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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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 0, when everyone shows up...

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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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A Weekend At The Drags with Joe Grippo: Racing, Photos, And Fun From Darana Raceway Park Maple Grove in Pennsylvania.

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Arguably the biggest bombshell news story that came out of last year’s PRI show was the legendary Pennsylvania drag strip Maple Grove Raceway being acquired by the...

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PDRA Drag Racing Video: Pro Nitrous and Pro Boost Round 1 North vs South Shootout Qualifying from Maryland International Raceway

We’ve shared some live track testing going on at Maryland International Raceway where PDRA’s top teams were on hand to see what kind of improvements they can make as they got ready for this past...

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FREE LIVESTREAM – Doorwarz 14: Presented By ‪BigSteelBox is LIVE From Mission Raceway Park! SUNDAY

Doorwarz at Mission Raceway Park in British Columbia, Canada is one of the most talked about events north of the border every year. I don’t know that I’ve ever been told to go to any...

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Land Speed Action Photos: More High Speed Images From The Ohio Mile September Meet

(Photos by David Whealon/DWPhotos.net) – Land speed racers are a very interesting lot. For the most part they do not get to ply their trade nearly as much as people who race stock cars or go...

This Hellcat Challenger Whips Up On The Unsuspecting At A VMAX200 Event In Europe!

Ranting, raving, and fawning over the Hellcats should be over…they are out and about, and hunting. Quarter mile times are known, top speeds are known. Done and done. What’s left?...

Land Speed Coverage: Action Photos From The 2015 ECTA September Meet – Final Runs Of 2015

(Photos by David Whealon) – The final event of the 2015 ECTA season was a barn burner for sure. The place was jammed packed with more motorcycles and hot rods than anyone could remember, the...

Shakedown At The Summit 2015 Photo Bomb: More On Track Action From The Wild Norwalk Weekend

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – The negative Nancys of the world that think they know the sport of drag racing and don’t will be the first to tell you that there are no young people involved...

eBay Find: This Amazingly Preserved Set Of Four Firestone Bonneville Racing Tires Date To 1964!

It is not often that we run stories about old tires here at BangShift but this is a set of rubber that is unique, interesting, and is unused even though they were manufactured 51 years ago and...

Ten Cars, One Quarter Mile: Motor Trend’s World’s Greatest Drag Race 5!

In what has turned into tradition for the guys over at Motor Trend, the field of new cars battling it out for the title in their annual Best Driver’s Car series are hauled off to an airport...

Death Wish? We Have The Craziest Looking Thing We Have Ever Seen – V8 Snowmobile

We know a bunch of guys from Wisconsin and those guys are some of the hardest core hot rodder, partiers, and lovers of life that we have ever run into. Why? Because for lots of the year Wisconsin is...

This Turbo-Four Eagle Talon Is A Monster That Can Hold It’s Own Against Turbo V8s

I had all sorts of Mitsubishi-related jokes lined up. “Danger to Manifold”. “Dude, I almost had you!” “See crank walk. Walk, crank, walk.” Fine…we all saw...

Edgewater Drag Strip Hot Rod Drags: More Photos From The Huge Car Show At The Event

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Edgewater Sports Park is a very active dragstrip under NHRA sanction.  Over the years its been host to many large events and saw many big time...

Watch As Mighty Car Mods Take An Old-School Beetle And Ramp The Power By A Factor Of Ten!

Ten times the power from stock…for any car, that’s a hell of a jump. Would you like to have ten times the power in your daily ride? Hell, most of us would be happy just doubling the power...

Watch Chuck Watson Sr. Make The First 8-second S550 IRS Mustang Pass – Street/Strip Car!

Yesterday, SVTPerformance.com broke the news that Chuck Watson Sr. had made the first 8-second pass with an S550 Mustang that still had IRS in it at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park. The run...

Shakedown At The Summit 2015 Photo Bomb: Small Tire Insanity At Norwalk

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Many thousands of you watched the BangShift live broadcast of the 2015 Shakedown at the Summit which gathered many of the nation’s top small tire drag cars in...

Nostalgia Drag Photos: The Maple Grove Glory Days Nostalgia Weekend Drags

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The idea of nostalgia drag racing was born decades ago out on the west coast when guys would gather their old stuff once a year and hammer on it. Eventually that old...

Edgewater Hot Rod Drags Coverage: Photos From The Huge Car Show At The Event

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – We were at Edgewater Sports Park for another Hot Rod Drags organized by Cincy Street Rods.  This is an event that has been going on a long time and is an...