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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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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 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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Planes of Fame: A Look At The Awesome Machines Of The Chino Air Show

(Photos by Jeff and Mike Burghardt) – There may not be anything more patriotic around this time of the year as is a local historic airshow. The yearly Airshow at the Planes of Fame Air Museum...

How Do You Even….What The…..Clearly This Chevy Truck Was Attacked By A Monster Of Some Sort

We’re at a loss here. Typically we can look at some of the stuff we find on the IAAI.com site and do some armchair forensic work on to determine what happened. Mashed a telephone pole? Easy....

This Australian Couple Got So Annoyed With Their Dodge Journey They Had Someone Drive A Tank Over It (Video)

We have all had a car that we hated so much we wanted to see it crushed, right? Well as many of us as have had those feelings few, if any of us actually acted on them. The same cannot be said for an...

Trar-Rod: This 1977 Nova Has Big Tires, A Cage, Lots of Horsepower, And A Spoiler

BangShifter Rob Miller sent us this hot off the presses tip yesterday and we thought that you’d want to see it today. Why? This is one of the more interesting trars we have ever seen because it...

On The Inside: We Get A Look Behind The Scenes At WELD Racing – Wheel Heaven!

One of our absolute favorite things to do in the world is to visit the people that sponsor BangShift and see how they do what they do. In this case, some great timing meant that we were going to be...

The List! Here’s the 61 Drivers That Have Won An NHRA Pro Stock Race Listed In Order

(Vintage photos by Bob Boudreau) – I was pretty shocked and happily so at the response my recent story about the history of pro stock and the fact that only 61 people have ever won in the...

Rally Poland crushes cars and spirits with heartbreaking end to fan favorite’s chances

After three years of domination by Frenchman Sebastien Ogier and Volkswagen, the 2016 World Rally Championship has taken some incredibly dramatic twists and turns. Heartbreaking last-minute failures...

Rough Start: This 1983 Olds Cutlass Cruiser Is On It’s Way To Being Really Neat!

One of the strangest vehicles that ever came out of Oldsmobile, in my opinion anyways, was the 1979 Hurst/Olds Cutlass. Priced to the moon (it cost several thousand more than a more powerful and...

You can now watch full truck race weekends from Europe for free

If you’re a fan of truck racing but have been lamenting for years how difficult it is to follow big rig series like the European Truck Racing Series, you might just have hit paydirt. The ETRC has...

Watch And Listen To This Nitrous Huffing Big Block Make 1,750hp On The Dyno – Header Flames And All

When I was with my kids at the drag strip last weekend I was reveling in the chance to teach them stuff about the cars they were looking at. Lots of the stuff we take for granted understanding like a...

Outlaw Street Car Association’s Revenge At Beech Bend – Eighth Mile War In Kentucky!

From the moment the staging lanes were open at Beech Bend Raceway, the cars poured in, waiting for their crack at the Christmas Tree. This wasn’t a surprise…there was cash on the line....

Action Photos From The Orange Drag Strip Reunion – Throwing Down Old School In Massachusetts

(Photos by High Octane Images) – With a flag starter and a 330′ length course run on the landing strip at the small Sterling Airport in Sterling, Massachusetts the Orange Drag Strip Reunion...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The Box Store Return Policy, Found Elsewhere.

Comedian Rodney Carrington once said of a very well-known “box store” that tends to be rather sue-happy, “…they’ll take anything back. You could go back one year later:...

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What Would You Use This 1989 Ford C8000 To Run Over? This Thing’s Unreal!

If you’re going to go big, actually go big. Don’t just bolt on large tires to a pickup truck, go get a medium-duty and proudly prove to everyone around that you aren’t screwing...