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Elk Creek Dragway Nostalgia Action Photos: Ain’t No Way Like The Old School Way!

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – There’s nothing cooler than  nostalgia drag race at a nostalgia style drag strip. Elk Creek Dragway is the place and Benoit Pigeon was there blasting photos...

Drag Race Action Gallery: 2018 End Of Season Nostalgia Throwdown At Elk Creek Dragway!

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – The end of the season has become a nostalgia tradition at Elk Creek Dragway’s last race of the year allowing only older cars to participate....

2018 Dutch Classic Action Photos: Super Stockers Reaching For The Sky!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’re back with more cool action photos from the 2018 NHRA Dutch Classic. “The Dutch” is the last race of the Division One schedule and has been a...

No Membership Required: ECTA Is Running An Additional Race This Year – Standing Mile Fun November 10-11 At The Mile in Arkansas

The ECTA is having so much fun racing at their venue in Arkansas that they have added a race to the 2018 schedule and it is easier than ever to participate. No membership is required for this last...

Torrence, Capps, Enders, And Krawiec On Top At NHRA’s Carolina Nationals At ZMax

It’s been a wet few weeks in the Carolina’s, but this weekend the rain gods have left and that mean’s NHRA Mello Yello drag racing is going hot and heavy at Charlotte’s ZMax...

2018 NHRA Dutch Classic Action Photos: Stockers Wheels Up and Cool At Maple Grove!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The NHRA Division One season ends with an event at Maple Grove every year called the Dutch Classic. This is always an awesome assemblage of Lucas Oil Drag Racing...

Incredible Video: Watch A Guy Survive A Street Racing Wreck And Climb Out Of A Decimated Mustang

This is by far the most improbable, incredible, and utterly stupefying video we have ever showed you here on BangShift. The scene is simple. A dewy night down south where a pair of Mustangs have...

Leah Pritchett Wins 2018 NHRA SAM Tech Factory Stock Showdown World Championship In Mopar Dodge Challenger Drag Pak

As the NHRA season winds across the country to its eventual close in Pomona, California class championships are being decided in many of the various forms of competition that the organization...

Watch Annie Whiteley’s High Speed Trip Into The Texas Motorplex Sand Trap – She Was OK

My obsession at finding and seeing as many drag strips on this planet as I possibly can stems from the fact that while all of them are (at base) long strips of asphalt and/or concrete, they each have...

Video: NHRA AAA Texas Fall Nationals Pro Category Number One Qualifiers

NHRA’s AAA Of Texas Fall Nationals is the biggest and fastest NHRA race in Texas and every year racers and fans pack the grounds at the Texas Motorplex to see records fall. This weekend’s...

Video: This LIVE NHRA Today From The 1992 Chief Auto Parts Nationals In Texas Is Awesome

Now THIS is fun drag racing TV, to us anyway. You are going to watch an episode of NHRA Today made at the Texas motorplex 26 years ago during the 1992 Chief Auto Parts Nationals in Texas. It is fun...

Watch Justin Martin And His Nova Make The Quickest Limited Drag Radial Run In History 4.09!

Justin Martin was a solid player in the Limited Drag Radial category of competition at Diamond Pistons No Mercy last weekend. The car was rattling off numbers in the low ‘teens despite the...

Don Garlits Picks His Six Favorite Swamp Rats And Tells Us Why!

As much as Don Garlits was defined by his slew of amazing performances on the track during his career, he was also defined by his cars. There were a total of 37 machines that carried the...

‘Splosion Video: Mark Oswald Suffers A Titanic Boomer At The Texas Motorplex Circa 1990

This weekend, Mark Oswald will be crew chiefing the Matco U.S. Army top fuel dragster of Antron Brown but in 1990 he was a kid driving the Ford Motorcraft nitro funny cars and doing a fine job of it....