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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NHRA Silly Season Begins With Force’s Mike “Zippy” Neff Moving To Schumacher Racing!

(Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt)  Yeah, it is that time of the year, the Silly Season in all of motorsports, the time when crew chiefs and drivers consider better deals, better positions, more...

Grab A Seat Inside This Barra-Powered Falcon For A Ride Through Street Machine’s Drag Challenge!

Drag Challenge is the Australian analogy to Hot Rod’s Drag Week here in the States. Put on by Street Machine magazine, Drag Challenge largely follows the same rules: an average of times from...

Street Car Super Nationals Photos Continue Right Here, Door Car Drag Racing Heaven

Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas is in the books for 2017, the 13th year of this prestigious event, and it was a riot for all that came to race or watch. The weather pretty good, although...

The Featherweight: Watch This AWD-Converted K20 Civic Tear Everyone A New One!

I am not a Honda fan by any stretch of the imagination. They make good dirt bikes and ATVs. They killed it when they created the original NSX. And if you want a decent commuter car that will get you...

Why So Loud? Listen To This Full-Exhaust Malibu Run Down The Strip

While we were in Vegas, I heard a quip that I hadn’t given any thought to up to that point: Any bracket racer should be running full mufflers and exhaust. Why do you need to go straight out of...

Left Overs: This Rusty Chevy II Wagon Gets It Done With Nitrous!

“You’ll put $20,000 into the drive train, but too tight to pay a pro to do the body, so you have a trashy race car.” I get the sentiment. I’m kind of worn thin on the rust...

This Procharged Pro Street 1973 C10 Chevy Looks Like It Will Haul Ass

If you want to go really quick at the drags, a truck is not usually the right choice. After all, they weigh a lot, have zero aerodynamic advantage, and are so big they sometimes are hard to haul...

Raging Rotary: Watch As This Twin-Rotor Mazda RX-7 Balances Wheelspin And Grip On The Quarter Mile

Traction is good. Remember that. As sweet as it is to leave skidmarks from a clutch dump that look like the “slippery ahead” sign’s suggestions, that isn’t the fastest or...

BangShift Project Files: The Big-Block Mustang GT Is Being Small-Blocked! Don’t Worry Though, It’ll Still Rule!

One of the more potent cars in the Project forums is the 1983 Ford Mustang GT owned by James Pringle, better known as “BBR”. The nickname stands for his first project, a big-blocked Ford...

Turkey Burn: This Aussie Style Burnout Extravaganza Was A Massachusetts Tradition For Years!

Hello from Massachusetts, the place that freaking invented Thanksgiving. That’s right. The Bay State, baby. Home of the guys with the buckles on their shoes and people appreciative enough of...

So Wrong, So Right: The Turbocharged V8 Ford Focus Drag Car

I’m a total sucker for a front-wheel-drive car that has been converted to drive the proper set of wheels. Ask me about my fascination with any small-block powered Dodge Daytona, or the myriad...

Hellcat For What? This Supercharged Scat Pack Eats ‘Em Up

(Photo credit: Mopar Muscle Magazine) – With the news of the upcoming Challenger Demon lots of people have been talking about how quick the car may be from the factory, how much it will cost,...

Nitro Fueled Mishaps Video: Here’s What Happens When The Most Volatile Race Fuel On Earth Goes Bad

The title of this video is “Don’t Play With Nitro!” and frankly there has never been more sage advice given by anyone over the years. Here you are going to see some of the craziest...

We’ve Got More Street Car Super Nationals Action Photos Right Here. Enjoy!

Street Car Super Nationals 13 is done, the Champions have been crowned, and The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is quiet. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have a tons of photos left to...