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Category Archive: BangShift News, CRASH & BURN, Videos

Video: Victor Bray and Pete Kapiris Crash – Top Doorslammer Wreck Could Have Been Far Worse – Crazy Video

Yesterday we showed you a wild video of an Australian Top Doorslammer racer experiencing a big fire and doing an amazing job of getting the car hauled down without hitting anything or making the...

Watch An Aussie Drag Racer Suffer A Horrifying Top End Explosion and Fire – He Handles It Like A Total Pro

As we have said before, the truly great drivers in drag racing are exposed when the crap hits the fan. Such was the case for Aussie racer Brett Gillespie at an event back in November. As you’ll...

Watch a Rear Axle Failure Completely Destroy The Back Of 1968 Camaro Drag Car

We’ve all seen the videos of rear ends completely breaking free from drag cars, launching them into the air and smashing back down to Earth. This video is different from those in the fact that...

Video: Aussie Mayhem! Scotty’s Garage Crashes, Fires, Bangs, and Close Calls 2012

The Scotty’s Garage videos are always of the best action in Australia. We feature his burnout competition videos and love to see all the cool carnage that the dudes down under can inflict. This...

Wreckage Video: In Car Footage Of A Cobra Jet Mustang’s Huge Wheelie And Heavy Impact At Cecil County

Last week we bought you video of a new Cobra Jet Mustang launching off the starting line at Cecil County, pulling a bumper dragging wheelstand, and then crashing hard into both walls at the track....

More Carnage Video: Watch A 2012 Cobra Jet Mustang Pull A Huge Wheelie and Then Crash Hard At Cecil County

We were tipped off to this video by BangShift reader Jack Stetson that shows a 2012 Cobra Jet Mustang factory drag car crashing hard at Cecil County Dragway in Maryland. The car launches hard and...

Carnage Video: Watch Outlaw 10.5 Racer Mike Kimmis Suffer A Huge Wreck and Explosion At Ozark Raceway Park

There’s lots of cool classes that make up the “small tire” drag racing world but for our bucks, the insanity that happens in the Outlaw 10.5 class totally takes the cake. With twin...

Video: Watch Jack Beckman’s Nuclear Funny Car Explosion From the NHRA Finals in Pomona!

Fast Jack Beckman is one of the best funny car drivers in the business and his skills were on full display at the 2012 NHRA Finals in Pomona on Thursday as he suffered a nuclear level explosion on...

VIDEO: Ken Block On Fire During Rally Cross At 2012 SEMA Show

We’ll let the video speak for itself. Ken Blocks car catches on fire, and he knows it, but keeps driving for the win anyway. He ultimately gets passed by Tanner Foust, but finishes the race on...

Nitrous Explosion Video: This Is Definitely The Highest We Have Ever Seen A Hood Scoop Launched

While this video does not have the titanic destructive force that other nitrous explosions we have featured in the past, it definitely has one element that is worth seeing. That element is watching...

Video: Watch A Truck Tug Of War Come To a Flaming Halt In Florida

Like the rock buggy we showed you earlier, tug of war competitions starring giant trucks are a southern creation. These events happen with regularity in central and southern Florida, often times in...

Video: Watch Roger Sterling’s Massive Heavy Street Wreck At the Shakedown at E-Town

There was lots of racing around the country this weekend, especially on the drag front. There was the Throwdown at T-Town where we live broadcasted, there was the Dutch Classic in Pennsylvania, and...

Explosivo Video: A Late Model Challenger Suffers A Big Nitrous Explosion and Major Fire – Whoopsie Doodle!

It isn’t a mistake or coincidence that nearly as soon as a new performance car is released, nitrous companies are on the scene with bolt on plate kits for them. It is cheap horsepower and when...

Video: This Is What Happens When You Drive Like a Jackass On Public Roads and Fail At Drifting

What ever happened to pulling a hole shot at a light or maybe a little fishtail action leaving a parking lot or something? Why do today’s kooky kids need to act like complete death wish...