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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: THE WORLD SUPER PRO CHALLENGE AT MID MICHIGAN – $10,000 To Win Thursday!

It’s free drag racing time baby! Our friends at Drag Racer TV are bringing us free live streaming video all weekend from the World Super Pro Challenge at Mid Michigan Motorplex, and it starts today...

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NHRA Division 6 Divisional Drag Racing Livestream: Catch All The Racing Action LIVE From Woodburn

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 6! 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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2026 Pro Pulling League Tractor Pulling Action From The Elkhart County 4-H Fair – Pull Session 1 and 2

Pro Pulling League Bad Ass Multi-Engine tractors hauling big weight and going big distances baby! Four Pro-Mod engines worth of power right here! Plus Pro Stock, Diesel Trucks, and much more....

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From Home-Grown to Factory-Spec: Here Are Larry Chen’s Favorite Cars That Raced at Pikes Peak in 2026

Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb is one of the most famous, and longest running, races in the United States and with good reason. The first one was heald 110 years ago, in August of 1916 and...

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This Thing Isn’t Pretty! See What Dylan McCool Thinks About REVIVING This Abandoned Dodge Coronet V8 4 Speed They Call Cornbread

Sometimes the ugly ones get passed up when it comes to project cars, and sometimes those ugly ones are the ones that really matter in the end. They are sometimes the very best car to restore, even if...

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Alaska has some Unexpectedly FAST CARS! Alaska’s ONLY Dragstrip Puts On A Summer Street Car Shootout!

While Alaska may not have many drag strips, in fact jus this one at Alaska Raceway Park, what they lack in quantity they more than make up for in scenery. Everyone that has been there says it’s...

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SEMA Gallery: More Great Photos From Wednesday

We’re continuing to find nooks and crannies of the massive convention center that we have not photographed already. This gallery of more than 100 photos is filled with fresh stuff that...

SEMA 2011 VIDEO: Chad Talks New Parts With Liz Miles of Holley

Chad has been heavy breathing about the new stuff from Holley for a couple weeks now, so when the opportunity came up for him to hang out with Liz Miles and get the inside scoop on their new fuel...

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SHOW GALLERY: SEMA WEDNESDAY 2011

Here’s a gallery of photos from our continuing adventure at the SEMA show 2011. All of the manufacturers and companies have stepped up to the plate and the new products and ideas have been...

Bangshift Video: Aeromotive at SEMA 2011

Chad invaded the Aeromotive booth here at the 2011 SEMA show today and spilled the beans on a lot of the technology that the company is working on. As the industry leader in fuel technology,...

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SEMA 2011 – A Couple of Cars That Triggered Our YIKES Reflex

When the week is done and we have probed every dark corner of the massive convention center here in Las Vegas, we’ll run our annual “Worst of” list. That being said, some of this...

SEMA 2011 – COPO Drag Race Camaro From GM Performance

As we said last week (and were widely questioned about!) GM Performance has unveiled their Copo Camaro drag race package concept car here at SEMA. Like the drag packages from Ford and Mopar, this car...

SEMA 2011 – Spectre Performance is in the House!

BangShift sponsor Spectre Performance is here at SEMA 2011 in a big way…literally. Spectre has what we believe to be the fourth largest display at the show, trailing only OEM manufacturers...

New Product: Optima Releases High Performance Digital 1200 Battery Charger

Optima Batteries announced yesterday that they have developed and will begin selling a high performance battery charger and maintainer specifically designed to enhance the performance of Optima and...

Flaming Wreckage Video: Shawn Davis Suffers A Massive Pro Mod Crash at State Capitol Raceway

Shawn Davis made a name for himself as one of the hardest running Pro Mod racers down in bayou country. His red 1957 Chevrolet, with 481ci of screw blown Alan Johnson wedge motor was regularly seen...

Holley Unveil’s NEW Ultra HP Dominator and Cathedral Port Hi Ram

Anyone who doesn’t get excited about a Holley Dominator topped powerplant should consider themselves officially removed from the hot rodding brotherhood. As the biggest and baddest carb on the...

Optima Batteries to Step Up as Primary Sponsor of Dave Grubnic’s Kalitta Motorsports Dragster in 2012

Great news from SEMA today as Optima Batteries announced that they are going to be the primary sponsor on David Grubnic’s Kalitta Motorsports Top Fuel Dragster in 2012. Grubnic, the fan...

Ooga Booga: Mopar Pulls the Wraps Off 800hp V10 Crate Engine

To quote the great Ace Ventura, “Holy testicle Tuesday!” Mopar ripped the veil off the nastiest factory crate engine of all time, a fire breathing 800hp V10 that cranks out almost 700...

BangShift SEMA 2011 Coverage: 350 Plus Photos

Day 1 of SEMA 2011 is over, and we are already tired. With a jillion square feet of all the coolest the aftermarket has to offer, our feet have only just begun to realize pain. After making the...

Crazy Like a Fox? Evan Knoll To Appear in Court November 9 – Fires Attorney – Requests Public Defender

Evan Knoll, the one time drag racing super sponsor, who has been undergoing a pre-trial mental evaluation at the behest of both the government and his own attorney since June is slated to be in court...