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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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IHRA F1 Powerboats Livestream: Round 3 From The Red River Rumble F1 Powerboat Showdown – Saturday and Sunday

Boat racing is on! If you aren’t familiar with F1 boat racing, you’re in for a treat. This is side by side racing, “door handle to door handle” so to speak, and these drivers are giving it...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 In Car Video! Watch The 500 LIVE From In The Cars AND Watch Practice and Qualifying Below As Well!

It’s time for the Indy 500! We have livestreaming video from Indianapolis Motor Speedway right here, plus tons of video from the weeks leading up to the race. Check it all out right here! THE...

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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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Sunday $20,000 Race LIVE! 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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BangShift Question Of The Day: Why Don’t Hot Rods Get Driven More Often?

We’ve all seen it. Hell, most of us have been this guy at one point or another. The dude that makes a short drive, or trailers his car, to a car show and then sits around all day in a  lawn...

Kaase Boss 9 Hemi Ford Build: You Can Build A Boss Engine That Isn’t A Complete Bitch To Drive!

When Ro McGonegal sent us a story about John Kaase Racing Engines building their new Boss 9 engines for hot rods, muscle cars, and street rods, we were intrigued. Having driven a real life Boss 429...

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Watch Top Fuel Pilot TJ Zizzo Drive The Insano Hypermax Diesel Dragster To Its First 200mph Lap!

TJ Zizzo is a well known and well respected NHRA Top Fuel racer from the greater Chicago area. The guys at Hypermax Engineering, a business that is based around high performance diesel engines are...

eBay Find: A Very Rare K-Code, 4-Speed 1965 Ford Fairlane With Dealer Installed Tri-Power!

We’re a fickle bunch, car people. On the one hand we often fawn over rare, limited production cars, or options, or engines, or dealer installed equipment. Typically taking a car and adding a...

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Cruise Gallery: The Wings-To-Go Cruise Night – Burlington, North Carolina

(Photos by Dennis White) – Our newest addition to the BangShift contributor army is North Carolina’s Dennis White. This is the second cruise night gallery Dennis has sent over to us and...

Drag Gallery: Action From The Strip At The Mickey Thompson Street Machine Shootout – Ozark Raceway Park

(Photos by Cory McMahon) – Missourri’s Ozark Raceway Park is a cool facility that hosts a number of shootout events over the course of the season. The track is an older facility and they...

Beautiful Bonneville Video: James Hoegh Talks About Riding the Confederate X132 Combat On The Salt – Beyond Awesome

As gearheads, we’re all a little weird. We see the world in a different way than the average person on the street. There’s a reason that the tears flow like water at the awards ceremony...

Car Show Gallery: Super Run 2012 – Henderson, Nevada – Cool Cruise and Killer Cars!

(Photos by Colin Johnson) – BangShifter Colin Johnson recently attended a really neat event in Nevada called the “Super Run”. This yearly event is a four day affair held in...

Incredible Photos From Mike Cook’s Bonneville Shootout Courtesy Of Zane McNary

Mike Cook’s Bonneville Shootout has been going on since 2006 when Mike and Mikey Cook decided that there needed to be an event on the salt that catered to the guys that wanted to go really...

Video: Watch the Preview For the Upcoming Optima Faceoff TV Mini-Series on SPEED

With the onset of fall and the approach of the SEMA show, we’re also getting ready to start looking forward to the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational which is held each year in Pahrump,...

Race Gallery: ChumpCar Action Photos From Shelton, Washington – 100% BS Approved Low Buck Fun!

(Photos by D.V. Klenak) – If you have not heard of the ChumpCar World Series, you must be living under a rock. The low buck, high fun, racing series has been around for years and they run races...

BangShift Exclusive: Larson & Lutz Will Headline Street Car Shootout At NMCA Houston

We’ve just got news that Larry Larson and Jeff Lutz will be headlining an eight-car field of Drag Week style Unlimited street cars running at the Houston NMCA Event November 9-11 . The...

Cruise-In Photos: Northern Tools Burlington North Carolina Cruise-In

BangShift’s newest contributor Dennis White was back at it again this weekend and got us more photos from the killer cruise scene in Burlington, NC. If we didn’t know better we’d...

Video: Comp Cams Explains Camshaft Technology

Comp Cams has got some great new videos up that explain some of the often misunderstood concepts behind camshaft technology. In this video “Comp Cams Technology Explained: Cam Timing”...