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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Friday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! 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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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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Pre-War Perfection: Formula One Racing Action From The Monaco Historic Grand Prix

Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you...

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York US30 Muscle Car Madness Coverage: More Stockers, Gassers, Vintage Pro Stocks, And More!

(PHOTOS BY JOE GRIPPO) – It is a kind of cool split to have this great collection of photos that look back into the history of drag racing while just last night the NHRA crowned all of its...

Wild Video: Watch This Sprint Car Crash And Hang From The Fence – Then Watch The Scary Way They Took It Down

This is one of the weirdest racing videos we have ever seen and it is weird in kind of a funny way at first and then a straight up scary way by the end. You are going to see driver Damion Gardner...

John Force Racing and Lucas Oil Team Up For The Future

Auto Club Raceway at Pomona was the place that John Force Racing announced a multi-year sponsorship with Lucas Oil Products. The announcement makes Lucas Oil the “Official Oil of John Force...

Tony Schumacher Nails Record 8th NHRA Top Fuel World Championship

Tony Schumacher grabbed a record eighth Top Fuel world championship title Saturday of the 50th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona and put away a giant half-million dollar...

NHRA Finals At Pomona – Jon Capps Insane Slow Motion Fire Video – Qualifying Photos, Header Flames, Track Records!

The NHRA World Finals have not always been held at historic Pomona Raceway, now called Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, but the event has always provided a showcase for the best in Professional and...

This Scratch Built, Laid Out, Aluminum Bodied Dually With Big Block Ford Power Is One Is The Neatest Rigs Ever (Video)

Craftsmanship is something we really admire here at BangShift and it takes on many forms. There are guys who can machine stuff from hunks of metal so beautiful that it nearly brings us to tears and...

Neat Old Video: The Six Wheeled Tyrell P34 in Action Circa 1976

Back in 1976 one of the weirdest and coolest professional race cars of all time, the Tyrell P34 Formula One car, was unveiled. Featuring six wheels instead of four, it looked like something that...

Dyno Video: Hello Boost, Bye Bye Head Gasket – Watch This Evo Turn Into A Lawn Sprinkler

Ah, the chassis dyno. It is a maker of heroes and a destroyer of egos. This footage is claimed to have come from Greece, a place where they apparently like to hot rod Mitsubishi Lancer Evolutions....

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Cool Old Press Photo: 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Sunliner

The big news from Ford in 1957 was the introduction of the Skyliner model in the Fairlane series. The Skyliner was the world’s first, and for a long time, only, mechanical retractable hard top....

Wild Video: 250cc SuperKarts Racing On The Road Course At The Isle Of Man

Ok, THIS is freaking nuts. We have to give credit to the crew at Motorsportretro.com for digging this video from the late 1980s or early 1990s up. What you are about to watch is  on kart video of...

Big Burnout Video: A Compound Turbo Cummins Powered 1955 Chevy Truck Boils the Hides For A Long Time

Boy, is this some mean rig or what?! A bright red 1955 Chevy truck that is packing a seriously worked over B-series Cummins engine under the hood that clearly makes plenty of torque and horsepower....

This 1957 Chevy Pro Mod Has A Small Block Chevy Engine And A Supercharger That Whines Like Nothing We Have Ever Heard

How much whine are we talking about here? When I played this video my wife and kids (who were all in another room) asked what in the world I was watching because the noise was so nasty. That’s...

Watch Champion Tractor Puller Larry Koester Suffer A Broken Wrist During A Violent Hook In His Shell-Rotella Mini-Rod Tractor

We’ve talked a lot at how wild and violent the little Mini-Rod tractors are when showing you pulling videos or photos. The super short wheelbase, the massive wheel speed, and the fact that they...

Nitro Under The Lights At Historic Pomona Raceway For NHRA Finals Friday Qualifying

With two qualifying rounds crowded into a busy Friday of the 50th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals at historic Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, Doug Kalitta raced to the lead in Top Fuel Friday evening....