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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 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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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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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! 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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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Want A Wheelie Weird 1961 Fairlane? This One Has Been Shortened, Rear-Motored, and Stands Up At Will

From the famed Hemi Under Glass to the Roadkill Stubby Bob truck, there is a fascination out there with building vehicles that pull wheelies. That fascination caught the eye of our own dedicated...

Meet The Beast! Burnout Legend Kranky Gives Hoonigan A Lesson In Tire Frying!

As we learned early on in BangShift’s existence with Burnout Mondays, if you think an Australian is down for taking the silver medal in the tire-frying competition, we have some very bad news...

Double-Standards? FCA Is Trying To Shut Down Mahindra’s Roxor UTV In The United States!

Here’s a case study that will be interesting to watch: is a more-or-less copy of the original variation of a vehicle enough of a threat to the manufacturer of the modern-day version that the...

Street Car Super Nationals V Gallery: Pro Mods, To The Lanes! Friday’s Qualifier For The 37 Big Hitters!

Keith Haney and those that help put the Mid-West Pro Mod series together have to be over the moon with the showing that went down in St. Louis this weekend. Thirty-seven big-tire monsters showed up...

Awesome Bill From Dawsonville Is Going To Run Road America! Bill Elliott Will Be At The Johnsonville 180!

Well, now! This might be some of the best news we’ve seen come out of NASCAR in a minute! Bill Elliott, the holder of the top speed record in NASCAR in that 1987 Thunderbird, the man who could...

Hard To Starboard: The Project Neighbor Crown Vic/Shelby Mustang Mashup Goes Drifting!

The most fun vehicles I’ve ever thrashed, or have been around during the thrashing, haven’t been sports cars, or muscle cars, or any kind of purpose-built machine. No…they have been...

Morning Symphony: Got Cummins? This Monster Of A Challenger Sure Does!

Diesel power works, folks. The engines do everything from farmers with the power to get things done to giving ocean-going workers the ability to cross the seas with ease. They are beastly and you...

Chaos in the Cornfield: Funny Car Chaos Takes Over Havana, Illinois!

(Words and Photos by Chris Graves/Funny Car Chaos) Funny Car Chaos charged into Central Illinois Dragway in Havana, IL on July 27th & 28th for the third of four events on the 2018 tour. After...

Check Out All These Great Rides From The NSRA East Nationals In York

We told you we had lots more photos to share. And if you have missed any of them, just click the link below to see all the galleries we’ve got from the show. We promise that there is not...

Street Car Super Nationals V Gallery: The Junior Dragsters And More Index Cars!

As I type these words, the big-boy dragsters are making their laps down Gateway Motorsports Park, rattling the bleachers and leaving Chad a very happy human. Watching the drivers launch down the...

Buy A Complete Working Racetrack For Just $320,000! Owosso Speedway Could Be Yours

Check this out! Owosso Speedway, a 3/8 Mile paved oval, is located on 40 acres in Michigan and is for sale for just $320,000. To us that seems like a really good deal for that many acres and a fully...

Rough Start: A Flamed 1984 Chevy Van Is Always A Good Idea!

It has been suggested that I should leave my comfort zones of vehicle hunting and dig through locations other than the deserts and the High Plains areas of the country, where the metal is awesome and...

Project Binky Is Back! Episode 18 Of The All Wheel Drive Classic Mini Build Is Here

I don’t know what it is about Project Binky, and the weirdo, awesome, freaks at Bad Obsession Motorsports, that gets me going, but they just do. All of them. The way this project has been...

BangShift Project Files: Ethyl XXII – This Stunning 1933 Ford Is Awake And Alive!

Sometimes you just have to walk away from the garage and projects for a while to collect your head. You lose interest, you find yourself frustrated, angry, or depressed at what you are working on and...