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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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The New Z-Car Is On The Way – What’s The Power, What’s The Price? We Take Our Best Guesses Here

(By Tom Lohnes) – After 12 years on sale, the Nissan 370Z is finally being replaced. That’s right, Nissan just put a teaser image up for a new Z car, a new Frontier pickup, and what appears...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Happens When You’ve Reached The End Of Your Talent?

Let’s get the basic questions out of the way now. That is a three-foot-long steel spike that is bashed through the piston of a Chrysler 400. If you go back to the Raven Imperial build, around...

CPG Nation Towing Sale: Get The Parts You Need To Make Your Hauling This Summer A Breeze

You have been waiting for months to race, you have changed your plans, rearranged your calendar, setup your car to its most perfect state, and it’s almost time to hit the road. Don’t give...

Move Over Raptor: The Ram Rebel TRX Is Coming And Hellcat Is Coming With It!

(By Tom Lohnes) – The new Ram Rebel TRX is going to take the Ford Raptor by storm with 707 horsepower, Baja tuned suspension, and a high 3 second 0-60 time. Named TRX (an abbreviation for...

2020 PDRA East Coast Nationals: More Action Photos From The Season Opener Of The Doorslammer Series!

(Photos by David Whealon) – Yesterday we showed you our first batch of killer PDRA photos from the 2020 PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park. Shot by David Whealon,...

Great News: Centerforce® Clutches – Now Available at American Powertrain! The Perfect Way To Complete Your Trans Swap!

American Powertrain has been the go-to industry stop for transmissions, transmission swap kits, and all the components associated with those things for years. The company continues to expand the...

Penske On Indy 500: We Will Run It Only With Fans – August Race Date Could Become October If Necessary

Some would say that Roger Penske made the biggest mistake of his life by buying IndyCar before the 2020 season. Those people aren’t seeing the fact that this Penske is basically the only person...

Pre-Rocket Bunny: 1977 Chevrolet Monza Widebody – Can You Hear The Screaming Small-Block?

The Chevrolet Vega might have been tainted goods after the rust started to appear and the engines started to go boom, but that didn’t mean that the whole platform was bad. Chevrolet just needed...

On This Day: The Horrific 1955 Le Mans Disaster

It happened in the blink of an eye. Mike Hawthorne’s Jaguar pulled out in front of Lance Macklin’s Austin-Healey, who swerved into the path of Pierre Bouillin (aka Levegh)....

Classic YouTube: The 1988 Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz Test By MotorWeek

Ever hear someone talk about the visceral feel of a car? How a good car can embed parts of itself into your senses, where you can hear, feel, see and smell it? Yeah…meet my visceral car. I have...

The Unstoppable Monster: Check Out The Big N Sexy S10 Monster/Mega Truck In The Mud, The Swamp, and On The Water!

It seems like the more that the “Mega Truck” movement evolves the closer they become (in some sense) to the modern monster truck. What makes them cooler though is the fact that they are...

Barely Breathing: Uncle Tony Gets To Work Diagnosing The Trouble With The Turbocharged Slant Six Dart!

Uncle Tony has his hands on a customer’s 1972 Dodge Dart that has a draw-through turbocharger setup raided from a Pontiac 301 hooked to a 225 Slant Six. Interesting combination, to put it...

This 427ci FE Engine Has The Recipe For Fun: Torque and LOTS Of It!

While the sexy way to make it into a sports hall of fame is to have some incredibly prodigious numbers that are stacked up (sometimes) over a short period of time, the quieter way to make it in is to...

Money No Object: 1970 Dodge D300 – Working Never Looked So Good

I’ve always been drawn to the idea of a work truck. Blame my father for instilling that stereotype of “the truck is for work, the car is for everything else” into me when I was...