Gravelrama 2015: Uphill Drags! A Race Where The Surface AND Gravity Are Working Against You
(Words and photos Doug Gregory) – The plan for this year’s Gravelrama was to cover as much of the uphill drags, flat drags, and the Big Eliminator as we could. As we were to find out there...
Classic Iron At The 2015 NSRA Nationals – The Stuff That Falls Between Muscle Cars And Hot Rods
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The hey-day of the big three designs were without a doubt in the 50s and 60s. It was a time when you could barely glance at a car and distinctly tell...
Shakedown At The Summit 2015: Here’s Our Final Load Of Killer Photos From The Race
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Well we have finally worked our way to the bottom the massive pile of photos that Mike Brooks shot while he was at the Shakedown at the Summit 2015. This race has...
Watch NASCAR Truck Series Racer Austin Theriault Suffer A Massive Wreck At Las Vegas – This Happened Last Night
Austin Theriault is one of the talented young drivers in the NASCAR truck series these days and the dude has a pretty interesting story. He grew up and honed his driving skills in northern Maine, a...
Land Speed Action Photos: More High Speed Images From The Ohio Mile September Meet
(Photos by David Whealon/DWPhotos.net) – Land speed racers are a very interesting lot. For the most part they do not get to ply their trade nearly as much as people who race stock cars or go...
Ebay Find: A Checker Marathon For Your Inner Hot Rodder And Taxi Driver
I never have understood anybody’s obsession with the Checker Marathon. Ok, the absolutely freaking huge Aerobus eight-door wagons are kind of cool, but the regular four-door Marathon taxi cars...
OUCH – This Audi Vs. Bentley Accident At The Blancpain Sprint Series Misano Race Is Cringeworthy!
That misty shot of dirt, debris, and scattering body panels is the result of the coming together of an Audi R8 and a Bentley during the Blancpain Sprint Series race at Misano. Coming out of a corner,...
This Hellcat Challenger Whips Up On The Unsuspecting At A VMAX200 Event In Europe!
Ranting, raving, and fawning over the Hellcats should be over…they are out and about, and hunting. Quarter mile times are known, top speeds are known. Done and done. What’s left?...
Tough Truck Racing! Check Out The High-Flying, Axle-Breaking Fun At Dennis Anderson’s Muddy Motorsports Park!
If it’s destined for the junkyard but runs, you might as well have some fun with the vehicle before it dies, right? That’s the theory behind some of the best low-buck racing you can find:...
Land Speed Coverage: Action Photos From The 2015 ECTA September Meet – Final Runs Of 2015
(Photos by David Whealon) – The final event of the 2015 ECTA season was a barn burner for sure. The place was jammed packed with more motorcycles and hot rods than anyone could remember, the...
Shakedown At The Summit 2015 Photo Bomb: More On Track Action From The Wild Norwalk Weekend
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – The negative Nancys of the world that think they know the sport of drag racing and don’t will be the first to tell you that there are no young people involved...
2015 NSRA Street Rod Nationals: Full, Fat, Flat, And Fondly Fendered Hot Rods
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Time for rods with fenders. Let me stop and tell you folks that haven’t been to this event a little about how difficult it is to determine what to take...
Gravelrama 2015 Coverage: Flat Dirt Drags Images from the Pits And Action On The Track
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – We’d never been to the flat drag portion of Gravelrama and we were really looking forward to it. 100 yards to the finish. Its odd watching a drag...
eBay Find: This Amazingly Preserved Set Of Four Firestone Bonneville Racing Tires Date To 1964!
It is not often that we run stories about old tires here at BangShift but this is a set of rubber that is unique, interesting, and is unused even though they were manufactured 51 years ago and...
