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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Friday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Pre-War Perfection: Formula One Racing Action From The Monaco Historic Grand Prix

Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you...

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61: The Only Number You Need To Know About NHRA Pro Stock – Domination Is A Class Trademark

The last time the NHRA made wholesale changes to the pro stock division on the order of what they did coming into the 2016 season was 1982. Ditching a complex series of weight breaks based on engine...

Roadtrippin’: Here’s Why Always Taking The Scenic Route Is The Best Policy

(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – Recently, I got home from participating in this year’s Tour Nebraska event. If you haven’t seen my blogs on the event yet, it is a tour put on...

Long-Roofed, Patina’d, Wedge-Powered, Gear-Banging Goodness: This 1965 Plymouth Belvedere Wagon Rules!

To be fair, Chad saw it first and could not shut up about it, and rightfully so: he told me that I had to hunt down this rough-looking Mopar wagon running in Nostalgia Super Stock at Indy....

Autopsy: Team Big Red Camaro Has Determined The Cause Of The Fire That Has Sidelined The Car

By now you have likely heard about the huge fire that the iconic Big Red Camaro suffered during preparations for the car to compete at Pikes Peak. The good news is that the team has determined the...

This jet engine on a test stand makes an (un)expected exit stage left

We’ve shown you near-catastrophes here with turbine engines before on BangShift, including some chaps who nearly let one get away from their makeshift test stand on a forklift pallet. However, not...

No Prep? No Problem! Watch Andy Reynolds Put His Malibu Wagon On The Bumper At Ozark Raceway Park

Many BangShifters out there may be familiar with Andy Reynolds and his awesome red Malibu station wagon. Andy has done drag week with the car, races the wheels off of it, and has a reputation of not...

Gympkhana: The Car Bros Are Back With A #Viral Car #Action Video

We’re big fans of the Car Bros YouTube channel around here and when they release a new video we are always excited to see it. This time they have released Gympkhana, their funny take on the...

Radical Overkill Is The Best Kind: Watch As Dirt Every Day Turns This Ford Crew Cab Into A Monster!

Rockcrawling is usually the territory of small, nimble rigs that have great suspension articulation, gearing for days, and enough suspension flex to make a Baja racer jealous. they don’t...

Pro Street Perfected: This 1956 Chevy Survived The 1990s And Aged Beautifully – Awesome

Gold star tipster of the day award goes to Austin Stephens for sending us this link to this thundering heap of magnificence below. The pro street 1956 Chevy is so awesome we’re not sure what to...

Is This “Strange Camaro Week”?! Check Out This 1968 Camaro Custom Build – Front-Flip Hood And A Chopped Roof!

Tony Sestito’s purple-people-eater Camaro/TrailBlazer hybrid from yesterday was just horrifying. The plum-colored paint, the kit bashed appearance, and the questionable V8 under the hood all...

Watch As Friends And Fellow Racers Pay Tribute To One Of Their Own At Shakespeare County Raceway

You often hear and see racers talk about people they know at the track as “a family”. We do it all the time here as well, but what does that mean to you? Are you just used to seeing...

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Watch a stuntman ghost-ride his whip at an Expert level in front of thousands at Goodwood

There are about 8,000,000 things I want to post from last weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed across the pond in Sussex. The always-badass Beast of Turin was there, as were most of the...

Unhinged: Why Losing Top Gear USA Royally Sucks.

I read Rutledge Wood’s post on Facebook yesterday as my wife and I were out shopping for electrical equipment for our garage, and immediately my stomach turned sour. As Brian told you guys...

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Romain Dumas wins Pikes Peak hillclimb a week after winning Le Mans; watch his historic run here

Fresh off his share of a surprising and dramatic 24 Hours of Le Mans victory with Porsche, French driver Romain Dumas jumped from a Denver-bound jet almost directly into his highly modified Norma M20...