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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Method Race Wheels 58th SCORE BAJA 500 RACE DAY – TT Spec, Class 1, 2WD, Legends, Unlimited

Desert off-road racing is some of my favorite off-road action, and having been to Ensenada for the BAJA 1000, the BAJA 500 is near and dear to my heart as well. If you dig desert off-road racing as...

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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit 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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FREE LIVESTREAM IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Series: The “Show Me” Shootout – Qualifying from Lake Lucas Indiana

I love drag boat racing, and this weekend is the second race of the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing series at Lake Lucas in Indiana. If you like big power, and big speed, on the water then you want...

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The Inaugural Fendt High Stakes Pulling Event Kicks Off This Weekend! Night 1 and 2 – Dragway 42

Truck and Tractor pulling, like most racing formats, have advanced dramatically in the last few years and that has made the competition at events even closer and closer. This weekend the first, of...

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FREE DRAG RACING DOWN UNDER: The Gulf Western Oil Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway Australia Right Here!

The Aussies are as ate up with drag racing as we are, and this weekend’s Gulf Western Oil Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway prove it. This is a great race track with great crowds and great...

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IHRA Pro Mod Mania Invades Milan Michigan’s Darana Dragway! Huge Purse, Killer Pro Mod and Sportsman Action!

This weekend the International Hot Rod Association visits Milan Michigan for Pro Mod Mania at Darana Dragway which features an insane purse and tons of great racing action. With a total purse of...

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Video Bonanza: A Ton Of Great Television Ads for 1980s Gearhead Toys

As I speed toward my 35th birthday, I’ve been taking a little stock of my younger days. Growing up in the 1980s was a fun situation because there were so many awesome gearhead toys showing up...

In 1950s Germany They Towed Skiers Behind Porsches At 100mph For Fun (Video)

More than 60 years ago in Germany thrill seekers were hauling ass around road courses carved into snow with skiers hooked to the bumpers for bragging rights. We’re not talking about idling...

Wreckage Video: Ride Along In A Supermodified As It Touches Tires With Another Car And Eats The Wall Hard

If you have never treated yourself to the sound, speed, and fury of Supermodified racing on a circle track, you’re doing it wrong. These are the most beastly short track race cars in the world...

The Top 11 Worst Ever Special-Edition Vehicles

Oh the dreaded “special edition” car. In many ways it represents the worst part of the car-making business. These are packages born completely from the heads of people who count beans, sell ads,...

This Video Featuring A 1970s Chevy C10 From Brazil Proves How Universal Hot Rodding Is

While McTaggart has a fascination with the cool cars that Australians have gotten over the years I have gotten really interested in the iron of South America, specifically Brazil. Why? The stuff is...

A Look Back On The History Of The Audi Quattro Program – See How The Rally Monster Came To Be!

Quattro. The name that thoroughly disrupted rally racing in the early 1980s. Prior to the appearance of Quattro, the rally formula had become set in stone by Lancia: Lightweight, punchy mid-engine,...

Rough Start: Mellow Out With A 1977 Ford Thunderbird

Meet the most successful form of the Ford Thunderbird line. Not the two-seaters that we dig. Not the radical “Bullet Birds”, or the NASCAR racers of the 1980s and 1990s. And certainly not...

Ride Around In A Real, Restored 1966 GT40 As It Rips Around LeMans Just Like The Glory Days

2016 was the year of the Ford GT and the Ford GT40 as the company and the motorsports world remembered and celebrated one of the great racing feats of all time in Ford’s conquering of Ferrari...

Exit Stage Left: Chris Pearce’s Wall-Jumping Pinto Wheelstander At Byron

Until Kevin McMullin’s wall-riding Mustang crash at Ford Fest 2020, I could not tell you the last time I saw a car rail-slide the concrete crash barrier better than a skateboarder. Lohnes might...

Three Minutes of Drag Heaven: An Afternoon At Lions Drag Strip Circa 1971 – Awesome Video

There is likely no more romanticized closed drag strip than the famed Lions Drag Strip that operated for more than a decade in the Long Beach, California area. Operated by guys like Mickey Thompson,...

In Memoriam: Eddie Van Halen

This one stings. It’s not that one of the top-tier masters of not only the guitar but just about every single solid instrument he ever touched has finally left this earth after years of dealing...

Someone’s Fired Video: Watch This Rally Car Plummet From A Cradle As It Is Being Lifted By A Crane

Right now, somewhere across the globe, stuff is being loaded into a building. That stuff may be pushed in, driven in, or even craned in. We’re guessing it is if it is being craned in, the guys...

Historic Footage: The 1977 24 Hours of Daytona, Seen Through The Camera Of Buzz Fyhrie

YouTube and the days of everyone recording everything are a recent trend. There is a reason that you do not see a ton of “behind the scenes” footage of racing before at least the...

Would You Drive A Lakester That You Needed A Mirror Periscope To See Out Of? Photos and more –

The Ravenna Garage D/Fuel Lakester is one intetesting piece of salt racing machinery. The shape is a tight tube style design and we were really blow away when we got up close with the rig as it sat...