Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, RACING & ACTION, Videos
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...
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...
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...
Holy Smokes Video: Watch an Aussie Holden Monaro Unleash a Shuttle Launch Burnout
Normally when we talk about Australia and burnouts we’re talking about some lunatic frying the hides off the back of his blown street machine while busting out donuts and figure eights in a...