Category Archive: BangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, XL Spotlight, XL Videos

The 2020 Dakar Rally Is On And Man Is It A Beast! Saudi Arabia, And It’s Crazy Variety Of Terrain And Sand, Is Home To This Historic Spectacle

I first started really watching the Dakar Rally back in the late 1990s and couldn’t believe just how cool this race was to watch on TV. For years I looked forward to it and thought it would be...

Best 1990s Sleeper Ever: The 1996 Volvo 850R Sportswagon – Prove Us Wrong

Yeah, 20 years on and I still want one of these things. I remember chewing up every car magazine that came to my house when I was 16 years old and every single one of them lost their mind over this...

American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This H-Pattern Shifted Mustang Run 7s!

Lots of time when we show you a hardcore competition car as part of the American Powertrain Parting Shift it is not being H-pattern shifted. Maybe it has a sequential shifter or a Vertigate type deal...

Novakill: NASCAR-Powered, 9,400 RPM Nova From Hell On The Burnout Pad

Looking at all of the footage from Summernats 33, it’s easy to think that you are on another planet with the amount of smoke from the bushfires in the air. The daylight is orange, the haze...

Big Boy: The Bandag Bullet In Action At Summernats 33’s Skidpad

There are two ways that you might know Bandag. One is if you are in a field that uses retreaded tires…Bandag is a retread company and they are the tire of choice for fleets like UPS. Or, you...

Squeakers! Here’s Five Minutes Of The Best Heads-Up Side By Side Races From 2019 – Radials to Nitro Funny Cars!

The coolest thing to witness at any drag race are two evenly matched cars being expertly wheeled by good drivers. Why? Because you know you’re going to get a really tight finish, that’s...

All Roar No Snore: This Video From The 2020 Roar Before The 24 At Daytona Is Pure Mechanical Music – ONLY Car Noise!

The “Roar Before the 24” is the first event of the year at Daytona International Speedway and it’s basically the test session that some of the world’s top sports car racing...

Watch This New Zealand Drag Racing Crash That Seems As Though It Will Never End! Insane!

The scene is the Masterton Motorplex in Masterton, New Zealand. The cars are supercharged door slammers and while we’re not sure what the race is, we’re damned sure that it is...

Wonder No More: See How Much Horsepower Larry Larson’s Wild Cadillac ATS-V No Prep Car Makes On The Hub Dyno

Larry Larson likes rules. Well, no racer really likes rules but when we look at some of the neatest stuff this guy has ever built to race, the machines have been built around exploiting potential...

Classic YouTube: Motorcycle Ice Racing At Potter Lake

Riding my three-wheelers in the snow was one thing…that was a good time all-around. Riding my dirt bikes in the snow? Yeah…no. The smaller 50cc and 70cc bikes were fine enough, and...

Morning Symphony: Summernats 33 Dyno Runs – Big Power Through The Hubs!

Summernats 33 is wrapping up in Canberra, ACT, Australia. Over the course of a weekend that has seen the wildfires blanketing the area in smoke and in the middle of a heat wave that is pushing into...

The Summernats City Cruise! Muscle Cars And Hot Rods That Aren’t Street Legal Get To Do This Just Once Per Year!

We take a lot of stuff for granted her in the States. We can drive a big tire car down the road anytime we want and blowers are okay on lots of stuff, etc. But in the land of Oz that is not always...

Listen Up Suckers: Stevie Fast Calls Out Every Pro Mod In the Country…And John Force?!

And we’re off! That’s exactly what I thought when I watched this video of Stevie Fast Jackson effectively calling out every pro mod racer in the country and the going the extra mile and...

Best of 2019: Watch X275 Eliminations From Sweet 16 2.0 – The Runs That Made The Bruder Brothers $50,000

If Radial vs The World was the headlining act at the DuckX Sweet 16 2.0 than X275 was the strongest undercard in drag racing history. As mental as Radial vs The World action was, X275 likely topped...