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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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Monday Shopper: 1922 Model T Pickup

As we mentioned with the last Monday Shopper, the point here is not to focus on the big dollar lots that make news everywhere else, but to suggest that if you show up for the early lots of any given...

Bing Crosby Built A Race Track In Del Mar, California And One Of America’s Greatest Racers Was Killed On It In 1949

In 1949 there was literally no more dangerous profession in the United States of America than “professional race car driver”. More than 1/3 of men who strapped into race cars as pros...

Barnstormin’: Hanging With The Fringe Element

It is kind of funny how after five years of writing this Barnstormin’ column my life has kind of turned into exactly that, especially during this time of the year. I recently had a three week...

Do You And Your Car Want To Be On TV? Now Is Your Chance! Ridetech Wants You!

We just found out that the upcoming USCA Race in Daytona, which is in two weeks, is going to be the location for some special segments and such revolving around the gang at Ridetech. While I am there...

Camaro 5 Fest Photos And A Little Editorial On Modern Muscle. Does It Exist?

(Text and Photos by Rodney Prouty)  We all say it, we all quote it, but is modern muscle, really muscle? Having a chance to travel to big-ole Texas and the Royal Purple Raceway, who played host to...

Close Call Video: Watch Things Get Weird On The Top End Of The Drag Strip At High Speed

I have certainly seen and called my fair share of top end weirdness on the drag strip but all of it has been witnessed from the comfy confines of the timing tower at whatever strip it was at. While...

Check Out Our Mooneyes Mother’s Day Show And Drag Photos From Irwindale California

If you missed the show this weekend at Irwindale, you missed a lot. Mooneyes knows how to put on a real shindig, and we couldn’t see a single person who wasn’t having a bitchin time. The...

This Criagslist Camaro Is Truly One For The Books – At Least It Has A Big Block In It?

There’s a place to begin with this 1977 Craigslist Camaro, I’m just not sure where it is. The thing has a very Mad Max vibe happening with the holes chopped in the hood and the lack of...

The BangShift C7 Corvette Dissection – Pulling Apart A Blown UP, Brand New Super Car For Fun And Profit

(Photos and captions by David Matyjasik) – We know him better as Dave Matty and so will you by the time this whole saga comes to a conclusion, but to say that this will be one of the neatest...

First Indianapolis Grand Prix Begins With Massive Wreckage – Starting Line Destruction (Video)

The IndyCar series was hoping to start a new tradition and build on their already strong legacy of racing in Indiana during the month of May but they did not bargain for the literal start that the...

Gallery: 52 Photos of AMCs!

The next collection in our series of “50 Photos” galleries will celebrate those great machines that rolled out of the factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The American Motors Company still has...

CL Find: This Beat Looking F-150 Has A Twin Turbo 351 And All The Makings Of The Best Sleeper In America

Normally we limit ourselves to one Craigslist Find per day but the tip we just got on this sleeper Ford pickup that is currently for sale on Craigslist was too good to sit on, we had to run it! This...

Pat Van Racing’s Tom Armitage Gives Us The Tech And Specs Behind The Team’s 10-second Mini-Slingshot Dragster – This Rules

After running the video of Team Pat Van Racing’s miniature, motorcycle powered slingshot running down into the 10-second zone at England’s York Raceway, we reached out to Tom and asked...

Have You Checked Out Jiffy-Tite’s Online Catalog Yet? There’s Tech, Products, and More In There

Jiffy-Tite fittings have been on our brain as of late because we’ve seen them installed on trucks at the Diesel Power Challenge, drag cars at NHRA events from coast to coast,  and on land...