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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 Qualifying Is On! 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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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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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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Testing Video: Chaos SuperNationals Testing at Summit Motorsports Park. Funny Cars, Fuel Altereds, and More!

The Chaos Series has been going hot and heavy so far this season, and with lots more racing left there are a lot of teams out there battling it out for points. And the competition is getting tougher,...

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Event Coverage: Pistons and Paint Numero 8

Big thanks to BangShift.com forum member BigDad for providing us this gallery from the Pistons and Paint Numero 8 show in Denton, Texas, on November 14, 2009. The show has humble origins as a small...

Report: NHRA To Sanction Tracks Worldwide

Respected drag racing journalist Rob Geiger is reporting that the NHRA will be sanctioning drag strips in the Middle East in the neat future. This is huge news in the sense that the organization will...

EBay Pick of the Week: Wild Blown Hemi Powered Street Legal Bantam Altered

If you’re thinking what we’re thinking, we share the same mental illness. Our thought process when we laid eyes on this wild hunk of iron jumped directly to Hot Rod’s Drag Week. It...

Monday Time Killer: Tons of Bonneville Pics From the Last 10 Years

This week’s Time Killer will have you spending some quality time on the salt at Bonneville. We happened upon this major league collection of photos while doing some research on another story...

Columnist: NHRA Rules and NASCAR Sucks

Jeff Wolf is a highly respected columnist for the Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper. He often has interesting takes on the worlds of drag racing and Stock Car racing. He never spares the rod when he...

Mendy Fry Set to Haul the Mail in Pomona This Weekend

The end of the NHRA season is upon us once again. It all comes to a screeching halt this weekend in Pomona, Califoria, at the Auto Club Finals. Aside from the normal slate of Sportsman and Pro racing...

Living Legends of Auto Racing Ripped Off By Rogue Employee

The Living Legends of Auto Racing is an organization that works hard to preserve the history of racing on Daytona Beach and of all the the pioneers of Stock Car racing. Unfortunately for them, the...

Belt Driven Big Rig For Sale at Hemmings

Dan Strohl over at Hemmings has ROSS (Rusty Old Stuff Syndrome) just as bad as we do. Being that he works for Hemmings, Dan digs awesome stuff up that’s for sale all the time. This instance...

Craigslist Pick of the Week: Super Cool Barn Find Chevelle

This week’s CraigsList find comes from the lovely burg of Quincy, Illinois. Long story short, it’s a great 1965 Chevelle that spent a couple of decades snoozing in the back of a barn. The...

Columnist to NASCAR Fans: Stop Complaining

We’ve talked about columnists and writers who were in the tank for NASCAR in the past, but we’ve reached a new level on that front with a recent column that appeared on Bleacherreport.com...

A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted: $950,000 for Concept Road Runner

Imagine if you will a world where people have massive amounts of expendable income. In this world the money flows like wine, cars sell for mind numbing prices, and virtually any and all insane...

Vindication! Porsche Built Tractors

My brother in this BangShift madness Chad really likes to break my chops about the unapologetic love I have for tractors. Well here’s mud in your eye pal! The Vancouver Sun recently ran an...

Speedzzter Says: BangShifting International Style is Fun

“You’ve got to have a foreign taste, just to keep balance . . .”– G.T.O. , “Two-Lane Blacktop” (1971). I stood at the newsstand wondering “What in the world...

LA Times Reports on Ashley Force Hood’s iPod; Weird List of Songs Ensues

Ashley Force-Hood, the NHRA nitro Funny Car pilot (and supreme hottie) who has a shot at the 2009 NHRA Championship was the subject of a recent LA Times.com story that profiled her five most favorite...