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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Watch Tim Wilkerson Experience An Insane Funny Car Explosion At The Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals

If you have ever wondered what would happen if the camshaft broke in an 10,000hp nitro burning funny car engine, Tim Wilkerson provided the answer at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern...

REPLAY: BangShift’s LIVE Streaming Coverage From The Throwdown In T-Town

WE’RE LIVE WITH SATURDAY ACTION NOW!!! TUNE IN! If you like Outlaw 10.5, 235 Drag Radial, and 275 Drag Radial racing you are going to love this event as well because we have plenty of action...

This Turbo, Big Block Chrysler, Four Door, 1968 Valiant Is Some Work And Creative Exhaust Plumbing Away From Sleeper Stardom

Wanna get famous? Pay the $2500 asking price for this 1968 Valiant, finish it and then take YouTube videos on the race track running ridiculous elapsed times and laugh your way to internet hero...

Drag Video: Fires, Wrecks, and Near Misses From The Australian National Drag Racing Association Race At Sydney Dragway

Judging by the angle of the car in the lead photo above, this isn’t going to end well  for him. To be brutally honest, half of the cars in this video had a decent run while the other half get...

Burnout Video: Watch Kurt Johnson Break In A Set Of Slicks In A Naked Chassis Former Pro Stocker

One of the things that few people understand about the world of professional drag racing and pro stock specifically is that the work during racing season is on a 24/7 cycle. This isn’t a deal...

Craigslist Find: The Most Unintentionally Comedic Listing Ever (Not Even Including the 1973 MG Rat Rod)

Powermaster’s Brady Basner has the hot hand on Craigslist. I don’t know how he does it but the man is able to find gems left, right, and center each week on the world’s biggest yard...

Top Fuel Motorcycle Racing Legend Russ Collins Has Died: Multi-Engine Nitro Bikes, World Record Setter, Innovator

Russ Collins, the great Top Fuel Motorcycle racer, sometimes Top Fuel Dragster racer and survivor of a couple horrendous wrecks during his long and storied career, has died. Collins was a great...

Watch Craig Breedlove Tell His Story Of 1960s Land Speed Heroism In This Great Video – Great Emotion And Tons Of Old Footage

In many ways, Craig Breedlove was the ultimate California hot rod kid of his era. Who else was able to dream up and actually see through a futuristic looking, thrust driven monster of a car that was...

BangShift Exclusive: Support Your Local Sign Painter – The Greatest Documentation Of Hand Lettering And Striping A Funny Car Ever!

(Words and video by Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian) – A little over a month ago, I received a text message stating that several mutual friendswere going to collaborate on a paint scheme for a 1972 Vega...

Nitro Video: A Spectacular Look Inside The Funny Car Final At The Nightfire Nationals By Nitro America

It has been a while since we’ve highlighted some of Les Mayhew’s killer video work here on the front page of BangShift and since we noticed that he recently dropped some new content onto...

This 2,500hp Street Rod Would Blow The Doors Off Of The Leno Merlin Powered Bentley – Urge Overkill Here!

This is a 2,500hp street rod or it is as least claimed to be a 2,500hp street rod by the guy looking to sell it for $200,000 on eBay. The car is a 1932 Ford sedan delivery body that is part tractor...

Close Call Video: Watch Things Get Weird On The Top End Of The Drag Strip At High Speed

I have certainly seen and called my fair share of top end weirdness on the drag strip but all of it has been witnessed from the comfy confines of the timing tower at whatever strip it was at. While...

The BangShift C7 Corvette Dissection – Pulling Apart A Blown UP, Brand New Super Car For Fun And Profit

(Photos and captions by David Matyjasik) – We know him better as Dave Matty and so will you by the time this whole saga comes to a conclusion, but to say that this will be one of the neatest...

Pat Van Racing’s Tom Armitage Gives Us The Tech And Specs Behind The Team’s 10-second Mini-Slingshot Dragster – This Rules

After running the video of Team Pat Van Racing’s miniature, motorcycle powered slingshot running down into the 10-second zone at England’s York Raceway, we reached out to Tom and asked...