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Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Seeing This Mini Getting Launched Into The Air Makes Us Think Only One Thing: “That’s Gonna Hurt.”

Autograss racing sounds like a blast to us. Popular in the U.K. and Ireland, the basics are simple: there’s classes of cars that branch from mini-cars to V8-powered beasts, that race on a...

Sexy Turkey: Check Out This Awesome 1970s Shadow DN5B F1 Car At Monaco

The Shadow team of the 1970s had some kick ass cars underneath them. From their crazy Can-Am builds to machines like this awesome Shadown DN5B F1 car, these guys knew how to party. They also knew how...

Funky Turkey: Watch This 1949 Euclid Dump Truck Run A Tough Truck Course – Run Maybe Overstating It

There’s an old question out there that we love asking. “Why be normal?” That is exactly what pertains to this video that was taken a while back at a state fair where a tough truck...

Incredible Engineering: This Breakdown Of How Mercedes Literally Redesigned The F1 Wheel Is Amazing

When people ask you why F1 cars are so expensive, show them this video. You are going to watch a fascinating engineering study that tells the story of how the Mercedes team quite literally redesigned...

Classic YouTube: Drifting A Suzuki Swift, One Way Or Another! Hooning A Beater Never Looked So Fun!

I have a weird respect for the Suzuki Swift and it’s USDM cousin, the Geo Metro. When they were being sold, I couldn’t make enough jokes about those cars…tiny hatchbacks always...

Under Pressure: The Story of Bill Lear’s Steam Powered Race Car That (Never) Ran The Indy 500

Bill Lear will go down as one of the most incredible inventors of the 20th century. The man who created the car radio, miniature tuning coils for radios, who invented auto-pilot, radio guidance for...

Faster Yet: Stevie Fast Jackson Talks About Being A Back To Back NHRA Pro Mod Champ – Loses 11lbs In The Process!

We live in an interesting time of racing history. There are lots of guys who have been groomed, trained, and educated as racing drivers, no matter the sport but they might not actually be...

Nitro Time Machine: Watch Jim White Bust The 290mph Barrier In Funny Car and Chat Up Steve Evans Behind The Scenes!

This right here is some prime-cut goodness for those hardcore NHRA fans of “back in the day”. One of the neatest parts of my job with NHRA is the fact that I have the keys to the massive...

Demonic Dyno Session: Watch Ryan Tuerck’s Judd V10 Touch 10,000 and 11,000 RPM On The Pump

There are pretty high stakes whenever an engine is put on the dyno for testing, right? No matter if it is a 350hp engine that you made yourself in the garage or whether it is some whiz-bang creation...

Hater Maker: This Stock Looking Beetle Is Subie Swapped And Makes 300+ Wheel Horsepower On The Dyno

There are few things that we love more around here than an honest to God sleeper and when you see something like this Beetle you know what those words mean. Yes, once the guy hammers the pedal it...

Nitro Time Machine: The End Of Eddie Hill’s Career In Top Fuel Came In Back To Back Monster Explosions – See Them Here

It was a very rough end to not only the 1999 season for Eddie Hill but his top fuel career which had spanned the decades. Two weeks in a row, the cast aluminum engine blocks his top fuel race motors...

Killer Coyote: Watch As A 315ci Ford Coyote Engine With A 3.8L Whipple Blower Makes 2,000+ HP On The Dyno

Chris Holbrook is known far and wide in drag racing circles as a guy who can build basically any combo of engine into a beastly class mangler. I have personally seen his work in a multitude of drag...

Spin Cycle FTW! Check Out This Collection Of AWD Donuts!

Up until the last couple of years, the only AWD vehicle that I had ever spent a good amount of time actually driving it was a black Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4. It belonged to an aunt, and every now and...

A Longer Long Block: The Hagerty Buick Straight Eight Gets A Head – One Step Closer

The saga of the Hagerty Buick Straight eight build is not over yet but it’s moving in that direction. This engine has been a protracted battle from the jump and the cool thing is that the...