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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 Qualifying Is On! 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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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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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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Testing Video: Chaos SuperNationals Testing at Summit Motorsports Park. Funny Cars, Fuel Altereds, and More!

The Chaos Series has been going hot and heavy so far this season, and with lots more racing left there are a lot of teams out there battling it out for points. And the competition is getting tougher,...

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Two Minutes Of Non-Stop Flying Truck Destruction – The Magnum Opus Of Redneck Truck Jumping

A week or three ago, we showed you video of several basically stock trucks making huge leaps at Dennis Anderson’s off-road park. Well, the guys at Busted Knuckle video have outdone themselves...

Roadside Find: A Peculiar Pair Of Prime Pinto Cruising Wagon Examples

(By Greg Rourke) – I’ve been known to drive long distances for dumb things. Being a Foodie there is often a diner or dive bar as the destination. Recently in search of burgers I drove 30...

Want Some Different Heads On Your Small Block Ford? These Gurney Eagle Pieces Will Do The Trick!

If you are building a small block Ford engine and are looking for a way to stand out from the crowd, we think that this incredible set of Gurney Eagle heads may be just the ticket for you. Rare,...

This 1980s USHRA Compilation Will Rocket You Back To Your Childhood

Ok fine, if not all the way back to your childhood, at least about 30 years in the past. So my kids were off from school all last week and we did some fun stuff that I’ll be blogging about here...

Vintage Crash Testing Video: It Is A Darned Good Thing That They Don’t Build ‘Em Like They Used To

Crash testing has been an integral part of automotive design for decades. It was GM who developed their own crash dummies in the 1950s and then continued to advance the technology through today were...

2016 East Coast Indoor Nationals Coverage – Street Freaks, Hot Rods, Muscle, and More!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – For nearly 30 years the East Coast Indoor Nationals have provided great winter respite for car freaks, racers, and lovers of all things with wheels. The show is held...

Morning Symphony: Watch and Listen To A Pair Of Thundering Pro Nitrous Machines Run Side By Side 3.80s – Crank It Up!

When drag racing fans hear the names Travis Harvey and Shannon Jenkins announced as being on the starting line next to each other, they run to the fence to watch. Why? Jenkins is one of drag...

Ride Along In An AMA Grand National Ice Race – Sideways On Two Wheels!

The Grand National Ice Race in Michigan is one of the American Motorcyclist Association’s stand-alone events that tests rider and rig on the frozen surface of Lake Pontiac. Basic premise: take...

The Best Of World Rally Championship 2016 – These Drivers Are Completely Mental

World Rally Championship competition was as hot and heavy in 2016 as it has ever been. While Ford is the only name that fans of domestic cars would likely recognize in the series, that does not...

Aerospace Components Pro Eliminator and Pro Terminator Shifters – Nail The Gears With Style And Precision Quality

The world of sportsman drag racing is now one of surgical precision. Cars that are so refined and so well built that they can repeat run after run within a couple hundredths of a second or less. Know...

Late-Model Restomod: A 1989 GMC Jimmy With A Vortec 4.2 Inline-Six!

As much as modern engines have improved in the last twenty years, it is kind of surprising that we aren’t seeing more of what we are about to show you: in this case, forum member Tardis454...

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Best of 2016: Vintage 1970 Video From The Merrill Ice Drags Is Great!

We talk a lot about the Merrill Ice Drags which has been a Wisconsin institution since 1965 and that’s because they still personify the spirit of drag racing in its purest form. Maybe it sounds...

Best of 2016: Incredible Photos Of The Astro Spiral Jump During Testing With Video!

(Photos from Al Benker collection) – You are not going to find anything more awesome than the images we have below as provided to us by former Calspan welder and fabricator (and BS reader!) Al...

Hot Rod Hullabaloo 2016: Vintage Race Cars and Killer Stuff You’ll Love

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Last collection of photos from the 2016 Hullabaloo.  This isn’t a group of ‘the rest’ as sometimes is the case.  In here we’ve got some serious...