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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: THE WORLD SUPER PRO CHALLENGE AT MID MICHIGAN – $10,000 To Win Thursday!

It’s free drag racing time baby! Our friends at Drag Racer TV are bringing us free live streaming video all weekend from the World Super Pro Challenge at Mid Michigan Motorplex, and it starts today...

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NHRA Division 6 Divisional Drag Racing Livestream: Catch All The Racing Action LIVE From Woodburn

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 6! 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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2026 Pro Pulling League Tractor Pulling Action From The Elkhart County 4-H Fair – Pull Session 1 and 2

Pro Pulling League Bad Ass Multi-Engine tractors hauling big weight and going big distances baby! Four Pro-Mod engines worth of power right here! Plus Pro Stock, Diesel Trucks, and much more....

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From Home-Grown to Factory-Spec: Here Are Larry Chen’s Favorite Cars That Raced at Pikes Peak in 2026

Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb is one of the most famous, and longest running, races in the United States and with good reason. The first one was heald 110 years ago, in August of 1916 and...

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This Thing Isn’t Pretty! See What Dylan McCool Thinks About REVIVING This Abandoned Dodge Coronet V8 4 Speed They Call Cornbread

Sometimes the ugly ones get passed up when it comes to project cars, and sometimes those ugly ones are the ones that really matter in the end. They are sometimes the very best car to restore, even if...

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Alaska has some Unexpectedly FAST CARS! Alaska’s ONLY Dragstrip Puts On A Summer Street Car Shootout!

While Alaska may not have many drag strips, in fact jus this one at Alaska Raceway Park, what they lack in quantity they more than make up for in scenery. Everyone that has been there says it’s...

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V8 Chevrolet LUV vs Blown Chrysler V8-Powered Alfa Romeo GTV6 In Germany –

Straight from Hockenheimring’s drag strip in Germany, we bring you one of the more strange pairings we’ve seen. In the near lane is a mostly-typical V8 Chevrolet LUV build. A 400ci...

GM’s AGL-4 Was An Articulated, 4×4, Monster Corvair Truck That Should Have Been Built – Incredible Video Of The Beast In Action!

As you can imagine, I almost whizzed my shorts about fifteen times watching this amazing video of the little known GM AGL-4. This was a truck designed and built by the guys at GM to test the concept...

Best Tow Rig Ever? How About A Buick Roadmaster Wagon 4×4!

Earlier this month, I found myself wandering around Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park in Thompson CT while a bunch of crazies were flailing around the road course in $500 crapcans. During the day, I...

BUSTED: Ronnie Dale Pollard Arrested In Tulsa, Oklahoma – Goodman Still At Large

Ronnie Dale Pollard, one of two people wanted in connection to the now infamous break-in and robbery at Charlie Buck Racing Engines has been arrested by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Apparently the...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: And Why Do You Work Here, Again? Because I Just Did It All Myself.

There’s slacking, there’s lazy, and there is just plain old “useless”. The first two types of people can be dealt with while keeping them employed. That last type, however,...

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Bugs Bunny Lives, And He Made Track Officials At Bristol Look Like Jackasses – This Is Hilarious!

Quick, name one thing that a rabbit is known for. If you said anything related to swiftness, you’re right! Knowing that, how well do you think you would do catching one with just a metal bucket...

Classic YouTube: Michael Waltrip’s 1990 Crash At Bristol – Now You See It, Now You Don’t!

NASCAR is famous for two things, really: fistfights and crashes. Fisticuffs were the reason why NASCAR even got national attention, when a large snowed-in audience got to watch Bobby and Donnie...

MotorWeek’s Look Back At The AM General Hummer Makes You Wonder: Why Did People Buy These Things?

The list of vehicles that I wish hadn’t made it to production might be a bit long, but one name stands out as the most flawed publicly available vehicle ever. The engine selections were barely...

Russian Off-Roading, Where Drivers Hope Their Rigs Float As Well As They Do

Russian off-roading is, as far as I can tell, the boss level of mud running. We’ve seen just how bad conditions can get, especially in the Siberia area, where the roads turn into the...

1976 Road Runner Vs. C6 Corvette In Iceland: Does GM’s Supercar Stand Up To A Malaise Mopar?

Even with my love for Malaise Mopars, I’ll admit that slapping the Road Runner name onto the Plymouth Volaré was a bit cynical, but to be fair, they didn’t have much else to offer. The...

Turbo Pinto Vs. Coyote Mustang At The Eighth-Mile – We Know Which One We’d Take, What About You?

A V8 Pinto is nice, as many of you pointed out yesterday, but the second the car starts up  any chance of playing the sleeper card is shot. It’s not like a Mustang II…no Pinto came from...

ACED: AutoCross Every Day! Vintage Corvair Autocross Action Video!

Ralph Nader can stick it, this vintage Corvair autocross video shows they rule! Clearly a Corvair can handle, since we’ve seen several good ones over the past several years, but in the early...

Watch This Twin Turbo, Big Block Powered Brogie Roadster Rip 6-Second Elapsed Times In New Zealand – Beats Up On Funny Cars And All!

What’s that? You aren’t familiar with a “Brogie” roadster? No worries as the Brogie isn’t so much attached to a car company as it is a single guy who built these...

Watch The Most Violent, Flaming Diesel Engine Explosion We’ve Ever Seen – NEVER Stand Close To A Dyno

We have seen plenty of videos featuring diesel engines meeting an untimely end due to too much boost or too much rpm, or too much something else but this is the first time we have ever seen a Cummins...