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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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Suspended NASCAR Driver Jeremy Mayfield’s Ex-Brother In Law Suspended From NASCAR For Drugs

NASCAR’s drug policy has nabbed two more offenders and one of them is Jeremy Mayfield’s ex-brother in law, William Keith. The the other suspended crewman is Matthew Huffstetler, who works...

Awesome Video: Huge Trucks Flying Through the Air At Crazy Mud Bogging Event

We think we know about all types of racing and wild motorsports events, but on a pretty regular basis we’re slapped with something incredible we’ve never seen before. This video of the...

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Highway Deaths Hit Lowest Level Since 1954

Yay for us! Highway death in the US dropped for the 15th straight quarter to the lowest levels seen since 1954. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration attributes the drop to lots of...

Holy Freakin’ Torque: GM Releases 2011 Duramax Diesel V8 Specs

Most likely as a move to steal some thunder from the upcoming Ford “Scorpion” diesel, GM dropped the goods on what kind of snot its 6.6L Duramax will be making in 2011. How about 397 hp...

RacingJunk Find: All-New Boss 429 Crate Engines

The Boss 429 is a legendary powerplant from the epic muscle car era. Some would argue that in street trim, the engine left a lot on the table, but its massive ports and hemispherical combustion...

Carnage Video: Car Flips and Burns at 24 Hours of Lemons

By now most of you have heard of 24 Hours of Lemons, the road-race enduro series with gag cars that supposedly cost less than $500 to build, safety equipment aside. Seems it’s a good thing that...

Hilarious Video: Trucks Climbing Each Other

We’ve seen magazine covers and other other static photos of massive trucks perched up on another truck’s tire, we’ve just never seen it done in moving pictures. We’re hoping...

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Hot Rod Magazine 2010 Drag Week Tracks, Dates, and Rules Announced

Hot Rod Magazine has announced the 2010 dates, tracks, and rules for Drag Week presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive. The fun kicks off on Monday, September 13, 2010 and rages all through the...

Carnage Video: A Tractor Puller Crashes Through the End of the Course

Last week we showed you video of a pulling truck losing its entire rear axle assembly at the end of a pull. Today we’re showing you what happens when the pulling sled itself fails and causes a...

Event Coverage: Sunday at the 2010 Goodguys Scottsdale Spring Nationals

It’s been a perfect weekend here in Scottsdale, Arizona, at Westworld where BangShift.com’s third day at the 2010 Goodguys Spring Nationals delivered even more cool cars. As promised we...

Great Plate: His Maserati….

We’ve got to thank intrepid BangShift.com reader Paul Layfayette for sending us this photo that he shot on his commute to work last week. We can’t recommend snapping photos at 80 mph on...

eBay Find: Kooky Kustom 1961 Corvair

Talk about bizarro world! This 1961 Corvair was put through the full kustom treatment in the late 1960s or early 1970s and then stored. It’s a time capsule to a world we’re not sure we...

Event Coverage: Saturday at the 2010 Goodguys Scottsdale Spring Nationals

It’s been a perfect day here in Scottsdale, Arizona, at Westworld for BangShift.com’s second day at the 2010 Goodguys Spring Nationals. As promised when we gave you a photo gallery from...

eBay Find: Kenny Bernstein’s 1987 Buick Batmobile LeSabre Funny Car Body

This could be the drag racing barn find of the decade. The infamous 1987 Buick LeSabre Funny Car body used by Kenny Bernstein but designed and perfected by Dale Armstrong was located in a storage...