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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Strong 8-Car Field Of Top Fuel Dragsters Vie For Good Vibrations March Meet Title!

(Words by All American Fuel Dragsters – Photos by Chris & Tera Graves and Darr Hawthorne) Mendy Fry and High Speed Motorsports Run Career Best Quickest Elapsed Times in Top Fuel Victory....

Hodgson Takes Home March Meet Wally With Aeromotive!

The legendary 59th Good Vibrations March Meet is in the books and Aeromotive Fuel Systems once again fueled Canadian Ryan Hodgson to a nitro funny car win at Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield,...

Watch The Finals From The Wild And Wet 1977 NHRA Gatornationals

Thursday I make a break for Gainesville, Florida to be part of the announcing staff at the 2017 NHRA Gatornationals. The weather is looking iffy which stinks but it certainly isn’t the first...

One More Blast: Fresh 2017 Good Vibrations March Meet Action Photos

(Photos by Wes Allison) – As I am typing this a blizzard is roaring toward New England and that means it’ll be time to bust out the snow shovels and battle the snow for the next day or...

Speedy’s Newport Drag Strip No-Prep Highlight Video – Lots of Crazy Fun Here

With no guard walls, no frills, and the surface literally being part of an old air base runway or taxiway, Speedy’s Newport Drag Strip in Newport, Arkansas seems to be about the perfect place...

Pro Mod Video: A Look At The Upcoming 2017 J&A Service Company NHRA Pro Mod Class With Lewis and Brian

The J&A Service NHRA Pro Mod Series is back and better than ever for 2017. With an expanded race schedule bringing the number of races to 12, revised rules that allow the nitrous cars to weigh a...

Remember When Jay Leno Drove A Pro Stock Car In The 1990s? (And Blew The Clutch Out Of It?)

Recently there was a big deal made about Jay Leno’s first episode of the CNBC version of “Jay Leno’s Garage”. In one part of the show he went to the Frank Hawley Drag Racing...

Driving The Absolute Hell Out Of It: The Apocalypse Mustang At Full Kill Is Something To Behold!

Grudge-style racing has done one thing for drag racing that we are glad to see: you know cars by names, either because of the driver’s nickname or the name of the car itself. Just off the top...

2017 Good Vibrations March Meet Feature: This 1957 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Was One Of The Baddest Of The Hot VWs At The Track!

I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised to see a field of fast Volkswagens at the 2017 Good Vibrations March Meet. After all, California has always had a strong Volkswagen culture…Bugs,...

Watch 100% Blind Alcohol Funny Car Crew Chief Jay Blake Prepare And Pull An Engine Alone

(By Jason Mazzotta) – Most know of the incredible and inspiring story of Jay Blake, the Massachusetts based crew chief and car owner of the Follow A Dream/Permatex NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car,...

Awesome Chassis Dyno Video: Watch This 8-71 Blown 440 Big Block Powered Chrysler Roar!

Give us a B-body on a chassis dyno with a motor that’s hanging well out of the engine bay and we’ll love it forever. That’s the case of this chassis dyno video featuring an 8-71...

Neglection No Prep Is Coming To Undead Zombie Lyons Dragway! You Should Be There

As hot as no-prep drag racing is these days there are few races that are actually 100% “no prep”. May tracks will sweep or quickly drag the track, some will even lightly spray which puts...

Mad Mule Coverage: The Door Slammers Were Flying At Galot Motorsports Park!

(Words and photos by David Whealon) – The 2017 sophomore season of the Galot Motorsports Park kicked off to an astounding start at the spectacular cutting edge facility in Benson, NC with the...

March Meet 2017 Photo Coverage: Done? Ha! We’re Still Cranking Fresh Photos

(Photos by Wes Allison) – That’s right kids, we’re still cranking fresh photo coverage from the 2017 Good Vibrations March Meet. Why? Because there was so much awesome stuff to...