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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This beautifully shot video of Maryland’s 75-80 Dragway is the best thing you’ll see today

In nearly every corner of the United States, one can typically find an abandoned racetrack without much effort. Every track has its own story, which also includes the reasons for closure and vacancy....

Carlos Astor Stands His Malibu Wagon Up On The Bumper During RMRW 2016

Carlos Astor isn’t afraid to spray the hell out of his cool G-Body Malibu Wagon, in fact 350 horsepower worth of nitrous flows into this bad boy. But with great power comes great...

Bowen, Litton, Turner Take IHRA Mopar Rocky Mountain Nationals – Wild Photo Sequence Inside

(Photos by Big Bob Snyder – Words by IHRA Communications and Darr Hawthorne)   Shawn Bowen, driving his “Violator” nitro funny car captured the AMSOIL Nitro Funny Car title at...

Tune In Tonight! NitroReports Will Be Talking Wall To Wall Drag Racing Starting at 6PM Pacific!

Tonight July 19th NitroReports.com brings on plenty of nitro drag racing with IHRA President Mike Dunn on the season so far – and into 2017. IHRA Edmonton Nitro Funny Car winner Shawn Bowen,...

Drag Action Coverage: The Oklahoma Nostalgia Nationals At Thunder Valley Raceway – Noble, Oklahoma

(Photos by Bad Brad’s Speed Shots) – It is pretty interesting when you consider the multiple personalities that different drag strips have. We say that in the most positive way possible,...

Aerospace Components Vacuum Pumps: A Look Inside And A Static

If there is one thing that Aerospace Components is best known for outside of their highly successful brakes, it is their equally as bad ass vacuum pumps. These can be found on engines ranging from...

Drag Action Coverage: PDRA North-South Shootout Photos From Maryland International Raceway

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – It was hot as blazes for days on end in Maryland last week but that did not stop the PDRA from cranking out another awesome event that was populated by some of the...

DeWayne Mills Lays Waste To The Turbocharged Drag Radial Record: 3.79@206 MPH!

The drag radial was originally meant to occupy the ground between street tires and slicks for people who didn’t want to have to drag a pair of tires with them every time they wanted to hit the...

See The Historic And Restored Shelby Super Snake Fuel Dragster Roar To Life With Prudhomme At The Wheel! Burnout Too

There are restorations, there are recreations, and then there’s whatever this counts as because it is a restoration as performed by the guys who built the car in the first place. Seriously. Don...

This 1958 Anglia Is One Of The Most BangShift Approved Things We Have Seen In Some Time!

Little cars have been a staple in the world of hot rodding since the whole thing began. It was basic sense that had guys in the 1930s and 1940s repowering little cars with engines from larger...

Rocky Mountain Race Week 2016 Full Video Recap – BangShift And 1320Video

(Feature Image by Reilly Beer) If you missed any of the action from Rocky Mountain Race Week 2016, it’s all right here to watch again! And we’ve even got some on road videos that you...

Ride With Todd Paton As He Resets The Lancaster Dragway Speed Records In His Top Fueler

Todd Paton’s name is no stranger to the electronic pages of BangShift. We have seen Todd through his work at Racepak, through the piloting of funny cars, and most notably though the driving he...

Nitro Anglia: Watch The Lil’ Bit 1948 Anglia Throw Fire And Then Shimmy Like Crazy

When is a gasser not a gasser? That would be when it runs on nitromethane! Oklahoma’s Tod Barker has a 1948 Anglia that casual drag racing fans would look at and call a gasser. They...

Getting It Done In The SUV – This 1,500 Horsepower Jeep Is Still Testing!

Jeep Grand Cherokees aren’t aerodynamic. Not even close. You could literally shove the broadside of a barn out of the back of a cargo plane and let it plummet to earth, and that would stand a...