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...
Buy This And Be Ultra Competitive In Pro Touring Events Out Of The Box For Less Than $20k!
The C5 ZO6 is one hell of a performance machine, and just yesterday I posted a dirt cheap C4 and said that you can’t get a nice ZO6 for less than $15k, and then you have to do all the stuff to...
Watch The TCI Equipped 1968 Camaro Of Chad Ryker Tear Up The Autocross
Chad Ryker is cool. Not only because he has a great 1968 Camaro that hauls ass on the autocross, but also because his name is Chad. Come on, you knew that was coming. His car is TCI, Ridetech, and...
Caution: Watching These Videos Of Brazilian Formula Truck Crashes Will Likely Leave YOU Sore
(By Eric Rood) – In the U.S., we’re accustomed to big wrecks on super speedways with 3,500-pound, 200 mph stock cars. That’s a lot of energy to dissipate and, by and large, most stock cars...
