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Video: Autocross Action From Indy – Watch The Jet Hot Chevy II Get Thrown Around

Posted in RACING & ACTION October 2, 2012  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

Nobody on the planet sees more autocross action than we do, but we still love it. When we were at the Indy Goodguys show we thought the course was great, and even drove a rental car around it a few times. There were a couple of really tight corners, and folks spun around a lot [...]

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Video: Champion Speed Shop’s Gov.’s Cup Win Puts Them In The Lead Going Into Bakersfield

Posted in RACING & ACTION October 1, 2012  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

The Champion Speed Shop Small Block Chevrolet Powered Top Fuel Dragster has done it again! The rolled into the Governor’s Cup race at Sacramento and not only qualified in the top spot, but also took home the win. That puts them in the points lead for the NHRA Heritage Series Top Fuel category, but this [...]

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Video: Seriously Sexy Hillclimb Video From Formula Offroad’s Team No Limit Racing

Posted in CRASH & BURN October 1, 2012  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

The guys at InsaneRacing.no certainly know how to capture some cool footage, so we had to share this one with you. Seeing a Jeep leap straight into the air, while climbing a 60 degree plus angle grade, is super bitchin and we want a chance to drive one of these for sure. Big power, big [...]

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LIVE STREAMING VIDEO NOW: Radial Revolution “No Mercy 3″ Door Slammers In Georgia

Posted in RACING & ACTION September 28, 2012  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

Radial Revolution “No Mercy 3″ is on as we speak. And all weekend our buddy Mark Walters, with Drag Story, will be broadcasting live. We’ve got it here as well, so stay tuned all weekend for great racing. Also, don’t forget that we’ll be live from the Throwdown in T-Town while Mark is broadcasting the [...]

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Video: Carl Renezeder Wins 100th Short Course Off Road Race Behind The Wheel Of His Lucas RC10T

Posted in HISTORIC September 28, 2012  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

You’ll remember that we went to the Lucas Oil Off Road Races at Glen Helen a few months ago and absolutely loved it. What a great show they put on. Well, one of the dudes putting on the show is famed Short Course Off Road star Carl Renezeder. And with more wins under his belt [...]

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Watch Top Fuel Pilot TJ Zizzo Drive The Insano Hypermax Diesel Dragster To Its First 200mph Lap!

Posted in RACING & ACTION September 27, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

TJ Zizzo is a well known and well respected NHRA Top Fuel racer from the greater Chicago area. The guys at Hypermax Engineering, a business that is based around high performance diesel engines are also from the Chicago area and they just so happen to have one of the wildest diesel drag racing cars in [...]

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Beautiful Bonneville Video: James Hoegh Talks About Riding the Confederate X132 Combat On The Salt – Beyond Awesome

Posted in OTHER TECH September 27, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

As gearheads, we’re all a little weird. We see the world in a different way than the average person on the street. There’s a reason that the tears flow like water at the awards ceremony that closes out Drag Week, or why grown men become weeping puddles when awarded a simple red hat on the [...]

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Epic Save Video: Bad Company Jeep Nearly Tumbles To Its Doom On A Wild Hill Climb Pass

Posted in RACING & ACTION September 26, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

We’ve had Ben Dozeman’s crazy “Bad Company” Jeep on the pages of BangShift before. This is the same machine we showed you video of pulling power wheelies at will in the Silver Lake sand dunes. This time the Jeep is back but instead of cheating the laws of physics with wheelies in the dunes, it [...]

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Video: Watch the Preview For the Upcoming Optima Faceoff TV Mini-Series on SPEED

Posted in RACING & ACTION September 26, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

With the onset of fall and the approach of the SEMA show, we’re also getting ready to start looking forward to the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational which is held each year in Pahrump, Nevada. This year, qualifying events were held all over the country for racers to earn a “golden ticket” into the big [...]

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Video: Watch Lingenfelter Performance Engineering’s COPO #19 Make The Quickest COPO Run Ever At Norwalk

Posted in RACING & ACTION September 25, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Of all the awesome stuff I saw at the inaugural Lingenfelter Performance Nationals last weekend, it was the run you are about to watch below that stole the whole show. It was the combination of Kurt Johnson’s amazingly well prepared drag strip at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, the brilliance and experience [...]

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Video Hilarity!: Local Reporter Screams Like A Girl In Ridetech’s ’33 Ford On The Autocross

Posted in FUNNY STUFF September 24, 2012  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

Dick Wolfsy, a local reporter for the Channel 8 news in Indy went for a ride in Bret Voelkel’s Ridetech ’33 Ford on the Autocross. We totally forced him to do it, and now we know why he resisted so much. A Camry is clearly more his speed. You are going to love this one. [...]

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Road Trip Video: Rodfather Wrapup: Check Out All The Videos Right Here!

Posted in HISTORIC September 24, 2012  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

We just finished up the first half of the Rodfather Goodguys Road Tour and can’t begin to describe just how bitchin it was. Sure we worked our asses off shooting video and photos and getting all of that stuff up every night, but it was cool. About 80% of the guys on the trip are [...]

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Watch A Big Money Grudge Race at E-Town Go Very Badly For a Racer In A Fox Body Mustang (Driver OK)

Posted in CRASH & BURN September 21, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Big money grudge racing has long been a part of the drag racing landscape in all areas of the country. While the guys down south know how the game is played, we think that the amount of cash and intensity of competition that happens in the greater NYC area is probably the wildest in the [...]

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Vintage Drag Video: What It Was Like to Be Two Regular Guys Running An Injected Nitro Car In The Early 70s

Posted in HISTORIC September 20, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Chances are that you’ve never heard of the Best and Gordon Purple Haze A/Fuel dragster from the early 1970s. Don’t worry, you are  not alone because we hadn’t either, and frankly that’s the beauty of this video. These two guys were friends, drag racing fans, and racers before joining forces and going nitro racing on [...]

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Wild Torque Video: Watch An Aussie Holden Monaro Carry the Left Front Wheel 300ft Every Lap!

Posted in RACING & ACTION September 19, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

We’ve all seen the videos of old X-frame GM cars twisting themselves into knots at the hit of the throttle on the strip. They yank the left front wheel up in the air for a second or two and then settle down to make the rest of their lap. Those videos are awesome but there [...]

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Video: Watch Bigfoot Reset the World’s Record For A Monster Truck Jump At 214ft! In Truck and Out!

Posted in RACING & ACTION September 19, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Laugh at monster trucks all you want but they are some of today’s more incredible competition vehicles. The evidence to back that up is below in video form courtesy of Bigfoot 4×4, the epic enterprise that first launched the monster truck craze in the early 1980s. The trucks have advanced from lumbering giants capable of [...]

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