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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Influence and Impact E9 – SEMA Show History, Trends, and Bluetooth Driveshafts. What Is The SEMA Show Really All About?

The SEMA Show in Las Vegas is arguably one of the least understood events of the year. I say this, because multiple people each year talk to me about a car or truck that their buddy owns or built...

Even More PRI Show Photos: The Cars And Parts Of The 2023 PRI Show Were Like My Christmas List Come True. Check Them Out.

We’ve got more photos from the 2023 PRI Show in Indy. Man this place is full of epic stuff that I’d really love to see under the tree or under the hood in 2024. The PRI Show is where everyone...

Two Minutes of Cringe: This 1980s Thank You Video From Pontiac Fiero Plant Is Hilariously Weird

We know their heart was in the right place. We know the intention of this video was to thank and encourage a specific Pontiac dealer to keep pressing Fiero sales. We understand that these people are...

Watch Bob Wollek Dominate An IMSA Race At Sears Point And Then Wreck Horribly In The 1980s

Many people only know Bob Wollek from just a single weird encounter he once had with a tv reporter during the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1985. Aggravated that he had been swapped out for team driver AJ...

The Lombard Steam Log Hauler History And Video Of A Restored Beast Operating!

The Lombard Steam Log Hauler was an invention that came from the mind of a talented Maine mechanic named Alvin Lombard. Logging was and is extremely tough and dangerous work. Even after all the...

Hydrazine Video: This US Air Force Film Talks About The Dangers Of Drag Racing’s Most Exotic Fuel – Unreal!

We all know the stories about hydrazine and drag racing. The hypergolic monopropellant used in rockets was used by hot rodders in the 1960s to spice up the nitromethane they were using in their...

Dylan McCool Got A Hold Of RICHARD PETTY’S Forgotten Cadillac Limo – WILL IT RUN After 28 Years?

Dylan McCool recently got a hold of Richard Petty’s 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Limo and he’s trying to make that bad boy run again! Yeah, that Richard Petty, number 43 himself, who is...

Dave Newbern’s ProCharged Fox Body Mustang Drag And Drive Car Gets Some Upgrades For Bigger Power!

Newbern’s Fox Body Mustang is his first, and while the ProCharged 5.3 made okay power as is, he knows he needs more power and so with the direction of some pretty smart folks, he’s...

Stock And Super Stock Mud Racing Video: Killer Video From The Mud Racers Association Battling It Out In Missouri

I dig all kinds of side by side racing and that means that sand drags, mud drags, and dirt drags are pretty fun to watch. In this video from the gang at Back Channel Productions, we’re going to...

Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – WILL IT RUN BETTER!? New Valve seals and much more!

Today’s update on the budget shop truck build, which includes a clean long bed to short bed conversion, has some work going on to make this thing have less blowby and more so that it runs...

Kevin From KSR Performance And Fabrication Says “This Is The Worst Engine Destruction I Have Ever Had!!”

I talked to Kevin at the PRI Show and asked him about all the carnage in this video and then we laughed a lot. Why? Well it turns out that if you take a stock bottom end LS engine and try to spin it...

PRI Show Photos: The Cars And Parts Of The 2023 PRI Show Were Like My Christmas List Come True. Check Them Out.

We’ve got more photos from the 2023 PRI Show in Indy. Man this place is full of epic stuff that I’d really love to see under the tree or under the hood in 2024. The PRI Show is where everyone...

Awesome Racing History: This Film Shows How Firestone Worked To Develop The Racing Fuel Cell More Than 50 Years Ago

After the deaths of world famous racers like Fireball Roberts and others, the racing community finally decided that enough was enough and that a new solution to controlling and carrying fuel was...

Video: The Cool History Of A Not So Lost Race Track In London, England – Neat Stuff

Hunting old race tracks is one of my most favorite things to do. Finding the remains, standing in the location that history was made, checking out how Mother Nature has reclaimed the land that was...