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IHRA Triple Crown Eliminations LIVE: Teams Hit IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway For IHRA’s Triple Creown Weekend!

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! We’ll have all the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- $100,000 SATURDAY!

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day TWO Drag and Drive Photos! Our Final Gallery of Day Two On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More!

Here’s our 2nd gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! 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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Free Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! 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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This 1976 Chrysler Newport Is A Winter Beater Dream! Just Add Studded Snow Tires And Go Drift-Bashing!

Why the hell is a steel-gray Chrysler Newport four-door on the front page of BangShift today? Easy: it’s freaking winter. That means that the “toy” is put up, and it’s time to...

Take A Look Behind The Scenes On A Drag Challenge Build: A 427ci Twin-Turbo Mill Meant For A Holden Clubsport!

Drag Challenge, Australia’s Drag Week clone, has taken off like wildfire, with massive amounts of success. What else would you expect in the land of burnout contests and long-distance skidding?...

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Mooneyes X-Mas Party And Drags Show Coverage Continues Right Here

We started our Mooneyes X-Mas Party and Drags coverage yesterday with a gallery of cool hot rods and customs from the show, and it continues on today. In fact, we’ll have galleries going up all...

Classic YouTube: A Look Back At The Early Years Of Monster Trucks! Bigfoot, USA-1, Awesome Kong, And More!

It seems long ago that monster trucks were something more than fiberglass and noise. Back when Bigfoot was without question a household name, but had other names following right behind: Awesome Kong....

This Guy Turned A Chevrolet Express Into An All-In-One Bug-Out Van That Can Carry His Dog, His Bike And A Place To Sleep!

Are you familiar with “toterhomes”…the all-in-one deal that packs a roadworthy house and a toy hauler into one unit? Usually they’re based on a semi-truck with the largest...

This List Of The Top Grossing Car Racing Movies From 1980-Present Has Some Suprises In It!

Car movies are an interesting deal because sometimes the good ones aren’t really that good. More car movies have lost money than made it but we have proof that some are literal cash cows. The...

An F1 Race Car Is Fast, But Can It Take On A Funny Car? Daniel Ricciardo Gave It A Shot!

A Formula One racer is a marvel of technology. A screaming engine that can rev fast and hard enough to make a superbike jealous combined with the forefront of tire technology, suspension geometry,...

Threads Of Infamy: The Most Hilarious, Maddening, Ponderous, And Off The Wall Automotive Message Board Threads Ever

(Credit to “research assistant” Nutting on this one as well) – The following message board threads rank the highest on a scale of wackiness that we wanted to put them all in once...

Can You Believe This Is The Clutch From A Formula 1 Car? F1 Stuff Is Tiny!

When we walked by the AP Racing booth here at PRI yesterday I was mesmerized by this little tiny carbon clutch displayed on a stand. When I looked at saw that this is in fact a clutch out of an F1...

PRI 2015: A Gallery Of Cars, Engines, Parts, And Machines From The Show Floor

From the insane engines at Wagler Competition Products, to the polished parts and pieces that can be found at so many displays at this show, PRI is jamming harder than it has since we can remember....

Can You Identify This Weird Old Engine We Found St Gates Salvage? We Couldn’t!

One of the more interesting things that Fitzgerald and I stumbled on (literally) at Gates Salvage was a car that wasn’t much of a left of car at all. Basically a set of frame rails, a cowl, a...

How The Rich Do It: Skeet Shooting From A Porsche 911 Targa With Trick Shot Philip Thorrold!

You remember Tax The Rich? The unknown drivers who treated the cars of the upper crust like a rented Chevrolet Impala…drifting them through the grass, fire burnouts, and a stunt involving a...

Watch These Immense Liebherr Cranes Put On A Demonstration Of Strength By Lifting Each Other

(By Greg Rourke) – The boys over at Liebherr must be a fun loving bunch of guys. You’d think they would be just a bunch of engineering nerds, busy designing some of the biggest equipment...

Classic YouTube: Barry Johnson Literally Flying A Subaru Rally Car At The 2007 Jim Clark Rally In Scotland

I know this footage well…shortly after getting internet in my living quarters during my deployment in 2007, this footage was sent to me by a friend who wrote, “if you drove rally cars,...