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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Rough Start: Flip Nader The Bird In This 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza

For once, seeing a model of a car die just as it was becoming great wasn’t completely the fault of General Motors. Plenty of the blame had to be laid on the head of one Mr. Ralph Nader, who had...

PDRA Drag Wars Coverage From GALOT Motorsports Park: Doors Were Slammed And Horsepower Was Wrought

(Photos by David Whealon) – There are lots of people out there on social media who love to complain about drag racing. They beat the same, tired, idiotic drum that the sport peaked decades ago...

Morning Symphony: The Burnout Contest From LS Fest East 2018!

We brought you photographs from the burnout contest from LS Fest East 2018, but let’s face facts: no photograph is ever going to compare to seeing the madness in action while hearing the...

Howell EFI Announces Expanded TBI Kit Coverage – Fuel Inject All The Things!

Howell EFI Has long established itself as a premier place to go when making the switch from a carb to EFI. The company has diversified itself so many times and over such a large swath of engines...

Rough Start: This 1973 Chrysler New Yorker Is The Perfect Vessel To Cruise With!

I’ve recounted many times before the story of my cousin Vance, his 1973 Chrysler Newport, and how he used to take me on hell rides on side streets in Colorado Springs when I was a young kid. I...

Video: How Stevie Fast Jackson Won The 2018 NHRA US Nationals – An Amazingly Improbable Victory

It was ugly. It was worse than ugly. This was embarrassing. Stevie Fast Jackson was cruising toward his third DNQ in a row as part of the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Series. This was after building...

Turn 6, The Car Crusher: Some Of The Strongest Impacts From Sandown Raceway’s Infamous Corner

Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria is effectively two drag strips connected by a few corners. You’d think that for a road racer, that’d be heaven. Here’s the truth, though: when...

2018 PDRA Drag Wars Coverage: GALOT Motorsports Park Was Packed With The Fastest Doorslammers On Earth

(Photos by David Whealon) – The 2018 PDRA Drag Wars event is in the books and we have some fantastic photo coverage from the race to dazzle you with today. David Whealon was at GALOT...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Have Any Good Station Wagon Memories?

The timing was off, I guess. When it comes to discussions on who rode in what growing up as a kid, most people my age rode around in minivans or the early smaller SUVs of the early 1990s. Older than...

Jim Oberhofer released from Kalitta Motorsports – Veteran Crew Chief Departs Team With 5 Races Remaining In NHRA Season

In news that has taken the NHRA drag racing world by surprise, veteran Kalitta Motorsports crew chief Jim Oberhofer has been released from the team effective immediately. The crew chief role will be...

Reawakening The Dead: This Leyland P76 Is Brought Out Of A 35-Year Rest And Back To Life!

Let’s say you hit the proverbial lottery and find a barn find worth mentioning. The car has been down for many years, but from the looks of things, a quick wash and detail will take care of the...

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Texas Brought The Trucks – More C10s In The Park Photo Gallery Coverage!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re back with more Charles Wickam snaps from the 2018 C10s In The Park presented by Brothers Trucks. There were more than 850 entries into the event in...

Rocky Mountain Raceways’ Night Of Fire: Lighting The Candles One Last Time, Part One

It didn’t matter if they had two or two hundred jet cars on the property, it was very apparent what the crowd that had filtered into Rocky Mountain Raceway had come to see: jet cars. We had...

BangShift Drives: The 2018 Volkswagen Golf GTI Is The Perfect Mix Of Fun And Practicality

Earlier this year, I got chucked the keys to a 2018 Volkswagen Golf GTI by the fine people at VW and rather than just zip around town in it, we hit the highways and byways of New England to have some...