FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Sunday $15,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Sunday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! 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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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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How Much Horsepower Does An Engine Driven Cooling Fan Really Take From Your Engine?

We tested alternators, engine driven fans, and other accessories on the dyno years ago and I can tell you that most of the accessories on the front of your engine take very little power to turn under...

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Watch This Dyno Fire Get Instantly Smothered At BluePrint Engines

BluePrint Engines is a massive and highly respected aftermarket outfit. The company produces many of its own components and has been growing like crazy. Because of those factors, new digs were...

Video: Here’s Why The Coffeeville Legal Street Drags Are Absolutely Awesome – We’ll Be There!

A few days ago we told you that BangShift will be live streaming the awesome Coffeyville Legal Street Drags. We’re guessing some of you may be wondering why that is a big deal. Well, this video...

We Just Found This Amazing Footage From The 1965 NHRA Winternationals and 1985 US Nationals

We have showed you video from the 1965 NHRA Winternationals before but not this one! Because it is 8mm film, there’s no sound of the roaring engines but the sights more than make up for it....

This Big Block, Four Speed, Big Tire 1968 Dart Is BangShifty As Heck And Can Be Yours

Count me among the millions of people who fell in love with the famed “Cheap Thrills” Dart back in the day. It was a project that brought Freiburger into the limelight and had me waiting...

The End: Our Last Group Of Action Photos From The ECTA Ohio Mile Final Meet

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The LAST gallery of photos from the LAST ECTA Ohio Mile.  Yep….this is it.  Met a lot of people here, learned a lot, and saw a bunch of amazing...

Crazy Drag Racing Video: Watch A Funny Car Start Up Go Wrong And The Crew Scatter!

(By Greg Rourke) – There’s nothing funny about funny cars. Here we have an example of how things can go wrong at any part of attempting to operate one. The guys running the Candies And...

So You Want To Go Nitro Racing – The Finale: The Team Wins A Wally!

(Words by Bad Brad Klaassen, photos by Bob Snyder, Wayne Lederer, Trent Work, Kenny Youngblood, and Bad Brad Klaassen) – Saturday morning, January 14th, found us rolling into Wild Horse...

The “WTF?” Files: A Coal-Rolling Corvette That Gives Purists Coronaries!

Diesel power is good power. It isn’t difficult to make tugboat-levels of horsepower and torque with a good mill, but if there is a downside, it’s that normally you have to deal with the...

ECTA Ohio Mile Action Coverage: Cars, Bikes, Trucks, Records

(By Doug Gregory) – Only one more article left in our coverage from the last Ohio Mile at Wilmington Air Park.  The third-generation GM F-body have been a fairly popular platform for land...

South Georgia Motorsports Park Hit By Tornado – Luxury Boxes Annihilated, Tower OK

A day and night of wild weather in the southeast has left South Georgia Motorsports Park a mess but (thankfully) largely intact. A tornado struck the track  and hammered the local area causing lots...

Great Save! Two PDRA Pro Nitrous Racers Seem Headed For Certain Destruction But Emerge Unscathed

The PDRA’s crazed brand of eighth mile drag racing has provided lots of hair raising moments over the years but few of them have looked as ominous as this one and ended as happily. In the video...

This Fox Body Mustang Sleeper Is A Roll Cage And Overdrive Away From Street Car Perfection

We can’t get over how clean the original interior is on this cool 1992 Ford Mustang sleeper, and we love the 6.0 LS swap that is super simple with a carb and some nitrous. It runs deep in the...

ECTA Ohio Mile Coverage: More Cars, More Records, More Cool Photos!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Part 4 of our photo collection from the last ECTA Ohio Mile.  One of the things we will miss most is Wilmington and the surrounding communities.  They...

Wasn’t Expecting Nines: This Twin-Turbocharged Late-Model Mustang Runs Hard!

Straight off of the showroom floor, the new Mustang GTs are runners: they will easy sit right on the 13.0 quarter mile line all day long in stock form, and if you optioned gears deeper than 3.73,...