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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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The Way It Was: This Video Profile Of A 1950s Era Frank Kurtis Indy Car Is Awesome On Every Level

Tomorrow some of the world’s best drivers will get in some of the world’s best race cars and do something that men have been doing for more than 100 years. They are going to race. Like...

Best Overtake Ever? This Go-Kart Racer Leapfrogs His Competition At A Race In Canada!

There are some things you never, ever want to see in the middle of a go-kart race: an animal on the track you weren’t expecting. A solid, non-moving object, like a racer that spun out. A banana...

Rough Start: Someone Had Big Plans For This 1978 Chevrolet Malibu At One Point!

Clean, isn’t it? You’d suspect we found a bone-stock, 69,000 mile 1978 Chevrolet Malibu with the F41 suspension and ran with it, and normally, you’d be right: finding one of the...

Money Spent In All Of The Right Places: This 2JZ-Powered Datsun 260Z Is Loud, Fast And Capable, But Pretty It Ain’t!

If you are a purist hot rodder, then the basic premise of whatever you build should follow one mantra: speed first. How do you do that properly? Start with something that was thrown away or left for...

The Ultimate Camper? This 1994 Oshkosh M1070 HET Expandable Van Just Might Be It!

If you haven’t been paying attention around here, there has been a kind of competition between Brian and Chad over what constitutes the best recreational vehicle. We’ve seen it all, from...

Funnies and Fuel Altereds at Barona Drags – Worsham, Densham, & Lee in May 28th Epic Nitro Battle!

When Mello Yello nitro drag racers get some time off for the Memorial Day weekend, the last weekend off the NHRA circuit from now till July, instead of taking a break Del Worsham, Gary Densham...

Shop Tour: A Look At The Awesome Operation Inside Aerospace Components – Made In The USA!

Earlier this Spring we took an opportunity to spend a day with Kim and Al Kussy who are the founders and leadership at Aerospace Components in St. Petersburg, Florida. The company has been a massive...

Earl’s New Vapor Guard Hose Is Formulated To Handle Today’s Modern Fuels – No Permeation!

While people often have concerns about what modern fuels can do to the insides of a carburetor or fuel pump there is another aspect of modern fuels that seems to escape most people…literally....

Action Gallery: The NTPA/UPOC Pinetops 300 – Pro Pullers Square Off On A Dirt Road, Literally!

(Words and photos by David Whealon) –  Street racing has been around for decades in some of the most exotic and interesting places. Monaco, Long Beach, Ilse of Man and even nowadays the 405...

Drag Coverage: More Cool Cars and Great History From The Nostalgia Nationals At US60 Dragway In Kentucky!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Despite the threat of rain and unseasonably-cool temperatures lots of cars came out to play.  In this gallery we’re featuring older stuff from the car...

Ultimate Indy Debacle Video: The Kevin Cogan Wreck Before the Green Flag Dropped in 1982

Earlier we showed you some Indy 500 competitors spinning out their junk during the parade laps before the race started. That was comical, but this footage from the 1982 Indy 500 is downright wild....

Take a helmet-cam ride in a bike-powered sports racer up a Spanish hill climb course

Bike-engined hill climb cars are a bit of a European specialty with a number of companies like Wolf, Norma, and Osella producing what are essentially miniature Le Mans prototypes. With featherweight...

Craigslist Find of The Year! An Unrestored 1969 Hurst Olds Survivor – 13,000 Original Miles!

This is one of 913 1969 Hurst Olds models ever produced and it is a 13,000 original mile survivor that is now being sold on Craigslist. Restored versions of this car garner very large sums of money....

Here’s your BangShift guide to a motorsports-stuffed Memorial Day weekend

The biggest weekend in motorsports has arrived and the truly dedicated and/or insane racing fan can, if he or she desires, spend almost the entire weekend watching racing. As with any weekend from...