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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! | Day 1 | INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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Proper Vintage F1 Racing in Monaco: The 2026 Monaco Historic Grand Prix Did Not Disappoint! Awesome Racing Action!

I’m not a die hard Formula 1 fan that follows all the racers and points and such. But I appreciate the cars and the racing and all the technology that is present in that world nowadays. With...

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LIVE REPLAY: Circuit of the Americas GT World Challenge America powered by AWS 2026

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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5.30 OUTLAW SMALL TIRE GANGSTERS AT MOORESVILLE! 704 OUTLAWS SEASON OPENER APRIL 2026!

We’ve said it multiple times, but it still makes me smile when I see heads up no-prep racers running an index class, and the awesome popularity of Lil’ Gangsta’s and other classes...

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Collection Gallery: The Simeone Foundation Museum – Philadelphia, PA

While we’re normally bludgeoning you over the head with big blocks, nitro, drag strip antics, and assorted mechanical mayhem, we have a slightly more tasteful side. That’s the side that...

Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week 2010: They’ve survived Day One

Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week 2010 is living up to each and every past event, story, or adventure. We’ve worked on a ton of cars on the road, and have seen plenty of great dragstrip action...

Drag Week Tuesday Update: Larson Leads, Cline’s in the Beach, Yost in the 8s

The racing portion of Tuesday on Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2010 Presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive has ended and the cruise has begun. As with all good drag races there was some drama on the...

Event Gallery: Hemmings Musclepalooza Englishtown 2010

Hemmings created a real monster when they came up with their now famous Musclepalooza events. They’ve evolved from one a year affairs held at Lebanon Valley Dragway in West Lebanon, NY to a...

Event Gallery: The 2010 Hotrod Hoedown

The 2010 Hot Rod Hoedown held at the Simeone Auto Museum in Philadelphia, Pensylvania was a smashing success. The show is targeted toward cars 1975 and older and due to their loose security measures,...

Hot Rod Drag Week 2010 Coverage: Presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive

  The most grueling test of man and hot rod the world has ever known, Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive is back for 2010 and we’re there to bring you all the...

Crunch Video: A Hot Rod Pile-up

Hot rods that get driven occasionally get crashed. This is a sad but unavoidable fact. We’ve all seen a guy who got a little nuts with his car on the street and hit a tree or pole. One thing...

NASCAR Hall of Fame Attendance Numbers Well Below Predictions

Inflated attendance expectations are coming back to haunt the NASCAR hall of fame which has not drawn people at near the expected rate, according to a Times-Dispatch story. As it turns out, the blame...

Cool Tech Video: Ditch your Valve Springs!

We were tipped off to this neat video featuring a system that replaces the conventional valve springs found in a push rod engine with a cool mechanical setup. Maybe we’re living under a rock,...

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Auto Trader Classic Find: A Pro Street 1955 Ford F100 We’re on the Fence About

Last week, we found a Pro Street 1964 Pontiac GTO that was just totally bad ass. That car was perfect on just about every level. This week, we found another Pro Street machine, this a 1955 Ford F100...

The Parting Shift Re-Run: Larry Larson’s Six-Second Vegas Blast

The next time you hear from us, we’ll likely be spouting about Hot Rod Drag Week, and there is an excellent chance Larry Larson’s name will be involved. The whole world expects the first...

Site of the Week: Cruisin’ Caskets

One of the sad realities of life is that everyone eventually dies. Despite the fact that you are really pretty out of it when dead, people like to get creative with the vessel that they will be...

Awesome Video: Dennis Anderson’s New King Sling Mud Bog Racer

Dennis Anderson is the man who made the Grave Digger monster truck famous and who signed on the dotted line when Clear Channel (who owned the Monster Jam series) wanted to buy the commercial rights...

Retro-Galleries: Thursday and Friday on Hot Rod Drag Week 2009

  By the time that Thursday and Friday roll around on Hot Rod Drag Week, knuckles are bloody, sleep has long since stopped being part of the equation, and the brotherhood and camaraderie that...