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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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Dwayne Klippert’s 1967 Camaro Is More Than Meets The Eye As Custom Meets Pro-Touring

Dwayne Klippert is yet another crazy Canadian that we have the pleasure of seeing at events all over the country. Along with pal Grant Reierson, who’s bitchin little Chevy II we featured last...

2015 Subaru WRX STi – We Drive The Best Dollars To Fun Ratio Car Known To Man

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – When I learned that there was a Subaru WRX floating around in the New England press fleet a couple weeks back, I made some calls and threats, and weepy begging type...

ChumpCar Race Report: Thunder Rolls and Lightning Strikes At Thunderhill Raceway’s Twin Seven Hour Races

(Words and Photos by Charlene Felton, ChumpStaffer) – The Optima Batteries ChumpCar World Series (www.chumpcar.com), stormed their way into Thunderhill Raceway Park located in Willows, CA just...

A Look Behind The Scenes At Roush-Yates Performance: Engines, Cars, Parts For Days

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – This week is kind of turning into “what Joe Grippo did on his Spring Vacation 2014” and that is OK with us because Joe did some sweet stuff during his time...

RacingJunk Find: Buy This Perfect Recreation Of The Six Wheeled Pat Clancey Special Indy Car

Restored and recreated funny cars and dragsters are some of our most favorite things to look at. Seeing things put back the way they were or scratch built in the style of the era of the car really...

More Truckin’ Cool Rigs From Viva Las Vegas 2014 – Classic Rigs Invade Las Vegas

Yesterday we showed you a gallery featuring trucks and nothing but trucks from Viva Las Vegas 2014. We’re bringing you another load of trucks from the show today and the great thing is that...

Go Time: Garlits To Begin Full Power Testing Of Battery Powered Swamp Rat-37 Next Week – 200 Here We Come!

We heard a rumor the other day that Swamp Rat-37, the hellacious looking, battery powered dragster that has been in the works for a couple of year now was complete and ready to take its first couple...

Management Shake Up At Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park In Arizona –

Arizona Auto Scene is reporting that the Gila River Indian Community has abruptly cancelled the contract of Copper Train Management, the group that was overseeing the operation of the facility and...

27 NHRA Pro Mods Are Heading For Houston This Weekend! Huge Field Of Heavy Hitters

NHRA’s goal is always to get 20-something cars in each of the Pro Classes at an NHRA National Event. Years ago that was no problem whatsoever, but in recent years it has not been uncommon for...

Cool Video: Check Out This R/C Car Remake Of A Scene From The Fast And The Furious!

I’ve never been much of a R/C car enthusiast, with my only hands-on experience being those ultra-cheap ones that you get as a kid from Toys ‘R Us for $20. That said, R/C is a real...

Modern Super Cars At The Lingenfelter Collection – Mechanical Art Work That’s Blindingly Fast

One of the things we have always prided ourselves here at BangShift on is the fact that we’ve never pigeonholed ourselves into one thing. We’ve always been very honest in the fact that...

Take A BangShifty Photo Tour Of The Richard Petty Museum – Incredible History Here

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We all know and love Joe Grippo as a dyed in the wool Mustang guy here at BangShift and that means there was one of two places he was going to be last weekend, Vegas or...

Rat Autopsy: Watch Some Buddies Pull Apart The Most Destroyed Big Block Chevy We’ve Ever Seen

Anyone who has ever raced something has been exactly where the guys in this video are. Ok, maybe not quite in this exact level of destruction autopsy but you know what we are getting at. We’ve...

eBay Find: This Pro Street Bricklin SV-1 Is Proof That Pro Street Fixes Everything

This 1975 Bricklin SV-1 pro street machine is probably the best use of a terrible car turned into something we’d break laws to own we have ever seen. The Bricklin SV-1 was a horrid financial...