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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We Get The Inside Scoop On What It Was Like At The Inaugural Speedway Motors CAM Invitational Challenge

(Photos and words by Lance Hamilton) [Nutting: By now most Bangshift readers should be familiar with my daily driver 1987 Monte Carlo LS that I autocross on a regular basis in the Classic American...

Carnage Video: This Radical SR8 Goes Airborne Into The Tire Wall At Eau Rouge!

This one hurts to watch! This happened during a Radical Euromasters race at Spa-Francorchamps on September 6th. The red and black Radical was approaching the Eau Rouge corner at speed when the...

GALLERY: The Baer 3S Challenge At The 2014 Holley LS Fest

Sunday the autocrossing gave way to the Baer Brakes 3S Challenge. The 3S Challenge (Speed, Steering, and Stop) used a there-and-back format that started with an arm-drop drag race to the corner,...

Marchionne Channels His Inner Enzo About Ferrari’s CEO Over Racing Failures

Enzo Ferrari was nicknamed Il Commendatore for a reason. He ran Ferrari like a ship, gave the praise only to the cars and winningest drivers, and placed blame directly onto the drivers. If he...

GALLERY: Drifting at Holley LS Fest 2014 – Sideways Action From The Track Here In Bowling Green

The drifting competition at LS Fest was tightly contested, between Nissans, a GTO and a BMW 3-series, all of course packing LS power. A unique event sponsored by Lucas Oil and Wrecked Magazine, the...

Take A Listen To Kawasaki’s New Supercharged Superbike Engine

Kawasaki’s Ninja series of street bikes are legendary for their speed and are right up there with the Suzuki “Gixxer” and Yamaha R6. Recently Kawasaki have been teasing up their...

Fender Banging Action From The Tudor United Sports Car Series Oak Tree Grand Prix – Vettes, Vipers, More!

(Photos by David Whealon) – David Whealon was our man on the scene at the 2014 Oak Tree Grand Prix. This was one of the events on the TUDOR United Sports Car racing series calendar and  David...

Watch Two French Rally Drivers Nearly Roast During The Ypres Rally!

Rally drivers have the same type of determination that a demolition derby driver has: so long as there is a useable gear that is allowing the car to move, come hell or high water they will press on....

Return To Music City 2014 – Carving Corners, Killing Cones, and Stopping Hard At One Of The Most Fun Pro Touring Events In The Country

(Photos by Mike Mendenhall and Amanda McCarthy) – It was a fun weekend for everyone involved at the 2014 American Street Car Series Return To Music City which was held at Fairgrounds Speedway...

Björn Waldegård, The First WRC Champion, Has Passed Away

Björn Waldegård, rally-racing royalty and the winner of the inaugural World Rally Championship in 1979, has passed on at the age of 71. A rally racer for over thirty years, Waldegård was known for...

NCM Motorsports Park Grand Opening Celebration: Footage From The Track!

You trust us at BangShift to get you the best, highest-quality information and entertainment to you in a timely manner, and one way or the other, we will do it! The opening of the National Corvette...

Optima’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car Airs Tonight On MavTV From California Speedway

Optima’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car is heading to California in this weekends episode, and that means hot and heavy racing action at Fontana’s Auto Club California Speedway, home...

Question Of The Day: The National Corvette Museum Is Opening Up Their New Racetrack Tomorrow And Is Holding A Three-Day Party: What Do You Want To See?

You can’t live in Bowling Green, Kentucky and not know what is going on with Corvettes. From the evil car-eating sinkhole to a certain silver ’75 that was abandoned behind Holley’s...

What Do You Get When You Cross Australian Touring Car and Drifting? Awesome. You Get Awesome.

We love V8 Supercars here at BangShift. Real cars (ok, more real than NASCAR) hauling serious amounts of speed around killer road courses in a land that seems to always be ready for a track...