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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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Texas Cops Hate Their New Camaro

By the sounds of it, the worst thing that ever happened to the Seven Points Police Department in Texas was the purchase of a new Camaro to be used as a patrol car. The officers largely hate it, the...

In Car Video Action: When Larson’s Nova Was Pink and Sporting a Huffer!

Well isn’t this retro? We found some awesome in-car footage from back when Larry Larson’s Nova was all-pink and sporting a screamin’ 14-71 blower atop a 555ci big block Chevy. The...

New NHRA Division Director Points to End of Gateway International Raceway

We’ve reported on the current situation regarding Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois (right next to St. Louis) previously. The track is off of the NASCAR truck schedule for 2011...

Racing Junk Find: Two Piles of Pontiac Power

We were doing a logical thing the other day, shopping for engines that would be perfect for vehicles we don’t own. Eschewing the Chevrolet and Ford families, we were looking for something weird...

Hot Rod Drag Week Video: Thursday Action From Milan, Rolling in the Rain, Thrashing on the Roadside!

Thursday was an epic day on Hor Rod Drag Week 2010 presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive. There were big numbers on the strip, insane weather, close calls and near misses on the highway, and even...

Day Three of Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week 2010 is in the books

It’s starting to feel like a long week for competitors in Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week 2010 presented by Gear Vendors. The level of carnage is rising, nerves are frayed, the competition...

Killer Drag Week 2010 Video: 1320Video’s Footage From Indy – Day 3

Wheelstands, big numbers, and smiles were the order of the day on Drag Week 2010 when the band of traveling drag race minstrels raced on the hallowed ground of Indy during day two action. Kyle of...

Hot Rod Drag Week 2010 – Thursday Update

Thursday racing at Milan Dragway was hot and heavy on the 2010 version Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week. The six second barrier has not been breached but Jeff Lutz made a run at it in his awesome ’57...

Barnstormin’: Clearing the Mental Notebook Again

It is time once again to clear all those loose, random, disjointed thoughts out of my cranium. It has been a heck of a summer covering events, wrenching on Goliath, hanging out with the kids, and...

Vintage NASCAR Wreckage Video: Johnny Allen Crash and Fire at Darlington Circa 1962

As much as we loathe the modern iteration what a racing “stock car” is, they are a vastly improved piece, on the safety front than their older brothers. Proof of this comes in the form of...

Hot Rod Drag Week Gallery: Pit Photos From Day One at National Trail

While you wait for the latest breaking news (and lots of the news seems to be about stuff breaking) we thought we’d hold you at bay with a great gallery of shots submitted by BangShifter Mike...

Abandoned GM Plants Still Haunt Company

While General Motors continues plodding progress toward an IPO and eventual freedom from US government control, the ghosts of the past still linger. We were tipped off to a great, but depressing...

Hot Rod Drag Week Gallery: Wednesday Action at Indy!

Another exciting day or racing, thrashing, and cruising during Hot Rod Drag Week 2010 presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive is documented in this gallery from our man on the scene Chad Reynolds....

Drag Week Wednesday: Flirting with the 6s, Getting Beat by the Clock, Carnage Mounts

As Hot Rod Drag Week presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive day two draws to close, we’re going to being you a quick update on the action that happened at the track today and what went down...