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Bonneville Speed Week 2019: Idle Engines On The Bonneville Salt Flats

(Photos by the author) – An interesting day on the Bonneville Salt Flats yesterday as Chad and I strolled the pits and chatted with racers who are about ready to chew through a leather belt...

2019 Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals: The Land Of Plenty For Fans Of The Fins

When you look at a car like a 1955-57 Chevrolet, it’s easy to have the legend overrun reality. You want to see that picture-perfect red and ivory Fuelie Bel Air, or the matte black 1955 with...

2019 Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals: Getting Rowdy With The Oldies

“I didn’t think that many of these things still existed!”, I heard a young guy say to his parents as I walked through the show fields at Beech Bend. Surprise, my dude: while there...

2019 Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals: Celebrating Three Years Of Chevrolet In One Massive Throw-Down!

Bowling Green is home of the Corvette, right? Not this weekend. Right now, Chevrolet’s sports car is taking one huge backseat to the legendary Tri-Five Chevrolets. Be it 150, 210, Bel Air,...

Old Bikes, New Payday: Old School Kaws take NHDRO’s Biggest Money Ever – Race Report

(Words and photos by Tim Hailey) – The sharpest, most up-to-date tools in the motorcycle drag racing box came out to win NHDRO’s biggest money event ever—the APE Summer Celebration and Big...

Mickey Thompson Top Fuel Harley Action Images: The Nitro Fueled Monsters Acted Like It In Seattle – Check Out These Photos!

(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – They deserve and they always will deserve their own coverage. The Mickey Thompson Top Fuel Harley Davidson category has been one of the most stunning additions to...

Action Photo Coverage: Sportsman Racing At The 2019 Magic Dry NHRA Northwest Nationals in Seattle

(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – While professional drag racing’s categories have been mechanically whittled down to the most favorable combinations that can win races, NHRA sportsman racing...

Action Photos: 2019 Magic Dry NHRA Northwest Nationals – Pro Class Photo Coverage

(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – When old timer drag racing veterans talk about a race that just happened in pretty reverential terms you know it was a special deal. It’s one of those races...

2019 NHRA Sonoma Nationals Photo Coverage: Wall To Wall Sportsman Action Right Here!

(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – The variety and intensity of the sportsman racing during last weekend’s NHRA Sonoma Nationals was amazing. From stock all the way on up, this was one of the...

2019 NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: A Sunday Sportsman Photographic Spectacular

(Photo by Dave Nutting) – Yeah, yeah, we know that the mountain motor pro stock cars are not by traditional definition “sportsman” machines but we’re including them in this...

Sturgis Dragway No Prep Photos, Including Larry Larson In The New Cadillac!

When our friend Jeff Odell said he was going to be in Sturgis for the Sturgis Dragway Big Tire Small Tire Shootout race this weekend and that he would snap some photos to share with our BANGshift...

2019 NHRA New England Nationals Photos: Scenes From The Pits On A Serene Sunday Morning

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – I am an early riser by nature. I like to get to the track early, eat lunch early, basically that’s my life. Dave Nutting is the same way, so when he got to New...

2019 NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Sportsman Cars, Motorcycles, Wheelies, and More!

(Dave Nutting photos) – We’re back with more great action photo coverage from the 2019 NHRA New England Nationals and this time we’re not talking pro racers, we are talking...

2019 NHRA New England Nationals Photos: Images From The Pits In Epping, Hard Work In The Heat

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – We often think about the drivers and the fans when temperatures at a drag race soar. That’s all well and good but the crew men and women who are working on...