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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 11 Racing Action! Dakar Rally 2026 Is Nearly Complete! Will The Dunes Be Conquered?

Here comes Stage 11! How will it compare to the previous 10? Speed was key in Stage 10 because slowing down in the soft stuff will make a really tough stage even tougher. It may be getting closer and...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week Registration Opens January 16th and January 17th! Get Ready For One Of The Greatest Drag and Drives!

Rocky Mountain Race Week is back for 2026 and we’re excited to be heading to the mountains, crossing the plains, and having one kick ass time at some awesome race tracks. If you want to see...

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2026 Ford Mustang Dark Horse SC First Look: A Shelby GT500 in All but Name. Is This Ford’s Best Mustang?

It’s a new name, but familiar roots and power, which is why this may be one of the coolest modern Mustangs ever built. I know that is saying a lot since they recently highlighted the new...

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Minis, Minis, And More Minis: Here Is High Winding, Side by Side, Sideways, Mini Racing Action From Goodwood In England.

If you don’t dig old school Minis, then you are NOT my kind of people. These little machines are responsible for so much in motorsports today and are an absolute riot. They weigh 5 lbs, are...

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Budget Friendly 1971 Bumpside Ford F100 4WD Transformation! DIY Paint Revival And New Wheels And Tires!

It’s time for some love for this 1971 F100. It doesn’t need much to make a very big difference in how this thing looks, so in the video below it’s getting some slot mags, new tires,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera 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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Gateway International Raceway is Latest Drag Strip to Rise From the Ashes; On NHRA 2012 Schedule

Dead drag strips seem to be crawling out of their graves like zombies this summer and that’s a-OK with us! Gateway International Raceway, just outside of St. Louis, Missouri has been lifeless...

Nitro Video: A Nitro Guzzling Flat Four VW Dragster That Goes 7s (and Could Go Into the 6s!)

Yesterday we told you about a slingshot powered by a nitro burning Jeep engine and today we’re bringing you more oddly awesome nitro powered stuff! This video is of the Wolfgang International...

Last Day of Voting: The First BangShift Burnout Battle Ends Today!

Consider this a sneak preview of coming attractions here at BangShift. We’re planning on a weekly burnout contest called the BangShift Burnout Battle! The details are still being worked out...

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Big Drag Gallery: The 2011 Yellow Bullet Nationals

The second Yellow Bullet Nationals did lots of stuff. It showcased some of the best doorslammer racers in the country, it packed Cecil County Dragway, and best of all, it silenced all the idiots who...

Event Gallery: The 2011 Paw Paw Pull in the Park – Paw Paw, Illnois

We normally get photo dispatches from Greg Rourke that feature cool shows, drag strip action, and muscle car hooliganism. This time we’re heading to the smoking section with pulling tractors...

Racing Junk Find: A Slingshot Dragster Sporting A Nitro Slurping Jeep Straight Six

There are lots of unique slingshot dragsters out there but we’re for sure this is the only one in the world that runs down the track with power provided by a nitro drinking Jeep straight six...

More Vintage Carnage: The King and Marshall AA/FD Climbs the Stairway to Heaven!

We’re back again with more crazy video from Jim Knights at Lebanon Valley Dragway. On the same weekend of the insane Funny Car Wreck we showed you earlier, Ray Helger, driving the historic King...

Funny Car Wreckage: A Video Flip Book of a Flopper Burnout Gone Very Wrong

Driving a Funny Car of any significance is pretty serious business. Just because it doesn’t have a huge huffer, nitro running through the fuel system, or potential to run 300mph doesn’t...

Hot Rod Drag Week 2011 Countdown: Rumors, Reality, and More!

It’s September boys and girls and that means the baddest street cars on the planet are about to embark on the most bitchin road trip in history; Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week, presented by...

End of the Line: Ford Crown Victoria Production to Cease at the End of September Despite Sales Surge

Police departments are rushing to get their final orders in for the venerable Ford Crown Victoria sedans that have served them so well for decades as it has been announced production will cease at...

Great Video: Hot Cars, Hot Laps, and Melting Tires at Norway’s Arctic Circle Raceway

We were tipped off to this great video by BangShift member Blazerteam, who happens to live in a Norwegian town called Mo i Rana. He’s a huge gearhead with a wild big block Chevy powered...

BangShift Sponsors tear it up at the Midwest Muscle Car Challenge

BangShift Sponsors Detroit Speed, Ridetech and Spectre Performance were all on hand at this past weekend’s Midwest Muscle Car Challenge where, as usual, they tore it up in grand fashion. The...

Wild Carnage Video: Tony Kanaan Flies Over Helio Castroneves, Walks Away

Crazy stuff happens when open wheel race cars get together. Two of the best guys in the business of driving said open wheel cars are Tony Kanaan and Helio Castroneves. They had a violent encounter...

Ridetech takes 3 of 4 class wins at Goodguys Kansas Autocross…Full Results Here

Not since Britney Spears and Madonna has going both ways been such a hit, and who knew that it would apply to shocks just as much as hot chicks? Ever since Ridetech came out of the closet and...