Category Archive: RACING & ACTION
FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO: The IHRA Summit Racing PRO-AM Feb 2nd and 3rd.
Two races, 1 weekend, it’s the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Series, and our buddy Mark Walter is live on location in Immokalee Florida bringing you all the action. Racing starts Saturday...
Great Video: The Trailer For The Upcoming Documentary Series – Where They Raced – A Neat Look At Long Gone Tracks
Harold Osmer’s books Where They Raced and Where They Raced Lap 2 are essential reading for any fan of American racing history. The two books concentrate on the the amazing auto racing history...
Rental Car Burnout Video: We Don’t Even Know Where To Start On How Great This Is
Yeah yeah yeah we’ve heard it before. We know, it’s not cool to bash rental cars, blah blah blah. This video rules no matter who you are. And if it makes you sleep better, just pretend it...
Video: A Fantastic Look At US 131 Dragway Through The Years From The Early 1960s To Today – Amazing Footage and Photos!
Thanks to pal-o-BangShift Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian we were tipped off to one of the most comprehensive and cool vintage drag racing videos we’ve ever seen on the interwebs. This film starts with...
Video: Ride Shotgun For A Lap In The Wild Slightly Disturbed Golf Kart Wheelstander!
We’re easily amused here at BangShift and by easily amused we mean totally in love with unique homebuilt stuff that a guy dreamed up after a couple beers and turned into reality. Such is our...
Drag Video: Watch An Insane Naturally Aspirated SRT8 Jeep Grand Cherokee Pull Huge Wheelies and Run Deep Into The 10s
Well this is totally nuts. Eric Koll is the owner and driver of this wild Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8. As best we can tell, the machine is powered by a stroker modern hemi that displaces somewhere...
Nitro Video: Watch A Top Fuel Bike Fire Up And Rip Off A Burnout….INSIDE THE SHOP!
I’ve often thought that the men and women who race Top Fuel motorcycles are all part of a small group of escaped mental patients that somehow fell into the same hobby. Seriously, to see one of...
Video: Courtney Force’s Worlds Fastest 1000 ft Funny Car Pass From A New Angle
Corey Michalek, who did the super bitchin video chronicle of what it is like to be a part of a Top Fuel team a while back, also was at PBIR for the PRO Winter Warmup shooting video. We got to talk to...
Video: Watch The Infamous Ice Monster Camaro Tear Around A Frozen Swedish Lake Road Course!
Over the last few years we have showed you several videos of this gnarly, dented, pissed off, and well worn second generation Camaro in Sweden. Known as the “Ice Monster” this car is...
Epic BS Video: A Half Hour Uncut Interview With NHRA Funny Car Driver Ron Capps – NAPA AA/FC
One of the great highlights of our 2013 PRO Winter Warm Up coverage was a half hour video interview with Ron Capps, the driver of the NAPA AA/FC and one of the great funny car pilots of all time....
Video: Watch A Nitrous Infected Small Block Ford Powered Geo Tracker Pull A Massive Power Wheelie At The Strip!
File this one under “so wrong it’s right”. We found video of a little Geo Tracker that has been muscled up by time with the addition of a small block Ford V8, a whole bunch of...
Video Highlights From The 2013 PRO Winter Warmup NHRA Top Fuel And Funny Car Test Session
If you missed BangShift.com’s exclusive LIVE broadcast from the 2013 PRO Winter Warmup Top Fuel and Funny Car test session, where all of NHRA’s top nitro teams made their first passes of...
Video: Courtney Force Runs “World’s Fastest”, 322.73 MPH Funny Car Run, At PRO Winter Warmup
When Ron Capps ran 3.964 at 320.89 miles per hour at Englishtown during the 2012 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Season, it knocked the world on it’s ear. Well that same scenario went down in West...
Bonneville Video: Bruce Meyer Plus Mike Cook Plus A Rowdy 427 Equals A 200 MPH Roadster On The Salt
For lots of us, racing a fast roadster at Bonneville is a dream that we may or may not ever get to see through. Cars like the Beck – Cummins – Davidson- Thornsberry roadster have done...