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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Sportsman Nationals At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Sportsman, Nostalgia Classes, and More!

Enjoy all the racing action from Santa Pod’s Sportsman Nationals this weekend, as Nostalgia Drag Racing and National Championship drag racing competitors battle it out head to head to see...

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FREE Bracket Racing Livestream: 8th Annual Spring King Of The Creek Bracket Racing Is LIVE Right Here – Saturday

Maryland International Raceway is home to the King of the Creek, and this weekend’s spring event is as big and competitive as always. With classes for everyone, and some of the Mid-Atlantic’s...

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The Lake Effect Showdown at Kuhnle Motorsports Park Is Small Tire Drag Racing Greatness! Lil Gangstas, Small Tire

The Lake Effect Showdown brings the excitement of small tire racing to Lil Gangstas’ racing to Kuhnle Motorsports Park on Saturday June 13th, 2026! This unique event will be a first for the area on...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: STREAMING VIDEO From The 21st Annual Ultimate 64 Bracket Race From Darana Kil-Kare Raceway – Saturday

Kil-Kare Raceway is home to some awesome events, including the 21st annual Ultimate 64 Big Money Bracket Races this weekend. This is one of the older events in the mid west and racers flock to this...

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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Continues Today as We are Heading for The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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The Hot Rod Hoarder Gasser Henry J Project Part 8: Putting a HISTORIC Gasser Back on the Track Feels Oh So Good!

Tommy and the kids are back at it, and it’s a runner! They are hitting the dragstrip to bring this project full circle, so check it out. The big block should be fun with all the new parts that...

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2021 SoCal Quarantine Cruise Coverage: More Amazing Photos From The Massive Gathering Of Hot Rods!

It was a perfect day to burn some gasoline and hang out with fellow lovers of cars, trucks, and motorcycles, last weekend. As we told you about yesterday, this event was packed with more than 1,000...

Are The V8 Raptor Rumors True? Is A Baby Godzilla On The Way? More Here –

(By Tom Lohnes) – Well, it appears after almost a year of hype for a V8 powered Raptor, a new one is coming…with the same Ecoboost V6 from the old one. Retaining the 3.5-liter Ecoboost...

NHRA Insider Podcast: The Grudge Men Cometh – Joey Gladstone and JR Gray Talk NHRA, Grudge Racing, and More

Joey Gladstone and JR Gray join Brian Lohnes on this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast. Both men have backgrounds in drag racing’s grudge scene and have worked their way to the worlds of NHRA...

Second Gen GMC Canyon And Colorado Truck; Making A Secure Space With Goose-Gear!

(Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne) – When I purchased a new pickup, I thought there’d be room for everything, cameras, suitcase, ice chest, etc.  Well, in the end of 2019 a brand-new GMC...

Watch The Kalitta Motorsports Blower Dyno In Action! It Takes A Small Block Chevy Just To Spin This Thing Up For Testing!

Call it a blower, call it a supercharger, we don’t care, but what we do care about it how much power it takes to spin one for a top fuel engine and how much air those suckers can, well, suck...

It’s Expensive, It’s Weird, It’s Probably A Riot, And Jeremy Clarkson Can Probably Flip It.

Okay so $9,000 isn’t THAT much money. But everything else I said is totally accurate, and in my defense I haven’t spent $9,000 on a car purchase in decades. But I digress. This one is...

What If You Could Have VTEC In Your V8? Would It Be The Ultimate Engine Combo? The Best Engine Ever?

V8 guys, and even some Honda guys, love to laugh and joke about VTEC, but anyone in the know, well, knows that VTEC is pretty bad ass technology who’s principles are incredibly simple to...

Your Dream Garage And Car Guy House Can Be Had In Texas For Just $7,000,000. Yeah 7 Million Dollars!

When you see pictures online of rich guys giant garages and shops with tons of cars and memorabilia and all that stuff, it just naturally makes you want that kind of thing. Of course we’ve all...

2021 Porsche Panamera S Stands As The Baddest Super Sedan In The World…For Now

(By Tom Lohnes) – With a staggering 21 models in its lineup, it is no surprise that the 2021 Porsche Panamera is the fastest “executive sedan” around Road Atlanta. For this lap record...

MAHLE Motorsport Introduces 2021 Racing Components Application Guide – 15 New Domestic and Import PowerPak and PowerPak Plus Kits!

MAHLE Motorsport just keeps giving it to us, and we mean that in the good way. It seems like the past couple of years have been full of announcements of new piston kits from the folks over there....

Photos: The Southern California Quarantine Cruise Is Massive and We Were There!

This is pretty awesome. The Southern California Quarantine Cruise series started big and has gotten to become incredibly massive with upwards of 2,000 cars showing up each time one is announced. They...

Big Car Brawl: The New BMW 7-Series Is Geared Up To Take The Fight To Its German Brethren

(By Tom Lohnes) – The BMW 7-Series has long been second fiddle  to the Mercedes-Benz S class. With the new generation of S-class rolling out now and already being recalled due to failure of...

Not That One, Dumb-Dumb: Florida Dealer Mistakenly Sells Bronco Sport Demo Unit, Customer Refuses To Return It

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Ford Bronco Sport is in high demand right now, with customers paying upwards of $50,000 for this capable CUV. Well, I guess demand was too high, because a Ford dealership...

Video: Check Out The New Ridetech RidePRO E5 Digital Control System In Action On Cars and Trucks!

Last week we told you about the new Ridetech RidePRO E5 digital touch screen air-ride control system but this week you can actually see it in action. This video from Ridetech shows us four very...