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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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Project Phantom, Part 3: Time To Call In The Professionals On Our Project Mustang!

(Words and photos: Joe Grippo) When we last left the saga of Project Phantom, our revival of my wife Stacey’s 1969 Mustang GT, we had made the tough choice to send our ’65 Dodge Coronet down the...

Old Paint: This Ford Pinto Drag Machine Is An Old 1/8th Mile Stormer!

When you’re building a race car, you have to consider weight. That’s not a suggestion, that’s a requirement. Take any kind of racing, and the weight of the machine has to be...

Watch A Guy Chuck A $50-Million Ferrari 250 GTO Around Goodwood Like It Is A Second Gen Camaro – Hero Level!

If there’s such a thing as mechanical royalty we’d say that the early 1960s Ferrari GTO is it. These things sell for tens of millions of dollars, they were killer race cars in their day,...

Bring On The Violence: Rockbouncers Return To Cable Hill

I’m not familiar enough with the rockbouncing community to know the names of just about anywhere they race…except for one location. That would be Cable Hill, which is located within the...

SDBA Drag Boat Races Will Be LIVE Here On BANGshift Starting Sunday Morning!

That’s right folks, we’ve got more Southern Drag Boat Association racing coming to you live right here at BANGshift.com. We were live Saturday morning and will be live again Sunday...

Ask And Ye Shall Receive: The Ford Bronco Can Now Get A 7-Speed With The Sasquatch Off-Road Package

It was one of the most disappointing facets of an otherwise amazing product launch: the seven-speed manual transmission would not be available on the Sasquatch off-road package of the new Ford...

The Challenger Revival Part 24: MoParty And The First Drive

Looking back to the first images of this 1973 Dodge Challenger as it was found, would you have attempted to bring it back to life? Crusted in algae, sinking into the earth, bashed in the...

Homecoming King: A DeKon Monza Recreation Ripping Around Monza

During my early, influenced years, I ate up everything I could about cars that I had an interest in. I knew the  quick origin story of the Mustang before I was in kindergarten. I learned about the...

Gentle, Now: Saving The Jeep That Was Stuck On The Razor Ridge Trail In California

The AllTrails.com description of the Razor Ridge Trail says it clearly: “Razor Ridge Trail and Canyon Road Loop is a 2.7 mile heavily trafficked loop trail located near Loma Linda, California...

Bargain Racement: Can You Build And Race A Car For The Same Or Less Money Than SIM Racing? YES, YES YOU CAN!

Before you start going all gamer bitch on me and start spouting examples of SIM racing setups that are cheap, realize that everyone knows you can do SIM racing at a bunch of different budget levels....

Welcome Back To The Brutality: Rally Racing Crashes From The Year That Cared Not

You can determine just how well this year is treating you, mainly because at this point any concept of a blanket statement is worthless. 2020 is one for the books…right up there with the Black...

The Fall Fling At Galot LIVE Continues Sunday For $125,000!

The Fling events, whether the Spring Fling, Spring Fling Million, Fall Flings, etc, are some of the finest run bracket races in the world. They have arguably changed the landscape of bracket racing...

Rainmakers: New Orleans Offers A Wet And Wild Street Car Experience For Optima Search For The Ultimate Street Car Racers

(Words by Jim McIllvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelly) By the time the world’s best street cars rolled into NOLA Motorsports Park in New Orleans, five events were in the books for OPTIMA’s...

What Do You Take To Pick Up A Small Block Swapped Mini Truck? DUH! A Blown Ramp Truck!

Mike Finnegan never bores, with all the trucks he’s swapped and traded and bought and sold in recent years, but right now he’s on a whole new level of the car and truck shuffle and has...