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Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, BangShift News, Drag Races

25 Killer Wheelstand Photos from the 2012 March Meet

Everyone loves a good wheelie and there were not in short supply during our coverage of the 2012 March Meet. Out of the hundreds of photos we shot and posted, we culled a quick 25 images of cars...

Nostalgia Drags Gallery: The 2012 Orange Drag Strip Reunion – Fitchburg, Massachusetts

(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – One of the coolest nostalgia drag racing and hot rod events in New England doesn’t happen at a drag strip at all. Instead it happens at an airport in central...

Photo Coverage: More PSCA Record Breaker Nationals, Including Great Pit Shots

Thanks to BangShifter Dave Stoltz, we’ve got some great photo coverage of the 2013 PSCA Record Breaker Nationals. Dave shot plenty of on track and pit shots all weekend, and this is our second...

Event Coverage: PSCA Record Breaker Nationals Wheels Up Photos

Thanks to BangShifter Dave Stoltz, we’ve got some great photo coverage of the 2013 PSCA Record Breaker Nationals. Dave shot plenty of on track and pit shots all weekend, and this is our first...

2013 PRO Winter Warm Up Action Gallery: Nitro Funny Cars and Top Fuelers At Palm Beach Intl Raceway

Despite the Saturday rain, we had a killer time at the 2013 PRO Winter Warm Up at Palm Beach International Raceway in Florida. We saw Courtney Force make the fastest 1000′ funny car pass in...

NITRO GALLERY: PRO Winter Warm Up 2013 -Early Thursday Action Photos!

We’re here at PBIR  for the 2013 PRO Winter Warm Up and the teams are making runs hot and heavy. All of the NHRA’s big nitro hitters are making runs and working on their combos for the...

Retro Galleries: BangShift 2012 PRO Winter Warm Up Still Photo Galleries From Last Year

Here are the galleries we ran last year from PBIR at the 2012 PRO Winter Warm Up. We’ll be posting content later today from this year’s running of the event but we wanted to whet your...

Gallery: 50 Photos of Slingshot Dragsters

The first age of the front engine dragster was a long one. Until Big Daddy Don Garlits got the whole rear engine situation sorted out, the front engine “slingshot” dragster was the hot...

Gallery: The Cordova Dragway Park 2013 Hangover Nationals – Drag Strip Action At 14-Degrees! BRRR!

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Cordova Dragway Park in Cordova, Illinois again hosted the Hangover Nationals. Held on New Years Day for the past 14 years, they plow snow off the track,...

Event Photos: Lions Drag Strip 40th Reunion At The NHRA Motorsports Museum

Last year the NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum put on a panel discussion and event that marked the 39th year since the closing of famed Lions Dragstrip near Long Beach California. With 2012 being...

Drag Gallery: Gassers At Greer Dragway – Period Correct, Gear Jamming Greatness! Must See!

(Photos by Daron Gray) – Recently, the grounds of Greer Dragway in Greer, South Carolina served as the backdrop for one hell of a nostalgia drag race featuring 12 of the baddest ass period...

Galleries:Our Photos From the PSCA’s Street Car Supernationals VIII – Door Slammer Action!

(Photos by Rob Kinnan) – If you missed our live streaming broadcast of the 2012 PSCA Street Car Supernationals you failed to see one of the great door slammer drag races of all time. ET records...

Photos: Action and Bits From The Pits At The NMCA Drag Week Shootout In Houston

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It was an Unlimited Drag Week reunion of sorts last weekend in Houston, Texas as the NMCA invited a load of the heaviest hitters that competed at Drag Week 2012 to...

Event Coverage: Almost 200 Photos And Video Of Door Cars, Dragsters, and Top Fuel Sand Drags Cars

Zane McNary, one of BangShift’s newest contributors, just sent us almost 200 photos of killer sand drags action from the Southern California Sand Drags Association Season Finals at Soboba...