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

Ever See A Monster Truck In A Mud Bog Before? Check Out How Well It Works!

A monster truck should be absolutely amazing in a mud bog. 66-inch tires, plenty of horsepower, beefy running gear that is designed to take waaaaay more abuse than any mud pit could...

Street Machine Drag Challenge 2018: The Final Day Of Racing And The Results!

Just because the road laws in Australia are about as draconian and panic-driven as an HOA’s set of rules regarding parking spaces and lawn care doesn’t mean that Australia can’t...

Scalpel, Meet Sledgehammer: A Dakar Kamaz And A Drift-Set RX-8 Meet Up In Russia

Mike Whiddett has the nickname “Mad Mike” for a reason. His penchant for taking rotary-powered Mazdas and flinging them as far sideways as he dares is something to behold. His RX-8, known...

Big Is Back! Video Of Revised Swamp Rat 38 Electric Dragster Heating The Hides Here!

Now this is awesome. While we get that loads of people are not into the whole electric drag racing thing (we’re not exactly jumping up and down about it, either) we are huge fans of people...

A Rodeo With A Double Unicorn: Getting The Turbo V8 Nissan Stagea Wound Up On The Skidpad!

Yes, it looks like a Nissan Skyline. Yes, this is a wicked performer that can and does see street duty. Outside of the forbidden fruit situation for Americans, there is nothing about this WC34 that...

The Aussie Race Trip Is On! Check Out The Footage From The 2018 Street Machine Drag Challenge!

Now that the weather is starting to sink into the cold and bitter for most of the United States, in Australia it’s the time to get out there and have a bit of fun as their spring is fully...

Three-Wheel Motion: Watch Brian Cronk Tear Around Sunset Speedway In His Street Stock Machine

Street Stock racing is a bit polarizing to me. I love short-track racing and I love the balls-out effort that many who get into this sport apply. At any small track across North America you are...

World Finals Video: Steve Torrence Sweeps The Countdown, Wins Pomona In Dramatic Fashion

24 rounds in a row. A feat never accomplished in the Countdown era of NHRA drag racing, a sweep. Steve Torrence and the CAPCO Contractors top fuel dragster ran the table starting after the 2018...

Watch Terry Haddock Suffer An Old School Funny Car Inferno At Pomona – NHRA Auto Club Finals Video

Terry Haddock is one of nitro racing’s scrappiest survivors. For years he has been competing with nitro funny cars and top fuel dragsters and doing it on budget fractional to what major teams...

These Supra Dudes Laughed At This Camaro Owner When He Asked Them To Race

Besides being rude, sometimes it backfires on you when you laugh at someone that wants to race you. Of course it could also be a good tactic for throwing off the competition. In this case, I...

The Final Bash – Get It? Cleetus And Cars Went Off The Rails In Houston!

Oh, the weather outside is gray now, and they say it’ll snow any day now, but as long as there are tires to fry, ring the hell out of it until it dies! SEMA is gone, the weather has gone to...

American Powertrain Parting Shift: A Turbocharged 13B Rotary And A Sequential Trans Make This An 8-Second Street Car

There’s someone about old, vintage Japanese cars that we dig around here. The styling is reminiscent of American muscle cars, their power plants were mostly weaklings but sometimes cool, and...

Classic YouTube: The First Recorded Automobile Racing Incident? Louis Chevrolet’s 1919 Fire At Coney Island

The man whose name is one of the most famous in the world thanks to it’s associations with a brand of automobiles was more racer and engineer than he ever was a “car company”...

Watch Robert Hight’s Crazed Trip Into The Net At The 2017 NHRA World Finals

Robert Hight enters the 2018 NHRA World Finals as the second runner in the fuel funny car points chase. If you think that worries him one bit, you missed the memo on what he did in 2017. The murky...