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Result for: Race Week 2.0

Best of 2018: Behind The Pit Wall For An American Endurance Racing Miata

Many decry the effects that social media has on culture today. Too many people see society as a whole developing a worsening ability to deal in person versus an online persona. Here’s the...

27th California Hot Rod Reunion – BANGShift’s Gypsy Delivers The Nitro Funny Car Odds!

(Photos by Dyan Lover, Mike Burghardt, Jeff Burghardt, Bob Snyder, Kim Fuller and Darr Hawthorne) – The end of this 2018 nitro funny car drag racing season comes to a close at the 27th...

BangShift Test Drive: 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL Unlimited Sport 4×4 – Rest Easy, It’s Still Every Part A Jeep!

When a manufacturer has a vehicle they make that is popular, sells, and has a fan base best described as “rabid”, approaching a new generation of the model becomes a harrowing experience...

Watch Stevie Fast Jackson Win The $50,000 Radial vs The World Prize At Lights Out 9 – His Path To Victory

It was Stevie Fast Jackson, driving the famed Shadow 2.0 Camaro who drove to the $50,000 grand prize at Lights Out 9 last weekend. That’s the short story. The longer story is shown below and it...

Watch Every Radial vs The World Eliminations Run From Lights Out 8 In This Rock ’em Sock ’em Video

(Video credit: CompetitionPlusTv YouTube channel) – We’ll be talking about Lights Out 9 all this week because the action at SGMP is set to begin tomorrow. To get you pumped up today,...

NHRA Nitro Spring Training In Phoenix Looks At Record-Setting 2018 Drag Racing Season!

(photos by Big Bob Snyder) The 2018 NHRA Mello Yello season has begun with completion of Pro Nitro Spring Training at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park over last weekend.  Many new cars, or maybe new...

Best of 2017: Watch The Wild Ride Stevie Fast Had At Lights Out 8 And Read His Statement As Well!

It was the highest of highs and some interesting lows for Stevie Fast, Phil Shuler, and the rest of the Shadow 2.0 team during Lights Out 8 last weekend. They were running a car that was virtually...

Best Of BS 2017: The Rustic Nail & Co. 1948 Dodge Is Renewed Art

Restoration is the art of returning something to it’s original state. “Restification” describes the art of restoring, namely applied to a vehicle, but adding modifications to either...

Redemption No Prep In Houston: Action And Pit Images Featuring The Small Tire Heroes At The 2017 NHRA Spring Nationals

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – When the NHRA announced that they would be having a select group of  Shannon Morgan’s Redemption No-Prep cars at the 2017 Spring Nationals at Royal Purple...

Barnstormin’: Of Demons, Drag Racing, And A Hype Machine That’s Captured The Nation

It has been a good long while since I’ve seen anything the likes of what Chrysler has drummed up with respect to the upcoming Challenger Demon model. The hype that has been created based on the...

“Stevie Fast” Jackson Entered To Compete In NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod Series For 2017 – Huge!

In what could be the biggest news of the NHRA off season and certainly the biggest news in the world of the J&A Service Pro Mod Series, “Stevie Fast” Jackson has committed to running...

Introducing Project De La Vega: A Chevy Performance LTG Powered Vega Rocket!

(Words by Kaleb Kelley, Photos by Tony Huntimer) We all know that Chad and Brian at BANGshift are not only purveyors of racing nostalgia, but also the lovers of all things weird. When David Carroll...

5.87! Jeff Lutz Resets All Time Street-Legal Quarter Mile Record – Cue Haters and Competitors

It happened yesterday at Orlando Speed World Dragway. Jeff Lutz punched his “Mad Max” Camaro down the quarter mile drag strip at the facility in 5.87 at a speed of 251.30mph. By doing...

A Boosted World: Global Turbocharger Sales Expected To Top $19-Billion By 2022

By the time my kids are old enough to drive, I will be telling them stories about how there was once a time when turbochargers were for exotic cars only and not for every freaking car on the road. We...