FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At SRCA Dragway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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We’ve Got Street Week Sweden Photos! Check Out Our First Gallery of Photos From Mantorp Park Right Here! More To Come!

We’ve reached the midway point of Street Week Sweden 2026, and are about to start Race Day 4 at Tierp Arena in Sweden within hours of you reading this and checking out the photos. It has been a...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Martin Lundqvist Racing Goes After Another Street Week Sweden Victory! Here’s What It Took To Even Get To Day 1 At Mantorp Park

We’ve been sharing Martin Lundqvist Racing Fabrication videos here on BANGshift for the past few months as they are putting together a new drag and drive machine for Sweden’s Street Week...

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Dylan McCool Bought an UNKNOWN Drag Car at Auction… It Had ROD KNOCK! Can They Race It?

You never know what you are going to get when buying cars at auction, and that’s because you may or may not even be able to start them and hear them run. It totally depends on the auction, and...

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THE VAULT: Exploring Hot Rod & Racing HISTORY Underneath the Petersen Museum. You Gotta See This!

Our friend Tommy Lee Byrd recently got the chance to visit the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, and the very special section, underneath this HUGE space that is called The Vault. It’s...

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2017 NHRA Dutch Classic Coverge: Our Last Blast Of Photos Is A Mixed Bag Of Classes!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – The Pennsylvania Dutch Classic is sort of regarded as a showcase for the Stock and Super Stock classes but all the other NHRA Sportsman classes are there...

Great Race: Watch The Godfather Camaro and The Swamp Thing Nova Get After It At Hub City

If the No-Prep drag racing season has a true kick off event it is the Fat Tuesday race at Hub City Dragway in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. For the last several years this one has gotten lots of...

But Will It Haul The Christmas Tree Home? This Ford Station Wagon Romps!

We like fast wagons. We like fast Fords. We can appreciate anybody who can take one of Ford’s fullsize Panther platform cars and make it move out like Ford never considered. But a wood-paneled...

Summit Motorsports Park To Undergo $1.6 Million Track Reconstruction Project – It’s Getting Fast Up In Here

When one wants to look at the state of the sport of drag racing, peeking in at the facilities across the country is a fantastic idea. We mention this because Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park...

Ripping Gears In Georgia: The Street Nite Stick Shift Class At The Last Event Of The Year

This late in the season, you’d think that guys would have their racecars down for repairs, freshening up or would at least be so busy with the holiday season that they wouldn’t be focused...

PRI 2017: Hammerhead Performance Engines Has Hemi Head Options For Your Small Block Ford and LS Engine

When it comes to hardcore parts and innovations for making horsepower, cylinder heads are really where it is at. Advances in materials, advances in engineering, and advances in machining capability...

Bob Glidden Has Died At 73 – One Of The Most Singularly Dominant Drag Racers In History Is Gone

Bob Glidden, the 10-time NHRA pro stock champion, an IHRA pro stock champion, a native of Whiteland, Indiana, and one of the greatest drag racers of all time has died at age 73, surrounded by his...

Phoenix Race Tires Has A Bunch Of New Sizes Of Slicks That Excite The Hell Out Of Us!

I grew up with an NHRA Stock Eliminator car in the garage. A car that had to run a 9.00/30/15 inch tire by the rules. We ran Firestones for most of my childhood and then Firestone quit making slicks...

The Farm Girl: This 1967 GMC Packs Duramax Power And Nitrous Just For The Fun Of It

You had to hunt for this one at the 2017 PRI show. I didn’t even know the truck was there until my last couple of hours walking around. But there it was, sitting on the carpet, plain as day...

PRI 2017 Coverage: New Blocks For Ford, Chrysler, and GM – Something For Everyone In Here

Much like a house, an engine is only as good as its foundation and that foundation is the block. There has been a pretty interesting surge in new blocks hitting the market or at least debuting over...

A Look Back: This Video Captures Thrills, Spills, and Big Runs During The 2017 Drag Racing Season In New England

This is the time of the year when we start to see a lot of cool retrospective videos hit the web. Talented shooters and editors comb their footage for the best of the best over the course of the...

Watch This Turbocharged Proline 481x Powered Nova Run 6.70s At Over 200mph – Brazil Built, Brazil Raced!

I love showing off the drag racing scene in Brazil and all of South America because there’s tons of passion, interesting cars, and fast stuff down there. Lots of time when we show you a video...

1320Video’s Top Ten Ridiculous Cars Of The Year…Out Of Everything They Saw This Year, Here’s The Most Bonkers!

Kyle and the gang at 1320Video keep a hell of a schedule during a given year. If there is something going on with fast cars, they are there in force with cameras. Sanctioned race, grudge race, shows,...

Rise Above The Rest With This Set Of High Riser FE Heads – The Heads That Slayed The Hemis In ’64

No, you are right. This would not be the smartest $5,000 to spend if you were looking to built a truly monster 427 FE engine. There are modern head offerings that make these genuine, rare, and...