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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Saturday $50,000 Big Money Race #2

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Mod, Mountain Motor Pro Stock, Top Fuel, And More! Pro Eliminations From Darana National Trail Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The Spring GALOT 250 Bracket Race Is On With $20,000 To Win Saturday, Plus A $5,000 Shootout!

Dan Fletcher entered the promotion game a couple of years ago, putting on the Fall GALOT 250. Last year he got the Spring Galot 250 going as well! This event is a single entry event, limited to 250...

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IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing LIVE: The Paris Grand Prix Hits Texas With Big Power, Big Noise, and Cool Boats! Saturday Qualifying

I love drag boat racing, and this weekend kicks off the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing series at Lake Crook in Paris Texas. I’ve been to this lake once before, to livestream drag boat...

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The Mickey Thompson Turn And Burn: 6 Second Passes, 200 mph Cars, And Plenty of Carnage Already.

Alex and Nick Taylor, along with a bunch of other sicko drag and drive folks, are in Norwalk Ohio of the Mickey Thompson Tires Turn and Burn. This is the inaugural event, and it is the kind of drag...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Our Final Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 5th, and final, gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them...

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Watch A Duramax Diesel Blow Up While Making 1,844hp On A Chassis Dyno – Big Smoke, Big Power, Big BOOM!

Back in September, I announced a diesel truck event at Tulsa Raceway Park and one of the stars of the show was a truck called Overkill owned and driven by Dmitri Millard. This is a wild machine that...

Group Announces Plans To Open Eighth Mile Drag Strip In Connecticut – Would Be First New Dedicated Facility In New England In Decades

The Holeshot Drag Racing Association has made a name for themselves in the Connecticut area by hosting 100′ drag races at places like the Waterford Speedbowl. The events have allowed area...

Weld Launches New GT-S Premium Sports Car Wheel Line With Killer Designs And Construction

Weld Racing Wheels are iconic in the hot rod and racing world, there is no question. But a lot of folks think of them strictly as muscle car or drag race wheels. Not true. Their RT-S series of wheels...

Free Mammograms In The Pits Turns Out To Be Way More Popular Than You’d Think

Hey now, don’t get all creepy on us. We’re being serious here. You know that throughout the month of October that Chad Reynolds with BangShift.com had a pink beard in support of Breast...

Jim Dunn Racing Is Bringing Back The Mooneyes Funny Car For The NHRA Finals In Pomona!

Every drag race fan, hot rodder, and racer loved the Mooneyes Funny Cars that were run by “Big” Jim Dunn. When I collected Die Cast Drag Cars, it was one of my first purchases. Well now...

Quarter Mile Foundation Announces Project 1320 Documentary To Be Produced By John Mullin

Some of you may not be familiar with the Quarter Mile Foundation, or Project 1320, if you don’t follow west coast and Nostalgia Drag Racing very closely but you should be. The Foundation, which...

This Japanese Jet Powered Tank Exhibition Machine Is Doing It HIlariously Wrong…But We Still Get A Kick Out Of It

Japan: we’re back for the second time this week with a video from a drag racing event on the island nation. While we have never personally visited Japan, through mediums like the internet and...

The Parting Shift: In Cab Aerobics Shifting a Twin Stick Kenworth

Truck driving is a tough job. There’s the need to be safe to rack up hundreds of thousand and even millions of accident free miles, the pressures of living on the road and the ever inflating...

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Help Us Find This Utterly Bitchin’ Corvette – Formerly Owned By Gary “The Local Brush” Kupfer – Is It Still Around? Is It Lost To History? Help!

We need your help to find one of the coolest custom Corvettes ever built. This was the machine of Gary “The Local Brush” Kupfer the well known painter, customizer, and hot rodder from NY....

Drag Battle: Tanner Foust’s World RallyCross Fiesta Versus Roy Hill’s 5.0L Supercharged Cobra Jet Mustang…Who Wins? (Video)

We wish that we had Ford Racing’s video production budget because we’d be pulling guys like Roy Hill and Tanner Foust together for fun like they do! We don’t know who to credit, but...

Garlits Museum’s 2014 International Drag Racing Hall Of Fame Inductees Announced

(Courtesy of Darr Hawthorne) International Drag Racing Hall of Fame inductees for 2014 announced The International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, housed at the famed Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing...

Ride Along In The World’s Quickest GTR As It Goes 7.87/187 At Santa Pod – The Driver Is Working HARD!

While we’re certainly not known as guys who spend a lot of time talking about Nissan GTRs here at BangShift, we are guys who get impressed by amazingly quick and fast drag strip passes,...

Barnstormin’ – You Can’t Put The VHT Back In The Barrel (Or The PJ1)

Yesterday, I ran a blog item showing a couple of runs being made by top fuel dragsters in Japan. What’s interesting about drag racing in Japan is that they do not believe in preparing their...

Video: Harry And Daniel Davies Share An Epic Road Trip In Bill Burnhams “Old Blue” Roadster

The guys at ShareTheDrive.com have shared an epic one with us. This video shows Harry and Daniel Davies accounts of their father and son roadtrip behind the wheel of Bill Burnham’s “Old...