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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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1962 Plymouth Fury With 777 Original Miles – A BangShift Exclusive!

(Words and photos by Dave Nutting) – Bangshift contributing photographer Dave Nutting here to share an infamous time capsule of Mopar history that Brian Lohnes and I stumbled upon while working...

ALL BURNOUTS! Nostalgia Video From The California Hot Rod Reunion. Les Mayhew Has Outdone Himself

If you are like me and don’t give a damn about all the football games going on today, then here is something that will make your day go much, much better. Les Mayhew has put together another...

Thank You BangShift Sponsors! Here’s To Another Great Year Together

We got started late this morning because we figured that most of you would be sleeping one off after last night, but we just wanted to give one more shout out here on Day One of the Best Year In...

Ridetech Announces 1,000,001 Mile Shock and Strut Warranty. No BS, Their Stuff Will Last, And They Are Standing Behind It!

A few weeks ago Ridetech President and Owner Bret Voelkel sent me an email asking me what I thought of a new program that he wanted to launch where any Ridetech shocks bought after January 1, 2013...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! From All Of Us At BANGSHIFT.COM!

Happy New Year!!! It’s been a wild and crazy but super bitchin ride in 2012 for us here at BangShift.com and we hope that you have enjoyed it as much as we have. We also hope that 2012 has been...

Thank You BangShift.com Contributors! We Owe You For All The Crashes, Wheelstands, Stories, and Coverage.

WE RULE!!! No, really, we do… BangShift.com is the coolest place on the web because we have the greatest guys and gals ever contributing to what we do. Each and every week throughout 2012,...

Watch a Rear Axle Failure Completely Destroy The Back Of 1968 Camaro Drag Car

We’ve all seen the videos of rear ends completely breaking free from drag cars, launching them into the air and smashing back down to Earth. This video is different from those in the fact that...

Lucas Oil Needs Your Help: They Need 78 More Likes On Facebook To Hit 40,000. LIKE THEM NOW!

We’re excited for Lucas Oil because they are almost at 40,000 likes on Facebook and need your help to get over the hump today! We have to help them do it today because that was they can start...

BS Photo Highlight Reel: Greg Rourke’s Favorite Photos From 2012 – Autocross, Drags, and More!

(Words and Photos by Greg Rourke) – Not long ago I would try to get access to the wall at drag strips to take photos. The answer was always “no”. Then I started sending a few...

RacingJunk Find: Bobby Allison’s 1980 IROC Championship Winning Camaro – When Stock Cars Were Cool!

For many years the IROC (International Race of Champion) Series was a big deal to both racers and fans. Drivers from all different disciplines of racing were pitted against one another in identically...

BS Photo Highlight Reel: Tommy Lee Byrd’s Favorite Photos Of 2012 – Races, Shows, Cool Stuff!

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – This year gave me lots of opportunities for cool pictures, as I rarely had a free weekend without some sort of car show, drag race or other motorsports...

BS Daily Tune Up: Kickstart My Heart – Motley Crue (1989)

The hair was big, the lifestyle was rampantly out of control, and the music was packing stadiums and arenas as big as were available in the late 1980s. Motley Crue was at the top of their game during...

FREE California Hot Rod Reunion LIVE Replay 2012: If You Missed It The First Time We’ve Got It Again

Didn’t make it to Famoso for the California Hot Rod Reunion? Were racing and missed some of the action? Live under a rock and didn’t know BangShift would be there LIVE broadcasting from...

A-FAB, Owners of AFCO, Dynatech, and US Brakes Now Owns ProShocks Too

A-FAB, the  parent company of AFCO Racing and Dynatech, as well as US Brakes, has just purchased Pro Shocks as well. “Pro Formance” brand shocks have been around for years and, like...