FREE LIVESTREAM: Wednesday Testing from Virginia Motorsports Park with IHRA’s Outlaw Nitro Series

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro season, you are not alone! The second race of the season is coming up at Virginia Motorsports Park and we can’t wait to see what’s in...

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Our Final Gallery Of IHRA Outlaw Nitro Professional And Pro Am Drag Racing Photos From The Darana Motorsports Park at GALOT!

Here’s our final gallery of IHRA Outlaw Nitro photos from Galot, but if you missed any of the previous photos we’ve got a link to them below. (Photos by David Whealon) If you live under...

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SHADYSIDE OUTLAWS APRIL 2026: THIS OUTLAW SMALL TIRE SHOOTOUT SETS THE LIST! SEE WHO MAKES THE CUT!

Shadyside Outlaws is back for 2026 and that means it is time to set the list for Outlaw Small Tire, and that means it is shootout time. Check out the video from our friends at Spoold Media and let us...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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This Nissan GT-R Launches Hard…Not Off The Line, But Over The Barrier!

The Nissan GT-R may have not been designed as a drag racer, but when you combine the twin-turbo 3.8L V6 with a brilliant all-wheel-drive system and a launch control system that can best be described...

Chatsworth Street Racing Crash: What We Know And How The Community Is Responding

The scene played out exactly as you’d expect it to: a highly worked over Nissan GT-R in the right lane, a Shelby Mustang with a reported $100,000 in modifications in the left lane, a crowd of...

Someone Hand Built A Two Door 1965 Buick Sportwagon Hard Top And Now You Can Buy It

BangShifter Matt Munger sent an email the other night that suggested we may be interested in showing a Buick wagon he had stumbled upon for sale on CL in Arizona. Because our readers are just like...

Merrill Ice Drags 2015 Coverage: A Second (Arctic) Blast Of Photos From The Wisconsin Ice

(Photos by Jacob Marshall) –  Intrepid BangShift contributor Jacob Marshall really crushed it with his photos from the Merrill Ice Drags which we first showed you yesterday and are back with a...

Holley Announces Sponsorship of Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals – Lutz, VerSchave, Hundreds More To Participate

Holley has announced their sponsorship of the drag racing portion at the 2015 Tri-Five Nationals which will be held at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky August 14-15, 2015. The event is...

Merrill Ice Drags Coverage – 100+ MPH In The Eighth On ICE! 100% BangShift Approved Mayhem

(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – For us Midwestern gearheads it’s not often that we get to hear open headers and smell the sweet scent of race gas in the cold winter months. And even...

See The Don Garlits Quest For 200mph In An Electric Dragster As Never Before – Nitro America Film From Inside Testing

This is a rare exception to Les Mayhew’s always loud and rocking drag racing videos. No, we’re not saying that the quality or story telling is lacking but what is not present is the noise...

Who In England Is Drag Racing A Richard Petty-Tribute Plymouth Superbird?

Yes, this video is a couple of years old, but let’s face it: it’s not everyday you see any Plymouth Superbird doing a burnout, much less a Superbird done up as a tribute to Richard...

Watch Dewayne Mills Incredible Wreck From Lights Out Six At SGMP – Camaro Takes Flight!

Legendary small tire racer Dwayne Mills walked away from an incredible wreck during Lights Out Six at South Georgia Motorsports Park yesterday when his 1968 Camaro, the famed “Golden...

Watch The Wild Peace Maker Cadillac Wheelstander Spit Out A Rear Axle At Great Lakes Drag-O-Way In 1987!

A little while back we put out the call for info on the Peace Maker wheelstanders from our readers. Jim Brewer ran a series of these Caddy bodied exhibition machines and they were all cool to look...

Crash And Burn: Any Guesses As To Why This Maverick Wound Up Going Turtle?

It’s official for the driver of this Ford Maverick: this day is gonna suck. Information is very limited on what actually happened at Memphis Motorsports Park late last year, but the video from...

Sleeper Footage: A Trabant Versus A Nissan GT-R – Which Will Win, The Angry Vacuum Cleaner Or The Beer Can With Headlights?

In stock form a Trabant’s two-cycle engine would struggle to power one of the Nissan GT-R’s turbos, so just what exactly is going on here? A lesson in humility, my friends. Look at the...

Australian Burnout: “UIDIOT”, A Chevrolet-Powered Ford Cortina, Lets Loose At Brashernats

As most of us continue to freeze our bits off here in the Northern Hemisphere, in Australia they are still enjoying their summer. And of course, that means that we get more and more gratuitous...

Pro Mod Action: More Great Photos From The Pro Mod Class At The 2015 US Street Nationals

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – As we showed you earlier in the week, there was a great variety of iron at the US Street Nationals this winter. Racers from all over the country escaped the...