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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Listen To The Mighty Chrysler Hellcat Hemi Roar – Plus The Untold Angle No One Is Talk About Regarding This Engine

The news of the 600+ horsepower, supercharged hemi engine known as the Hellcat at Chrysler has rip sawed across the internet like a Japanese bullet train and rightfully so. This engine plants the...

Vision Quest: This Period Perfect 1971 Demon Was Built By A Kid Born 20 Years Late

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – We all do the hot rodding thing for different reasons. We have different tastes, different motivations, and different opinions on how to best capture the right look...

Awesome Under Hood Video Of A COPO Camaro Making A Drag Strip – Watch What Happens To The Belt Tensioner

Ok, this video is pretty nuts and not because something explodes, catches on fire, or crashes, but because get a great look at what exactly happens to a serpentine belt during a drag strip pass with...

Crazy Carnage Videos: Guy Crashes a Top Fuel Bike…A Few Times!

The BangShift.com members come up with some cool stuff, and this time we got tipped by a forum post from user jword2001. He posted the video seen below that shows Top Fuel Motorcycle rider Korry...

The Life and Rocket Propelled Times of Captain Jack McClure, One of Drag Racing’s Most Incredible Performers

In May of 2009, we ran a story about one of the most truly insane drag racing vehicles of all time, the rocket propelled go kart of Florida’s Captain Jack McClure. We wrote the story and...

Watch An LS Powered BMW Equipped With Trick Flow Heads And Other Speed Parts Bust 150 At The Ohio Mile

While the “LS in everything” movement can get tiresome at times and people get annoyed by some of the swaps, we’re pretty sure few people will argue with the idea of jamming an LS...

Fire Breathing Monsters: This Documentary Style Look At NHRA Drag Racing From RED Digital Cinema Is Awesome

Red Digital Cinema makes some insanely awesome cameras and equipment. Chad and I have seen the RED guys at different events this year like the pre-season PRO Winter Warm Up nitro testing session that...

Breaking News: Follow A Dream Racing Team Debuts First 5th Generation Camaro Funny Car Body

It is funny how the cosmos works. At exactly 5:30pm Eastern Standard Time on this date 17 years ago, Jay Blake was involved in an industrial accident that took his sight, his sense of smell, his...

Michigan City Sends Street Outlaws Crew Packing – Crew Says Races Are Fake, Racers Disagree

An interesting story came out of Romulus, Michigan yesterday when city officials rescinded on and earlier agreement with the people behind the Street Outlaws TV show due to safety concerns that...

McLeod Racing Offers $10,000 To 100th Female Professional NHRA Category Winner – Very Cool Bonus!

Anticipation has been running high since Erica Enders-Stevens collected the 99th Wally ever awarded to a female professional racer by the National Hot Rod Association in Houston, Texas. The 100th win...

Fire And Thunder At Norwalk’s Cavalcade Of Stars – Race Report And Action Photos

(Photos by Bob Snyder -Words by Darr Hawthorne and NHRA Field Marketing) – The 8th Annual Mickey Mart Rewards Cavalcade of Stars, presented by Budweiser, was held at Summit Motorsports Park...

Leah Pritchett Returns To Topeka In Dote Racing Top Fueler

It’s always good to see more competitors in the NHRA Mello Yello Series and the tenacious dedication of racers like Leah Pritchett who grew up on the drag strip, with her first pass down a...

This Wheelstanding ’65 Chevelle Street Car Runs Mid-9’s On The Motor…And It’s A Wagon!

When I saw Mike Moore’s clean 1965 Chevelle Station Wagon at Fontana during the PSCA race, I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. First off it’s a wagon, and I’m a sucker for long...

Watch Mike Bilina’s Crew Guy Take A Header On The Track And His 1956 Chevy Go Into A Vertical Wheelie On The Launch!

Mike Bilina is no stranger to the pages of BangShift.com. We’ve covered his crazy, four speed, vertically wheelstanding 1956 Chevy at races from Bowling Green to Michigan and he’s back...