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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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Video Bonanza: Altered Wheelbase Freaks on the Streets!

Altered wheelbase cars are some of the most romanticized in drag racing history. They represent one of the earliest evolutionary stages of what we now know as Funny Cars, and for their short time in...

MORE: MISC, Videos

Event Gallery: The Fall Carlisle Car Show and Swap Meet

Joe Grippo, our prolific Pennsylvanian photo contributor, shared a great batch of photos from the Fall Carlisle Collector Car Show and Swap Meet. Joe went hunting for the odd and interesting this...

Auto Trader Classics Find: An Optimistically Priced 1948 Ford F1 Truck

Sometimes these find us. More honestly, they fly right off the screen, slap us, and dare us not to show them to the world. This 1948 F1 Ford truck did just that, and we’re happily obliging it....

Crane Cams Introduces 350-plus New Camshafts for 2011

Don’t call it a comeback. Crane Cams has announced that their engineers have developed more than 350 new camshaft profiles for 2011. There are applications for virtually everything across the...

Diesel Power Video: A One-Off 24 Cylinder Detroit That Makes Nearly 3,000 hp

Two-stroke Detroit Diesel engines are neat and in their many configurations they have provided reliable grunt for decades in hundreds of applications. The mighty sixteen cylinder examples were the...

MORE: ENGINES, Videos

Punching Back: Detroit Automakers Gain Domestic Market Share

Like a woozy boxer snapping to after whiffing the smelling salts, the Detroit car companies have made gains against their foreign competitors and actually (gasp!) gained domestic market share in what...

Twin-Engine Digger Video: A Retro-Awesome Slick Destroying Machine

The age of the twin-engine dragster has long passed. Sadly, there are very few exhibition runners out there to show the drag fans of today, just how bad ass they were. This video was shot at Beaver...

Hero in Bulldozer Saves 32 Houses During Forest Fire

People react differently when placed in life or death situations. Some panic and run, but others bare down, focus, and put fear aside to get the job done. Luckily, for homeowners in Herriman, Utah,...

eBay Find: A Killer 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Vista Hardtop

We were in a classic Pontiac kind of mood while cruising eBay recently and due to that we located one of the neatest and oddest Poncho performers we’ve ever seen. This is a 1960 Pontiac...

Texas-Sized Event Coverage: The 2010 Longhorn Rod Run

Charles Wickam is back with another massive load of photos, this time from the 2010 Longhorn Rod Run, a huge event that takes place every year in Spring, Texas. Like lots of shows this is a money...

Bonus Gallery: More From the Kontinentals Car Club 2010 Day of the Drag Race

Last week we bought you a big gallery of more than 250 photos from the Kontinentals Car Club “Day of the Drag Race” event held in Texas. Well, shooter Charles Wickam found another...

Awesome Wheelie Video: Super Slow Motion Footage, Graceful Launch – Death Wobble Landing

Super slow motion footage is really cool. This video shows exactly why. The killer 1974 Challenger featured in this piece comes off the starting line and hangs the hoops like a good Stock/Super Stock...

Car Show Gallery:The 2010 Spooktastic Cruise n’ Classic Car Show in Whitman, Massachusetts

Car show season in New England really finds another gear in the early fall. Cool weather and changing foliage are two awesome reasons to get your junk out of the garage and onto the road to enjoy the...

Update: The Road Tour Express. Team One is on the road!

PART II includes first day challenge video, drama, and more and can be found near the bottom of the page.  PART I.  The Inaugural Road Tour Express, presented by Borla, Holley, Comp Cams,...