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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Sportsman Nationals At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Sportsman, Nostalgia Classes, and More!

Enjoy all the racing action from Santa Pod’s Sportsman Nationals this weekend, as Nostalgia Drag Racing and National Championship drag racing competitors battle it out head to head to see...

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FREE Bracket Racing Livestream: 8th Annual Spring King Of The Creek Bracket Racing Is LIVE Right Here – Saturday

Maryland International Raceway is home to the King of the Creek, and this weekend’s spring event is as big and competitive as always. With classes for everyone, and some of the Mid-Atlantic’s...

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The Lake Effect Showdown at Kuhnle Motorsports Park Is Small Tire Drag Racing Greatness! Lil Gangstas, Small Tire

The Lake Effect Showdown brings the excitement of small tire racing to Lil Gangstas’ racing to Kuhnle Motorsports Park on Saturday June 13th, 2026! This unique event will be a first for the area on...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: STREAMING VIDEO From The 21st Annual Ultimate 64 Bracket Race From Darana Kil-Kare Raceway – Saturday

Kil-Kare Raceway is home to some awesome events, including the 21st annual Ultimate 64 Big Money Bracket Races this weekend. This is one of the older events in the mid west and racers flock to this...

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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Continues Today as We are Heading for The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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The Hot Rod Hoarder Gasser Henry J Project Part 8: Putting a HISTORIC Gasser Back on the Track Feels Oh So Good!

Tommy and the kids are back at it, and it’s a runner! They are hitting the dragstrip to bring this project full circle, so check it out. The big block should be fun with all the new parts that...

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Friday FunDay Video: Awesome Jump Compilation Video That Rules And Makes Us Want to Jump Stuff

This is the kind of video that “inspires” you to get on Craigslist and buy some hunk of crap for $200 and go jump it. I wish I could actually tell you that this should be your goal for...

Firebird aka Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park Has Multi-Million Dollar, 120 Day Renovation Plan

We’ve been following the closing and opening and management changes at Firebird Raceway since the beginning of the drama at the famed Arizona facility. And throughout the adventure we have said...

New: Rocket Racing Wheels Offers RPM7 “Magnesium Gold” For All New Rocket Wheels

Remember how all the Magnesium wheels, blowers, and valvecovers of the ’60s and ’70s were sort of a gold color? Well that gold color was actually a coating called DOW 7 and was applied to...

SummerNats Top 10 Burnouts. The Aussie’s Own The Title “King’s Of Smoke”

After running the 1320 Video Burnout Contest video yesterday I had tire smoke on the brain and decided we needed more. A lot more. So, here are the top 10 Burnouts as judged at the 2013 SummerNats in...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s Your Favorite Vintage Drag Car?

Looking at Joe’s photos from Beaver Springs yesterday had us totally cranked up on nostalgia drag racing. That’s led to more than a couple conversations regarding our favorite old drag...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Surf City” Jan and Dean (1963)

“I bought a ’34 wagon and we call it a Woodie, Surf City here we come, You know it’s not very cherry, It’s an oldie but a goodie, Surf City here we come.” How can you...

Nostalgia Video: 1966 Lion’s Drag Racing Video By French Film Crew. Excellent Quality Footage.

Too bad we don’t have a clue as to what the hell they are saying, but we don’t really care. All we know is this is some of the best quality footage we’ve seen from Lion’s in...

Ebay Find: If The Blues Brothers Built A Pro Street Car, This Is What It Would Look Like. BangShift Approved.

When we get stuff like this in the BangShift.com In Box, it always make us giggle like little girls. No matter how many times we see something weird, like this Blues Brothers inspired Polara Pro...

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Super Slow Motion Video: A Fox Body Mustang Stands On The Bumper And Slo Mo Is Awesome!

This is great video of a Fox Body Mustang GT Convertible drag radial car leaving the starting line and standing on the bumper. In fact, you can see that the rear tires actually leave the ground if...

This Is It! The Final Gallery From Meltdown Drags At Byron. 100 More Great Shots.

Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk are the hardest working, unpaid sonsa…. Uh….they work really hard to send us great photos and we don’t pay them. They rule. And you should love them for...

New Product: Painless Performance Unveils New Nostalgia Harness. Simple And Black Is Where It’s At.

The guys at Painless Performance have been building high quality wiring harnesses for decades, and we’ve installed dozens of them. One feature of a Painless harness that makes it super simple...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “I Get Around” Beach Boys (1964) When Cruising And Racing Were King

We’re huge Beach Boys fans around here as you well know, which is why it’s sort of strange that we haven’t had “I Get Around” on the Daily Tune Up until now. I love this...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst Car Or Truck Model Name Ever?

On Monday we asked you what the coolest, or best, car or truck model name ever was and you gave some really interesting answers. Mercury’s Comet and Marauder were both mentioned, as was the...

Race Photos: Pro Mods, Jet Cars, Nostalgia Funny Cars, 10.5 And More At Tulsa Raceway Park

(Words and Photos by Brad Klaasen) The Mickey Thompson Shootout Series rolled into T-town once again, for round five of the nine race series at Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park, and thanks to the...