Tag Archive: spotlight
Watch a Russian Rally Team Survive One of the Worst Rally Wrecks Ever at WRC Mexico
There are wreck and then THERE ARE WRECKS. This one falls in the second category and displays just how toughly little rally cars are built. Russian rally driver Evgeny Novikov and his co-driver...
Event Gallery: The 2012 American Street Car Series Run to the Coast
(Photos by Bill Fowler) – The American Street Car Series is a cool group that puts on a great series of events aimed at Pro Touring cars all over the country. As they have in years past, the...
BangShift Exclusive: George Bryce Speaks Out about the Current Situation in NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle
At last weekend’s NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida an interesting thing happened. Pro Stock Motorcycle became the talk of the town. Harley Davidson rider Eddie Kraewic had cracked...
Tech: How JPC Racing Made 1,032hp From a Ford Coyote 5.0L Engine With a Paxton NOVI 2200 Huffer
(Words and Photos by Mike Galimi) – The shop is silent as the garage door opens and the drafty night air enters into JPC Racing’s chassis dyno room. It was judgment time for the company’s...
Lucas Oil Signs Lifetime Sponsorship Agreement With Chris Karamesines
Not that you need any more convincing about the total radness of Lucas Oil, but their announcement from Friday letting the world know that they had signed a lifetime sponsorship agreement with living...
BangShift Pro Touring Tech: The Basics of Traction Made Easy!
(By Dave Nutting) – (Editor’s Note: As we get ready to unveil our newest project car later this week, which is going to burn corners and the strip, we are going to be bringing you more...
Bitchin’ Nitro Video: Top Fuel and Funny Car Warm Ups From the 2012 March Meet
We often joke about trying to add “Smell-O-Vision” technology to the BangShift streaming drag race broadcasts to inject the scent of nitro into the shops and homes of viewers all over the...
Buddy Ingersoll, Drag Racing Turbo Pioneer Passes
A true innovator and pioneer in drag racing, Buddy Ingersoll passed away on Sunday. Among his accomplishments were an IHRA Modified Eliminator World Championship, volumes of innovations and...
Event Coverage: Goodguys Scottsdale 2012 – Autocross Action and Show Photos
(Photos by Chad Reynolds) – Well the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association season has begun and our man Chad is on the scene announcing the autocrosses at Goodguys events all across the country....
Watch Lunatics Literally Rip the Motor Out of a VW Golf With a Tree – a Chain – and Violence
Time for some Friday afternoon video stupidity. This clip has been floating around for a little while but for sheer destructive goodness, it simply cannot be beat. Basically this is footage of a...
Awesome March Meet Video: Four Days of Madness – See All of 2012’s Thrills and Spills!
The killer media keeps flowing from the 2012 March Meet. This latest piece we were tipped off to was created by our friend Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian who is an awesome drag photog and video maven as well as...
Watch the Crusher Camaro Hit the Strip and Run 10s!
Freiburger and Finnegan are at it again, this time with the well known Crusher Camaro. The Camaro has been a part of Hot Rod off and on since the mid 1990s when it was saved from being crushed at a...
eBay Find(s): Two Massive Pontiac Wagon Airport Limos
Old school airport limos are neat in a freakshow kind of way. Unlike modern limos that just have four doors and a large passenger area with a wet bar, TV, hot tub, stripper pole, and snappy lighting,...
Breaking News: 2012 COPO Camaro Confirmed by Chevrolet Performance – 69 Cars to Be Built
The 2012 COPO Camaro is not longer a concept car, the model will be produced by Chevrolet and 69 of them will be manufactured this year. The announcement came from Chevrolet Performance today and it...