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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 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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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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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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Watch Two Texas Small Tire Street Brawler Novas Go Into Bumper Scraping Wheelstands Side by Side!

This may be an old video but wow is it cool! North Star Dragway in Denton, Texas is known around the country as a fast strip with great hook. It is also known as a place where no time grudge racing...

Fantastic Vintage Drag Video: 1960s Footage From Atco And Englishtown!

Atco Raceway and Englishtown Raceway Park are two of the quickest, fastest, and longest standing drag plants on the east coast. This awesome video, compiled by someone as a tribute to their deceased...

All-Steel, Stock Glass, And 3,000 Horsepower: This Shovel-Nosed Second Gen Camaro Is Dream-Worthy!

I promised no more Mopars for a week, weird or otherwise, and I fully intend to make good on that deal. Even the Internet, which has spent the last week messing with yours truly, has agreed to be a...

This Time-Lapse Video Featuring The Rebuild Of A Ford Flathead V8 Engine Is Awesome

The Ford Flathead V8 is one of the most iconic engines in the history of the automobile. It brought more power to more people than any other engine and it did so as reliably as any engine of its day,...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Tesla’s Knockout And The U.K.’s New Five-O!

Ah, summer…our busy season and when we aren’t busy, the time of the year where sitting at the desk becomes that much harder. There are races to spectate, announce and participate in,...

Would You Rather: Beat-On Vintage European Wagons Projects for A Grand

Sometimes when you’re poking around CraigsList ads for masochist-level nightmare projects, you stumble upon a perfect pairing of hellacious vehicles. While perusing the local Chicago ads for beater...

Question Of The Day: What’s Been Your Worst “Was That A Cop?!” Moment?

It’s almost a rite of passage. It’s a good day…you’ve got the windows down, the music has been great, and what better way to cap off a wonderful day than by stepping your big...

Take A Ride In A 1991 Acura NSX That Is (Just About) Stock – Tires And Brake Pads Are The Only Replaced Items!

It would be easy enough to say that the Acura NSX was approved by Formula 1 great Aryton Senna, but that isn’t factual. Senna didn’t just approve it, he was instrumental in testing and...

Morning Symphony: A Solid Hour Of Australian Cruising From Gazzanats!

Australia. Land of unique animals, vast empty areas, an entire state where there is effectively no speed limit (as we Yanks understand it, anyways) and some of the most stringent, panic-driven...

American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ripping Gears And Flying Up A Hillclimb In A 500hp Open Cockpit Racer

While the Goodwood Historics are a celebration of racing history and technological advancement, they are not some sort of hamburger cruise up a hill. Nope, the racers and the cars all get driven like...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Coolest Rare Factory High Performance Option?

Over the years there have been some really cool factory options available for high performance cars. From the W27 aluminum center section Olds axle below, to the vacuum operated exhaust cutouts...

This 1980 Dodge Mirada Is Somewhere Between Street-Fighter And Strip-Ready, And Is Proof That eBay Is Evil.

Ok, this is getting out of hand. First, a one-year-only Road Runner. Next, a straight-axle Dart that was so funky and unexpected that I sat there, staring at it, both horrified and intrigued....

Dave McClelland To Be Inducted Into Motorsports Hall of Fame Of America June 29th – Awesome!

The voice that defined the NHRA for generations and did so much more is finally getting the honor he is due. Dave McClelland will be inducted into the Motorsports Hall Of Fame of America on June...

To Shock And Protect: The LAPD Will Use 100 BMW i3 EVs In Their Fleet!

Iconic police cars used by the Los Angeles Police Department: Dodge Polara. Plymouth Fury. Dodge Diplomat. Ford Crown Victoria. Chevrolet Caprice. AMC Matador. Dodge Charger. Chevrolet Suburban....