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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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BangShift Daily Tune Up: Gimme Some Lovin’ by The Spencer Davis Group 1966 – A Days Of Thunder Favorite

Gimme Some Lovin’ rules. It was #2 in the UK in 1966, #7 in the US, and is Rolling Stone Magazine’s #247 of the top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. We can’t argue with that, because...

Chris Alston’s Chassisworks Has A New Facebook Page: LIKE THEM NOW!! NO I MEAN IT!

The guys at Chris Alston’s Chassisworks put up a new facebook page at the end of last year and have been getting everything set and ready to roll and now it’s got some good stuff on it....

Watch A 3,000hp Ice Dragster Run 170-Mph In 1,000ft From A Standing Start!

At base, most gearheads are lunatics just trying to get out. Most of us are bound by our own lack of skill or resources, but there are those among us unhindered by such trivial worries. Those are the...

Click here to Watch PowerShift – Our Weekly LIVE SHOW Will Be On At 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern – Tune In!!

We’ve got a killer show lined up for this week’s edition of PowerShift, BangShift’s LIVE weekly adventure starring Chad and Brian. Chad will be on location from a cool shop, Lohnes...

Rocket Racing Wheels New Catalog Sneak Peek and A Look At Their Late Model Designs

Our pals at Rocket Racing Wheels have been working hard on a new catalog and they recently leaked out a photo of the cover and it looks great. The photo also served as the perfect reminder for us to...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Personal Definition Of A “Big” Car?

The one thing I get a lot when talking about the Buford T Justice project is people talking about how big the car is. The words tank, boat, barge, etc get thrown around near the beginning of every...

Wild Videos: The High Flying Antics Of Icelandic Formula Off Road Racers – Big Power and Big Air!

Every time I watch or post video from Icelandic Formula Off Road events, I lament the fact that I’ve never seen one of these gatherings in person yet. I added the yet because I am going to get...

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Craigslist Find: A 1942 Dodge School Bus Mounted On A Deuce And A Half Frame With Chrysler Power

This completely awesome Craigslist find was just one day late for yesterday’s question of the day that asked you what vehicle you’d most want to drive in a Max Mad or zombie invasion type...

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Video Bonanza: Hoods Flying Up and Off – Or – Where Are The Effing Hood Pins?

If you’ve spent any time at a race track, or just screwing around with cars in general you’ve either forgotten to install the hood pins in a car, forgotten to completely latch the hood,...

Watch Aussie Mark Sheehan’s Top Fuel Dragster Erupt In Flames On Start Up – Wild Nitro Fire!

This is some wild video! Top Fuel racer Mark Sheehan and his tuner, American John Smith were lucky to escape unscathed from this scary fire down in Australia. Sheehan was sitting in his car and Smith...

Watch The World’s Quickest And Fastest Street Legal Hearse Run 10.70s and Fry The Tires For Miles!

This video serves as more proof that horsepower can cure all ills. The guys at AMS Performance in Wisconsin took a mid 1990s Chevy Caprice hearse built by Superior Coachworks and stuffed it full of...

Barnstormin’: Creativity For The Sheeple And The Lost Art Of Making Something From Scratch

Yesterday, Chad went into full berserker mode over the Paul Harvey voiced Ram “farmer” commercial during the Super Bowl. I think I shared the same reaction as many other people by being...

Liberation Of A Sanctioning Body: How The IHRA Was Saved, Who Saved It, And What The Future Holds

Not a shot was fired, no blood was shed, and there were no adoring crowds lining the sidewalks when Kenneth Feld, leader of the family owned Feld Entertainment empire agreed to sell the International...

BangShift Question of the Day: If The World Devolved Into A Mad Max Situation What (Real) Vehicle Would You Be Driving?

Yesterday’s item about the mammoth Kenworth 963 oil field truck got a bunch of commenters mentioning that it seems like a good choice for a zombie apocalypse or a Mad Max dystopia type of...