IHRA Names Dustin Farthing New President Of The International Hot Rod Association

IHRA Names Dustin Farthing President of the International Hot Rod Association FAIRFIELD, OHIO — The International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) is proud to announce the appointment of Dustin Farthing...

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Remembering Our Friend Kyle Loftis – The Man Behind 1320video Will Be Missed More Than He Ever Realized

It has taken me several days to be able to post something like this on BANGshift. Posting it the day we found out about the loss of our great friend would have been the smart thing for page views and...

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Check Out The Action From The Frontside NO-PREP Shootout at Darana Dragway, Milan MI – May 16th 2026

We were at Darana Dragway Milan last fall for the IHRA $125,000 to win Pro Mod Shootout and man is that track fun. I hadn’t been to Milan in years, and they have definitely added some nice...

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704 Outlaws Video: Outlaw Small Tire Racing Returns To North Carolina’s Mooresville Dragway

We’ve got 704 Outlaws video below, thanks to our friends at Spoold Media. If you aren’t familiar with the 704 Outlaws classes, trust us when we say they are fun. They’ve got simple rules, small...

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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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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,...