Dirt Track Racer Charged With Assault After Ramming Other Car In The Pits: On Track Contact Leads To Race Rage Incident and Ban From Racing.

Every racer and fan knows that in the heat of competition emotions and adrenaline run high. We’ve all seen it, when a couple of drivers bump and bang and then it continues off track. But...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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FIA World Endurance Championships Highlights From TotalEnergies 6 Hours of SPA – Wheel To Wheel Racing Action

Round 2 of the FIA World Endurance Championships was held at SPA, aka Circuit of Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, and did not disappoint. This is an epic race track, and the action here is always great,...

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Capturing Car Culture With Larry Chen: First Cameras Allowed in Toyota’s GR Factory: Minimal robots & More Humans

This is a cool episode of Capturing Car Culture if you are like us and love to see factory and how its made videos. I’ve been on several automotive assembly plant tours and can tell you that...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 1 of 5 – His Bandit Trans Am Needs Some Love!

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In the...

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LIVE Road Racing: Sebring International Raceway GT America powered by AWS 2026

We’ve got more racing action from Sebring to share folks, so buckle up if you want to watch GT America presented by AWS. We’ll have both Saturday and Sunday’s races, so check them...

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Season From Bell: NASCAR Truck Competitor Chris Bell Suffers Another Big Wreck, This Time While Leading In Atlanta

(By Eric Rood) – Christopher Bell has had a rough start to his 2016 season. The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver tumbled across the front straight in spectacular fashion at Daytona in...

Awesome Video: The Rock Island Grand Prix Shifter Kart Race Is Held On Public Streets! Ride Along

(By Eric Rood) – The grand days of the SCCA racing on temporary street circuits is long behind the world of road racing, but a few holdouts still host wheel-to-wheel racing on closed public...

Jaguar Land Rover Looking To Buy The Silverstone Circuit? Suddenly, We’re Very Interested In Jaguars…

The Silverstone Circuit in the U.K. just might be changing hands soon. Multiple outlets are reporting that the British Racing Drivers’ Club, the group that currently owns Silverstone, are...

BangShift Goes Racing! How To Pick A Cheap Race Car And Start Competing!

Welcome to Bangshift Goes Racing! This is a multi-part series that gives a look into choosing, building, and racing a car on the cheap. Here, you’ll see the misadventures of my friends and I as we...

The Mighty Car Mods Guys Hot Rod An Old Electric Car! Funny And BangShift Approved

I want to be the Mighty Car Mods guys. They rule. Of course they have some strange Australian lingo that takes some getting used to, but overall these guys have the right attitude. Their choice is...

Carfection Is On A Roadtrip, Checking Out French Racetracks! First One Up: Circuit de Charade!

“…it’s said that God sculped the scenery, but the Devil laid down the tarmac.” Sounds like my kind of road. Flat tracks are great if you are a kid learning to drive a...

Morning Symphony: The Sounds Of Audi Quattros Driven In Anger!

Audi’s four-wheel-drive coupes took motorsports by story when they debuted in 1980. Rally racing and road courses alike echoed to the sound of pissed-off five-cylinders and all sorts of fun...

Go For A Ride With Formula Drift Drivers Through The Lens Of GoPros – Where Inches Of Space Is A Luxury!

I love watching drifters do what they do best. To some, it’s engines beating up on the rev limiter while another set of tires vaporize into nothing and potential body damage with a flick of the...

Epic Troll Bernie Ecclestone Declares F1 ‘Worse Than It Has Ever Been’, Tells Reporters He Wouldn’t Pay To Watch

If there is one thing that Formula One honcho Bernie Ecclestone can never be accused of it is hiding his feelings. The guy says what he thinks and has built up a layer of armor around him thick...

Crazy Craigslist Find: The 1974 ‘Cuda Tooling Proof Body Is For Sale – Quite Literally The First One Made

There are honestly very few opportunities that people get to buy something that can rightfully be claimed as “the first” or “the only”. Even in the automotive world where...

Photo Tour: The (Literally) Awesome Barber Motorsports Park Museum

(By Eric Rood) – Bangshift recently brought you an extraordinarily bizarre gallery from the 24 Hours of LeMons race at Barber Motorsports Park and if you’ve been to Barber, you know what a...

When Snow Falls On A Racetrack, The Answer Is A Nissan GT-R And A Fearless Snowboarder!

So the weather outside is hateful, dumping snow deep enough to cause the meteorologists to issue warnings and the weather reporters to start naming the storm that is rolling through while playing up...

eBay Find: The Monster That Porsche Built To Dominate The Indy 500 But Never Ran Is For Sale!

(By Eric Rood) – With the 100th edition of the Indy 500 looming, the owners of the never-raced Porsche-engined Indy 500 project have opted to put it back on the auction block. In 1979,...

NASCAR Unveils New Behavioral Rules For All Series – Clearer Definitions For Fights, Intentional Crashes, And More!

(Images: NASCAR.com) NASCAR can claim that the rules recently revealed aren’t a reaction to the November 2015 incident between Matt Kenseth and Joey Logano at Martinsville Speedway all they...