Plant Tour: A Visit To FK Rod Ends And Fragola Performance Systems – Making Components In The USA The Right Way
Sometimes even the best laid plans take a while to play out and because of Ma Nature’s open assault on the New England area this winter, it took way too long for me to make the couple hour...
Best Of BS 2015: Watch This Lame Looking Eagle Summit Hand A Mustang And A Supra Their Lunch At The Drag Strip
When I first started announcing drag racing half a lifetime ago, I was the test and tune night guy. Frankly, there are days that I long for that job again because everyone completely underestimates...
Best of BS 2015: Bob Glidden’s Rollcage-Breaking Thunderbird Barrel Roll At Atlanta in 1986
Crashing a Pro Stock car hard enough to blow the body off of the chassis would seem to be the point where a long hospital stay would be required, right? Especially when the crash involves the track...
Legendary Drag Racer Jim “Superman” Nicoll Has Died – Survived Horrendous 1970 US Nationals Top Fuel Wreck
(Photos credit: NHRA/NationalDragster.com) – One of the most colorful characters in drag racing’s brilliant past has died. Jim “Superman” Nicoll who was the 1970 Drag News...
Best of BangShift 2015: Burndown! Watch The Awesome Pro Stock Final From The NHRA Mopar Mile High Nationals In Denver
I know it seems like we’re going overload on the NHRA Denver stuff but the race was freaking awesome and it had so many elements to it that we can hardly get them all wedged into today’s...
Best of BS 2015: BURNDOWN! Watch Brian Hicks and Josh Green Melt Their Pro Mods To The Ground At The NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl!
In the history of drag racing, we’re not sure that a pro mod staging burndown has ever been stopped by one of the competitor’s dad’s but in the case of the nearly 1:30 staging war...
Best of BangShift 2015: Les Mayhew’s Roy Hill Indy Video Is The Best Thing You Will See Today
We have showed you Roy Hill’s two crazed Factory Stock Cobra Jet runs separately but this video by Les Mayhew for CompetitionPlusTV ties them both together with multiple angles and uses a...
Best of BS 2015: Crazy Save: Giant Wheelstand, Big Save, And Then The Big Spin Finale!
Watch this. This 4th Gen Firebird leaves the line wheels up, and they just keep climbing. At the same time, the car is going towards the left side guardrail with the wheels still up. When all 4 are...
Best Of BangShift 2015: Mark Rebilas Captured The Greatest Crash Sequence In Drag Racing History – Dixon Disaster Frame By Frame
(Photos by Mark Rebilas) – It is a span of minutes that I will not forget for the rest of my earthly days. Watching Larry Dixon’s top fuel dragster fold up and embark on a sickening...
This Tube Chassis Corolla Is Like A Miniature Pro Stock Car! And It’s For Sale Cheap!
There isn’t much information on this little sucker, but when we found it on Craigslist we immediately started thinking of all the fun things you could do with it. Sure, a small block or...
Wife Who Caught Husband Cheating Is Selling His Twin Turbo Mustang Project For Pennies – Is This Real?
We were planning on cracking the ol’ “spiced” eggnog open early today before having some family fun tonight but duty has called again because of an insane Craigslist ad that we just...
Best of BS 2015: Wild Dyno Video: Watch This Screw Blown, Hemi Based Diesel Engine Roar And Fill The Shop With Soot!
(By Jason Mazzotta) – There are cool dyno videos, and then there are COOL dyno videos, and this fits into the COOL dyno video category. A screw blown 511 Hemi in a Chevy pick-up, converted to...
Dragstrip Destroyed: Holly Springs Motorsports Seemingly Blown To Pieces By Tornado
One of the country’s quickest and fastest eighth mile drag strips has been decimated by a tornado. Holly Springs Motorsports in Holly Springs, Mississippi was struck on Wednesday by a very...
