Category Archive: BangShift News, RACING & ACTION, Videos
FNG: My Weekend in the Trench With Peter Farber’s NHRA/ADRL Pro Mod Team PLUS VIDEO
I have seen drag races through several different angles during my time in the sport. I have seen them as a racer in a street car or bracket bomber, I have seen them as an announcer and race director,...
Snavely is BACK! Plus We Release His Epic Crash Video from SCSN 2011
For those of you who weren’t watching during our huge LIVE broadcast at the 2011 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals, you missed an amazingly scary crash. For those that were with us, you know the...
Chadmouth: The IndyCar Edition Including Photos and Video!
So, the Monday before the Long Beach Grand Prix our guy Jimi Day, with Optima Batteries, calls and says “Hey bud, Optima is a sponsor of the World Challenge Series and I have some credentials for...
Watch a Triple Turbocharged DT466 Diesel Powered Dragster Run Down the Strip – Smoke A-Plenty!
We saw a link to this video posted over at YellowBullet and thought that the BS world would want to get a look at one of the weirdest and wildest dragsters we have laid eyes on in a good, long time....
The Parting Shift: A Bad Ass and Drama Free Stick Box Strip Pass
Yeah, we’re late with this week’s Parting Shift, but that is OK. The video of this expertly driven, slickly shifted Mustang is worth it. Normally I like to hunt down huge wheelies, or...
Watch a Toyota Supra Start a Drag Strip Pass on the Tires and Cross the Traps on the Roof!
Supras have been dying at a high rate on drag strips in both Europe and North America. A couple of weeks ago we showed you one blowing up and turning the strip at Englishtown into a hibachi grill....
Watch England’s Andy Frost Run 6.995/218mph at Santa Pod – World’s Fastest Street Legal Drag Car!
England’s own Andy Frost, in his wild Red Victor III ran 6.995/218mph at Santa Pod Raceway’s Easter Thunderball last weekend. That run makes Frost’s car the fastest street legal...
Action Video: Cars Drag Racing on Dirt in Mexico!
This is not drag racing on sand. It isn’t drag racing through mud. This is freakin’ drag racing on dirt! It’s held in Naco Sonora, Mexico, south of Bizbee, Arizona, but that’s...
Watch Bob Riggle Take the Hemi Under Glass Wheelstander Up the Hill at Goodwood Circa 2007
When I ran the video of Ron Hope’s crash in the Rat Trap AA/FA at a road course type event in New Zealand the other day, I knew that the video was going to get picked up and run everywhere. I...
Watch Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel Autocross the Company Dually and Actually Finish Mid-Pack!
Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel is a mad man. He is also one hell of a driver, so when we saw a video that showed the Ridetech Chevy dually truck attacking the autocross at the Goodguys Pleasanton,...
Watch a Pro Stock Tractor Pull The Sled All the Way Through the Building at the 2012 Keystone Nationals
A little later today we are going to run a big gallery of photos from the 2012 Keystone Nationals, a huge pulling event held in Pennsylvania. This event has everything from the awesome two and four...
Watch a Fuel Altered Launch Like a Moon Rocket When the Wheelie Bar Breaks at Santa Pod
While we respect and admire racers that run in classes where wheelie bars are outlawed, there are lots of cars that really need them. Among those cars that need wheelie bars to keep from becoming low...
Cool Video: Talking AFCO Shocks at the Drags
There’s a reason that AFCO shocks are the choice of virtually every seriously fast small tire car in the country. They are the most tuneable, tweakable, and tailored pieces on the market. In...
Bitchin’ Nitro Video: Top Fuel and Funny Car Warm Ups From the 2012 March Meet
We often joke about trying to add “Smell-O-Vision” technology to the BangShift streaming drag race broadcasts to inject the scent of nitro into the shops and homes of viewers all over the...