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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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Peroxide N’ Nitro A La Carte: Memories And Stories of Eric Teboul and Bob Feeler, France’s Rocket Propelled Drag Racing Brothers!

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – France isn’t normally thought of as a breeding ground for drag racers but the fact is that two of the quickest and fastest men ever to traverse a drag strip...

Finally! Here’s the Scoop On Who Bought Dragway 42 And What’s In Store For The Historic Facility

A while back we told you that Dragway 42 in West Salem, Ohio had been sold and that we knew who bought it but at the behest of the buyer we were going to hold off on announcing any deal until it was...

LIVE NOW! NASA ROCKET LAUNCH — WATCH A LOAD OF SATELLITES HEAD FOR SPACE!

NASA is launching a load of satellites tonight and you can watch the launch right here! Press play below to see the big rocket carry 29 satellites (which will probably be spying on our every move) to...

Video: The Most Violent Land Speed Racing Crash We’ve Ever Seen – Driver OK – 209 MPH Wreck

This is the most terrifying looking crash we have ever seen anyone survive and it happened at the El Mirage SCTA Meet just a week or so ago. The car in question is a Honda Insight powered by a highly...

BangShift Question of the Day: Is the Corvette America’s best sports car?

The Chevrolet Corvette. Yes, it’s an American icon, arguably more recognizable worldwide than any television or movie celebrity. Its name is synonymous with General Motors performance (How many...

SEMA 2013 Video: American Powertrain Rolls Out An Awesome And Innovative Twin Disc Clutch, A Full Hydraulic Solution For Fox Mustangs, And Bulletproof (literally) Mounts!

It all makes sense now. For the last year, every time we have tried to call up and harass our pals Gray and Matt at American Powertrain, they’d just yell, “WE’RE BUSY!” and...

Watch The Hublot Rocket Bicycle Go 177 MPH To Set The All Time Bicycle Speed Record

Recently, a French bus-driver sat atop a hydrogen peroxide rocket powered bicycle on a runway in Interlaken, Switzerland and went 177-mph, breaking the existing record for the world’s fastest...

BangShift Exclusive Audio – We Interview The Esteemed Pete Brock About The C7 Corvette

Pete Brock is a living American automotive treasure and we were fortunate enough to encounter him virtually by chance on the 2013 SEMA Show floor while speaking with Dr. Jamie Meyer of Chevrolet...

Bruce Larson’s USA-1 Dragfest 2013 – More Bitchin’ Photos From The Event!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Here’s our second and last blast of photos from the 2013 iteration of Bruce Larson’s USA-1 Dragfest. This car show and gearhead gathering which is held at...

2013 Optima Ultimate Street Car Shootout – More Intense Autocross Action!

We’re back with more sweet, sweet photo action from the 2013 Optima Ultimate Street Car Shootout autocross competition. The field is so big that we split the autocross action into two groups of...

Volvo Truck Crash Testing Is Impressive To Watch – Big Impacts Teach Engineers Big Lessons

Over the weekend we showed you the amazing Jean-Claude Van Damme stunt where he pulls off the epic split between two new Volvo big rigs that are reversing down a runway at relatively high speeds. One...

Video: Watch Danny Popp And Brian Hobaugh Battle For The Goodguys Autocross Championship – Incredible Cars, Incredible Drivers, Amazing History

This could be the coolest autocross final of all time. Two of the country’s best autocross drivers, both in Corvettes that are family heirlooms, one the newest champion of the Optima Ultimate...

Next Gen Racer With A Twist: The Rocketeer Funny Car Crew’s New Dodge Dart

When Jim Barrett and the rest of the crew on the Rocketeer AA/FC Nostalgia Funny Car come to a race, they do it family style. With Jim’s son Alex deciding that Drag Racing was the career choice...

Dry Lakes Landspeed Racing Photos: The Final SCTA El Mirage Meet Of 2013

As famous as Speed Week at Bonneville is, Land Speed Racers from far and wide flock to El Mirage California several times each year to compete on the famed dry lake. The SCTA El Mirage Dry Lakes...