FREE LIVESTREAM From The Santa Pod Summer Nationals 2026 – All The LIVE Racing Action From England You Can Stand! FRIDAY

It has been an epic season of drag racing in England this year. With amazing weather blessing nearly every event at Santa Pod, drag racing fans in the UK have been thrilled with all the action....

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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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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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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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2018 Legends Of Nitro Calendars Are Yours – FREE – Just For The Asking!

Four years ago Kevin Stith wanted to create a calendar to promote the popularity of NHRA Heritage Series and IHRA nitro funny cars, jumping at the opportunity to publish it under his Legends of Nitro...

Performance Racing Industry Show 2017: Joe Fisher’s New Copper Plated Dragster Is Really Cool

Believe it or not, one of the hardest things to do in motorsports is to show up at the PRI show on any given year with a race car and stand apart from the crowd. You have to remember that this is a...

Performance Racing Industry Show 2017: FK Rod Ends – Putting The Beef Into Your Suspension Needs!

FK, like sister company Fragola, specializes on the absolute basic parts of your machine. Where Fragola works for your plumbing needs, FK specializes in rod ends and bearings, and they only know how...

Performance Racing Industry Show 2017: MAHLE Motorsport Rolls Out New Rings, Pistons

The Performance Racing Industry Show 2017 is being hailed by many industry insiders as the largest in the 30 year history of the event. The guys and girls at MAHLE Motorsport were inhabiting their...

Money No Object: The “Sudden Death” 1975 Ford Mustang II Is Going Up For Auction!

(Images: Mecum Auctions) For every person that has ever said that a Mustang II could never, ever be cool or worthy, ask them one question: have they ever heard of the one simply known as...

Performance Racing Industry Show 2017: Fragola Performance Systems Is

Fragola Performance Systems is constantly striving to meet the plumbing needs of today’s racers and enthusiasts, and parts and pieces that they brought to the table at the 2017 PRI Show in...

Performance Racing Industry Show 2017: The Valvoline Engine Display Has A Cutaway Blown Hemi And It Rules All

There are certain things that we have come to expect at the PRI show each year and at this Performance Racing Industry 2017 show the Valvoline guys delivered again with another awesome collection of...

Performance Racing Industry Show 2017: Racepak Unveils Four Versions Of Vantage CL1 Cloud Based Data Acquisition System

When we last told you about the completely and utterly amazing Racepak Vantage CL1 system around the time of the 2017 SEMA show, we talked about the fact that the company had rolled it the first...

Battle Of The Diesel Freaks: Watch The Pro Mod Class From Diesel Thunder At Gulfport Dragway

When people think of diesel drag racing they mostly picture pickup trucks hammering down tracks with soot clouds looming large above them. Well as diesel performance pervades more and more of the...

Hell Yes! The Whack Is Back, Baby! Scott Palmer Inks Multi-Year Extension Wit Cat Spot, Dom Lagana To Fly Colors As Well!

One of the true good guys in the sport of professional drag racing has inked a multi-year deal to keep himself out on the road and chugging nitro for seasons to come. Scott Palmer Racing announced...

Induction Find: This Cool Four Weber Boss 429 Intake Manifold Would Be A Cool Top For A Cooler Engine

I’m a freak for induction systems. I love searching them out on eBay and other places. The weirder the better and frankly this setup, which appears to be custom built is pretty awesome. What we...

That Time Bret Kepner Predicted The Future Of Pro Stock…40 Years Ago

(Story reused with Bret Kepner’s permission) – Proudly we have had more than a few examples of Bret Kepner’s work appear on BangShift over the years. One of the preeminent...

The Vent Helps: Would You Have Ever Expected A Fox LTD To Move Like This?

The Fox-body Ford LTD was a stop-gap deal: It was an improvement over the Fairmont sedan that it replaced, but it only existed to pull a few more dollars out of the Fox tooling before the Ford Tempo...

2017 NHRA Dutch Classic Coverage: A Final Blast Of Wheels Up Stock Eliminator Action

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Big thanks to our man Joe Grippo for blasting these photos a little while back at the 2017 NHRA Dutch Classic, held at Pennsylvania’s Maple Grove Raceway. The...