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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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$1,000 Build: The $1,000 Hot Rod F100 Build Continues: Doing So Much With So Little Is Fun

The $1,000 Hot Rod F100 build is coming along in these latest videos. It’s truly amazing what you can do with so little, when you have such a tight budget, and the will to succeed. This is a...

Funny Car Chaos 2021 Action Images: More Great Photos From The Throwdown At The Texas Motorplex!

(Photos by Dave Stoltz) – There’s a strange beauty in chaos, right? Not knowing what’s happening next is exciting and it breaks up the monotonous nature of a familiar activity....

$1,000 Build: Is It Possible To Build A Rat Rod Style Hot Rod F100 For $1,000? Watch

Building low buck cars and trucks has kind of been one of my things, so when I saw this project I was intrigued. Of course the chassis swap is also one of my things, so this one makes sense in that...

Awesome Video: Watch These R/C Trucks And Forklifts Operate A Miniature Warehouse!

(By Greg Rourke) – When I was a kid Tonka and Buddy L trucks and construction equipment were the best toys we could hope for. Well, those and Matchbox cars when they were made in England and...

Alex Taylor’s 6-second ’55 Chevy Project Is In Full Swing And The Patina Shall Be Preserved!

Anyone that knows me, knows my affinity for patina on great Chevrolet’s and that it all started with my 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air Station Wagon. So you can imagine that the newest project that...

The 3hp Hellcat Tune Can Now Be Yours: Dodge Offering Security Mode That Locks Engine At Idle

(By Tom Lohnes) – Are you tired of your SRT vehicle getting stolen? Well, Dodge is too, and they’ve come up with a way to stop it. At the end of 2021, any Dodge Charger, Challenger, or...

Kia Has A Supercar Killer You Can Buy: Watch The New EV6 GT Destroy The World’s Best In A Drag Race

(By Tom Lohnes) – Earlier this month, Kia unveiled the EV6, which is a promising all-electric sedan that delivered on a lot of fronts, but didn’t give much in the face of performance. Well,...

Bristol Goes Dirt: Look At What It Takes To Turn One Awesome Paved Oval Into The Ultimate Dirt Oval

When the first Bristol dirt race was announced, there hadn’t been anything that exciting for NASCAR in years. It was a genius move. But while everyone was excited about the thought of the great...

The Biggest Funny Car Field In History? 70 Floppers Arrive At The Texas Motorplex For Funny Car Chaos

Darr was on hand at this insanely big funny car extravaganza, along with our friend Donnie Couch and photographers Randy Anderson and Dave Stoltz. They not only wanted to see this even for themselves...

No, We Did Not Forget About AMC! We Celebrate The 401 V8 Here!

AMC is one of those companies that artfully misses most of the “gearhead months” around here at BangShift because their engine displacements don’t fit. 343? No. 390? Not so much....

Goodguys Spring Lone Star Nationals Photos Continue Right Here. Muscle Cars, Hot Rods, Custom Trucks, And More.

Thanks to Rob Bennett, a BANGshifter who is a photo snapping machine, we’ve got even more photos from the Goodguys Spring Lone Star Nationals. Customs, Muscle Cars, Hot Rods, Trucks, And More...

NOS Nitrous Unveils Biggest Nitrous System In History! The Moonshot Is Capable Of 3,500 Horsepower!

That’s right folks, in a move that follows along with recent Holley firsts, you can now buy ready to install NOS nitrous systems that are capable of supporting unreal power levels. To get...

We Want The Van: The Hyundai Staria Is A Weirdly Awesome Machine That Needs To Hit American Shores

(By Tom Lohnes) – With the recent announcement of the Kia Carnival minivan coming to America, there’s also room for its cousin, the spaceship-looking Hyundai Staria. With a 3.5-liter V6...

64 Funny Cars, Make That 70 Funny Cars At The Texas Motorplex For Funny Car Chaos!

(Photos by Randy Anderson and Dave Stoltz • Words by Darr Hawthorne) – As a teenager, funny cars have been that major draw keeping me coming back to the drags. Today’s Big Show cars...