WHEELIE FEST! Cool Temperatures and a Hookin’ Track Bring A Dramatic End to Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip’s 2014 Season
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip has had great success with its 275 drag radial program, as well as weekly bracket races. To wrap up the 2014 season, the...
BANGSHIFT 2014 PHOTO HIGHLIGHT REEL: BENOIT PIGEON’S SPECTACULAR PHOTOS FROM THE STRIPS OF THE EAST COAST
(Words and spectacular photos by Benoit Pigeon) – How to decide what are my favorite shots taken during the year. That’s a tough one! In fact I started early on this year to put thumb...
Watch “The Cutty” From Street Outlaws Make Some Dyno Rips At Mike Murillo Motorsports With Its New LSx Combo
While the personalities on the Street Outlaws may be a turn off to some hot rodders, we can tell you from personal experience that every one of the cars we have ever seen in person have been very,...
John Robison’s Cummins Diesel Altered Shows That Innovation Is Long From Dead In Drag Racing – NHRA Diesel Showdown In Works?
(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – You’ve heard the cat calls because we sure have. People yelling from on high that there’s no innovation left in drag racing and that the sport is become...
Wild Torque Video: Watch An Aussie Holden Monaro Carry the Left Front Wheel 300ft Every Lap!
We’ve all seen the videos of old X-frame GM cars twisting themselves into knots at the hit of the throttle on the strip. They yank the left front wheel up in the air for a second or two and...
The NHRA’s New Season’s Greetings Video Is A Killer Mix Of HD, Slow Mo, And Booming Race Footage With A Classic Holiday Soundtrack
I don’t think that it has been any big secret through 2014 that NHRA has really stepped up their digital media game, especially on the video side. Their YouTube channel is now a pretty busy...
These Cadillac Wheelstanders Are Awesome…But We Have No Info! Do You Know Anything About “The Peacemaker”?
Ok, BangShifters, I’m calling on your vast knowledge once again for some information on a strange racer from the past. Last time I got a ton of info on Russ Theus’s Lincoln Mark VII...
This Crown Vic Runs 9s And Looks Like it Should Run 17s…What’s The Secret? The Info Is In Here!
(We profiled some awesome sleepers and sleeper videos in 2014, this was one of our favorites. If you are a Ford guy you will hate the engine but you have to respect the killer clean looks. The thing...
PRI 2014: The Boss Bird 1971 Pontiac Trans-Am Funny Car. 3,000hp Nitro Pontiac Engine, Beswick History, And A Cloyes Double Roller Timing Chain?!
We’re weird. We know that we’re weird and we kind of embrace that fact. If you have been around here for very long you know that. The guys in the Cloyes Performance booth have what could...
Watch Mark Taliaferro Suffer One Of The Worst Top Alcohol Dragster Wrecks We’ve Ever Seen – He Walked Away!
(Editor’s note: Mike English was on the call in Seattle when Mark Taliaferro suffered a horrendous wreck in his alky dragster. As we’re looking back at 2014, this moment of the NHRA...
Check Out MAHLE Motorsports New Elite Sportsman Drag Race Pistons
We went to visit the guys at MAHLE Motorsports yesterday, so we could get a look at the new MAHLE Motorsports Elite Sportsman Drag Series PowerPak Pistons that everyone is talking about. We...
This ESPN Sports Science Profile Of A Top Fuel Dragster Is Pretty Awesome – Not Just The Same Old Facts
There are two things that struck me about this cool ESPN Sports Science profile of a top fuel dragster. The first is that they attack the topic with a different angle than most of the other...
Final Hot Rod Drag Week Rules Announced: Some Good, Some Bad, All Right Here
As all regular BangShifters know, Drag Week is near and dear to our hearts here at BnagShift.com, so there was no way we were going to miss Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week Rules Announcement at...
Watch Quain Stott Make The Greatest Gasser Save We Have Ever Seen – In Car And Out of Car Video
(We love great driving “saves” around here and the best save we saw in 2014 came from Rockingham Dragway and featured the legendary driving skills of Quain Stott. A Champion pro mod racer...
