Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
On The Inside: We Get A Look Behind The Scenes At WELD Racing – Wheel Heaven!
One of our absolute favorite things to do in the world is to visit the people that sponsor BangShift and see how they do what they do. In this case, some great timing meant that we were going to be...
The List! Here’s the 61 Drivers That Have Won An NHRA Pro Stock Race Listed In Order
(Vintage photos by Bob Boudreau) – I was pretty shocked and happily so at the response my recent story about the history of pro stock and the fact that only 61 people have ever won in the...
Watch And Listen To This Nitrous Huffing Big Block Make 1,750hp On The Dyno – Header Flames And All
When I was with my kids at the drag strip last weekend I was reveling in the chance to teach them stuff about the cars they were looking at. Lots of the stuff we take for granted understanding like a...
Action Photos From The Orange Drag Strip Reunion – Throwing Down Old School In Massachusetts
(Photos by High Octane Images) – With a flag starter and a 330′ length course run on the landing strip at the small Sterling Airport in Sterling, Massachusetts the Orange Drag Strip Reunion...
Pro Mod VS Fuel Altered: Coverage Of The Annual Insanity From Denton, Texas – Best Match Race In America
(Photos by Bad Brad’s Speed Shots) – For the fourth time, Northstar Dragway in Denton, Texas hosted what has to be the coolest freaking match race in the country and thanks to Bad Brad...
NMCA All-American Nationals Drifting Action Photos – Not Just A Drag Race!
(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – There’s an old saying in the world of racing, “he who is last, shall be sideways and smiling”. Meaning that those who drift around a road course...
Best of BS 2016: Ice Racing With Chainsaw Propulsion Makes Running With Scissors Look Like Amateur Hour
There’s not enough recreational activities that involve chainsaws. Sure the felling of trees, the occasional dismemberment, and scaring the hell out of innocent kids on Halloween are fine uses...
Best of BS 2016: Les Mayhew’s Incredible 2015 March Meet Film Is Right Here!
Perhaps the greatest gift a person can receive in life is to find their calling. To locate, however it happens, the one thing that makes your wheels turn harder than anything else. The one thing that...
Best of BS 2016: Greatest Automotive Prank Of All Time – Trailer Drives The Car!
It can be said bluntly that 2015 was a nightmare for VW. The company got itself embroiled in what has turned into an international scandal which will cost it untold millions (billions?) of dollars...
Best of BS 2016: This Naturally Aspirated Ultra Street Fairlane Thunderbolt Clone Run Five Flat In The Eighth
One of the craziest races in all of 2015 was the Outlaw Street Car Reunion which was held in Memphis last March. This was the famous “3s in the freeze” race where Jason Michalek ran his...
Best of BS 2016: Video – Everything Perfect About Vintage Racing – Sideways, Historical Awesomeness
(By Eric Rood) – The SportsCar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has quietly put together a tremendous little YouTube channel with great video recaps from their events, but this...
Best of BS 2016: An E-Mail Manifesto On The IHRA Saga So Good We Had To Print It
(Editor’s Note: We get plenty of email from readers and it ranges from people calling us morons, to people insulting our mothers, to spam and every now and again something that stops us...
Best of BS 2016: Watch A Disguised Petter Solberg Scare The Daylights Out Of Mechanics
While this is not the first time someone has disguised a world famous driver and used him to scare unsuspecting victims, it never gets old to us. This time the driver is 2003 World Rally Championship...
Best of BS 2016: Watch A V8 Powered VW Pre-Runner Break Every Law Known In San Diego
UPDATE: YEAH, THIS GUY WENT TO JAIL. Blame Charles Wickam for this one. This short film titled “Urban Assault” shows an LS powered VW pre-runner that goes completely mental through the...