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A Memorial Day Message From BangShift.com – Let Us Remember What Is Truly Important

Today is Memorial Day, an important day of remembrance for our country that honors the people who have spilled their blood in order to defend our way of life. Memorial Day is dedicated to remembering...

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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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Felix Rosenquist And David Malukas Battle For The Closest Finish In Indy 500 History! Watch The Finish And Race Highlights Right Here!

If you didn’t catch the entire Indy 500 on TV yesterday, you missed some drama for sure. With rain effecting the race, but officials, fans and racers sticking it out, there was no shortage of...

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The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

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Chaos Supernationals Video: Nitro Qualifying Round 1 and 2, Plus Eliminations Rounds From Summit Motorsports Park In Norwalk, Ohio.

The Chaos Series was at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk Ohio, and did everything they could to put on a hell of a show, even if Mother Nature wasn’t helping out much. Thanks to our friend...

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IHRA F1 Powerboats Livestream: Round 3 From The Red River Rumble F1 Powerboat Showdown – Saturday and Sunday

Boat racing is on! If you aren’t familiar with F1 boat racing, you’re in for a treat. This is side by side racing, “door handle to door handle” so to speak, and these drivers are giving it...

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This Hayabusa-swapped Peugeot 106 Is A Little Go-Kart With An Attitude!

By and large, tiny little city cars tend to be depressing. They are useful, yes. And they can be necessary. But that doesn’t mean that they are loved. They are appliances first…they fit...

Classic YouTube: The 2015 Touring Car Masters Race At Winton – Trans-Am Meets Aussie V8 Supercar!

The first thing we thought of when we saw the footage of the Touring Car Masters race at Winton Motor Raceway in Australia is, “This is the kind of racing we’d watch on...

Watch This Guy Crash His Honda S2000 At A Weird Autocross And Then Get Really, Really Mad About It In The Car

The Honda S2000 is a mean little car. In stock form they have small naturally aspirated engines that are capable of making incredible power for their size at motorcycle levels of RPM. We’re not...

Watch a Swedish Drag Racer Stand a Monza Nearly Up on End During a Drag Pass

Drag racers in Europe are hard core because they have to be. As we understand the scene, there aren’t a lot (or any) tracks that run weekly test-n-tune sessions, grudge nights, or most of the...

Watch This Diesel Drag Truck Make A Hellacious Top End Charge And Catch His Opponent

As impressive as the massive power gains made by diesel truck enthusiasts have been, the era of the straight up dyno queen performance seems to be coming more and more of a close. The power is being...

BangShift Tune-Up: “The Zephyr Song” by Red Hot Chili Peppers (2002)

In a change versus the majority of the last ten years for me, I’ve spent the last couple months waking up just before the sun driving just as the first few beams of light go bright. When the...

Gear Mamma-Jamma: Ride In A 347 Stroker Mustang As The Driver Tears Gears Down The Strip

No, it is not Friday so this is not the traditional Parting Shift blog item that you all know and love. Instead this is a fantastic video featuring a Fox-body car with a 347 stroker getting the gears...

Rough Start: This 1978 Mercury Zephyr Is The Crate The Capri Came In

Say what you will about the positives or negatives regarding the Ford Fairmont and it’s Mercury Zephyr twin. They were a great downsizing step for Ford. They ushered in a chassis that has...

Great Video: Watch A Monstrous 400ft Tall Crane Replace The Coke Drums At An Oil Refinery

  Sometimes it is very difficult to put things into a size perspective. We can tell you that a crane is 400 feet tall or that it is capable of lifting a couple million pounds but the reality is...

This Half Car Drag Boat Tow Rig Is The Best Thing You’ll See Today – Genius!

The guys at Urban Hillbilly Action videos have shown us all kinds of wild action over the years but this is a new one on us in the form of a half car drag boat tow rig. This unit is designed to bring...

The “WTF?!” Files: The Story Of The Algar Ferrari Heist…A Con Man, G-Men, And A Totalled Ferrari

Ferrari F50, #29/349, has to be the one Prancing Horse with the best story out of all of them. It doesn’t have racing glory. It doesn’t have ownership prestige. It wasn’t crashed by...

Beyond Opulent: The 1934 Deusenberg Walker Coupe, As Shown By Jay Leno

If you think back to cars of the 1930s, one shape stands out above the others: the Deusenberg. Is it more recognizable than, say, the 1933 Ford? The Ford was certainly more popular. The 1934...

The Craziest Car Commercial Of The 1980s Involved Launching A Car Off An Aircraft Carrier And Strapping It To A Submarine

Pretty much everyone (including us) has been blown away by the last couple of Ken Block Gymkhana videos that featured him doing crazy stunt driving stuff in urban areas that were obviously closed off...

Steve Torrence, Matt Hagan, Erica Enders and Matt Smith Clinch NHRA World Finals In Vegas!

(Photos by Mike & Jeff Burghardt and Timothy Heather – Words courtesy of NHRA Communications) – All four points leaders in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series finished the job on...