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Our 2026 NHRA GatorNationals Action Photos Just Keep Coming: Funny Cars, Top Fuel, Door Cars, Pro Mod And More!

Here’s our last blast of photos from David Whealon, but we’ve got more galleries coming still! Use the link below to check out any of the photos you might have missed so far! (Photos by...

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TX2K26 Day 5 From The Texas Motorplex: The CRAZIEST TX2K ENDING Anyone Has Seen In YEARS! $36,000 To Win This Race

Here’s the Day 5 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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How Dangerous Is A 10hp Belt Grinder? The Fireball Tools 5HP Go Kart Belt Sander Is A Scary Machine Now!

The Fireball tools go-kart belt sander is something special, that’s for sure, and with 5 horsepower you’d think that it could hog away any material needed. And it does. But more power is...

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Painting Raised Letter Valve Covers Can Be A Pain, But When Done Right The Results Are Worth The Steps Taken

We’ve all owned a set of valve covers or a timing cover or some other automotive part that has raised letters on them. And sometimes they have a different color of paint on those raised...

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Nitro Video: FUEL ALTERED QUALIFYING FROM THE 2026 IHRA SEASON OPENER AT DARANA MOTORSPORTS PARK

We shared Funny Car action from the IHRA Season Opener at Darana Motorsports Park, formerly GALOT, yesterday and loved the IHRA Nitro action. Fuel Altereds are part of the Nitro show as well, along...

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TX2K26 Day 4 From The Texas Motorplex: The FASTEST Drag Pass in TX2K History & Leroy goes #1

Here’s the Day 4 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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Watch A Ratty Old Dodge Truck Completely Spit A Rear Axle Out From Under Itself During A Burnout

A lot of us joke that our junk is always on the verge of falling to pieces, but the fact is that there are a lot of cars on the road that are literally on the verge of falling to pieces. This old...

Great Gearhead History Video: Men Bet Their Lives On It – Packard Merlin Engines

If you like history, specifically history related to one of the greatest engines ever designed and built, the Rolls Royce Merlin this 20-minute film is not to be missed. While the boys at Rolls Royce...

Rough Start: Find Your Inner Adventurer In This 1978 Jeep Cherokee

Today’s Rough Start sent me to the state of Wyoming…which, due to population density, is another state that has only one Craigslist area. And because Wyoming has almost nobody in the state, they...

Death Defying Group B Rally Footage: Even The Co-Driver Thought They Were Cooked

If this video doesn’t make you cringe at minimum or wreck your undies at maximum you’re tougher than us. The footage comes from the early 1980s, the era of the Group B rally car, machines...

Dueling Nitrous Explosion Video: A Pair Of Pro Mods Both POP Their Scoops At Norwalk

When Jim Laurita and Dan Stevenson headed down the strip during qualifying at the 2014 Summit Racing NHRA Nationals last weekend, neither expected to kill their hood scoops during the lap. Funny...

Blow it Up Sunday: Pro Mod Clutch Destruction Like None Other

Pro Mod cars are evil. No really. Now they run as quick, or quicker, than Alcohol Funny Cars, which is basically what engine powers the blown and injected models. It’s insane that they run that...

The Places They Raced: An Abandoned Street Racing Haven

It is a straightaway to nowhere located off a bustling secondary road in Braintree, Massachsuetts. Ironically, it is now part of a nature reservation, but for several years in the 1960s and early...

Killer Historic Drag Video: Highlights From Arizona’s Beeline Dragway Circa The Early 1970s

With the recent announcement that Arizona’s Speedworld dragway would be closing down we couldn’t help but think about another dead Arizona strip that was once a hotbed of national level...

Screaming Video: Watch A 2.3L Turbo Ford Clip Nearly 10K On The Chassis Dyno In A Drag Car!

Job Spetter Jr has been tuning full tilt turbo and EFI engines for a long time. His name is very well known around drag racing circles and he’s both driven and tuned others to lot and lots of...

Burndown Video Battle: Which Is Better? WJ vs Geoffrion or Garlits vs Carbone? You Decide.

The other day we got a submission from my dad of a great YouTube video showing Warren Johnson and Scott Geoffrion in an epic burndown on the starting line at Houston during the 1994 Slick 50...

Train Derailment In Montana Dumps Three Boeing 737 Fuselages Into River

A train derailment is always a bad-news situation. But what happens when the derailment sends whole aircraft into a rushing river? One Montana Link Rail conductor will find out shortly, after a train...

Watch A NASCAR Crew Guy Change A Tire While The Rotor Literally Bursts Into Flames – Helmet Cam View

Ever since the Wood Brothers figured out decades ago that a drilled and organized crew could help them win races, NASCAR pit crews have become more and more specialized and athletic. These days, pro...

Gallery: A Collection Of Classic American Full Sized Cars From The BangShift Archives

(Photos from the BangShift Archive) – Call me an ugly American is you want but bigger is definitely better when it comes to may taste in cars. The humongous machines of the 1960s and 1970s...

Dyno Video: Watch A Wretchedly Overpowered Sand Car Lay Down 1300hp At The Tire With A TT 454ci Warhawk Mill!

Few vehicles on Earth have the power to weight ratio that modern sand cars have. These tube chassis wonders that were once mostly powered by stock or warmed up VW engines now sport turbocharged V8s...