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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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Vintage Drag Video: The Coolest Jungle Jim Tribute Video We Have Ever Seen

One of the great games that fans of vintage drag racing play is “what if.” If history could be rewritten and events were to happen in a different way, how would things be different? One...

Cool Show Coverage From Down Under: The 44th Victorian Hot Rod Show

The guys over at CarDomain posted some show coverage from the 44th Victorian Hot Rod show held in Melbourne, Australia. This is one of the longest running shows in Oz and therefore draws lots of the...

No Winches on Mars: Spirit Rover Stuck For Nearly a Year, Probably Forever

The Mars rover Spirit is currently stuck in a sand pit and has been for nearly a year. NASA engineers are working hard to figure a way to get the robotic machine out of its quagmire because it...

Tough Times: W.J and K.J to Start 2010 NHRA Season Without Primary Sponsors

In a true sign of the financial times, both Warren Johnson and his son Kurt will begin the 2010 NHRA season without primary sponsorship and may only compete at a handful of races through the year....

Toyota Crisis Worsens, Cars Pulled From Rental Fleets, A Million More Cars Recalled

In what is quickly turning into one of the great automotive company catastrophies of all time, Toyota has recalled an addditional 1.1 million vehicles due to the potential for them to unintentionally...

GM’s New Chief Whitacre Isn’t a Car Guy, Columnnist Thinks That May Not Be a Problem

With Ed Whitacre essentially choosing himself to serve as the new CEO at General Motors, pundits and columnists are beginning to share their opinions on the man who publicly admitted that he...

Video: Chrysler Begins Airing New Charger Ads

Starting last weekend, Chrysler began airing a new series of ads for the Dodge Charger. They are focusing on the “manly” attributes of the sedan and eschewing stuff like the cupholder...

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Video Bonanza: Idiots Jumping Cars and Trucks

This set of videos, featuring amateurs jumping their cars and trucks will make you laugh, cringe, and deflect your eyes from the screen. A couple of the jumps are really funny and others absolutely...

This Could Be the Craziest Cylinder Head Ever

For those of you not familiar with Sonny Leonard, he is a legendary southern engine builder who is well known for his big-cubic-inch nitrous and naturally aspirated engines. When we say big cubic...

eBay Find: Uber Rare Smokey Ram Intake Manifold

We probably should be callous to this stuff by now, but we’re not. We shouldn’t be shocked, or even mildly surprised when unicorn-esque speed parts show up on eBay, but we turn into giddy...

Brent Hajek: Racer, Farmer, Potential Reality Show Star

We’ve always thought of Brent Hajek as a human dynamo. Anyone capable of operating a massive farm, a car museum, an oil field operation, a racing team, and a trucking company is worthy of that...

Site of the Week: Massive Collection of International Harvester Truck Photos

International Harvester started building trucks in 1907 and kept building them for more than 70 years. Along the way they introduced many innovations into the working vehicles of America and with...

Toyota Issues Massive Recall, Suspends Sales of Eight Models

Toyota, the largest auto company in the world, has issued a recall of 2.3 million cars and trucks and additionally, has suspended the sales of eight models at dealers. The issues surround sticking...

English Car Thieves Steal Car on Test Drive With Salesman

Forgive us for being heavy on the stolen car stuff today, but these stories are just too good. Our latest tale of automotive chicanery involves an English car salesmen and two thieves who used the...