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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Hellcat Challenger Runs 12s At Nearly 120mph In 9,000ft Of Air And Internet Shows How Dumb It Collectively Is

The Mopar Mile High Nationals is one of the best known, best attended, and most fun events on the NHRA national event trail. Mopar is heavily involved with the production of the deal and hosts big...

Best of 2014: The 2,000hp Turbo Big Block Bentley Lives! Testing Video Here

One of the coolest drag racing cat builds in the world is the Webster Race Engineering Bentley pro street project. This car is an insane undertaking that is now complete and officially out on the...

Best Of 2014: This Video Of A Dad Dropping His Son Off At The First Day Of School In An Insanely Gnarly Willys Rules

It is most definitely “that time of the year” where kids are returning to school across the country and parents are silently fist pumping the fact that they’re headed back....

Best Of 2014: This Is The Craziest Pro Stock Save We Have Ever Seen – Absolutely Amazing Driving Job!

Boy, it sure looks like Thomas Lindstrom and his pro stock car are cooked, right? After all, when you see a fast moving drag car with that relationship to the proper direction down the strip, bad...

Best Of 2014: This TV Camera Man Had Never Been Around A Top Fuel Car Before – His Reaction Is Priceless

One of the great pleasures of being a drag racing fan and announcer is the ability to “introduce” nitromethane into people’s lives that have never experienced it before. As much as...

Best Of 2014 Video: Big Tire Nova Does The Longest Power Wheelie You’ve Ever Seen (We Promise!)

(By Jason Sands) – With the advent of tire-limited racing, it’s not uncommon to see fast drag cars teeter on the back wheels for hundreds of feet before setting it down and rocketing off...

Know Your Volatile Race Fuels: A Look At The Happily Violent Nitromethane Molecule

It is the liquid that’s killed more engine parts, singed more fire suits, and caused the most havoc of any single substance in drag racing history. It is an indispensable fuel in the modeling...

Actual Two Lane Blacktop 1955 Chevy Movie Car To Hit Block At Barrett Jackson Scottsdale 2015

How’s this for a scoop? One of the actual 1955 Chevys used in the making of the gearhead cult movie hit Two Lane Blacktop will hit the auction block in Scottsdale come January at the giant...

Best of 2014: Watch A Violent Double Dragster Wreck From NHRA Brainerd – Top Dragster Competitors Survive Horrible Incident

Racers Monte Green and Don Kritzky were involved in one of the scariest double top dragster crashes in recent memory yesterday during the NHRA race in Brainerd, Minnesota. As the cars were flying...

Best of 2014: Watch A 270hp Golf Kart Based Electric Dragster Power Wheelie Itself Completely Over Backwards At The Hit Of The Throttle

When we say the words, “golf kart based electric dragster” don’t go making some assumption that what we’re about to show you sucks…because it doesn’t. The vehicle...

Watch This Steel Bodied, 520ci Blown Hemi Powered Mustang Carry The Front Wheels 4-500ft On Every Pass!

Stop us when we get to the bad part. Steel body, 520ci blown Brad Anderson Hemi engine, wheelie bars set tall enough that a German Shepherd could walk under them, driver that doesn’t lift for...

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY: MSD Performance Is Selling Their Insanely Sweet 1970 SS396 Chevelle

MSD Performance is selling their 1970 Chevelle SS396 (which is a reall 1970 Chevelle SS396) and you should buy it because it is priced right for a car in this condition and it is simply an awesome...

Best Of 2014: Antron Brown Suffers A Horrendous 318mph Top End Crash At Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals – Is OK

On Friday night at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals, driver Antron Brown in the Matco Tools, US Army top fuel dragster suffered a frightening top end crash at 318mph when the...

Best Of 2014: Apple Pulls Drag Racing App From Its Store, Apparently Does Not Know Difference Between Street Racing and Drag Racing – More Will Vanish

Stuff like this really makes us cringe. Mark Bright is the creator and owner of Drag Log, a smart phone application that drag racers can use to log their runs, document what tracks they have been to,...