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US Street Nationals Testing: LIVE Testing Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: More Of The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at Daytona International Speedway | Race 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida

There is so much racing that is going on in Daytona this week, leading up to the famed Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona which starts on Saturday. There have been a full week of races and practice so far,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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IHRA ANNOUNCES THE LEASING AND OPERATIONS OF THE PULASKI COUNTY MOTORSPORTS PARK, FORMERLY THE MOTOR MILE SPEEDWAY

It feels like forever since IHRA announced a new track purchase, but they haven’t been sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Nope, yesterday they made the announcement that they had signed a...

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The Four-Wheel-Drive Jeep Kart: Steering, Body Mounts, and Rock Sliders

  They weren’t kidding when they said that they were building their next Power Wheels Jeep to a high quality. The Grind Hard Plumbing Co. folks have been going all in on this...

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Back To Business: Digging Out Another Bumpside Ford From It’s Hiding Spot In The Barn

Kevin and Luke have a pretty solid business plan: they find old Ford farm trucks, they get them to run again, and go about saving them as best as they can in-between in-shop projects like the...

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Homegrown Outback: Converting A Lada To All-Wheel-Drive The Gearhead Way!

The guys at the Russian YouTube channel Garage54 aren’t usually subtle in what they do. They’re Roadkill from the other end of the world. Multi-engine builds, leaving a car underwater for...

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HAGAN, TORRENCE AND COUGHLIN CLINCH PROVISIONAL NO. 1 SPOTS AT THE DUEL IN THE DESERT

Friday qualifying at the NHRA Arizona Nationals was highly contested and capped off a great day of drag racing in the desert. Here are all the details, plus video highlights of the pros at the bottom...

Trick Flow’s Aluminum Double Hump Small Block Heads Coming Soon With 200cc Intake Ports And Full CNC Porting

When Trick Flow introduced their DHS heads in a 175 version they were aiming squarely at the guy who wanted modern aluminum head performance but in a package that looks factory with just a little...

Single VS Twins: Low Buck Turbo 1,000 HP Turbo Testing On A Big Block Chevrolet

When Richard Holdener does testing you can always count on lots of info, lots of laughs, and big numbers. After all, he runs more engines than anyone on the dyno, and he’s not afraid to test...

Like Big Trucks And Cannot Lie? This 1947 Diamond T Is Your Project-In-Waiting!

I don’t quite know what Lohnes was thinking about when he put up the Rambo clip yesterday. It’s a neat section of a film I haven’t seen since I was a little kid and it’s one...

How To Build A Screw Tank, Part Two: Gearboxes And Chassis Creation!

Looking at Colin Furze, and knowing why the Internet knows this man’s name, you would think that it would be a bad idea to ask him to create a tank, right? Yeah. Don’t sweat that, he was...

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Watch Trent Kisner Pull What Is Likely The Biggest Wheelie In George Ray’s Wildcat Drag Strip History

George Ray’s Wildcat Drag Strip is one of the most interesting and spartan places you’ll see race cars run in this country. While George passed away a few years back, his family continues...

Money No Object: 1975 Pontiac Grand LeMans Safari – Do You Believe In Miracles?

16,274 miles on the odometer, and proudly boasted to be the original and true mileage of a 1975 station wagon that looks like it just rolled out of a paint shop. 99% of the time, we’d call...

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McLeod President Paul Lee Acquires FTI Performance Converters. More Great Things To Come From FTI In The Future!

FTI is a name that has strong ties to the drag racing community, so it is no surprise that a racer like Paul Lee who runs McLeod Racing, would want to add it to the fold. In a move that strengthens...

Yet Another Fix: Finnegan Gets Another Giant Truck…This Time A Six-Door Ford!

A couple of days ago I took a trip down to Nashville to a meet-up that Finnegan was hosting in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart. Yeah, it happened…a newly janky knee and all, I had no real...

Unhinged: The Thankless Work That Goes On Behind The Scenes

It’s race day. It’s show time. The gates open, the staff take your money, you sign the waiver. More staff assist in parking, show field setup. Technicians are on hand to check over the...

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Classic YouTube: Geoff Bodine and Dale Earnhardt Battling At Riverside In 1987

I’ll often say that NASCAR is missing personality. Drivers have to queue up to the sponsor’s wishes…they have to keep calm, be as polite as possible, show proper sportsmanship, and...