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US Street Nationals Testing: LIVE Testing Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: More Of The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at Daytona International Speedway | Race 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida

There is so much racing that is going on in Daytona this week, leading up to the famed Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona which starts on Saturday. There have been a full week of races and practice so far,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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IHRA ANNOUNCES THE LEASING AND OPERATIONS OF THE PULASKI COUNTY MOTORSPORTS PARK, FORMERLY THE MOTOR MILE SPEEDWAY

It feels like forever since IHRA announced a new track purchase, but they haven’t been sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Nope, yesterday they made the announcement that they had signed a...

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RACING JUNK FIND: A TURN-KEY 1966 MUSTANG ROAD RACER

Hey, if we’re talking about suspensions that make classic American cars carve corners, let’s look at one that has been set up to do just that! This 1966 Mustang has been a competitor and...

GLOBAL WEST SUSPENSION SIGNS ON FOR 2012 WITH BANGSHIFT.COM!

The name Global West needs no introduction, but there may be a few things about them that you didn’t know. Like the fact that they have been in the suspension business for over 30 years. Global...

NOVEL IDEA: FORD TO BEGIN TRANSPORTING NEW CARS TO DEALERS ON TRUCKS IN NEPAL

There are certain things we take for granted in the automotive world. Stuff like, factory fresh new cars being loaded onto trucks and trains for transport to dealerships. As it turns out, this is...

DRAG GALLERY: THE 2011 BYRON DRAGWAY HANGOVER NATIONALS

It is the second day of 2012 and we’re already hitting you with race galleries! Thanks to lunatic BangShift photog Greg Rourke, we have a nice gallery of photos from the 2012 Hangover Nationals...

BANGSHIFT WELCOMES NEW SPONSOR LUCAS OIL TO THE PARTY!

Lucas Oil needs no introduction. There might be some of you out there who haven’t heard of American Powertrain, but you have to live under a rock not to know who Lucas Oil is. Hell, they are...

WATCH QUIN CODY TAKE A MASSIVE SPILL OFF OF HIS BIKE AT THE 2012 DAKAR RALLY

The 2012 Dakar rally is currently happening in South America and the craziest/bravest racers in the world are competing against some of the toughest terrain mother nature has to offer. While the...

BANGSHIFT QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT AUTOMOTIVE EVENTS DO YOU PLAN TO ATTEND IN 2012?

Well 2012 is here. Depending on your opinion of the whack jobs who claim the world is going to end in about 12 months, our time may be limited. This raises a good question. What the heck are you...

AMERICAN POWERTRAIN IS IN THE HOUSE! OUR NEWEST SPONSOR PUTS THE SHIFT IN BANGSHIFT.COM.

When our pal “Mad Matt” Graves joined the American Powertrain team last year we were excited because we had just installed one of their Science Friction Clutch kits behind our...

SLEEPER VIDEO: A ZR1 POWERED SILVERADO PICKUP!

Well this truck is certainly devious! Guys have been stuffing hot small blocks into short bed half ton trucks for decades but none have been as powerful from the factory as the blown LS9 that...

BANGSHIFT.COM IS PROUD TO INTRODUCE A NEW SPONSOR: JET-HOT HIGH PERFORMANCE COATINGS

As we announced earlier, 2012 brings some new sponsors to BangShift.com, and none handle the heat from this joint better than Jet-Hot High Performance Coatings. We are pretty lucky here at BangShift...

BANGSHIFT.COM NEW SPONSORS: LUCAS OIL, JET-HOT, AMERICAN POWERTRAIN, AND GLOBAL WEST!

It’s a Happy New Year here at BangShift.com because we are proud to announce that we have 4 new sponsors joining the BangShift.com family of sponsors this year! That’s right, new folks...

HURRY! REGISTRATION OPEN FOR 2012 ECTA OHIO MILE EVENTS!

Man, the news is flying out of ECTA HQ this week . Yesterday they released the information on their new electric motorcycle class and now they have opened the flood gates of registration for 2012...

COOL VIDEO: HOW AN ENGINE AT THE GM TONAWANDA PLANT GOES TOGETHER FROM START TO FINISH

If you are back at work today after the holidays be happy to know that the robots and people that assemble GM engines are back at it too. We got tipped off to a truly cool video that followed the...

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ECTA OFFERS NEW ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE CLASS FOR 2012 – RULES INSIDE!

The East Coast Timing Association not only has a new venue this year, they also have a new class for electric motorcycles. The ECTA crew has been working with Dr. Robert Prins of James Madison...