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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Australian Nationals Footage From Calder Park: V8s, Rotaries, And…Wait, Is That A Previa?!

Now that the Super Bowl is over for us here in the Northern Hemisphere, can we finally get to drag racing? Please? For most, the answer is still “no”…unless you live in a place...

Winternationals Video: This Footage From The 1970 AHRA Winternationals Is Simply Great

For many years, there was more than one Winternationals race to kick off a drag racing season. While the NHRA’s event at Pomona was always the better known of the two, the running of the AHRA...

Watch Jason Rupert Lay Down Two Beautiful and Thundering Funny Car Passes – IHRA Record Breakers!

While the IHRA may not have a professional series in 2017 they sure did in 2016 and in the nitro funny car category Jason Rupert hammered all comers and took home the title. In this Les Mayhew video...

Conesville Drag Strip Video: Madness At The No Frills, No BS, No Under 21 Strip Your Mom Warned You About

(By Greg Rourke) – To paraphrase The Stranger from The Big Lebowski, sometimes there’s a drag strip, it’s the drag strip for it’s time and place. It fits right in there....

Football?! Nah, Watch The 1991 NHRA Winternationals Right Here!

Apparently today there’s a sporting contest going on between two cities. Many people seem to be highly interested in said contest and are clogging up the roads, airwaves, and internets with...

Zip Tie Drags Adventure Video – Emily Williams and Her Husband Buy A Nova And Make The Trip

The Roadkill Zip Tie Drags were a big success with Tuscon Dragway being packed to the gills with fans and many Roadkill devotees making the run from Southern California to the Arizona track. People...

Greg Wants A Galaxie, Greg’s Got Expensive Taste! Check This Baby Out

(By Greg Rourke) – Brian recently showed us a $40,000 transmission, which was only a little more than the trans in my 98 Plymouth Voyager cost.  The trans was originally for a factory...

It’s Official: World Series Of Drag Racing Back At Cordova August 25-27

    In a Saturday afternoon news release, IRG Sports + Entertainment, the parent company of the IHRA has announced that the World Series of Drag Racing will return to its rightful home at...

Tucson Dragways Nate Burger Shows The Kids At Import Face-Off How To Do A Burnout In A Mustang!

Okay, so he also showed them how to almost crash your car, but we’re going to roll with the positive here. We kid, because Nate is our boy and he’ll be laughing when he reads this. At...

This Might Be The Most Pissed-Off Mazda 323 On The Planet…Didn’t Think We’d Ever Say That!

Quick story: before I had my license, shortly after I traded a neighbor a non-running 1979 Cutlass for a kind-of running 1977 Chevrolet Impala coupe, there was a real risk that I was about to become...

Watching Grudge Racing At Sydney Dragway Can Ease Cabin Fever Symptoms!

Saying that I have cabin fever isn’t quite correct. Cabin fever hits when you have been snowed in and you want to be anywhere than stuck inside the house. Luckily, this winter has been, so far,...

NHRA Winternationals History: 30 Years Ago This Weekend The Streamliner Of Gary Ormsby Blew Up On The Burnout (Video)

Top fuel streamlining has had two eras in drag racing. One was in the 1960s and the other came in the middle to later 1980s. 1986 was the season that the streamliner of Gary Ormsby debuted at the...

Building An LS-Based Drag Racing Engine? MAHLE Motorsports Has Domed Pistons For You!

While the worldwide appeal of the LS engine as a hot street performer has been exploited for years, the engine has finally begun to make inroads in the upper realms of sportsman drag racing as well...

2017 US Street Nationals Action Photos: Wheelies, Radials, Coffins, More!

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Benoit Pigeon is about as hardcore a pro mod guy as we have ever met. The last couple of days we have been featuring his pro mod photos from the US Street Nationals...