Alex Hernandez’s 1971 Caprice Is Called Rose Gold, And While Pretty It’s Also Absolutely Brutal And Bad Ass!

Alex Hernandez and I have been friends for several years, and the night we met was pretty funny. We were both invited to dinner with a group of people that lets just say were a little mismatched, at...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: IHRA Outlaw Nitro Racing Series Action From Virginia Motorsports Park

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie Virginia, where racers are going to be battling...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Division 2 Divisional Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing At South Georgia Motorsports Park – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 2! 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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The TRUTH About Oil Additives Revealed, With Real Test Results From The Motor Oil Geek

There are too many Oil Treatments and Additives to count nowadays, and many of them make claims that are hard to believe. Over the years there have been so many of them and while some have good...

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Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Wednesday Testing from Virginia Motorsports Park with IHRA’s Outlaw Nitro Series

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro season, you are not alone! The second race of the season is coming up at Virginia Motorsports Park and we can’t wait to see what’s in...

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Austin Coil Returns To John Force Racing In Undefined Role “Helping Out” For 2016 Season

Jerry Bonkowski has been owning the racing internet world over the last week or so. It was Bonkowski that broke the story about Tony Stewart’s back injury via his interview with Don Prudhomme...

Edelbrock E-Force Superchargers Win At The Track, Continue To Be Awesome On Street

Edelbrock’s E-Force Superchargers have long been known as potent and well refined pieces that bolt on and add significant horsepower and torque to street cars. People have also found out that...

Drag Video: Ford Performance Looks Back At A Dominating Season Of NHRA Factory Stock Showdown Wins

The NHRA’s Factory Stock Showdown series is contested at four key events each year. It is a showcase of the latest and greatest in factory drag racing technology and last year Ford stomped a...

IHRA Drag Racing Is LIVE RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW From Immokalee

That’s right, all the sportsman drag racing you can handle this weekend is live right here on BangShift.com. For those of you in the wet or snowy parts of the country, you are probably starting...

Watch This Flying Camaro And The Photographer Who Dove To Save His Own Life

Anyone who has spent lots of time at the race track, especially those that spend their time in close proximity to the track itself can get lulled into a false sense of security. You see a thousand...

Huge News: TruStart System To Be Used At Spring Fling Million – May Change Bracket Racing Forever

The Compulink Timing System Company along with the Spring Fling Million have teamed up and the result is something that could forever change the landscape of sportsman drag racing. Called TruStart,...

NHRA Announces NHRA All-Access Streaming Service From National Events – Subscription Service

One of the lingering questions that has been floating since the NHRA announced the vastly improved television package on FOX and FOX Sports 1 has been the availability of live streaming video from...

Big Unsubstantiated Rumor: Mike Dunn IHRA President?

(Photo credit: ESPN.com) – Normally the rumor mill is nor our jam but since we have had this one boomerang back to us multiple times in the last two days from some guys who typically know...

Steve Torrence And Jack Beckman Quickest in NHRA Nitro Spring Training!

(Photo Credit:NHRA) – The NHRA has dubbed it NHRA Nitro Spring Training and we’re dubbing it the prelude to the Winters but whatever you want to call it, every nitro team worth their...

AutoMeter Introduces The Tachs Season Rebate! Money Back For Buying A Tach

At a recent media trade conference, we had dinner with some high level executives from AutoMeter and do you know what we learned? We learned that they speak of gauges and only of gauges. That’s...

The Parting Shift: Ripping Gears In A Ten-Second Six-Speed Supercharged Challenger

Jay “Speedy” Orrand’s 2009 Dodge Challenger R/T is one bad mother. The namesake behind Speedy’s Garage and the creator and organizer of the ChallengerFest show in Bowling...

Two-Time NHRA Top Fuel Champ Antron Brown Ready To Defend Title At 2016 Winternationals!

Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt Words by NHRA Communications   Antron Brown had plenty to celebrate in 2015, including his second NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Top Fuel world...

Video: 2016 COPO Camaro Validation In Forida – Bellowing Wheels Up Fury!

The factory drag car wars have officially gone nuclear as Chevrolet Performance has released this video of a 2016 COPO Camaro in plain white making “validation” runs at Bradenton...

Watch Randy Dolensek’s Monster Ford Powered 1969 Mercury Cyclone Run 7s All Day Long

(Video credit: VictoryRedColorado Youtube Channel) – If someone were to force me to make a list of the favorite drag cars I have ever seen over the every growing span of my announcing career,...