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 1957 Fiat 500 Is Packing A Subaru WRX STi Engine In The Back And 11-Second Time Slips At Bandimere

Sure, it may fall into the “weird little foreign car” category but this little 1957 Fiat 500 that is powered by an angry Subaru WRX STi engine is quick enough to run 11s at Bandimere...

Burndown? Gamesmanship? Straight Up BS? Or All Part Of The Game – What Do YOU See On The Starting Line

The mortal enemy of drag racing automatic transmissions is heat and one knows that better than the guys running today’s crop of ultra-high horsepower turbocharged/automatic combos. Those racers...

Nostalgia Drag Action: The NSRA Drags At Shakespeare County Raceway In England!

(Words and photos by Tom Pugh) – This year saw the 28th annual running of the Nsra hot rod drags. From what started out as a rwyb hot rod meet has now turned into one of the biggest drag race...

This South East Gassers Video Rules: See Them In Action and Even Ride Under One!

Quain Stott’s beloved South East gasser group has been delighting fans at drag strips east of the Mississippi for a few years now and they are still very much going strong. Stott has been rabid...

Last Action Heroes: Our Final Blast Of Photos From The 2015 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals

We have finally made it to the end of our landslide of photos from the 2015 Jegs PSCA Street Car Super Nationals presented by Chris Alston’s Chassisworks. It is an appropriate day to run out of...

Street Car Super Nationals Action Photos: More Smoke And Thunder From Vegas

Last Sunday was quite literally the longest day I have ever spent at a drag strip. I cannot speak for Chad but it has to be in his top five. Why? We were there for 19 hours. Between the time we setup...

England’s Shakespeare County Dragway To Close – Country Left With Two Dedicated Drag Plants

Some bad news has come across the wire for drag racing fans and participants in England. Shakespeare County Raceway which has been been hosting drag racing since the 1970s and as a permanent drag...

Great Drag Race Save Or The Luckiest Guy Ever – You Make The Call!

It looks like Urban Hillbilly Action Video’s Sean Melton is breaking open the company vault because some very, very cool videos have begun to pop up on the UH’s YouTube page. This video...

The Angry Yankee Racing 4-Door Impala Stands On The Bumper During A Grudge Race At Carolina Dragway

They call it the House of Hook, and it appears to be for good reason! This video of the Angry Yankee Racing 4-Door 1966 Impala during a grudge race at Carolina Dragway, aka The House of Hook, shows...

The Action Continues: Street Car Super Nationals 2015 – More Sweet Photography

Done? Hell no we’re not done bringing you action photos from the 2015 Jegs PSCA Street Car Super Nationals. We have a couple days worth left and they going to be coming whether you like it or...

Ride Along On The Legendary 911 Roadster As It Goes 277mph At El Mirage – Incredible

Boneville may get the glory but El Mirage is an incredible place with history that spans the test of time in the world of land speed racing. Unlike the packed salt of Bonneville, racers are...

Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals 2015 Coverage: The Incredible Iron Keeps On Coming!

(Photos by Dom Damato/DRD Photos) – There are lots of negative nabobs out there that like to talk about how kids don’t like cars, hot rodding is dying, drag racing is dying, the sun is...

Incredible Video: Watch A Guy At The Starting Line Of The Drag Strip Get Launched By A Wayward Motorcycle

We have to thank hardcore BangShift tipster Jim Smithson for sending us a link to the video below (on Thanksgiving!) because it completely blew our collective minds. Basically what you are going to...

Our 2015 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals Action Photo Coverage Continues

Done? We’re not done sharing photos from the 2015 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals! Huge thanks for Jegs for being the title sponsor of the event and Chris Alston’s Chassisworks for being...