Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Watch LIVE FIA Drag Racing From Germany’s Famed Hockenheim Ring This Weekend!
(Words and photos by Dennis Vos) – Once a year the best of the European teams gather on the “Rico Anthes Quartermile” for their joint trial of strength and this wonderful drag...
Tune In To Live Audio From Bonneville Speed Week 2016 – We’ve Got The Link
If you want live video from Bonneville, pay attention to the BangShift Facebook page for videos that Chad and I will do from around the salt over the course of the next week. They will be sporadic...
Watch This Duramax-Powered Former Ambulance Take Care Of Business On The Drag Strip
(By Greg Rourke – Video by VictoryRedColorado YouTube) – Something that has always fascinated me about drag racing is the variety of stuff you’ll see at the track. Yes, some...
The Scoop! Here’s All Of The Cars And Trucks Running For Records On Wednesday At Bonneville
I am sad to report that this will be the last installment of The Scoop! From Bonneville Speed Week 2016 as I have to beat feat from Utah and head to Brainerd, Minnesota for the NHRA Lucas Oil...
The Crow Mod Will Be Pontiac Powered At The Chevrolet Performance NHRA US Nationals
(Photos: Jason ‘Nubs’ Dun – Larry Jeffers Race Cars) – So the internet has been openly speculating about what will be powering Justin Shearer’s Crow Mod at the...
More No Prep Nuttiness! This Radial Equipped Nova Spins A High Speed 360 and Only Hits Cones
We’re back with another crazy video from the no prep race at Kansas Speedway the other night. This time we see a pair of genuinely beautiful Novas lined up next to each other. Both cars have...
Buy These Two Whitney Twin Wasp 800hp Radial Engines And Start Your Bonneville Freak Today!
So this week at the Bonneville Salt Flats has done what it usually does. It gets our brains spinning at like 8,900rpm and we want to build some sort of bizarre freakshow car or truck to come out and...
The Scoop! Here Are All Of The Cars (and Trucks) Making Record Run Attempts On Tuesday Morning
The winds kicked up on the Bonneville Salt Flats yesterday afternoon causing SCTA officials to cut the Monday portion of Speed Week off earlier than planned. Runs were halted around 5pm and the...
Crusiers, Trucks, and Haulers From A Salty Sunday At Bonneville
Speed Week follows a kind of natural arc and Sunday is part of that program. There are lots of spectators (several thousand this year) that come out for the weekend and then head back towards home on...
No Prep Insanity: Watch This Blown Camaro And A Crazy Datsun Do A Bad Job At Crashing
The pit road at Kansas Speedway was recently used as a no-prep drag strip at an event called Operation Octane. As you will see, the event drew a BUNCH of people and there was a lot of wild racing...
Doing Camping Right At Bonneville! This 1967 International 4×4 Paired With A Vintage Shasta Trailer Is Perfect!
I truly wish I had run into the owner of this truck and trailer combo that I spotted on the salt yesterday. Why? I would have laid a solid man hug on him because the whole package is pretty much...
Bonneville 2016 Coverage: The Colorful World Of Lettering And Numbers On The Salt
One of the things I love about Bonneville is that the cars by and large are painted. Wraps have not really pervaded the salt and to me, that’s a great thing. As I was strolling through the...
Danny Thompson Clobbers Way To 400mph Record In Challenger 2 Streamliner!
As of this writing Danny Thompson is the fastest man on the salt at SCTA Speed Week 2016 after a triumphant 402mph run in his Challenger 2 streamliner on Sunday morning that sealed his place in the...
