Author Archive: Eric Rood
Watch this high-horsepower marine diesel absolutely grenade on the engine dyno
Marine diesels can produce big power, which makes sense when they’re tasked with pushing a few thousand tons of metal a few thousand nautical miles across large bodies of water. It’s unclear just...
When Heading to Dinner With BangShift Leads to Big-Fin Spotting – 1958 Cadillac Or 1960 Dodge Seneca?
When the BangShift editorial crowd was in my neighborhood for the NMCA-NMRA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing at Route 66 Raceway, I told them I’d meet them post-race for a dinner and to get...
This Celica’s Wheelstand-Gone-Wrong Could Have Gone a Lot Worse At Santa Pod
Despite its general appearance a ⅘-scale Ford Mustang, the first-generation Toyota Celica doesn’t have a massive reputation as a drag car. However, English shop MGT, who are traditionally Nissan...
Classic Video: When A Marcus Ambrose Tire Returned To Its Family
Some videos are just worth pulling up from the deep basement of internet car videos and this one from V8 Supercars in 2001 remains one of the greatest of all time. During that year’s Canberra 400...
Enjoy a long compilation of insane rally jumps from Rally Finland 2016
We said before the rally that we’d find plenty of jumps and absurd sideways action from Rally Finland and we think might have found the video that gives the merest suggestion at the Finnish...
Get a Fantastic Beginner’s Lesson On Sprint Car Racing From World of Outlaws Driver Greg Wilson
I’m no connoisseur of dirt-oval racing, but from what I’ve seen, sprint cars are more or less the pinnacle of oval racing, at least in terms of speed and potential for things to get pear-shaped...
Fastest rally, giant air: Watch Citroen smash a record and leap to the moon in Finland
Lots of rally fans love those old Group B monsters from the 1980’s and with good reason: They all had far more horsepower than the chassis technology was capable of managing at the time, making...
Five-Wide Reverse Drag Racing Makes Figure-Eight Racing Look Like a Sunday Drive
The wide world of motorsports has a bit to offer for just about every car enthusiasts’ tastes, but sometimes you just need a healthy dose of entertainment for everyone. This is the realm of school...
We double dare you to find a better sleeper than this clapped-out, nitrous-huffing ice cream drag van
Sleepers are a wonderful thing in drag race. Street Outlaws’ Farm Truck is maybe the best-known and there are certainly plenty of other greats like the 700-horsepower Toyota Camry that looks like...
Watch a driver-extraction exercise from an all-electric racing series’ safety team
Motorsports safety has come a long way from the days, not so long ago, when drivers would pull themselves out of a wrecked race and walk across a hot track to a place where maybe there might be...
Target to exit Ganassi Racing sponsorship of IndyCar for 2017
Chip Ganassi Racing has announced that their longtime sponsorship partner Target will leave the Verizon IndyCar Series for the 2017, AP writer Jenna Fryer reported Wednesday. Target will remain a...
Cool off in the summer heat with this vintage Finnish ice racing home movie
Now that much of the U.S. is in the middle of bathing their assorted extremities in the summer heat-wave sweat, what better way could we celebrate than by pulling out some classic Finnish ice racing...
This Vintage Merlyn Sports Racer Is a Beautiful Piece From a Bygone Era of Racing
In the early 1960’s, homebuilt and small-batch sports racers ruled the day in road racing. This was the early days of broader space-frame building and most of the purpose-built race cars of the day...
This bike-powered, three-wheeled, drifting Italian scooter is peak insanity
Quaint Italian villages where everything looks old and weathered but not in poor shape. Narrow, wall-lined cobblestone streets that wind around steep hills. Sprawling coastal vistas that look like...