BangShift Preview: The Bathurst 12 Hours Is Coming This Weekend – How to Watch, Who to Watch, When to Watch
(By Eric Rood) – For racing fans, the year’s opening three months provide an embarrassment of endurance-racing riches. The Dubai 24 Hours opens the year, typically, and then sandwiched...
Wild Ride: Watch As The Back Tire Of Loris Baz’s MotoGP Bike Blows Out At 180 Miles An Hour!
(Lead photo: @EyzalAmriz) Blowing out a tire at 180 miles an hour is a bad deal, I don’t care what that tire was attached to. Plane, car, whatever…your day has just gone down the tubes...
Don Prudhomme Gives Eye Witness Account Of Tony Stewart Back Injury – Sand Rail Crash
Many of you have likely heard that NASCAR driver and team owner Tony Stewart suffered a serious back injury a few days ago. To this point there have been very few details, no one knew the severity of...
The RideTech Report: Event Season Has Begun, Custom Rides, Video, New Projects, and More
While some of us are still waiting for the big event season to kick off, the team at RideTech has sprung hard into action and come out of the blocks firing. Last week they were displaying at...
The Most Awesomely Bizarre Racing Ever Is European Reverse DAF Racing – Jumps and All
(By Eric Rood) – Bangshift’s fine truck-fan contingent are likely well-aware European truck maker DAF, but the Dutch company also built small, terribly slow cars. While they’re notable for...
eBay Find: Street Legal 1928 Chevrolet Old School Racer Tribute Is 100% BangShifty
Titled and registered as a 1928 Chevrolet, this incredible single seat racer was not actually built back then but rather it was built just a few years ago as a tribute to the era wen a transverse...
Busted: Professional Cyclist Caught With Electric Motor Hidden In Bike – Incredible Cheat
(Photo: Yahoo.com) – Here’s a story that would even make Smokey Yunick smile! A 23-year old Belgian professional cyclist was busted at the world cycle-cross championships last week with...
Rolex 24 Race Recap: Results and Race Analysis, and Video From Classes Top To Bottom
(By Eric Rood) – The dust has settled on the opening round of endurance racing here in the U.S. The race had a bit of everything: tons of attrition, unexpected accidents, heroic drives, photo...
Wild Story: Former Up And Coming NASCAR Hopeful Accused Of Assaulting Mentor In Maine
The world of auto racing no matter the style of competition that it is, no matter the direction the cars travel, and no matter the speeds they do it at is one of the most harsh, unforgiving, and...
This 1964 Buick Riviera Is Unique In A Bunch Of Ways But The Engine Is A Topper
The Buick Riviera was one of the most important cars that GM dropped on the world in the 1960s. Released as a 1963 model year offering, the styling and attitude of the machine were more European...
Now THIS Is A Pass! Skip Barber Competitor Uses Entire Track, Holy Spirit, To Overtake
(By Eric Rood) – Sebring International Raceway remains one of the most unique circuits in the world, having been built as a bomber base during World War II and then repurposed as a racetrack....
Question Of The Day: Why Isn’t Rally Racing Bigger In The United States?
Yes, the racing at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona was exciting and close, especially if you were watching the Corvettes duke it out in GTLM. But there was another race going on where the margin of...
Think The Radio Flyer Is Crazy? This Art Car Is A 1972 Cadillac Being Swallowed By A ’49 International Metro
BangShift reader Kim Welch gets all the credit in the world for this find because it is so weird, so interesting, and so downright bizarre we never would have found it by ourselves. (Chad...
Corvettes Roar To Victory At Rolex 24 – Ford GT Debut Hampered By Mechanical Issues
It was to be the weekend where Ford ascended and heroically grabbed the mantle of American road racing glory from General Motors, completing one of the great anniversary/comeback stories of the last...
