UPDATE: Hot Rod Drag Week – Day One News, Video and Huge Gallery – Topeka, Kansas
The quarter mile combat at Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week presented by Gear Vendors 2011 has officially begun! It was a big day at Heartland Park of Topeka, where the largest field of Drag Week racers in...
VOTE NOW — BangShift Burnout Battle: A Hot Rodded Harley and a Healthy Mustang Burn ’em to the Cords
For our second installment of the minty-fresh BangShift Burnout Battle, we’ve got two guys from Massachusetts slugging it out in very different ways. Mike and Jeff were the first two guys to...
Photo Link: 1320Video’s 2011 Hot Rod Drag Week Gallery From Topeka
We’re not the only embedded media unit on the 2011 Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week presented by Gear Vendors. Our pal Kyle Loftis of 1320Video is out shooting lots of killer video and photos as...
Screaming Dyno Video: Repeated 9000-RPM Pulls on a NASCAR Engine Being Converted to EFI
One of the latest videos from the prolific Nelson Racing Engines shop is a near eight minute cut of dyno testing a legit ex-NASCAR engine that the shop converted over to EFI for a Bonneville team. It...
Photo Link: Optima Batteries Coverage of the 2011 Holley LS Fest
It was another great weekend in Bowling Green, Kentucky as the second annual Holley LS Fest went down at historic Beech Bend Raceway just a couple days ago. Our own Chad Reynolds was in town to serve...
Saturday Night Nitro Lives on Both Coasts; Bakersfield, CA and Epping, NH Both Hosting Big Flopper Match Races This Weekend
When we got tipped off about the big Saturday Night Nitro show happening at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield this weekend, we smiled widely. The reason? About 3000 miles east of Famoso, New England...
Explosion Video: Scary Footage of a Big Rig Tire Exploding on German Firefighters
If this video doesn’t make you cringe, we don’t know what will. The footage shows a team of (reportedly) German firefighters showing up on the scene of a burning trailer that was being...
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...
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...
