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FREE LIVE NHRA Divisional Racing Action: Division 7 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At Firebird Raceway – Saturday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock...

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More Radial vs The World Qualifying From Lights Out 17 at South Georgia Motorsports Park

If you haven’t been watching the livestream here everyday, you might have missed RVW qualifying from yesterday so here’s a highlight video you can check out to see all the action and...

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Like A Good Neighbor, Finnegan Is There. Check Out The Two Day Roll Bar Install That Finnegan And Joe Are Doing In This Chevy II.

If you are going to go quicker than 11.50 seconds in the quarter mile, and you are doing that in a classic car, then you are going to need a roll bar in that car. If you have one, you can then go as...

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Add Sensors Without Cutting Your Harness! The Holley EFI Power Tap Explained. Technology Is A Wonderful Thing!

Sometimes it boggles my mind when folks start cutting and hacking and rigging up electrical systems in their projects, only to find out that the solution to their problem or dilemma was right in...

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Look at All This Carnage! Cleetus McFarland’s Limo Engine Get’s Pulled Apart At Harrell Engine and Dyno, Plus Mechanical Fuel Inject Tech!

I’ve never known anyone that broke more stuff than Cleetus. He’s got a special talent for flinging the rods out of stuff, and I’m not even talking about the stuff he breaks on...

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This Is Italy’s ONLY Indy 500 Winning Car: The 1938 Maserati 8CTF takes on the Goodwood Revival.

With all of Italy’s accomplishments in motorsports, it is kind of hard to believe that the only italian car ever to win the Indy 500 is this 1938 Maserati. I guess it kind of makes sense since...

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This 1973 Pontiac GTO Is So Damn Perfect, It Hurts! 455, Four-Speed, And Black? YES PLEASE!

“The patron saint of automotive lost causes.” Brian Lohnes once wrote that about me, because my taste in cars is at the fringe edge of acceptable on a good day. It’s not that I...

Caption This: This Amatuer Photographer Captured The First Spy Shot Of Honda’s New Monorail!

I’ve had the privilege of living in places that have unbelievably gorgeous views over my years on Earth. I’ve lived in the high deserts of Arizona and got treated to the colorful Mogollon...

Huge News: TruStart System To Be Used At Spring Fling Million – May Change Bracket Racing Forever

The Compulink Timing System Company along with the Spring Fling Million have teamed up and the result is something that could forever change the landscape of sportsman drag racing. Called TruStart,...

NHRA Announces NHRA All-Access Streaming Service From National Events – Subscription Service

One of the lingering questions that has been floating since the NHRA announced the vastly improved television package on FOX and FOX Sports 1 has been the availability of live streaming video from...

Big Unsubstantiated Rumor: Mike Dunn IHRA President?

(Photo credit: ESPN.com) – Normally the rumor mill is nor our jam but since we have had this one boomerang back to us multiple times in the last two days from some guys who typically know...

REPLAY: King Of The Hammers Off-Road Racing. More Ultra4 Action Than You Can Stand

It’s Hammer Time! Okay, I couldn’t resist. It’s time for the annual off road fest called King of the Hammers in Johnson Valley California, and not only will we be there grabbing...

More Fresh Photos From The 2016 Grand National Roadster Show: Drag Cars, Caddies, Roadsters, More

As I have been saying for the last couple Grand National Roadster Show blogs, it ain’t just roadsters at the Fairplex during the show. This gallery of photos is total proof of that as it is...

Steve Torrence And Jack Beckman Quickest in NHRA Nitro Spring Training!

(Photo Credit:NHRA) – The NHRA has dubbed it NHRA Nitro Spring Training and we’re dubbing it the prelude to the Winters but whatever you want to call it, every nitro team worth their...

GM Just Opened Up The Baddest Engine Building Center On Planet Earth – Powertrain Performance and Racing Center

So GM has just opened up the Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory of Horsepower in Pontiac, Michigan. We’re not kidding when we say that this is likely the baddest performance and race engine...

AutoMeter Introduces The Tachs Season Rebate! Money Back For Buying A Tach

At a recent media trade conference, we had dinner with some high level executives from AutoMeter and do you know what we learned? We learned that they speak of gauges and only of gauges. That’s...

This Video Claims To Count Down The 8 Races That Shaped Motorsport – Do You Agree?

I’m a list guy, a countdown guy, a “numbered stuff” guy if you will. I cannot flip past a television show, video, or story that counts stuff up or down or presents a bunch of...

The Parting Shift: Ripping Gears In A Ten-Second Six-Speed Supercharged Challenger

Jay “Speedy” Orrand’s 2009 Dodge Challenger R/T is one bad mother. The namesake behind Speedy’s Garage and the creator and organizer of the ChallengerFest show in Bowling...

What Could Possibly Be Great About A Beater Chevy Cavalier? Let This Guy Show You!

Ryan Symancek came to light as a college kid who had the urge to drive rally cars. Not a bad plan to have…he’s been to New Zealand, driven a Lancia 037 ex-racer, and generally has enjoyed...

Ford Performance Is Taking The New Raptor To Best In The Desert Racing’s Factory Stock Class!

(Photos: Ford Motor Company) We’re loving the fact that Ford is putting their actual cars into racing. You have the Fiesta in touring car races, the Focus in rally and rallycross, the GT in...