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Offshore Powerboat Racing Livestream: The IHRA Offshore Powerboat Series Thunder On Cocoa Beach – Sunday

The International Hot Rod Association’s Offshore Racing Series 2026 season is in Cocoa Beach today, and features big speed from giant offshore boats and more. You can watch all the Day 2 action...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Sunday $15,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Sunday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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This 1969 COPO Chevelle Is An Understated Badass! 427, Four-Speed, 4.10s Out Back!

Part of the beauty of the 1964-74 Musclecar Era was that manufacturers had started to embrace the idea that the buyer needed to be the one dictating options, not the factory. The first-generation...

Holley LS Fest 2018: The Crowds Never Noticed The Clouds Approaching!

Just about every one of the galleries from the 2018 Holley LS Fest have a mention about the weather, and for good cause…days before the show started the weather reports basically said,...

The Final Fox: Take A Look Back At The SVT “Terminator” Mustang Courtesy Of Motorweek!

In 1999, Ford found they had a two-sided problem: on one hand were the 320 horsepower Chevrolet Camaro Super Sport and Pontiac Trans Am WS6, two cars that were potent, faster than they had yet been,...

Rocky Mountain Raceway’s Night Of Fire: The Storm Before The Storm

If you tried tuning in to our live coverage for Rocky Mountain Raceway’s Night of Fire event, then let me be the first to apologize…again. After attempt after attempt at getting the...

An Aussie View Of Drag Week From Bristol – Get The Insight That They Had

With the allure of driving highly modified cars that haul the mail by the ton across the countryside with no hassle from the cops (so long as you don’t do stupid things along the way),...

Watch the Most Hellaciously Bad Ass Brake Test on Earth – Incredible Forces at Work

We saw lots of hot brakes and clamping forces at work during Hot Rod Drag Week, LS Fest, and the NHRA Dodge Nationals, but even the big binders on the pro touring and drag cars have nothing on the...

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Rough Start: This 1966 Mercury Comet Needs Some Road Time!

Did any of you have that one car in the neighborhood that was the coolest thing you’d ever seen, looked the part, but you grew up never seeing the car move so much as an inch? The tires would...

Footloose And Fancy-Free: Watch Bartosz Ostałowski Whip His Skyline Around Like Fred Astaire!

A Fred Astaire reference on BangShift…wow, that’s a reach. Or is it? You see, Astaire’s most well-remembered feature wasn’t his singing or his acting, but it was the way in...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Favorite Memory From A Track That’s Now Gone?

As I type this, I’m still coming to terms with the final blowout that I got to witness at Rocky Mountain Raceway as part of the Night of Fire weekend. I can’t explain just how pissed-off...

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...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Running From Diesels And Random Acts Of Airbags

Ok, you want the truth? I’ve been awake long enough to see double, after watching what I can only describe as the mother of all going-away parties went down in a location that is at least 50%...

This Diesel Is Amazing! This Might Be One Of Most Evil Diesel Drag Racers We’ve Ever Seen.

The guys at 1320 Video are amazing at catching all the fun stuff that goes down the dragstrip, but this one is a little bit unique compared to their norm. This crazy Wagler Duramax powered truck runs...

This Billet Aluminum Vent Canister System From Chassisworks Is Just What You Need!

Chris Alston’s Chassisworks has all kinds of cool products to help you build and maintain your hot rod, race car, or pro touring machine. One of the often overlooked areas of a build are proper...

The Most Modified Power Wheels Ever Goes Drifting On The Beach! Here’s How The Turbo Barbie Mustang Is Doing…

Yes, I know I’m fixated on the Barbie Mustang that the guys at Grind Hard Plumbing Co. have put together, but look at it…tell me you didn’t think of doing something like this...