FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Saturday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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How Much Horsepower Does An Engine Driven Cooling Fan Really Take From Your Engine?

We tested alternators, engine driven fans, and other accessories on the dyno years ago and I can tell you that most of the accessories on the front of your engine take very little power to turn under...

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This Is It! The Final Gallery From Meltdown Drags At Byron. 100 More Great Shots.

Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk are the hardest working, unpaid sonsa…. Uh….they work really hard to send us great photos and we don’t pay them. They rule. And you should love them for...

Race Photos: Pro Mods, Jet Cars, Nostalgia Funny Cars, 10.5 And More At Tulsa Raceway Park

(Words and Photos by Brad Klaasen) The Mickey Thompson Shootout Series rolled into T-town once again, for round five of the nine race series at Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park, and thanks to the...

Event Photos: Meltdown Drags At Byron, Including Cruise In Photos From Sams Drive In

(Words by Bob Chiluk, Photos by Bob Chiluk and Greg Rourke) “So while Greg Rourke and I were covering an event earlier this summer the cats from Meltdown Drags suggested we check out an event...

Drag Gallery: The 2013 Beaver Springs Dragway Nostalgia Nationals – Bitchin’ Strip And Cars!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – The Muscle Car Madness and York US30 Reunion was a primarily a static display of racing and muscle hardware and after two days of hanging around all those...

Saturday Night Nitro: Records Fall, Heat Rises, And The Bakersfield Boise Blitz Is In Full Swing

(Text and Photos by Darr Hawthorne, Photos Paul Schmitz)  Another hot Kern County, California weekend welcomed nitro cars to the second Saturday Night Nitro event of 2013 to Auto Club Famoso...

WATCH LIVE NOSTALGIA DRAG RACING FROM SANTA POD RIGHT NOW!

This weekend the UK’s Santa Pod Raceway hosts Dragstalgia, a two-day celebration of nostalgia featuring Nostalgia Funny Cars, the Wild Bunch, the Supercharged Outlaws, historic drag bikes...

Bangshift Exclusive: Veteran Nitro Dragster Champion Going To The Dark (Funny) Side?

(Words and Photos Darr Hawthorne) Veteran Nitro Racer to the Dark Side? We’ve now heard from a number of sources that multi-event and March Meet Top Fuel Dragster winner Adam Sorokin will soon be...

Event Coverage: Great Photos And Results From The Pro Mod vs. Fuel Altered Showdown In North Texas

(Photos and Text by Chris Graves, MaxCacklePhotos.com)   After over a decade, the rivalry between the Texas Outlaw Pro Mods and Painless Performance Outlaw Fuel Altered Association was revived as...

Drag Gallery: The Pro Street Racing Association Invades Thunder Valley Dragway!

(Photos and words by Brad Klaassen) – Thunder Valley Raceway Park near Noble, Oklahoma pulled out all the stops for this month’s edition of their Pro Street Racing Association event this past...

Drag Gallery: More Great Action From Rumble At The Grove 2013 – Doorslammer Do-See-Do!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – As Joe told you yesterday in the intro to his first gallery, the Rumble at the Grove event is about cars with doors in all of the various shapes, sizes, models, and...

Drag Gallery: Rumble At The Grove 2013 – Doorslammers Only! Wheels Up Action!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) -The Rumble at the Grove means one thing…..Doorslammers! Not a dragster or altered in sight. The Northeast Outlaw Pro Mods came to Maple Grove with a variety of...

Photos: Midnight Drags Featuring The Cars Of The 2013 Street Machine Nationals

We aren’t going to lie to you, we don’t have photos of Cheez Whiz or Dobbertin’s J2000, but we sure wish they had come out for this! But a ton of cars from the 2013 Car Craft Street...

Photos: Coverage From Tulsa Raceway Park’s Mickey Thompson Shootout Series

(Photos Brad Klaasen) This past weekend’s Mickey Thompson Shootout Series at Tulsa Raceway Park was huge, and yet it was only a third of the racing going on! Yep, it was a triple header weekend...

Boise-Bakersfield Blitz Funny Car Series Round 2: Dan Horan Jr. Still Owns The Points Lead

“Words and Photos by Darr Hawthorne” BOISE-BAKERSFIELD BLITZ: SECOND RACE IN SERIES, HORAN JR. REMAINS TOP POINTS EARNER POMONA, Calif. – Prolong(r) Super Lubricants continues to...