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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Laris Motorsports Insurance $75K Big Money Bracket Racing Livestream! Saturday $75k!

It’s time for more LIVE drag racing, and this time it is from the big money bracket races at Darana Raceway National Trail in Hebron Ohio as they Laris Motorsports Insurance $75,000 To Win race...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: War in the Woods at Brown County Dragway – NO PREP DRAG RACING GREATNESS – Friday

If you don’t know Brown County, and the War in the Woods races, then you don’t follow No Prep because this is one of the most famous races and tracks in the No Prep drag racing world. Thanks to...

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Free Livestream: Check Out Qualifying From The Shakedown At US131 As The Mid West Drag Racing Series And Radial Outlaws Prepare For The Weekend!

US 131 has been open for testing the past few days as both the Mid West Drag Racing Series and Radial Outlaws Racing Series prepare to take over the famed US 131 Motorsports Park. I’ve raced...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At Tri-State Raceway – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! 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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Pavement Pounder Events Motor City To Wheel Hub LIVE Event Did Not Disappoint! Our Photo Coverage Starts Right Now!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) We came out to hang with Cole Quinnell and his event Pavement Pounder’s Motor City to Wheel Hub Live about one minute after we got our ’65 Impala SS...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Final Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos From Charlotte!

Here’s our final nitro gallery from the NHRA Four Wide Nationals in Charlotte. If you missed our previous photos, use the link below to check out all our Four Wide photos. (Photos by David...

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BREAKING NEWS: Yahoo! GM Unveils Product Plans, 2014 Camaro Included!

Today, GM held a press conference announcing its short term product release plans and they included a mention about the Camaro being “freshened” in the 2014/2015 model year. This is good...

Chrysler Boosting Truck Production; Cash for Clunkers to Blame?

With the recent news that the Cash for Clunkers program is spurring on the sales of trucks and SUVs more than it is for economy minded cars, we got to thinking when we heard that Chrysler was ramping...

Anatomy of an Epic Fail: Chrysler and Cerberus

There were few modern business deals more mystifying to the gearhead universe than the purchase of Chrysler from Daimler by Cerberus Capital Management. The private equity firm jumped feet-first into...

Stiff Neck Stops Schumacher; Comback to Ferrari Called Off

Citing lingering neck issues tied to a motorcycle accident he had earlier this year, Michael Schumacher has announced that he will not be driving for Felipe Massa after all. The seven-time F1...

This Gives Us Sweaty Palms: Camaros Are Coming to KONI Challenge

Here’s great news for fans of racing that does not take place in a straight line or on a circle. Momentum Race Group has announced that it will debut a 2010 Camaro road race car at the October...

eBay Pick of the Week: Solid 409 Powered Project Impala

The 409 sure has a special spot in the annals of hot rodding and muscle car history. Everything about the motor, right down to the shape of the cylinder heads, is indicative of the era when Detroit...

Event Coverage: Monday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week

The 2009 SCTA/BNI Speed Week at Bonneville got hot on its third day, and we aren’t just talking about the 105-degree temperatures. With teams vying for a piece of record pie, the Hot Rod Top...

Video: In-Car Camera of a 218-MPH Pass at Bonneville

In 2008, Bonneville racer Ed Goodrich was a huge help to the BangShift.com race team. After our race Camaro’s front air dam was protested, we drove 180 miles to Ed’s home in Idaho, took...

Event Coverage: Sunday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week

Speed Week 2009 is reinforcing Bonneville Speedway’s “World’s Fastest” designation, and in grand fashion. Jump here for the BangShift.com photo gallery of Sunday’s...

Bonus Bonneville Gallery: Photos by Scott Clark

Our readers are once again proving that they are the coolest on the internet. Here is a bonus gallery of photos, shot by Scott Clark (known as dieselgeek) at Bonneville. Chad is zapping photos at a...

Event Coverage: 2009 NSRA Street Rod Nationals

Big thanks to astute reader and forum member Chris Morgan (CM325 on the BangShift.com forums) for attending and shooting a ton of great photos at the 2009 NSRA Street Rod Nationals. We took his...

Event Coverage: Saturday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week

Today was the first day of competition at the SCTA/BNI 2009 Bonneville Speed Week, and if today’s top speed is any indication of things to come, we are in for some great racing action. Poteet...

BangShift.com Coverage of the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week Starts Now

It’s almost midnight in Wendover, Utah, on August 7, and I just arrived in town (late, as usual) to start off the BangShift.com coverage of the SCTA/BNI 2009 Bonneville Speed Week. Racing...

One Last Time: Hear Lohnes Calling Hot Drag Race Action on Saturday!

No date for Saturday night? Hankering to hear a guy with funny accent scream about “dragstas” and “jet cahs”? We’ve got the perfect thing for you! I’ll be...