of the Pro Street Racing Association event at Thunder Valley Raceway Park in Oklahoma. This race brought out some of the coolest doorslammers in the region and it included everything from big tire pro [...]

(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – BangShift photo contributor Brad Klaassen was at Thunder Valley Raceway Park last weekend for the Pro Street Racing Association event at the great Oklahoma track. This was a doorslammer affair with some neat dragsters in the mix as well. There were lots of four second hardcore race cars at this [...]

Amazing! Who would ever have thought? An entire event centered around the venerable Ford FE engine!?!? Perfect weather, an excellent car show, good racing and a great gathering of Ford folks and friends made the inaugral FE Race & Reunion a huge success. Doug Bender, Jody Aberts and Beaver Bob McCardle join forces and pulled [...]

(Photos by Steve Wilson Motorsports Photography) – Asbury, Missouri is home to historic Mo-Kan Dragway. The place has been going strong for more than 50 years and they host some of the coolest nostalgia style events in the country. It is a no-frills country drag strip and that’s the way we like ‘em. Awesome shooter [...]

(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – Yesterday we ran Brad Klaassen’s cool story and photos from the recent outlaw fuel altered meet at Thunder Valley Raceway Park in Oklahoma. The AA/FAs were not the only cool iron on the grounds that day because there was a full slate of sportsman action that ran as well. Brad had [...]

(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) -I remember the day nitromethane, methanol, and high octane racing fuel brought Thunder Valley Raceway Park (TVRP) near Noble Oklahoma to life on May 30th, 1992, because I was there. On that day TVRP became Oklahoma’s second operating quarter mile drag strip next to the long standing strip at [...]

Thanks to Jason Wilcox over at TCI, we’ve got some cool photos from the 2013 West Coast Hot Rod Association season opener at Famoso. Since the West Coast Hot Rod Association’s inception, their moto has been “For Racers, By Racers” and they sure seem to get a good turnout when they run their events at [...]

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Yesterday we featured a gallery on the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip Nostalgia Race, but we didn’t mention that the track held a double header. At 3pm, the nostalgia racing wrapped up, and the track held its weekly bracket racing program, along with a 275 Drag Radial heads [...]

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – It was a great day at Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip with lost of cool cars. By far, the star of the show was Ron Lane in his nitrous-fed 240z, which did one of the most violent, all-four-wheels-off-the-ground wheelstands we’ve ever seen! The car took a fairly hard [...]