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IHRA Triple Crown Eliminations LIVE: Teams Hit IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway For IHRA’s Triple Creown Weekend!

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! We’ll have all the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- $100,000 SATURDAY!

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day TWO Drag and Drive Photos! Our Final Gallery of Day Two On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More!

Here’s our 2nd gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Free Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Goodbye, Jim: Ride With Jim Pace At Road America In An Can-Am Car – We Remember A Racer Gone Too Soon

I never actually met Jim Pace. If you look back at the BangShift archive of stories you will see his name all over the place. We ran dozens and dozens of videos of Jim competing at places like...

Ratty Muscle Cars presents Mopar Vs. Brand X 2020: Welcome To A Day Full Of Surprises

Everything that occurred this past weekend in Alabama should not have happened. T-shirt weather with sunny skies is something that does not happen this late in the year. Postcard-worthy drives in...

Classic YouTube: “Autocrossing” At Alveringem – Small Cars, Muddy Field, Big-Time Fun!

Doing muddy laps in a farmer’s field sounds less like an actual race and more like something I may or may not be guilty of doing in some beater car, but apparently in Europe it is perfectly...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Does The Jeep Wrangler Actually Need A Hemi?

On November 17, 2020, at 12 noon Eastern, Jeep will unveil the Wrangler Rubicon 392 in its production form. A concept has been roaming around for a couple of months now, mostly as a teaser for what...

Back To The Workshop: More Restoration Work Inside Jay Leno’s Garage

The cool thing about Jay Leno is that this man routinely dredges up cars that we don’t think about in any form whatsoever, A Panhard, a Talbot-Lago, a Brough? Pretty much nobody thinks of...

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Watch Race Driver Leh Keen Pound On His Custom Built Safari Porsche In The Woods

Leh Keen is an accomplished American race car driver who has been pounding road courses for the better part of a decade now as a professional racer. He’s also a car guy who races and loves...

BangShift Book Corner: Chrysler’s Motown Missile -Mopar’s Secret Engineering Program At The Dawn of Pro Stock By Geoff Stunkard

I’m not going to wait on the punchline here. If you love the history of pro stock, if you love the history of drag racing, or if you love the history of Mopar/Chrysler performance, stop right...

Incredible Video: Would You Run Headlong Into The Fog At 4AM To Win $50,000 At The Drags? These Guys Did!

(By Jason Mazzotta) – As most know, bracket racing is a tough game to conquer even under perfect conditions. From the focus on staging perfectly each time to the demand of hitting the tree and...

MAHLE Motorsport Celebrates a Century of MAHLE Automotive Innovation – Announces $100 PowerPak Piston Rebate

This is pretty awesome. MAHLE Motorsport is celebrating their 100th anniversary and they are doing by giving back to their customers. From October 15th through December 15th the company is offering a...

BMW Introduces The iX Crossover SUV – Inching From Electric Eclectic Towards A New Normal?

(By Tom Lohnes) – Do electric cars need giant kidney grilles? Of course not, but apparently it is a BMW tradition now to stamp those tall front teeth on to every single car they make and the...

Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: We Road-Trip Our Four-Eye Fox Over 450 Miles To Alabama And Back!

For the past few years, I’ve promised Austin Griggs, the man behind Ratty Muscle Cars, that I would bring a car to his race that met the qualifications to run. For the past few years,...

The Wile E. Drop Test: How Volvo Is Mangling Cars In The Name Of Rescue Training

Translate from metric to standard at your leisure, but 30 meters in the air is roughly 100 feet. 100 feet in the air, dangling from a guide wire, with some schmoe hanging on to the emergency release...

E85 Flex Fuel Made Easy! New Billet High Flow 10AN Dual Channel Sensor Mount

Converting your hot rod, muscle car, race car, or truck to run on E85 has never been easier than it is today. But with that said, there are some times when doing this conversion or installation...

Forklift Training Video Hilarity! This German Parody Goes From The Funny To The Ridiculous

When our friend Matt Cramer sends stuff in that he’s found online, we often laugh. Matt is a true BANGshifter, and he has a wicked sense of humor, but this one just might take the cake....

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