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Drag Challenge Weekend 2019 Is On And Here’s The First Video From The Event!

Drag Challenge is Australia’s version of Drag Week and here is the Weekend Edition for 2019. Drag Challenge Weekend officially kicked off today with registration, check-in, and tech and racing...

Best of 2018: Rocky Mountain Raceways’ Night Of Fire – Lighting The Candles One Last Time, Part Two

(Note: The Night of Fire event at Rocky Mountain Raceways was supposed to be a streamed event, but due to technical difficulties that didn’t happen. Instead, we shot galleries of the final...

Rocky Mountain Raceway’s Night Of Fire 2018: A Photographic View Of A Final Bash

The sad truth is that the Night of Fire event at Rocky Mountain Raceway in Salt Lake City, Utah is that it’s a farewell blowout. After the 2018 season ends, so does Rocky Mountain Raceways. A...

The Fastest Car At Race Week Was Almost DQ’d! Watch The Video Here!

Rocky Mountain Race Week has been a battle royale all week long, and the heavy hitters have had to fight breakage, weather, and changing track conditions. But there is way more going on than just...

Watch John Puckett’s Drag Week and Race Week Surviving 900hp Coyote Mercury Clean Up At No Prep!

John Puckett’s Mercury Capri is one of our favorite hardcore street cars because the guy built the thing to be as reliable as an anvil and he also built it to beat the daylights out of it. A...

SEMA 2016: Chevrolet Actually Asked Us To Flog Their Cars At Spring Mountain Motorsports Park And Tell You How They Did!

If the SEMA coverage so far makes it sound like Lohnes and I had one hell of a week…well, we did. SEMA wasn’t even the start of our week…Lohnes was at Las Vegas Motor Speedway,...

Bowen, Litton, Turner Take IHRA Mopar Rocky Mountain Nationals – Wild Photo Sequence Inside

(Photos by Big Bob Snyder – Words by IHRA Communications and Darr Hawthorne)   Shawn Bowen, driving his “Violator” nitro funny car captured the AMSOIL Nitro Funny Car title at...

Sunday Eliminations Begin At IHRA Mopar Rocky Mountain Nationals Edmonton!

(Photos by Big Bob Snyder – Words courtesy of IHRA Communications)   With just two points races remaining in the 2016 IHRA Drag Racing season, Jason Rupert increased his points lead with...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week, It’s About Zombie Cars And Crappy Roads!

The fun that was Rocky Mountain Race Week is over. The awards were handed out and the cars and drivers are heading back home. It’s been a lot of fun tracking the amount of shattered parts and...

Scrapple, Your Guide For The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Gassy Explorers, Shocking Volkswagens and More!

I thought this was summer? In the last three days, BangShift Mid-West HQ has received at least five inches of rain, quite possibly more, and at the rate we are going, I might start filling the...

Firebird Raceway’s 46th NAPA Ignitor Features Top Heritage Series Nitro Funny Cars!

(Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Mike Burghardt, Jeff Burghardt and Darr Hawthorne) Its back to the strip again for the oldest major event in the Pacific Northwest, the 46th edition of the...

One Unique Pro Street Machine, And It’s For Sale Cheap! Someone Buy This For Race Week

When Mike Powers sent me the link to this one, I knew it was going to be good. Whoever buys this will certainly get seen, and will be the only guy on their block driving one, because how many...

SEMA Alert: The EPA Is Actively Trying To Kill Racing – Trying To Ban Converting Street Cars Into Race Cars

We don’t delve into politics here unless it is something that directly has an impact on the lives of our readers and no matter what color state you live in or what side of the aisle you support...

California Drag Racers Sweep Division 7 NHRA LODRS At Sonoma

Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt Words by NHRA Field Marketing   Seven California racers took home wins from the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series presented by Korbel at Sonoma Raceway over the...