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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 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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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 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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Incredible In-Car Video Of A Nitro Funny Car Explosion – Fire and Violence!

A while back we showed you video of Mark Sheehan’s top fuel dragster bursting into flames in the staging lanes at a drag race this season in Australia. Today we have video of Sheehan from 2012...

Historical Footage: Throwing The 1974 AMC Matador X Around The Track!

The 1974-78 American Motors Matador coupe is a strange thing to us. It’s styling is polarizing, to put it mildly, but only at the nose and tail. In between those two points is a fairly handsome...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Hey, Ice Cream Truck!

It’s mid-August. Wow. I have watermelons in the garden, my blackberry plants are going dormant, and the grasshoppers and mantis are now no longer cute little bugs but are now several inches...

BangShift Question Of The Day: How Radical Can You Live With For A Daily?

The moment it appeared in the parking lot at the hangar, my 1987 Dodge Diplomat became a focal point of a barrage of questions. At the time, it wasn’t painted midnight blue and it wasn’t...

In Car Video: Ride In The Coolest Car To Compete At The Bathurst 12 Hours, A 700hp LS3 Powered Daytona Coupe! Eats Ferrari Alive

Internationally speaking, everyone loves Bathurst, right? If you’re not sick of Australia’s Mount Panorama Circuit—though I have no idea how anyone could get sick of that circuit—here’s...

Classic YouTube: The Story Of The Proposed NASCAR L-R Sub-Series

Jeff Dunham might have nailed NASCAR’s mantra on the head using his Bubba J puppet: “THEY’RE MAKING A LEFT TURRRRN! THEY’RE MAKING ANOTHER LEFT TURRRRN!” NASCAR racing...

Carlisle Ford Nationals 2020: Starliners And More Among The Fields

(Photos: Joe Grippo) Getting out to a car show is always a breath of fresh air, but this year that breath of fresh air somehow seems much more refreshing. How long have you spent stuck in the house,...

FREE LIVE STREAM: Numidia Dragway’s Biggest Bracket Payout Ever! Sunday’s 150 Car Race Is LIVE Right Here!

Numidia Dragway’s 150 event is all about big money with limited entries, and it is that time of year. Today’s racing is worth $10,000 to one talented racer, and the field is set at just...

Finnegan Speed Tests Three Stand Up Jet Skis To See If The New 2021 Yamaha Super Jet Is As Fast As It Looks

He did it for you…because he cares…and for science. On the surface this seems like a test anyone would want to do, but that’s only because most of you thinking a day on the lake...

BONUS Bonneville Speed Week Photos! We Found More Photos To Share From This Record Setting Race

When you post up a blog item with links to every one of your photo galleries from an event, only to have him send a note saying “Hey dude, there are three more galleries you guys didn’t...

Watch The Team Built Buckwheat Racing Trans Am Go 288 mph From Inside The Car At Bonneville Last Week!

When Jeffrey Ferguson sent me a “Content Submission”, which you can do as well by clicking the link at the bottom of the website, I wasn’t expecting this! I’m in love with...

Morning Symphony: Musclecars In Vantaa – The Finnish Know How To Treat American Iron!

We have a bucket list of shows from all over the world that we would love to check out if we ever managed to cough up enough coin to travel. Drag races in Brazil and Central America, the wild burnout...

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Fixing Up The Front End: Vice Grip Garage’s Chevelle Has Moved Into The Build Phase!

What’s this year’s mantra? Easy: “Hopefully they’re still doing/having/running (INSERT AUTOMOTIVE-RELATED EVENT HERE) when they scheduled it this year!” That’s the...

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Rough Start Fox Body: Tearing The Transmission Down To The Bone

In the last update of our $600 1989 Ford Mustang LX project beater, we had dropped in the engine and the radiator assembly. It’s been a couple of weeks…you would think that you...