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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: DOOR SLAMMERS AT SANTA POD IS TAKING OVER THE ENGLISH DRAG RACING SCENE THIS WEEKEND!

Here is your livestream from the 2026 Santa Pod Door Slammers race! If you want to enjoy three days of great drag racing from England, then this is the livestream for you today. With a huge variety...

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Mecum Classic Car Auction Indy Is LIVE Right Here! Watch All The Bidding Action On Your Favorites.

Classic car auctions, hell any car auction, is a good time. Auctions in general are a fun way to maybe get a deal and to have a better time doing it than just walking up and making a purchase. They...

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LIVE DRAG RACING: 9th Annual Great American Bracket Race – Dream Team – Saturday

Well, there are a lot of big money bracket races going on in 2026, but only one Great American Bracket Race, and only one with a Dream Team race where it isn’t just up to you, but rather your whole...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 4 At The Texas Motorplex – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 4! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE BRACKET RACE LIVESTREAM At The AUTOLAND DOOR CAR CHALLENGE – Saturday $50,000

The Autoland Door Car Challenge is on this weekend at Tri-State Raceway in Iowa and we dig it. We’re door car drag racers around here, although I have driven a few dragsters in my day as well. But...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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The Four-Wide Nationals are Returning to zMax Dragway April 13-15 – Be There!

Back in the old school developmental days of organized drag racing, there were very few rules about anything. Yes, there were classes and tech inspections to some level, but there weren’t...

Awesome In Car Video of a Big Block Chevy Powered McLaren M6B Can Am Car Flying Around Laguna Seca

There are few eras in racing that we’re more sad that we missed than the golden age of Can-Am in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These were some of the most drop dead sexy full bodied race cars...

GM Halts Camaro ZL1 Production Due to “Quality Assessment”

Chevrolet has stopped production and reportedly recalled the one Camaro ZL1 that was delivered to a customer in Texas due to a “quality assessment” that is being made of all the cars...

Carnage Photos: Here’s the Aftermath of Mark Sanders’s Funny Car Crash at the 2012 March Meet

The most violent and destructive wreck at the 2012 March Meet was the early event wall banger suffered by Mark Sanders and his Mr. Explosive Nova. His crash was a high speed top end affair and the...

Lunati Rolls out Budget Voodoo Cranks for Ford, Chevy, and Pontiac Applications

Long known for their high performance camshafts, Lunati also offers a wide variety of crankshafts as well. Adding to that already varied lineup is the new Voodoo series cranks that the company...

Gallery: Meet the Legends Nostalgia Drags – Sealy, Texas Gallery Two

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Yesterday we unleashed the first batch of photos that Charles Wickam shot at the “Meet the Legends” nostalgia drags held in Sealy, Texas. We’re...

Redline Motorsports to Build ZLR Camaro – Special Edition of ZL1 With Styling and Performance Upgrades

The Camaro ZL1 is the hot topic du jour among fans of domestic performance cars. While they are just starting to roll out of the factory doors up in Canada, companies like Redline Motorsports are...

ADRL Names 25-Year Old Jimmy Holzman as Technical Administrator for SuperCar Showdown Class

One of the final pieces of the ADRL’s SuperCar Showdown class was naming the guy (or girl) who was going to be in charge of tech for the category. In our interview with Bret Kepner,  he told...

Nostalgia Drags Gallery: Meet the Legends Nostalgia Drags – Sealy, Texas

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – While we were broadcasting the March Meet from Bakersfield last weekend, Texas photo contributor Charles Wickam was at another killer nostalgia event in Sealy,...

Chris Alston’s Chassisworks Joins the BangShift Family of Sponsors

We are proud to announce that Chris Alston’s Chassisworks has joined BangShift as a sponsor! Chris Alston’s Chassisworks has been in business for more than 35 years and in that time have...

Holy Smokes Video: Watch an Aussie Holden Monaro Unleash a Shuttle Launch Burnout

Normally when we talk about Australia and burnouts we’re talking about some lunatic frying the hides off the back of his blown street machine while busting out donuts and figure eights in a...

Barnstormin’: The Chevy Volt is Nearing Modern Edsel Status With Production Halt

GM’s recent announcement that they are going to stop Chevy Volt production for five weeks in order to manage inventory levels is the latest piece of bad news to beset one of the most highly...

2012 March Meet Gallery: Awesome Artistic Photos From Liam Garrity

(Photos by Liam Garrity) – By now, we’ve showed you the 2012 March Meet from many different perspectives and angles. From the broadcast tower where we shot our live video, to the top end...

Denver Schutz Drives a Front Engine Top Fueler Up a Wall and Down Again Without Flipping

Today at the 2012 March Meet Top Fuel racer Denver Schutz appeared to suffer a crash on the top end of the race track. In actuality, he pulled off one of the most incredible front engine dragster...