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Rocky Mountain Race Week Registration Opens January 16th and January 17th! Get Ready For One Of The Greatest Drag and Drives!

Rocky Mountain Race Week is back for 2026 and we’re excited to be heading to the mountains, crossing the plains, and having one kick ass time at some awesome race tracks. If you want to see...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 10 Racing Action! The 2nd Half Of Marathon Stage 2 And The Biggest Dunes YET!

Super soft sand and the biggest dunes of the race, all after spending the night in the middle of the desert in tents and working on their own rides, means Stage 10 is going to be a tough one. Speed...

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What Happens When You Take A Couple Of F1 Drivers And Tell Them They Have To Race 100 Years Of Ford Cars?

If you are used to driving modern Formula 1 cars, and someone throws you into a Model T Ford, you are probably scratching your head and wondering who thought to design things so backwards compared to...

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The LIWA Festival 2026 Hillclimb Was Epic As Always! The Rooster Tails, Stunts, And Carnage Start Right Here!

Well, it’s that time of year where the LIWA Hillclimbs are happening. This is some really fun stuff, where folks come from all over to race up an epic dune in Dubai. Located not far from the Liwa...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 9 Racing Action! The Dunes, The Rocks, And The Mountains Try To Knock Them All Out!

It’s Stage 9, and after running hundreds of miles through the desert on Stages 7 AND 8, there’s a few hundred more in store for all these racers as they get into Day 3 of the 2nd Week of Dakar....

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Photo Bonanza: Here’s All Of Our NHRA 4-Wide Nationals Images In One Place To See!

(Photos by Wes Allison) – This weekend the NHRA returns to traditional two-wide drag racing at Atlanta Dragway for the last running of the NHRA Southern Nationals at that vaunted facility....

One Of Them Racing Deals: Watch The Vintage Formula One Crash At The Monaco Historic Race!

Vintage racing is an awesomely sharp doubled edged sword as we so often learn. On one side you have these amazing machines reliving their glory years on the track, often piloted by some of the best...

Hyundai Builds A Big-Boned Hot Hatch: The 2022 Kona N Carries The Performance Letter But Does It Carry The Performance Flag?

The hot hatchback of old is evolving. It’s getting taller, longer, and wider. Manual transmissions are being replaced by quick-shifting autos or DCTs. They also have a new name: Hot CUVs. Vehicles...

NHRA Insider Podcast: The Comeback Kids – David Grubic and Eddie Krawiec Talk About Getting Back To What They Love

David Grubnic and Eddie Krawiec join Brian Lohnes on the NHRA Insider podcast to talk about life, drag racing, and getting back into the sport that they love in 2021. Grubic, who serves as the crew...

Video: Man Swaps Cummins Diesel Into Late Model Mustang And Takes It To The Dealer For An Alignment – Awesome

This has to be one of the funniest things we have seen in a while. A dude Cummins swapped a late model Mustang and then drove the thing to the dealer to be aligned. He captured the experience on...

This Classic 1974 GMC Sierra Is Squarebody Greatness! Man The Things We’d Do With This Thing!

Love it, hate it, understand it, or don’t, patina is king. Especially when it is earned like the patina on this awesome 1974 GMC Sierra. There is something about a classic truck that just looks...

Will Your Junkyard LS Run On Moonshine? Full Dyno Test Results Are Right Here!

Every car guy, at some point, has heard someone say that some liquor or another was strong enough to run the car on it. But is it true? Could you really run and engine on white lightning? We’re...

$1,000 Build: Still Under Budget! How Is Building A Hot Rod This Cheap Even Possible?

I want to be a disbeliever as well, but the truth is that this is actually happening. If you have budget constraints like most of us, then you really owe it to yourself to watch this series. Not only...

The Mongrel Project Hits The Race Track For The First Time And Hauls Ass

If you haven’t been following the Mongrel project here on BANGshift, then shame on you. It is a bad ass little ride that is built from an old English Ford 100E body that has been channeled over...

It’s Back: The Hot Rod Special Camaro Is Ready For Battle At El Mirage – Let The Record Chasing Begin Anew

It has been years since Keith and Tonya Turk, along with Freiburger have had the band together in chasing land speed racing glory. Well, that all changes this week as after a long time and a load of...

Tiny Trucks Abound: Hyundai Introduces The New Santa Cruz – Optional Engines Pack A Horsepower Punch

(By Tom Lohnes) – Here it is, the revival of the small truck. No, this is not the Ford maverick, it’s Hyundai’s first-ever pickup truck and it’s called the Santa Cruz. With a starting...

Boost Makes Better: This Build and Dyno Test Of An 8-71 Blown 427ci LS3 Is Awesome – Airboat Engine!

If you are going to build a kick ass airboat engine, you need a few things. The first is obviously some horsepower, the second is  a deep reservoir of torque, and the third is reliability so you are...

This Is What Happens When You Go Looking For Parts In A Place With Whole Cars – Finnegan’s Garage

We’ve all done it, and if you haven’t then can you really call yourself a car guy? You have a project that needs parts, whether it is trim or body panels or even speed parts, and you end...

Trick Flow Specialties R vs Box R vs Edelbrock Super Victor And A Carb Intake Testing

Not all intakes are created equal, which is why there are SO many of them available. If every engine needed the same intake design then they would all be the same. Because engines have been under...