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FREE LIVESTREAM: The IHRA New Orleans Powerboat Grand Prix LIVE Racing Action Starts Here!

The International Hot Rod Association’s Offshore Racing Series kicked off their 2026 season in St. Petersburg Florida a couple of weeks ago, and featured big speed from giant offshore boats and...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Division 2 Divisional Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing At South Georgia Motorsports Park – Sunday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 2! 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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Stinky Pinky 6 Debut! Disco Dean Karns NEW CAR Debut! FIRST HIT And It Runs 3.70! Now It’s Time To Race!

Last fall Disco Dean Karns crashed his awesome Pontiac Firebird Trans Am they called Stinky Pinky 5, and while Dean came out of it okay, the same could not be said for the poor Trans Am. This was an...

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Better Than a Bugatti? Here’s Why Jay Leno Paid Full Price for his 2026 Corvette ZR1X. How Bad Ass Is It Really?

Jay Leno has got some of the most awesome cars on the planet, as we’ve all seen parts of his collection over the years. And he’s wealthy enough to buy any car he could ever want, so it...

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Holley Swap Essentials: Holley’s Complete LS & LT Swap Kits for GM Cars & Trucks Make Installs A Sure Thing

It’s never been easier to LS or LT swap something, and there are a ton of companies making parts. Engine mounts, gotta be 100 companies making them. Headers, probably 100 as well. Brackets,...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: IHRA Outlaw Nitro Racing Series Action From Virginia Motorsports Park

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie Virginia, where racers are going to be battling...

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Only In Australia: A Mid-Engined Kei Truck Spinning Tires To No Tomorrow

The “bongo truck”…that’s not what it is actually called, but my nickname for these things. Marketed as a Ford, Mitsubishi, Kia, and a whole host of Middle East and Asian kit...

In Boat Footage From A V8 Superboat Crash – Hang Time, People Diving Out Of The Way, Crazy!

This is one of the few crash videos we’ve ever posted that made us actually curl up and brace for impact! V8 Superboat racing is no stranger to us here on BangShift. We’ve shown a ton of...

Barnstormin’: Of Dually Trucks, Drag Strips and Return Roads

As a fan, a writer, an announcer, or in any other light, drag racing has always been a sport about details to me. Some people get wound up in the macro element of things with the huge noise, smoke,...

Twin Turbo Camaro Does Huge Wheelstand: PLR 481X Power Wheelie Baby!

Any wheelstand is fun to watch, but power wheelies, the ones that start way down track when the car really starts putting down some suds are the ones that really show you just how bad-ass some rides...

It’s The 1990’s All Over Again! This Blown Pro Street 1978 Caprice Will Have Brian Doing Backflips!

When this sucker popped up on Craigslist I was pretty excited, but not nearly as excited as Brian is going to be when he sees it! Despite what the old car feature says, this Caprice does NOT have...

Watch Peugeot Build A Team And Three Trucks For The 2015 Dakar Rally, From Scratch

I can’t say I’m some big Peugeot fan, but I can tell you that I’m a big Dakar fan. So when I saw this cool video that was put together by Peugeot to show what they went through to...

When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Ramp Truck: This 1963 Chevy L60 Deserves That Chance!

Sometimes we find cool ramp trucks online that we just dream of owning. Other times we find a truck that is just begging to be made into a ramp truck, like this ultra cool 1963 Chevrolet L60....

Randy Pobst Provides Another Lesson For The Racer: Passing – When To Do It, What It Takes, And What You As The Driver Need To Provide

Passing…the art of proving to someone else on a racecourse that you are better than them. There are right ways to pass someone, and there are wrong ways to pass someone. Anyone who has ever...

More Aussie Racing! Top Sportsman Doorslammers From Sydney Dragway!

We’re back with more footage from Sydney Dragway, this time of the Top Sportsman class. There are many flavors of car in this class…some small tire, some huge tire, some that would border...

Watch As This Nissan GT-R’s Hood Blows Off At Over 180 Miles An Hour!

At about 150 miles an hour, aerodynamics become an integral part of racing rather than an secondary consideration. Downforce becomes very real (and your best friend) and anything that can act like an...

Caption This: Who Says You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too With This Lincoln Flatbed?

In the era of $70,000 pickup trucks that make the excesses of the 1970s land barges seem tame by comparison, we often find ourselves looking at Australian utes for the answer to a question we wished...

This 1971 AMC Gremlin Road Test Video Will Have You Chuckling For Sure

There are lots of cool old “Car and Track” videos out there that depict the 1960s-1970s automotive television show testing cars, going to the races, and generally being awesome but this...

Craigslist Hilarity: Ad For An LT1 Powered Pontiac Trans-Am Convertible Or Future Ex-Wife Is Awesome

This is one of those jaw dropping Craigslist ads that just makes you both smile and shake your head in sympathy with the poor guy who wrote it. Basically what we have here is a dude who is having to...

FAIL! Watch The Mad Maxx Mega Truck Fail At The Backflip

This was less than spectacular, and certainly not the way the driver of the Mad Maxx Mega Truck wanted this to go. It’s all wrong from the moment it hits the backflip ramp, and it only gets...