(Photos by Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – BangShift’s two man photog platoon, Bob Chiluk and Greg Rourke took to the famous Rt 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois last weekend to shoot some bitchin’ sportsman action. The boys did a great job capturing the cars, the pits, and the action on the track during a [...]

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’ve been covering the hell out of the ADRL this season and for good reason, the series rules the school when it comes to doorslammer action. Last weekend the ADRL was at scenic Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, PA and one of our resident contributors, Joe Grippo was there and [...]

(Photos by Greg Rourke) – We’re still tearing through the massive mountains of photos sent to us by our worldwide army of contributors this morning! Now we electronically jet to Wisconsin’s own Great Lakes Dragaway which is one of the longest operating drag strips in the country and certainly one of the most famous. Greg [...]

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – As promised, we’re whipping you around the world today. From California to Australia to Illinois, and now to New Hampshire’s New England Dragway. We were there on Saturday beating the living daylights out of our Buford T Justice Caprice project and Dave Nutting was capturing it all on his camera. [...]

It’s Spring in Texas and that means the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series is in full swing at Houston Raceway Park, where the 2012 NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Spring Nationals is tearing up one of the fastest quarter miles in Texas. Our man on the street Charles “Booghar” Wickam has been there all weekend [...]

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It was a wild weekend in Baytown, Texas last weekend at the ADRL’s CarSafe Dragpalooza VIII run on the strip at Royal Purple Raceway. Charles Wickam was there on assignment from BangShift and he captured this event from every possible angle. It was great to see so many first time [...]

Hot rodders from around New England converged on the small town of Epping, NH yesterday as New England Dragway threw the gates open for the first time in 2012 to kick off the racing season and we were there. The track operates from April to October each year and the crew had the long running [...]

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The ADRL season kicked off in fine fashion yesterday at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas. Our man Charles Wickam was on the wall for the whole day shooting everything from crazed 200+ mph door slammers to the junior dragsters that have their own ADRL division to play in. He [...]

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re back with another slammin’ gallery from our man in Texas, Charles Wickam. He shot hundreds of great photos at the 2012 Fun Ford Weekend held at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas. Yesterday we showed you a lot of photos from the autocross and today we are going to [...]

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The Fun Ford Weekend series was brought back to life be a great group of race track owners and promoters a couple years ago and they haven’t looked back since. Charles Wickam invaded Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas with his camera and blasted hundreds of great photos of the [...]

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – As Spring has sprung all over the country (aside from some sections of Arizona apparently) race tracks and facilities are throwing their doors open to hot rodders looking to blow the cobwebs out of their cars and to guys interested in finding out how much quicker they will be this [...]

(Words and photos by Red Line Synthetic Oil) - Race fans in the aging wooden grandstands at Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield let out a collective breath as a pair of Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragsters materializes from the cloud of starting line tire smoke and flashes down the track to disappear in a puff of [...]

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Yesterday we unleashed the first batch of photos that Charles Wickam shot at the “Meet the Legends” nostalgia drags held in Sealy, Texas. We’re back again today with round two! Once again, we’re taking to the pits, strip, and car show area to look at the killer machinery that shook [...]

(Photos by Liam Garrity) – By now, we’ve showed you the 2012 March Meet from many different perspectives and angles. From the broadcast tower where we shot our live video, to the top end where we captured Denver Schutz’s incredible encounter with the concrete wall, and the starting line where wheelstands and burnouts were the [...]

The two things that put the March Meet in a different class than other nostalgia drag races are the history that surrounds the event and the cars. Simply put, there are hot rods you’ll see at The Patch that you just are not going to see anywhere else. While we drool over virtually every car [...]

The winners of the premier categories at 2012 March Meet were from the unlikely cities of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Salem, Wisconsin. Tim Boychuk drove his Canadian based 1977 Pontiac Firebird to the 2012 March Meet Funny Car Winners’ Circle and Wisconsin’s Jim Young piloted his front engine Top Fuel car to the trophy in [...]