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Offshore Powerboat Racing Livestream: The IHRA Offshore Powerboat Series Thunder On Cocoa Beach – Sunday

The International Hot Rod Association’s Offshore Racing Series 2026 season is in Cocoa Beach today, and features big speed from giant offshore boats and more. You can watch all the Day 2 action...

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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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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Sunday $15,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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

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 – Sunday

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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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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Want The Hardest Dream Job Known To Man? Cruz Pedregon Needs A Crew Guy!

(Photo: PedregonRacing.com) – If you have dreamed about running away from home and joining the circus known as professional drag racing, here’s your shot. Cruz Pedregon is looking for a...

Watch An AMX Super Stocker Rip Off A 300-Foot Wheelie – No Sissy Sticks For This Guy!

Gharrett Ghezzi’s AMX super stocker is of the neatest cars I get to see in my announcing travels across the country. The thing is painted up in the factory AMC racing colors with that...

Tim Wilkerson Suffers Strange Crash During NHRA Kansas Nationals Eliminations

Tim Wilkerson was chewing his way through eliminations on Sunday at the NHRA Kansas nationals when disaster struck and he suffered one of the strangest funny car crashes we have ever seen. We were at...

Project Angry Grandpa: A Beautiful Day, An Open Racetrack, And No Reason To Hold Back

I needed an escape. There was no doubt about it…between work, the ongoing project that is BangShift Mid-West HQ (coming attraction: garage!), and weather that I wouldn’t wish on my worst...

James Hinchcliffe will start the 100th Indy 500 from pole just a year after a near-fatal accident at the track

Just a year after watching the Indianapolis 500 from a hospital bed, James Hinchcliffe has penned the first chapter of a fairy tale comeback story with by claiming the 2016 Indy 500 pole. He was the...

CraigsList: The World’s Nicest Chevette Scooter Is Up For Sale

There’s no point in sugar-coating this: The Chevette was a miserable car from a miserable era of American motoring. The 1973 gas shortage had sent automakers into a panic and Chevy had...

Somehow everybody survived this massive airborne Formula 3 wreck in Austria

If there’s anything to take away from this absolutely brutal crash in the European Formula 3 Championship last weekend, it’s that modern safety gear is entirely remarkable. Chinese driver Zhi...

Unhinged: Will Anything The Young Guns Do Ever Be Right In The Eyes Of The “True Gearhead”?

I have a hypothetical situation for you to think about. Don’t immediately answer it, just ponder it for a minute: At whatever meet up, or race, or show, or whatever you do that involves cars...

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Watch This Crazed USOMRA Mud Truck With Paddle Tires Cover A 200ft Dirt Course In 2.006 Seconds!

So to start, we know this is not a proper mud pit but a dirt drag course. That being said, it is still a freaking dirt drag course and this blown alky hemi powered mud dragster covers a 200ft...

Too Much At The Hit? Watch This Pontiac Firehawk Go Straight For The Sky!

Yanking the wheels at launch is one thing. Realizing that you no longer see the horizon…or the time displays at the end of the track…or trees…yeah, that might be just a step too...

Two rally cars crash into same section of woods, which promptly catches on fire

Fire is a racecar driver’s biggest fear and there are few things more frightening than the prospect of experiencing fire on a rally stage miles from any fire crew. That circumstance befell not one...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week, Sticky Cars And Flying Stars In Cars!

Another beautiful Spring week passes on, and another week of racing and automotive tomfoolery is occupying our time. Chad is doing the Livestreaming thing, Brian is doing his thing behind the...

Anybody Like An Old Tow Truck? This 1978 Ford C600 Wrecker Is Cab-Over Greatness!

It’s short, stronger than an ox, with classic lines and a shape that is wholly distinctive. With a big V8 (either an “FT” or a 385-series 370ci big block) hooked to a set of deep...

Flyin’ Brick: Watch This Jeep SRT-8 Show Supercars How It’s Done In The Half-Mile!

The only thing I wanted to see more than this Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8 punching through the air at 180 miles an hour was to have a microphone hidden inside of the Porsche 918 that was trailing along...