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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Thursday Dragster Roller Shootout!

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Am Time Trials & Qualifying From Darana Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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Here’s The Story Of Freiburger’s Original Muscle Truck, And How We Helped Make This Awesome Squarebody A Thing!

I am willing to bet that there probably isn’t anyone who’s cut more stuff off of Freiburger’s Muscle Truck than I have. Since I was there for the original build, as part of our...

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The 2027 Dakar Rally Route Has Been Announced! Check Out Where It’s Going Below!

We’ve been fans of the Dakar Rally for decades, and we love to share coverage from the race here whenever possible. It’s been an interesting journey for the Dakar Rally in the last 10...

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Drag Race Feature: This 900HP, 511 Cubic Inch FE Powered, 1967 Mercury Comet Nostalgia Super Stocker Runs 9s!

This 1967 Mercury Comet is a really cool Nostalgia Super Stocker that brings back memories of some cool Mercury drag cars I grew up with at Fremont Dragstrip in Northern California. One of my...

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Video: Ten Minutes of Rally Wreckage

This video is a win for several reasons. The first is that it features nothing but the pure sounds of wreckage. There’s no dumbass techno soundtrack or other distractions, instead there are...

Vintage NASCAR-NAGE Video: Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp Leave the Ball Yard in 1960

First we’ll say that it defies logic that either of these men lived, let alone both. This is another piece of old nascar footage from Daytona. It was also shot in 1960, like the large wreck of...

Mayfield In Court, Judge Confused About Brian France’s Address

As we reported yesterday, the legal teams representing former NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield and the sanctioning body were in court today to settle differences in opinion about sharing information...

Breaking News: Bob Tasca Sr., Legendary Ford Dealer and Performance Icon, Has Passed Away

The patriarch of the Tasca Family, the creator of both the Ford Thunderbolt, and Cobra Jet Mustang, the man who nearly single handedly brought John Force into the Ford fold, and the man who fostered...

Henry Ford Museum Pops The Hoods of Display Cars

The Henry Ford museum has a section called Automobiles in American life, and since 1987, all the cars in that section have been on display with their hoods closed. Museum officials have decided to...

eBay Auction for Boyd Coddington’s Last Project Car Ends Today

On New Years Eve we reported that the French Connection, the last car to come from the shop of Boyd Coddington, was being sold on eBay. That auction ends today, and we know you’ll be watching....

Vintage NASCAR-nage Video: 37-Car Wreck at Daytona in 1960

We seem to be on a bit of a nostalgia NASCAR video hot streak lately. This footage is truly killer. It was shot at a 250-mile Modified race run at Daytona in 1960. The field consisted of 73 different...

Don Prudhomme Retires From Drag Racing

The storied, 47-year career of drag racing legend Don “The Snake” Prudhomme has drawn to a close. In an announcement that was made on Thursday, January 7, Prudhomme thanked his fans and...

Craigslist Pick: When Custom Paint Goes Wrong

When we saw photos of this four-door 1957 Chevy for sale in New Jersey we flashed back to a strange time in history called the 1990s. During that time, it was acceptable and in some cases encouraged...

Video: The Coolest NASCAR Film of All Time

Bar none, end of story, this video featuring clips from NASCAR racing in the 1960s is the coolest stock car racing video we have ever seen. There’s Ford FEs running with the valve covers off,...

Action In the Jeremy Mayfield Case Scheduled for Thursday

On Thursday, the legal teams for NASCAR and Jeremy Mayfield have to meet with a Federal judge due to some issues with the discovery phase of the lawsuit. Basically, the NASCAR attorneys are claiming...

Old Time Carnage Video: Ancient Stock Car Flies Off Track and Wipes Out Grandstand

All we really have to work with on this video is the date, which is 1960 and the place, which is Darlington Speedway. Let’s just say that it was a bad day to be sitting in the elevated...

NASCAR Scene Weekly Publication Bites the Dust

NASCAR Scene, which for nearly 30 years has been the weekly publication of record covering the world of stock car racing, is no more. The vast majority of the staff was laid off on Tuesday and word...

GM Chief On Saab: Pay Up, Sucka

We’re liking GM Chairman Ed Whitacre more and more. He’s been rip-roaring through the management ranks at the General, replacing the old guard with new people who want to light a fire...