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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Hot Rod Garage Debuts On The MotorTrend Channel – Watch The First Episode Here – Wrenching, Racing, Fun!

Finnegan and Freiburger are out with their new show called Hot Rod Garage which is a more traditional gearhead show like you’d watch on regular ol’ TV. This is NOT replacing Roadkill or...

Fire Breathing Monsters: This Documentary Style Look At NHRA Drag Racing From RED Digital Cinema Is Awesome

Red Digital Cinema makes some insanely awesome cameras and equipment. Chad and I have seen the RED guys at different events this year like the pre-season PRO Winter Warm Up nitro testing session that...

Breaking News: Follow A Dream Racing Team Debuts First 5th Generation Camaro Funny Car Body

It is funny how the cosmos works. At exactly 5:30pm Eastern Standard Time on this date 17 years ago, Jay Blake was involved in an industrial accident that took his sight, his sense of smell, his...

More RideTech Autocross Action From The 2014 Goodguys Nashville Nationals – Killer Kars Kornering Kones!

(Photos by RideTech/Big Mike) – Words are fun, as evidenced by the title of this blog entry, right? We’re back with another sweet, sweet gallery of action photos by our pals at RideTech...

The 1PugLife Guys Are Back With More Jumping Antics, Broken Arms, And Absolute Hilarity – Incredible Folding Landing Ramp!

Those hilarious and off-the-wall Canadians are back with their hockey gear clad jumping antics and this time there’s an air bag, a broken arm, and an incredible folding landing ramp. The airbag...

Check Out This Crazy Cool And Rare 1943 CMP Chevrolet C8A Military Heavy Machinery Truck We Found On eBay

This thing rules! According to the seller, and several references, this 1943 CMP Chevrolet C8A is called a ZL-1 and is one of just a few built. And, although it has been restored, it is all original...

Does Seeing A Restorable Or Hot Rod Worthy Muscle Car Turned Into A Dirt Track Racer Piss You Off?

While perusing Craigslist yesterday we found this 1970 Chevelle for sale that had been turned into a hobby stock or street stock dirt track car. Unfortunately we’ve seen things like this...

Petrolicious Video: Mark Lundquist Is A Chevy Man With Chevelles A-Plenty – A Cool Look At A Cool Guy

Mark Lundquist is a Chevy man. No doubt you have seen his byline in multiple magazines over the years as he has built some really, really cool Chevy projects. Mark lives in the middle of nowhere...

This Is Not A Roll Cage! Roll Bar vs. Roll Cage: We Show You What’s What.

Nothing is more annoying to me than being at a race or a show and hearing someone refer to their car as “caged up”, only to see that it is in fact sporting a ROLL BAR or some reasonable...

Michigan City Sends Street Outlaws Crew Packing – Crew Says Races Are Fake, Racers Disagree

An interesting story came out of Romulus, Michigan yesterday when city officials rescinded on and earlier agreement with the people behind the Street Outlaws TV show due to safety concerns that...

McLeod Racing Offers $10,000 To 100th Female Professional NHRA Category Winner – Very Cool Bonus!

Anticipation has been running high since Erica Enders-Stevens collected the 99th Wally ever awarded to a female professional racer by the National Hot Rod Association in Houston, Texas. The 100th win...

Fire And Thunder At Norwalk’s Cavalcade Of Stars – Race Report And Action Photos

(Photos by Bob Snyder -Words by Darr Hawthorne and NHRA Field Marketing) – The 8th Annual Mickey Mart Rewards Cavalcade of Stars, presented by Budweiser, was held at Summit Motorsports Park...

Leah Pritchett Returns To Topeka In Dote Racing Top Fueler

It’s always good to see more competitors in the NHRA Mello Yello Series and the tenacious dedication of racers like Leah Pritchett who grew up on the drag strip, with her first pass down a...

The 2014 F-100 Supernationals – Vintage Ford Trucks And Sweet Blue Oval Cars Invade Tennessee!

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – It was a busy weekend in the Southeast, with big shows in Nashville and Pigeon Forge, as well as the NHRA event in Atlanta. Tommy Lee Byrd spent the...