Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, FUNNY STUFF, Videos
Watch a Nitrous Pop Blow the Scoop Off of a Mustang Drag Race Car and Then Kill the Roof Camera!
As you know, we’re easily entertained around here, so when we saw this video of a Mustang suffering a nitrous backfire at Houston Motorsports Park we wanted to share it. While this certainly...
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...
Watch Denver Schutz’s High Speed March Meet Wall-Banger From the Top End – Wild Footage!
Denver Schutz’s high speed encounter with the wall at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield during the March Meet sure was scary. We ran a killer sequence of photos from the incident here on the blog,...
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...
Watch Spectators Set a Barbed Wire Booby Trap and Wreck a Baja Buggy at the SCORE San Felipe 250
In my conversations with Bill Caswell and a few other guys who have participated in desert races like the Baja 1000 and others, the subject of spectator booby traps has come up. Mostly they are...
Watch a Toyota Supra Explode and Turn the Strip at E-Town into a Hibachi Grill
While all the strips in the greater LA area may be shut down, the drag plants in New Jersey are awakening from their winter dormancy to the delight of drag racers from all over the New England and...
Watch a Russian Rally Team Survive One of the Worst Rally Wrecks Ever at WRC Mexico
There are wreck and then THERE ARE WRECKS. This one falls in the second category and displays just how toughly little rally cars are built. Russian rally driver Evgeny Novikov and his co-driver...
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...
Watch Lunatics Literally Rip the Motor Out of a VW Golf With a Tree – a Chain – and Violence
Time for some Friday afternoon video stupidity. This clip has been floating around for a little while but for sheer destructive goodness, it simply cannot be beat. Basically this is footage of a...
Awesome March Meet Video: Four Days of Madness – See All of 2012’s Thrills and Spills!
The killer media keeps flowing from the 2012 March Meet. This latest piece we were tipped off to was created by our friend Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian who is an awesome drag photog and video maven as well as...
Wild Photos and Video: A Log Impales a Mini-Van – Driver Miraculously Survives
Well this would certainly get your attention! A guy driving down the highway, minding his own business in Mississippi had the close call of a lifetime yesterday when a logging truck was involved in...
Watch the Crusher Camaro Hit the Strip and Run 10s!
Freiburger and Finnegan are at it again, this time with the well known Crusher Camaro. The Camaro has been a part of Hot Rod off and on since the mid 1990s when it was saved from being crushed at a...
Watch Some Crazy Swedes Go Nostalgia Drag Racing On Ice!
This is literally one of the coolest drag races we have ever seen! BangShift reader Arlid (who hails from Norway) tipped us off to this video from Sweden that features six minutes of action from what...
Awesome In Car Video of a Big Block Chevy Powered McLaren M6B Can Am Car Flying Around Laguna Seca
There are few eras in racing that we’re more sad that we missed than the golden age of Can-Am in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These were some of the most drop dead sexy full bodied race cars...