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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Project Violent Valiant Update: The Front Frame Rails Get Fabbed And Installed

We’re back with another update on Project Violent Valiant the unique pro touring destroyer being built by Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle‘s Kevin Tully at the Skunkworks in Illinois. In case...

UPDATE: Fox Reports Jimmy Johnson Wins 2014 Daytona 500 After Running 2013 Daytona 500 Replay On Own Network — ESPN Botches It As Well!

We have made some boneheaded mistakes here at BangShift over the years but this literally beats all. Fox is the network carrying the 2014 Daytona 500 and due to the fact that it rained all day, they...

Feature Video From Petrolicious: This 1927 Oakland Racer is Old-School Cool

“And now for something completely different”. Here for your Friday morning viewing pleasure is another great video from Petrolicious. If you’re not yet subscribed to their youTube channel, do...

Video Of Clint Bowyer’s Barrel Roll And Drive Away Is Coolest NASCAR Thing In Forever

I was watching the drag race on my computer and the NASCAR qualifying races on my living room television last night and I couldn’t have predicted that the NASCAR race would produce one of the...

Tune In: Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational On This Saturday 5pm Eastern on MAVTV

Set your DVRs to stun! This Saturday at 5pm eastern time the 2013 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational will air on MAVTV and you’ll be able to see the slugfest that was OUSCI 2013. BangShift...

All Acceleration All The Time Video: Jim Pace Hammers A Camaro, A Couple Old Can-Am Cars, And Porsches In This Hammer Down Video

Everyone that drives a car digs the feeling of being pressed back into the seat when you hit the gas. From your grandmother to the dink in the Prius next to you in traffic, even non-car people...

Skip The Coffee, This Footage Of 90’s Subaru Rally Action Will Wake You Up!

I was never really into Subarus as a kid during the 90s, if only because the majority of Subarus you saw in New England in the 90s were beat up old Leones and Legacies. Once in a while an Impreza was...

This Incredible Ed Hinton Piece Explains Why NASCAR Fans Complaining About Austin Dillon In The #3 Are Very, Very Wrong

I try to read every single word that Ed Hinton writes because he’s the last bastion of the old school racing reporter left in the USA. This guy has been following NASCAR and open wheel racing...

First Footage Of Ken Block’s Violent And Championship Ending 2013 Rally Wreck – In Car Footage And Full Story

Lat year Ken Block shook off a crappy start to the Rally America season and came on like a ball of fire during the middle and late parts of the season. Things were looking good that Block would be...

Video: Watch A Horrifying High Speed Wreck From Brazil’s Formula Truck Big Rig Racing Series

The wreck is so crazy, so over the top, and appears so violent as to be fatal we need to let you know that the driver lived. Sure, he was pretty busted up and is sure to be recovering for a long...

This Little Kid’s Reaction To Drifting Around In A Car With His Dad Is Flipping Awesome

What you see in the lead photos is the face of unbridled joy and happiness. What you see in the lead photo is the birth of a gearhead. What you see in the lead photo is a moment lots of us...

THE PARTING SHIFT: IN CAR FOOTAGE OF A 1963 LIGHTWEIGHT 427 GALAXIE ROAD RACER FROM DOWN UNDER!

This is one of the coolest videos we have found in a while. Normally when one thinks of lightweight 1963 Ford Galaxies powered by 600hp 427 engines the drag strip is involved. That is not the case...

In Torque We Trust: Petrolicious Spends Some Quality Time With A 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S

If there’s one thing that I love watching on youTube, it’s spring break videos automotive videos with high production value: Car reviews from Top Gear UK, the Ken Block Gymkhana series,...

ChumpCar Race Report With Gallery: Frozen Peaches And Ice Cream At Road Atlanta

(Words by Charlene Felton – Photos by John Babinski) – The Optima Batteries ChumpCar World Series (www.chumpcar.com) is the home of “Real Racing, Real Tracks®.” It’s competitive,...