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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Insane Carnage Video: Open-Wheel Cars Make Crappy Airplanes

The nightmare scenario for any open wheel racer is tire-to-tire contact with a competitor, especially at high speed. One not need be a genius to see why it is a problem for the tires of these cars to...

Drag Gallery: A Day at the Digs from Houston Motorsports Park

Our Texas based photo correspondent Charles Wickam has been a busy dude. Recently he went and took a shop tour at the School of Automotive Machinists and he also attended the drags at Houston...

American Thunder Video: A 1964 Fairlane 500 Hauls Ass on the ‘Ring

This is some of the greatest footage we’ve ever seen. This is video of a (modern) Holman Moody built 1964 Fairlane 500 being raced in Germany on the famed Nurburgring. It is in some sort of...

Resto of NASCAR 1965 Impala Proceeds at Amazing Pace

We admire guys who take on a project and then really get after it. They have the car blown apart within a week and progress gets made on a day to day basis. That’s a skill set we haven’t...

The Top 11: Best Foreign Cars to Swap Domestic V8 Grunt Into

The AC Ace would probably be little more than another entry on a list of obscure British cars if it hadn’t been for Carroll Shelby’s decision to buy them in bulk and stuff Ford motors...

Caption This Photo: Charles Sleeping on the Job Again

A few weeks back we showed you a photo of our photo contributor Charles Wickam sleeping on the wall at Bowling Green’s Beech Bend Raceway. What we failed to tell you was that there was another...

New Parts: FAST LSXr 102MM Intake Manifold For LS3 Engines

Got yourself a rectangle port LS3-style motor? Looking for a hot intake manifold to boost your power? FAST has just released the right thing for you. Their new LSXr 102mm intake manifold has proven...

Old School Carnage: Killer World-Wide Footage From the 1980’s

The 1980s were filled with lots of great racing. They were also filled with lots of great wrecking as this video shows. Taking footage from all over the world, you’ll see everything from NASCAR...

Barnstormin’: Thoughts During a Short Ride Home From the Land Speed Races in Loring, Maine

Sure the ride was eight hours, but in comparison to the vast majority of competitors at the 2010 LTA Meet at the former Loring Air Force Base, my trip home was weak sauce. Many are literally still...

RacingJunk Find: A Cool LSR 1927 Ford Rear-Engine Roadster

After spending one of the better weekends of our gearhead life at Loring, Maine last weekend in the thick of the LSR action, we’re stuck on the idea of having a car to screw around with in the...

Video: More Mooneyes Summer 2010, With Cacklefest

We had a great time at the Mooneyes Summer 2010 show and brought you photos and video of the car show, cacklefest and drag racing action, but here is more! You’ll find cool customs, hot rods,...

Loring Timing Association 2010 Meet — Sunday

It’s all over. The 2010 Loring Timing Association’s 2010 LSR meet is in the books. New members of the 200mph club were announced, and the final passes were made. We’d love to give...

Taxi Cab Drama: Crown Vics out, Electrics or Hybrids in?

Yellow Crown Victorias are as important to New York City culture as street corner hot dogs, thin crust pizza, and the Statue of Liberty. Good thing Ford doesn’t have anything to do with the...

Project Car Spotlight: One Dirty Malibu Wagon

It’s no secret that, here at BangShift.com, we like wagons and getting dirty. Which means it’s only natural for us to do a Project Car Spotlight on DirtyWhiteBoy’s cool Malibu wagon...