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The Last of our Lost Buckeye Skips Drag and Drive Photos! Our Final Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our last gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link to...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: PDRA Testing For This Weekend’s Maryland International Raceway Event! Live Testing Action.

We’ve got some live track testing going on at Maryland International Raceway where PDRA’s top teams are on hand to see what kind of improvements they can make as they get ready for this...

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Robin Shutes Onboard Video Pikes Peak 2026. 2nd Overall, 1st in Super Unlimited, and Sets the All Time Rear Wheel Drive Record!

If you are like me you are going to watch this video and think how much fun it seems it would be to be driving, and also that this dude could have been going even faster. Yeah, that’s not a...

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They Built a BANNED F1 Car From the 70’s! Well Kinda, And It’s Awesome! Who Wants To Build One Of These?

I know I’m not alone in saying that the Tyrrell P34 is one of the coolest looking F1 cars ever produced, not only because the lines are good on it, but also because it’s a freak show with...

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Flat-12 Ferrari Magic in Monaco | John Surtees’ Favourite F1 Car Makes ALL the Right Noises. Pure Bliss.

There are going to be some of the most epic Ferrari’s in Formula 1 history at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and this right here is one of them. The crew caught up with this car...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 4 of 5 – Putting All This Freshly Installed Suspension To The Test On The Track!

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In this video...

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Amazing Video: This Fan Shot NASCAR Footage From Bristol 1990 Shows Michael Waltrip’s Legendary Wreck

This is one of the most wild, incredible, and flat out shocking wrecks in NASCAR history. The best part is that Michael Waltrip walked away from it and completed a 500 lap race at Bristol the next...

Amazing Vintage Drag Film: Here’s The Full Length 1960s Ford Drag Team Feature And It Is Amazing!

This right here is amazing. You are about to see the full length Ford Drag Team feature from the 1960s, a film that we had only ever seen small snippets of over the years. It is both a promotional...

500 Strong: This Video Shows A 327 With A Mini-Blower Making 500hp and 500 lb-ft On The Dyno – Cool!

There was once an engine that roamed the Earth in such numbers that many thought it would rule forever. It was compact, it was small, it was light, and it was as versatile and powerful as anything...

When The Germans Fought Back: This Review Of The 1989 BMW 535i Is A Fun Look Into The Past

It was 1989 and the executives at German car companies were sweating…profusely. Why? Much like the fictional characters on the show “Game of Thrones” they knew a massive threat was...

Iconic Racer And Team Owner Don Schumacher Dies At 79: Motorsports Icon Don Schumacher Leaves Lasting Legacy After Battle with Cancer

JUPITER, Fla. (December 21, 2023) – It is with heavy hearts that the Schumacher family announce the passing of motorsports icon Don Schumacher. The NHRA team owner and Funny Car pioneer had spent...

Don Schumacher, Transformational Force In Professional Drag Racing As Boss, Owner, Manufacturer Dies At 79

Don Schumacher, a one man force of nature in the sport of NHRA drag racing for more than 50 years passed away on December 20th due to illness related to a protracted cancer battle, he was 79 years...

Engine 101: How to assemble an LS top end, including heads, valvetrain, intake, and valve covers!

Putting an engine together can be a pretty intense and difficult task depending on the engine and on the tools that you may or may not have. But, luckily, an LS engine is one of the easier ones to...

Vice Grip Garage Gives This 1948 Studebaker Champion Its First WASH & BUFF In 47 Years! Budget Transformation!

I love it when you can take a solid old car and give it a little bit of a spit shine and some careful touches and make it look like something truly special. So when I saw this latest video from Derek...

Same Blower, Different Engines: 3.8L V6 VS 4.8L V8 CHEAP M90 BLOWER TEST. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU RUN THE SAME BLOWER ON BOTH MOTORS?

Richard has been turning the internet on its ear recently with his M90 Supercharger tests. He’s built an adapter plate to run one on a 4.8 LS and has obviously been testing them on the 3.8...

World’s Worst 1957 Chevrolet: The ROTTEN 57 Chevy Gets Her Final Patch Panel – PLUS Homemade LS Fender Well Headers

As if there wasn’t enough rusty sheet metal replaced already, Dan has got one more spot to fix on what he’s calling the World’s Worst 1957 Chevrolet. In fact, he even goes so far as...

This Profile of GATR Racer Shawna Robinson Shows How Wild Big Rig Speedway Racing Was In The 1980s

While this video is centered around the lone female driver in the Great American Truck Racing Series (Shawna Robinson) is is a spectacular look at the series as it was in 1985. The truck were still...

Video: Watch And Listen To This Little Toyota V8 Make 510hp At More Than 8,100 RPM

The Toyota 1UZ-FE engine is interesting because when it debuted in the late 1990s people immediately saw the potential for it to be a strong horsepower maker. It has six bolt mains, an over-square...

Smashing, Baby! This British Review Of The Then New 1974 Lotus Elite Is Glowing To Say The Least

The 1970s were not a great time in the world of British automotive manufacturing. In fact, their domestic car industry kind of came to pieces during that period and never fully bounced back. Sure...

Abandoned 1984 Chevrolet 1 Ton 454 Big Block! Will Mortske Make It Run?!? 4×4 Square Body Transformation.

Mortske is back at it, this time working on a big block truck that he thought he should get in order to have a tow rig. Of course other projects came along and it got pushed to the side, but in...