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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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing – Sunday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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More No Prep Nuttiness! This Radial Equipped Nova Spins A High Speed 360 and Only Hits Cones

We’re back with another crazy video from the no prep race at Kansas Speedway the other night. This time we see a pair of genuinely beautiful Novas lined up next to each other. Both cars have...

Buy These Two Whitney Twin Wasp 800hp Radial Engines And Start Your Bonneville Freak Today!

So this week at the Bonneville Salt Flats has done what it usually does. It gets our brains spinning at like 8,900rpm and we want to build some sort of bizarre freakshow car or truck to come out and...

The Scoop! Here Are All Of The Cars (and Trucks) Making Record Run Attempts On Tuesday Morning

The winds kicked up on the Bonneville Salt Flats yesterday afternoon causing SCTA officials to cut the Monday portion of Speed Week off earlier than planned. Runs were halted around 5pm and the...

No Prep Insanity: Watch This Blown Camaro And A Crazy Datsun Do A Bad Job At Crashing

The pit road at Kansas Speedway was recently used as a no-prep drag strip at an event called Operation Octane. As you will see, the event drew a BUNCH of people and there was a lot of wild racing...

Danny Thompson Clobbers Way To 400mph Record In Challenger 2 Streamliner!

As of this writing Danny Thompson is the fastest man on the salt at SCTA Speed Week 2016 after a triumphant 402mph run in his Challenger 2 streamliner on Sunday morning that sealed his place in the...

Salty Secret: Here’s An Old Turbocharged Triumph (We Think) Engine That Isn’t

I was cruising the Bonneville impound area last night with Chad and Bret Kepner and we happened upon a motorcycle that will be running for record book status today. It looked to us like the bike was...

Caption This Photo: Is Lee Sicilio Communicating With The Gods Of Speed?

During my travels through the expansive pits at Bonneville yesterday I snapped this photo of a man and his car. Not just any man or any car, but rather our pal Lee Sicilio and his (currently 283mph)...

Watch LIVE: Drag Racing From IHRA Martin, Loose Rocker Colonial Classic, And PDRA Memphis.

Can’t decide what flavor of live drag racing you want to watch this weekend? Don’t worry, we’ve got it all! IHRA, PDRA, or Bracket Racing at the Loose Rocker Colonial Classic,...

Santa Pod’s Dragstalgia Looks Like a Riot – Check Out This Highlight Video

As Europe’s first permanent drag racing facility, Santa Pod Raceway carries the torch for big muscle and small ET’s across the pond and this year finds Santa Pod celebrating 50 years of...

Justin “Big Chief” Shearer To Run His CrowMod In Pro Mod At The 2016 NHRA Chevrolet Performance US Nationals

(Photos by Jeffers Race Cars – Jason Nubs Dunn) – In news that one year ago would seem like an April Fool’s Day prank, Justin “Big Chief” Shearer will be racing in the...

This BMW i8 And Dodge Viper Are About To Get Schooled…By Edna The EV Van!

Electric vehicles have one serious advantage over internal-combustion engines: instant torque, all of it, at the drop of a hat. It’s why putting a Tesla P90D into “Ludicrous Mode”...

Best Minivan Burnout Ever!?!? Our Friends From Rawr Racing Do It Right!

When we met Travis, and the rest of the yahoos associated with Rawr Racing, during Rocky Mountain Race Week we knew immediately that they were a little bit…hmmm how do we say...

Watch This Alky-Injected Crosley Snort and Rip On a Dyno

Crosley engines don’t get much love in the world of modern racing, but the miniscule engine not only powered Crosley’s cars in the 1950s, it was also a favorite among SCCA racers in the...

260ci and 1,000hp – Automotive Specialties Has Built A Very Nasty E-Motor For Bonneville

Keith and Jeff Dorton from Automotive Specialties are known across the country and across the globe as two of the most serious, innovative, and all around bad assed engine guys alive in the world...