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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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BangShift Question of the Day: Have You Ever Saved a Car or Truck From the Crusher?

Hearing about old cars and trucks getting crushed always causes us to grit our teeth, but knowing one is headed for certain destruction and having the chance to save it is a totally different deal....

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Shut Down (Live) – The Beach Boys (1964)

As I have written many times before, The Beach Boys are my favorite band. This live version of their classic street racing tale “Shut Down” is super good because it appears they are...

Art Malone – Drag Racing Pioneer and American Racing Legend Dead At 76 Years Old

(Photo credit: Mike Carter) Today we have the sad duty to report to you that Art Malone, one of the great drag racing drivers of all time, a life long friend of Don Garlits, the first man to break...

RON CAPPS WINS STAR94.1 MARCH MAN-NESS COMPETITION THANKS TO YOU!

WE WON WE WON! CONGRATULATIONS TO RON CAPPS AND THE DRAG RACING COMMUNITY AT LARGE. TAKE THAT YOUTUBE STAR DUDE! It was a tough battle, with the results actually showing 50/50 on the ladder. That...

Why The AFCO Vortex Cone May Be The Perfect Solution For Your Drag Car In Situations Where Mufflers Are Required

Lots of drag strips now require sportsman cars in many classes to run a muffler. While some racers will go the route of adding actual mufflers to their cars, that may not be the best route. Adding a...

Question of the Day: Which Buick Electra 225 Would You Pick?

Big Buicks represent some of the finest cars Detroit pushed out during the good ol’ days. Imagine our joy when we stumbled upon two of the lumbering giants, a decade apart in age but nearly...

Wreck Video: When Co-Driver Indecision Causes Rally Havoc

This video is from the Targa Tasmania, a race three times as wild as the name would suggest. You’ll see what happens when a codriver and driver lose communication for only just a half a second....

Gallery: 3Dog Garage Open House – America’s Greatest Ford Hot Rod Collection – Incredible Stuff!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – So if you thought yesterday’s look at the Trans Am and IMSA cars housed at the 3Dog Garage was cool, wait until you get a freaking load of this gallery! Joe...

Watch A Wild Swedish Off Road Buggy Pull Of The Gnarliest Jumps We Have Seen Yet!

We keep our eyes peeled for killer videos from the Swedish Formula Off Road scene because those guys build some awesome trucks that leap and fly and climb like few other things on this Earth. This...

Gallery: The 2013 Northeast Rod and Custom Car Show – Hot Rods, Customs, Bikes, and Weirdos!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’ve been hammering you with great photos from the 2013 Northeast Rod and Custom Car Show all week by Joe Grippo and here’s our last (and biggest!) blast...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Racing In The Streets – Bruce Springsteen (1978)

This could be the most melancholy song about street racing ever recorded, but like most of Springsteen’s music it manages to strike the right chord with us. There have been a bunch of car...

PowerShift TONIGHT! 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern – Chad And Brian’s Weekly Romper Room Session LIVE!

That’s right kids, we still haven’t quit this weekly hour of fun and shenanigans known as PowerShift LIVE with Chad and Brian. We cover all the topics you want to hear about in the world...

Video: Baja Off-Road Action From The San Felipe 250 That Shows A Different Side Of Baja

We are all used to seeing Trophy Trucks flying over whoops, and throwing big rooster tails of dust as they haul ass through Baja for the San Felipe 250, Baja 500, or Baja 1000. And we’re used...

FAST XFI and EZ-EFI Kits Are Now Available With Polished 4-Barrel Throttle Bodies

We’re not usually about polish and shine around here, but sometimes polished aluminum or chrome just looks right. This is one of those times. FAST has given those who want to look as good as...