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Start Your Week Off Right…With An Airplane Drifting Donuts In The Snow

It is official: Bobby Breeden is a freaking overachiever when it comes to piloting an aircraft. I say that not only as a writer, but as someone who has worked the rudder and stick before. We’ve...

Enjoy The Song That The Ferrari BB512 LM Belts Out As It Screams Around Monza

If there is one thing to count on when it comes to a Ferrari at a track, it’s that regardless of where it’s placed or how well it’s running, it will make a glorious noise the whole...

Would You Rather? Take Your Pick Between Two Suggested Full-Sizers That We Missed!

Earlier this week we gave you a Top 11 list of our favorites from Detroit’s “bigger is better” days, and you guys seemed to like it, a lot. But with only eleven spots, it was...

Early Christmas Shopping: Watching This Rally Driver Play DiRT Rally On A Serious Racing Sim Makes Us Want The Whole Setup!

Racing games have come a long way since I first played Rad Racer as a kid. Who am I kidding, they’ve come a long way since the original Gran Turismo came out on the first Playstation, and back...

Only In Australia: A Mid-Engined Kei Truck Spinning Tires To No Tomorrow

The “bongo truck”…that’s not what it is actually called, but my nickname for these things. Marketed as a Ford, Mitsubishi, Kia, and a whole host of Middle East and Asian kit...

In Boat Footage From A V8 Superboat Crash – Hang Time, People Diving Out Of The Way, Crazy!

This is one of the few crash videos we’ve ever posted that made us actually curl up and brace for impact! V8 Superboat racing is no stranger to us here on BangShift. We’ve shown a ton of...

Barnstormin’: Of Dually Trucks, Drag Strips and Return Roads

As a fan, a writer, an announcer, or in any other light, drag racing has always been a sport about details to me. Some people get wound up in the macro element of things with the huge noise, smoke,...

Twin Turbo Camaro Does Huge Wheelstand: PLR 481X Power Wheelie Baby!

Any wheelstand is fun to watch, but power wheelies, the ones that start way down track when the car really starts putting down some suds are the ones that really show you just how bad-ass some rides...

It’s The 1990’s All Over Again! This Blown Pro Street 1978 Caprice Will Have Brian Doing Backflips!

When this sucker popped up on Craigslist I was pretty excited, but not nearly as excited as Brian is going to be when he sees it! Despite what the old car feature says, this Caprice does NOT have...

Watch Peugeot Build A Team And Three Trucks For The 2015 Dakar Rally, From Scratch

I can’t say I’m some big Peugeot fan, but I can tell you that I’m a big Dakar fan. So when I saw this cool video that was put together by Peugeot to show what they went through to...

When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Ramp Truck: This 1963 Chevy L60 Deserves That Chance!

Sometimes we find cool ramp trucks online that we just dream of owning. Other times we find a truck that is just begging to be made into a ramp truck, like this ultra cool 1963 Chevrolet L60....

Randy Pobst Provides Another Lesson For The Racer: Passing – When To Do It, What It Takes, And What You As The Driver Need To Provide

Passing…the art of proving to someone else on a racecourse that you are better than them. There are right ways to pass someone, and there are wrong ways to pass someone. Anyone who has ever...

More Aussie Racing! Top Sportsman Doorslammers From Sydney Dragway!

We’re back with more footage from Sydney Dragway, this time of the Top Sportsman class. There are many flavors of car in this class…some small tire, some huge tire, some that would border...

Watch As This Nissan GT-R’s Hood Blows Off At Over 180 Miles An Hour!

At about 150 miles an hour, aerodynamics become an integral part of racing rather than an secondary consideration. Downforce becomes very real (and your best friend) and anything that can act like an...