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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Amazing eBay Find! This Quadruple Four Barrel, Straight 8 Powered Street Roadster Was A 1970s NHRA Killer

We see lots of cool old drag cars around here but this one is in a league all of its own. For sale on eBay is this absolutely awesome former NHRA street roadster class machine that can in the C/SR...

Look! New Edelbrock E-CNC LS3 Heads That Will Help You Make Big Power NA or Boosted

Let’s face it, the magic in GM LS Engines is in the cylinder heads. The rest of it is just so much stuff that consists of a bunch of metal that holds a crank, rods, and pistons. There is NO...

Hard Guys Nitro Funny Car Heads To IHRA Nitro Jam At MIR With High Expectations

After a winter of building engines, upgrading the car, and testing in recent weeks the Hard Guys nitro funny car is ready for its first true test of the 2015 season at this weekend’s IHRA NItro...

Drag Action: Our Last Blast From The Mega Mopar Action Race At Maple Grove Raceway

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – It was a great weekend of showing, racing, and hanging out at Maple Grove Raceway for the Mega Mopar Action weekend. From the SS/AH cars that blistered the strip and...

NHRA New England Nationals Photo Journal Continues – Header Flames Galore On A Beautiful Friday Night

(Photos by Rich Pasley) – If there is one thing that people love about going to the drag races it is seeing records set. Track records, national records, whatever it is, those little slices of...

King Of The Streets 2015: Pit Photos From The Showdown At Great Lakes Dragaway

(Photos by Jacob Marshall) – Combining the elements of an awesome, historic drag strip with the new wave movement of no-prep drag racing  was the name of the game at the King of the Streets...

Watch The 3,000hp, All Steel, 1963 Dodge Known As Bad Judgement Clean House At King Of The Streets

The King of the Streets event at Great Lakes Dragaway had an unlimited class for the first time last weekend and that meant that some big tire, huge horsepower cars showed up to take on the unprepped...

Wheelstand Wednesday! Street Outlaws AZN Drags The Bumper On Dung Beetle

The Street Outlaws guys are a bunch of characters, and most seem to be guys that half the people love and half the people hate. AZN is a little different. He takes a lot of fire. I think it might be...

Do You Believe That The State Of Drag Racing Is Better Or Worse Than 20 Years Ago?

If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times…” All the race tracks near me are gone.” And that’s not just from Drag Racers, but since this is...

The Final Of The McLeod Stick Shift Shootout Was A Gear Jamming, Clutch Dumping Affair In Norwalk

While the automatic transmission has certainly taken the volume lead in the sport of drag racing, there’s a bunch of guys left who are stuck doing it the hard way and we love them all. As if...

Lutz Race Cars Open House: More Cars, More Horsepower, More Drag Week Rides, And One Freak On The Rollers

(PHOTOS BY MIKE BROOKS) – Mike Brooks won’t stop talking about how much fun he had at the Lutz Race Cars open house he attended last weekend but that’s a good thing because the...

Watch Jay Leno Cruise A 1,000 HP 1941 Willys And Meet The Cool And Surprising Owner

There’s something about a flat hooded, pro street Willys that will be cool until the end of time and maybe a couple hundred years after that. This particular car is even more interesting and...

Wild Drag Action: King Of The Streets Chi-Town At Great Lakes Dragaway!

(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – Every year I look forward to the Chi Town King of the Streets event. A historic track, stupid fast cars, big cash money, and the excitement that only an...

NHRA New England Nationals 2015: A Photo Diary From The Region’s Biggest Drag Race

(Photos by Rich Pasley) – For the third year in a row the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing series invaded New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire and held the New England Nationals. This...