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IHRA F1 Powerboats Livestream: Round 3 From The Red River Rumble F1 Powerboat Showdown – Saturday and Sunday

Boat racing is on! If you aren’t familiar with F1 boat racing, you’re in for a treat. This is side by side racing, “door handle to door handle” so to speak, and these drivers are giving it...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 In Car Video! Watch The 500 LIVE From In The Cars AND Watch Practice and Qualifying Below As Well!

It’s time for the Indy 500! We have livestreaming video from Indianapolis Motor Speedway right here, plus tons of video from the weeks leading up to the race. Check it all out right here! THE...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Sunday $20,000 Race LIVE! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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Rough Start: This 1996 Corvette Is The Perfect Do-It-All Low-Buck Buy!

I have friends who question why I’ve always owned and maintained two cars since 2005. The answer is very simple: I want one daily driver and one toy, and may the roles of those two cars never...

This Is Gonna Hurt: Dirt Bikes And Damage Aplenty From All

Thanks to Jeremy George, I got to hear a noise that I haven’t heard a lot of in twenty years: the sounds of a Yamaha two-stroke at full chat. It was a sound that I used to love, but in 1998...

This Cold Vulcanizing Tire Repair Kit Is Pretty Awesome For Hard Core Off-Road Enthusiasts

Now THIS is pretty wild. The guys at Busted Knuckle recently featured a cold vulcanizing rubber tire repair kit that is nothing like we have ever seen before. This product is designed to repair big...

Flying Brick Compilation: Celebrating Badass Volvo Rally Machines!

The Volvo 200-series was never meant to be a sporting car of any sort. That just wasn’t the Volvo way. They were meant to be safe. The 240 series was, essentially, two-thirds of the Volvo...

Two Thousand Horsepower And Tons Of Beauty: This Impala SS Is A Beast!

If there is nothing I love more, it’s a race car that you don’t see many of every day. Yes, you see Camaros, Mustangs, Vegas, AMXs and other typical finds for a reason: the recipe works...

Historic Drag Video: Take A Trip Back In Time With This Color Film From The 1958 NHRA US Nationals

This is one of the best weeks in the entire sport of drag racing. Know why? Because Indy and the YellowBullet Nationals are next week. That doesn’t make sense? Of course it does. EVERYONE in...

Nostalgia Drags Action Photos: The 2018 Glory Days Drags At Maple Grove Raceway Were A Blast

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – While we love the world of nostalgia drag racing, there is something to be said for a nostalgia race held at a track with legit history. Maple Grove Raceway is one of...

Harley-Davidson Shows Off New 2019 FXDR 114 Power Cruiser – This One Got Our Attention

I’ve never owned a motorcycle and I have only ever ridden them very sparingly. I can’t say that many bikes have tripped my trigger enough to go, “Wait…what’s...

Slogging Through The Slop Video: This 1966 Army Film Shows The Difference Tires Make In The Muck

There are some things in this mechanical world that we take for granted and just kind of know. One of them is that skinny tires on a heavy truck in the mud is not exactly the best way to make...

Watch The Pro Stock Final Round Between Bob Glidden And Warren Johnson At The 1988 NHRA US Nationals

Well, we’re officially less than one week away from the best damned drag race of the year, the NHRA Chevrolet Performance US Nationals. I’m heading to Ohio this weekend for a little warm...

MAHLE Is Speed – World’s Fastest Nissan GT-R Relies On MAHLE PowerPak Plus Pistons!

(Photo by Epik Productions) – We often talk about the quality, variety, and engineering that all surround MAHLE Power Pak Plus pistons and that’s all well and good but at the end of the...

RacingJunk Find: This 2007 GMC C5500 Kodiak Monroe Conversion Truck Needs Nothing (But Larger Tires!)

If you are going to tow, you may as well tow in style, right? This is one way to do it and boy are we loving the whole program here. You are looking at a 2007 GMC C5500 Kodiak Monroe Conversion rig...

Morning Symphony: The Saleen S7-R – America’s Original Hypercar

“America’s Original Hypercar”? Really? I’ll stick with that statement. Look, Cobras and Corvettes and radical, winged Chrysler products nonwithstanding, a hypercar has to be...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Should Be Done About Sideshows?

The San Franscisco-Oakland Bay bridge is the last place on Earth I’d want to be ripping donuts in a twenty-year-old Mustang. Nevermind that nice drop to the water below, nevermind the hoards of...