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 Is What A Top End Interview Should Look Like – John Force Raw, Intense, Semi-Threatening, And On The Chip

This isn’t goofy, this isn’t corny, this isn’t scripted. This is what top end interviews in drag racing should look like. Lots of you may not agree with me here because of some...

Best of 2015: Meet The Chrysler CL Ute With The Idle From Heaven – Blows The Tires Off Each Time Blower Surge Hits!

Used to be, if you had big tires out back, a blower sticking through the hood and were tooling around at idle that you would be nothing more than a show car, cannon fodder for every trailer queen...

Best Of 2015: This 829WHP Dodge Colt Will Embarrass You If You Test It Out

By 1989 the Dodge Colt had pretty much dropped any aspirations of being a sporty subcompact and had instead shifted to a front-wheel-drive econobox platform. Shame, really, because some of the...

FREE LIVE Drag Racing All Weekend From New Year Nationals At South Georgia Motorsports Park!

And you thought you’d have to sit around watching the Rose Parade today! Ha! Our partner’s in crime over at Motor Mania TV are jamming it out already on New Years Day! This is the very...

Best of BangShift 2015: A Live Interview As An ECTA Racer “Speeds” Down The Track On A 50cc Sidecar Motorcycle

(Photo by Doug Gregory/Video by Steve Murphree) – There’s no reason to go racing if you aren’t having any fun, right? That cuts both ways. It is fun for the racers and it is fun...

Killer Video: Urban Hillbilly Highlights The 10 Closest Passes They Saw In 2015

The guys at Urban Hillbilly Action Videos seem to be everywhere all the time. Because of that they are constantly filling their archives with drag racing footage that ranges from the ugly to the...

Watch The Low Buck Wild Rat Injected Fuel Altered Bust Into The 4-teens On About A 100% Load Of Nitro

With a new paint job (and maybe a new chassis?), BangShift’s adopted fuel altered heroes have outdone themselves again. The Wild Rat crew has found more performance out of their tried and true...

Best Of BangShift 2015: Jungle Jim Liberman’s Actual 1969 Chevy Fires Up On Nitro, Does Dry Hops Makes Pass!

Friend O’ BangShift Ron Huegli has the greatest job on Earth. We think we have it pretty good sometimes but Ron is living the dream working as the curator as the freshly opened World of Speed...

BangShift 2015 Photo Highlight Reel: Mike Brooks Shows Off His Best Stuff!

(Photos by Mike Brooks) –  It goes without saying that 2015 was my Bangshiftiest year ever. I was fortunate enough to be able to get to many awesome events over the last 12 months. I got to...

This Actually Happened – Watch A Guy Ride On Top Of A Dragster For A Quarter Mile Pass!

Yes, you are about to watch a guy ride on top of a dragster for a full quarter mile pass with his ass perched the base of the scoop and his hands wrapped around the top of the dragster chassis in a...

Tuesday Night With BangShift Chad On The Nitro Report! Get Your Dose!

Tonight, watch BangShift’s Chad Reynolds when he joins Donnie Couch and Darr Hawthorne and Bruce Barker on the Nitro Report from the West Coast Funny Car Factory Studios tonight December 29th at...

1948 Anglia Sedan, New Chassis, Gasser Stance, Ready To Finish, ALL STEEL!

I love Anglias. I always have. Ever since growing up seeing them run down the track at Fremont during the 1970s and 1980s. There is just something about them. And I don’t care if they are...

This 1969 Mustang Was Built As A Drag Strip Terror And Restored To Factory Original Goodness

When looking at old cars, the options that the original buyer specified from the factory tell a ton of stuff about how the car was intended to be used and what kind of buyer the person was. In the...

Take A Tour Of The Mickey Thompson Operation In Ohio – This Is Cool And The Place Is Huge!

This is a cool video for a couple of reasons. For starters we get to take a peek behind the curtain at Mickey Thompson Tires at their massive operation in Ohio. The second reason is the guy giving us...