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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Laris Motorsports Insurance $75K Big Money Bracket Racing Livestream! Saturday $75k!

It’s time for more LIVE drag racing, and this time it is from the big money bracket races at Darana Raceway National Trail in Hebron Ohio as they Laris Motorsports Insurance $75,000 To Win race...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: War in the Woods at Brown County Dragway – NO PREP DRAG RACING GREATNESS – Friday

If you don’t know Brown County, and the War in the Woods races, then you don’t follow No Prep because this is one of the most famous races and tracks in the No Prep drag racing world. Thanks to...

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Free Livestream: Check Out Qualifying From The Shakedown At US131 As The Mid West Drag Racing Series And Radial Outlaws Prepare For The Weekend!

US 131 has been open for testing the past few days as both the Mid West Drag Racing Series and Radial Outlaws Racing Series prepare to take over the famed US 131 Motorsports Park. I’ve raced...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At Tri-State Raceway – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! 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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Pavement Pounder Events Motor City To Wheel Hub LIVE Event Did Not Disappoint! Our Photo Coverage Starts Right Now!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) We came out to hang with Cole Quinnell and his event Pavement Pounder’s Motor City to Wheel Hub Live about one minute after we got our ’65 Impala SS...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Final Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos From Charlotte!

Here’s our final nitro gallery from the NHRA Four Wide Nationals in Charlotte. If you missed our previous photos, use the link below to check out all our Four Wide photos. (Photos by David...

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Innocence Lost: The 1973 Soap Box Derby Scandal

Even in 1973, the All-American Soap Box Derby was supposed to be the most wholesome entry point for kids. It had managed to evolve well past the days of rickety contraptions that kids had slammed...

Surprise! Watch This Russian Couple And Their Car Get Blasted With A Wall Of Snow From A High Speed Plow Truck

It snows a lot in Russia so they have a good system for clearing the roads and keeping traffic moving so that the quota of insane dash cam videos can be met. That’s the country’s largest...

The Bingo Bus: The Mitsubishi Delica Is The Weird Child Of The World Over

Dear lord…how did these things become popular? In Kuwait and Iraq, vans like the Mitsubishi Delica, the Kia Bongo, and more that are all pretty much the same thing really: a cube with lights....

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The Glitter Machine: How Bad Can You Possibly Nuke A 4L60E?

The best lesson I learned last year? I hate…HATE…working on automatics. It’s one thing to know how they operate, but either take the time to learn properly with a teacher that will...

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Unhinged: The Hyundai Scoupe Story

If there was every a moment where I questioned my father’s sanity, it was the day that he suggested that I’d be happy with a hand-me-down 1989 Hyundai Excel three-door hatchback that was...

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Arise, Lazarus: Washing A Datsun 280Z That Has Been Sitting Since The Bicentennial

I might have had bad luck with one the last time I laid hands on it, but if you are lucky enough to have a first-gen Datsun Z-car in your possession, treasure it. If there was ever proof that a...

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Unhinged: Watching This Toyota Celica GT-Four Group A Brings Back Memories…A Confessional

I don’t have many imports on my list of must-own cars. Some are intriguing, some are worthy of every ounce of praise heaped on them, and some are just too much fun to pass up, but there...

The Jester Hits Home: This Guy’s Idea To Make Formula 1 Racing Worth Watching Is Genius

For decades, the same names float around racing circles. If you’re a drag racing type, you have the Force dynasty, Bob Glidden and Warren Johnson’s long runs, and the omnipresent Swamp...

Watch The Most Insane Giant Vise You Have Ever Seen, Get Built By Fireball Tools

I’ve talked about Fireball Tools in the past and am a firm believer in their products. I only own a couple of their squares, but have been following their other products for years and have seen...

Hang ‘Em High: Watch This Skyline Go Straight For The Moon In Qatar!

Heavy-hitter turbocharger cars are usually pretty modest off of the line. They take off at a healthy boost, and a little ways down the track, the rest of the boost kicks on, allowing for...

Classic YouTube: The Car And Track Test Of The 1971 Ford Torino GT 429 Cobra Jet!

Ford didn’t win the Aero Wars that they fought with Chrysler. NASCAR shut them down before the Blue Oval Boys could fire off their next salvo in the form of the Torino King Cobra (picture: 1970...

FREE LIVESTREAMING DRAG RACING TODAY! The 25th Annual Million Dollar Race Is On!

25 years! Who would have ever believed that a race with the potential for a $1 million winner’s purse would have existed since 1995?! Now? Yes. Then? Not so much. Today it seems to be a trend...

Kearney Cruise Night Proves It Will Take More Than A Pandemic To Keep Hot Rods In The Garage!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Photos continue! The town of Kearney Nebraska and the Central Nebraska Auto Club (CNAC) have been putting on Cruise Nite for 32 years. The event started out as...

Classic YouTube: Crash-Testing The NASCAR SAFER Barrier, Just To Make Sure It Worked

Racing cars crash every now and then. It’s just a fact supported by statistics. Nobody wants anybody hurt in a crash…not the driver, not the fans, nobody. Over the course of motorsports...