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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LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weeekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power this event is a pre-cursor to the regular season and lots of the FIA guys use it...

NHRA Announces Three LIVE Television Broadcasts For 2014 Season – Epping, Chicago, Denver Tapped

A couple days ago, the National Hot Rod Association announced that they would have elimination rounds broadcast LIVE on ESPN 2 from three different races during the 2014 season. Those races are the...

Craigslist Find: This 1971 Maverick Is What We Call A New Psuedo-Sleeper Style Of Car

What the hell is a psuedo-sleeper you ask? Well, we think it is a car that has been modified to be faster than stock but isn’t ever really going to be “fast” in the traditional...

Race Track Resurrection: Work Continues At Galot Motorsports Park – All New Temp Controlled Concrete Track Poured!

There are few things we like reporting on more than race tracks being fixed up, reopened, and improved and that is why we are keeping you updated on places like Dragway 42 and Galot Motorsports Park...

A Peek Inside Customs By Bigun – The North Carolina Shop Does Everything From Gassers To Small Tire Killers

So I got into town basically a full day early before the NHRA Four Wide Nationals in Charlotte. Knowing that I was going to have some free time, I hooked up with Eric Yost for a day of fun and...

Watch Danny Thompson’s Challenger II Fire Up – Twin Hemis On Nitro!

Danny Thompson’s multi-year effort to resurrect, update, and race his massive, twin nitro-burning hemi engine powered Challenger II streamliner reached an important milestone recently when...

Breaking News: Drag Week Competitor Doug Cline Goes 6.987/203 At Rockingham – Video And Time Slip Here

It happened at a test session on the fabled strip at Rockingham Dragway in North Carolina last weekend. Longtime Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week competitor Doug Cline became the fifth Drag Week racer...

Action Gallery: The Tennessee Take Over At I-40 Dragway – Southern Grudge Race Madness (Video, too!)

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Part three of Tommy Lee Byrd’s car guy weekend wrapped up with a bit of eighthmile drag racing at I-40 Dragway in Crossville, Tennessee. The track has...

This 1970 Camaro SS Super Stocker Is An Awesome Time Capsule That Has A Steep Asking Price

Here’s a familiar case. We’ll call it the “awesome car/insane price” case. This 1970 Camaro is a truly stunning piece. 95-original miles, a factory big block, four speed car...

Watching This 10-second 6.0L, 5-Speed Camaro Getting Ripped Through The Gears Is Good For Your Soul

We’ve showed you video of Matt Walter’s Camaro before but this fresh one is his best one yet. The car is a Camaro packing a 6.0L LS engine and a five speed manual transmission. On this...

Al-Anabi Racing and 2013 NHRA Top Fuel Championship Team Featured On H2 TV Series – Tonight!

    Al-Anabi Racing and 2013 NHRA Top Fuel Championship Team Featured On H2 TV Series – Tonight!   BROWNSBURG, Ind. – – The Al-Anabi Racing Team and 2013 NHRA Mello...

Pro Mod Action – Extreme Outlaw Pro Modifieds Take Over Virginia Motorsports Park!

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Powerful weekend in Virginia at VA Motorsports Park for the first EOPM race of the year.  The event on Saturday April 12, was a special one as Stuart...

Corey Michalek’s Top Alcohol Win At Charlotte Is The Coolest Thing I Have Ever Announced In Drag Racing

So as many of you know, I am on the announcing staff with the NHRA for about half the scheduled races during the 2014 season. I worked at the Gatornationals in March and just returned from my trip to...

SoCal Media Challenge At The Frank Hawley Drag Racing School – BS Contributor Takes It All!

NewsStand and Online editors and contributors meet for supremacy on the Fontana quarter-mile. Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne     In early April, a bunch of cocky media-types, both male...