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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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NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing From The U.S. Nationals At Indy! The Action Is Already Getting Hot And Heavy

HAGAN, ASHLEY WIN RAIN-DELAYED SUMMERNATIONALS, M. SMITH TAKES MICKEY THOMPSON PRO BIKE BATTLE, AND LANGDON, T. JOHNSON JR., ANDERSON AND POLLACHECK QUALIFY NO. 1 AT DENSO SPARK PLUGS U.S. NATIONALS...

Mid West Pre Runner Fun In Michigan! Sand Dunes And Motocross Track High Flying Action In Full Size Trucks!

When James from Terra Crew decided he needed some mid-west Prerunner love he decided he was heading to Michigan for some fun in the dirt, on a motocross style track featuring big table top jumps and...

This Scrappy Little Kia Sportage Proves You Don’t Need A Ton Of Money To Go Rockcrawling

A Kia Sportage on the front page of BangShift.com…yes, there’s a good reason for it, I promise. Think about it: these things are dirt-cheap, have a sewing machine for a motor, and have...

Classic YouTube: Chad Reed’s Flight At The 2011 Spring Creek Nationals in Millville

I love dirt bikes. I have great respect for dirt bikes, because most of my early teenage years I spent lots of free time trying to kill myself on dirt bikes. Even the best riders can tell you that...

Beating A Live Horse: This King Cobra Mustang II Gets Flat-Out Abused And Comes Back For More

I’ve admitted in the past that I have a fascination with one particular car build: a flat-black beater small Ford that can tolerate all of the abuse I could ever throw at it with a screaming...

Eastern European Off-Roading At It’s Finest: A Trabant Trar!

The lowly Trabant 601, the car that took three people to assemble: one to cut, one to fold, and one to paste. These two-stroke-powered little beasts were the most popular car in East Germany, but...

Carnage Video: Wreckage From Pikes Peak – Fire and Falls, This Video Has It All

The Camaro laying on it’s side on one of the last stretches of the old dirt section of Pikes Peak illustrates nicely why the mountain and the race are an international focal point in...

WILD RIDE: Top Sportsman Racer, Ronnie Proctor, Goes For One Hell Of A Ride

Sometimes stuff just doesn’t go the way you think it’s going to go, and sometimes when that happens it will get your attention in a hurry. Such is the case with poor Ronnie Proctor, who...

Bad Words Incoming: The Stump Fights Back Against The Suburban!

For most people, the whole “F**k Luck” movement is meant to mean that luck does not exist, and that what most people perceive as luck is more a reflection of proper planning, use of...

Historical Footage: Al Unser, Jr.’s Trip To Lake Lloyd At Daytona During A 1978 IROC Race

IROC racing in 1978 was a grab bag of everything: drivers came from NASCAR, SCCA, Indy, drag racing and even outlaws. The Camaro used was the 1978 body, which was more NASCAR than the street cars...

Hyper Spin Cycle: What Happens If You Hot-Rod The Washing Machine?

When my wife and I purchased our house back in 2015, we went a bit nuts with the appliances. Our refrigerator unit is wicked. Our stove is amazing. Our dryer is a beast, especially given how much cat...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: That Ain’t New, Chief.

As a general rule, when you finally break down, drive to the parts house, and break out your wallet for it’s next fleecing, you at least want a new (or properly re-conditioned) part in return...

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Heat Stroke Of Genius: Waking Up A Storage Locker Olds Cutlass!

Let’s start this piece honestly: if this car had a price tag, I’d be spending money right freaking now. I’m not brand specific, but you do not have to work to convince me that most...

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Watch Some High Flying, Bone Jarring, Gnarly Looking Tuff Truck Racing At Dennis Anderson’s Off Road Park

Clearly Dennis Anderson’s largest contribution to society is the Grave Digger monster truck but a growing second is the off-road park that he opened up a couple of years ago and has been...