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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 Qualifying Is On! 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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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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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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Testing Video: Chaos SuperNationals Testing at Summit Motorsports Park. Funny Cars, Fuel Altereds, and More!

The Chaos Series has been going hot and heavy so far this season, and with lots more racing left there are a lot of teams out there battling it out for points. And the competition is getting tougher,...

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Project Buford T Justice Hits the Strip with Some Pretty Shocking Results!

(Photos by Dave Nutting/Words by Brian Lohnes) – When we asked BangShift nation to guess the ET that our 1987 Caprice 9C1 called Buford T Justice would run in the quarter mile, the guesses were...

Event Coverage: Hot Rod Magazine Top Speed Challenge…302 Photos from the ECTA Ohio Mile

The 2012 HOT ROD Magazine Top Speed Challenge was this weekend, and BangShifter Michael Black was on site shooting photos of door slammers, lakesters, belly tanks, roadsters and more and we’ve...

Sad News: Original Blue Max Owner Harry Schmidt Passes

Harry Schmidt, the original owner of the Blue Max Funny Car that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s has passed away. The Texan was on the vanguard of the Funny Car revolution in the middle 1960s and...

Drag Gallery: Big Buck Bracket Action from Historic Great Lakes Dragaway

(Photos by Greg Rourke) – We’re still tearing through the massive mountains of photos sent to us by our worldwide army of contributors this morning! Now we electronically jet to...

Drag Gallery: Test and Tune Action Photos from New England Dragway

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – As promised, we’re whipping you around the world today. From California to Australia to Illinois, and now to New Hampshire’s New England Dragway. We were...

Caption These Photos: Feets Don’t Fail Me Now!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We have run a bunch of Charles Wickam’s Killer Photos from the 2012 NHRA Spring Nationals in Baytown, Texas already and there are still more to come. Charles...

Shop Tour Gallery: Midwest Hot Rods – Plainfield, Illinois

(Photos by Bob Chiluk and Greg Rourke – Words by Bob Chiluk) – Talk about an American hot rodding success story! A couple of guys have dream jobs building high end street rods, hot rods,...

Aussie Car Show Gallery: The 2012 Big River Nationals – Barmera, South Australia

(Photos by Darryl Daniels) – We told your that we were going international today and there’s the proof. BangShift reader Darryl Daniels is a hot rodder down under and he recently attended...

So Cal Car Show Gallery: The 2012 Seal Beach Classic Car Show

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) – Today we are going to bring your car show and event coverage from all over the world…literally. To kick it off, we’re going to start in beautiful Seal...

Build Your Own BangShift Garage…You Could Be In The Spotlight!

BangShift.com’s newest Forum feature just got a few updates, and now is the time to Build Your Own BangShift Garage. Join our Forums, throw up some pictures, give us the specs, and tell us what...

Event Coverage: NHRA Full Throttle Spring Nationals…500+ Photos of Wheels Up Action!

It’s Spring in Texas and that means the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series is in full swing at Houston Raceway Park, where the 2012 NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Spring Nationals is tearing...

Event Coverage: 25th Annual Seal Beach Classic Car Show, Featuring Hot Rods, Racecars, and More!

The last Saturday of April means the Seal Beach California Classic Car Show is going on, and it’s one we hate to miss, so we hit the streets of Seal Beach with our camera clicking and had a...

Live blog: At the Strip With Buford T

We are having some big stupid fun here at New England Dragway today and our big tank of an ex cop car is running well in the cool air! If you guessed 18 seconds you are out. If you guessed 17 seconds...

BREAKING NEWS: The NMCA’s Lucas Oil West Coast Shootout is coming to Pomona!

The NMCA (National Muscle Car Association), just announced that the NMCA West Lucas Oil West Coast Shootout is going to be held at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona in August. Since the closing of Auto...