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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Saturday $50,000 Big Money Race #2

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Mod, Mountain Motor Pro Stock, Top Fuel, And More! Pro Eliminations From Darana National Trail Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The Spring GALOT 250 Bracket Race Is On With $20,000 To Win Saturday, Plus A $5,000 Shootout!

Dan Fletcher entered the promotion game a couple of years ago, putting on the Fall GALOT 250. Last year he got the Spring Galot 250 going as well! This event is a single entry event, limited to 250...

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IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing LIVE: The Paris Grand Prix Hits Texas With Big Power, Big Noise, and Cool Boats! Saturday Qualifying

I love drag boat racing, and this weekend kicks off the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing series at Lake Crook in Paris Texas. I’ve been to this lake once before, to livestream drag boat...

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The Mickey Thompson Turn And Burn: 6 Second Passes, 200 mph Cars, And Plenty of Carnage Already.

Alex and Nick Taylor, along with a bunch of other sicko drag and drive folks, are in Norwalk Ohio of the Mickey Thompson Tires Turn and Burn. This is the inaugural event, and it is the kind of drag...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Our Final Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 5th, and final, gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Ultimate Racing D*** Move?

Here’s something I actually expected to be doing: writing another piece on Moto2 rider Romano Fenati and his abhorrent sportsmanship actions during competition. Back in 2015, Fenati and Niklas...

To The Ski Lift In Style! Who Wants A Cadillac On A Snowcat Chassis?

Sitting in my backyard, making sure that my lawn doesn’t suddenly blow away in the breeze, is the 1980 Cadillac limo that has a date with destiny during the winter months at NCM Motorsports...

Morning Symphony: This Jaguar’s Straight-Six Scream Is A Much-Needed Palate Cleanser!

For the better part of a week now, the only two soundtracks I’ve been hearing involves all sorts of rock music from satellite radio…no shock there…and the booming noises that...

Holley LS Fest 2018: Sorry, Mr. Weatherman, But You Were Wrong And We Had A Ball!

The forecast for the weekend of the Holley LS Fest was simple: doom and gloom, with a chance of flooding. If you trusted the weather reports as they came in, LS Fest was going to be a no-go the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The First Car Or Truck You Can Remember Seeing That Stopped You In Your Tracks?

The reason this question came to my mind was because of the yellow Mustang posted above. Not one like it, not a copy, THAT car. I saw it at a cruise night recently and it transported me back to a...

This 1963 Pontiac Grand Prix Is The Cure For The Common GTO – A Big, Clean, Car!

So truth be told, I’m kind of shopping these days. Not ready to buy yet, but I’m peeking seriously at stuff to find something to stick in the garage at the new house. I have divested...

50th Cobra Jet Reunion: The History, The Cars, The Horsepower, and The People Were At Norwalk

(Photos by Joe Grippo) –  More photos of cool and historic Cobra Jet powered Fords from the massive 50th Cobra Jet Reunion a couple of weeks ago. Joe Grippo was in his glory both racing his...

AutoMeter Video: The Install of AutoMeter Extreme Environment Gauges In A Dirt Late Model Is Cool

We have been talking at you about the importance of proper instruments in your street and race car since, oh, the second day BangShift existed we think. This video which highlights the install of...

Watch Hot Rod Drag Week Here: 2018 Live Streaming Coverage Starting From Atlanta Today

It is that time of the year again, time to tune in and watch some of the most interesting, weird, wild, and fast street legal cars in the world compete at four tracks in five days and pound pavement...

Thirteen Years After: Photos, Personal Memories, And Botched Coverage Of Drag Week 2005 – How That Event Led To BangShift Existing

Some mistakes you can never escape and this is one of them. For whatever reason, while I was on the road covering Hot Rod Drag Week in 2005 for CompetitonPlus.com, I got hung up on the idea that...

Quaint Old Video: This Look Back At The 2006 Pump Gas Drags Seems Appropriate Today

As you are reading this, Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2018 has kicked off and more than 400 of the most awesome and fast street cars from all over the world are at Atlanta Dragway. Before Drag Week...

Holley LS Fest 2018: The Chevy High Noon Shootout – Winner Take All!

There is never a hurting for autocross action at LS Fest…the oval track at Beech Bend is usually open for business so long as it’s not time for drifting or the burnout contest. But leave...

Morning Symphony: The One And Only Porsche 961, The Factory Race 959!

In the late 1980s, two cars had truly earned their way onto posters, Trapper Keepers, and the imaginations of young and old: the Porsche 959 and the Ferrari F40. The Ferrari was, in the loosest terms...

This Amazingly Cool Video From Nick Ziter Gives You A Fistful Of Awesome From Bonneville Speed Week

This video is Part 1 of Nick Ziter Photography’s GoPro Bonneville Speed Week Video. It captures the emotion, the soul, and some of the essence that is Bonneville Speed Week through really cool...