Tag Archive: spotlight
Nostalgia Drags Gallery: Meet the Legends Nostalgia Drags – Sealy, Texas
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – While we were broadcasting the March Meet from Bakersfield last weekend, Texas photo contributor Charles Wickam was at another killer nostalgia event in Sealy,...
Denver Schutz Drives a Front Engine Top Fueler Up a Wall and Down Again Without Flipping
Today at the 2012 March Meet Top Fuel racer Denver Schutz appeared to suffer a crash on the top end of the race track. In actuality, he pulled off one of the most incredible front engine dragster...
Crazy Bumper Dragging, Lane Crossing, Shoebox Chevy Wheelstand Photo Sequence!
Of all the awesome wheelstands we have captured during the 2012 March Meet, this one, featuring a big tire equipped shoebox Chevy takes the cake by a mile! In this sequence of 15 photos you can see...
BangShift LIVE FREE Streaming Video Coverage of the 2012 March Meet
BangShift is proud to announce that we will once again be providing FREE LIVE streaming coverage of the historic March Meet at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California starting this Thursday at...
Juan Pablo Montoya Crashed into Jet Dryer at 2012 Daytona 500 – Insane Fire Follows
Remember all those times you saw NASCAR race cars crash into the track jet dryer at high speed? Oh wait, you don’t because something this rat poop crazy hasn’t happened in the history of...
Gallery: The 2012 Detroit Autorama
(Photos by Edward Chesher) – The Detroit Autorama is one of the, if not THE premier indoor car show in the USA. From the huge collection of vehicles that trek from all corners to be displayed...
BangShift Exclusive: We Interview Bret Kepner About the ADRL’s New Supercar Showdown Class
Smell that drag racing fans? It is fresh air. Fresh air swooshed into the room by the near unbridled excitement surrounding the ADRL’s Supercar Showdown class that will be contested at the...
Video: Danica Patrick Suffers Hellacious Wreck at Daytona and Walks Away
Danica Patrick suffered a massive crash in today’s first Gatorade Duel at Daytona International Speedway. She walked away from the scary crash with no apparent injuries. This was a wild one...
Driveway Tech: Battling the Oil Burning Monte Carlo – Part 3- Death Match!
(Words, Photos, Bleeding and Struggle by Scott Liggett) – As we continued to fight this darn car’s oil burning 350 we transitioned from frustration to inspiration, back to frustration,...
Question of the Day: What is the Ugliest Engine Ever?
Engines are typically judged on their efficiency, their power ratings, and their ability to make noise and thrust a hot rod down the road. That being said, there is a definite aesthetic appeal to...
ADRL Releases the Rules to the New Supercar Showdown Class! Read them HERE!
When the ADRL announced the creation of their new Supercar Showdown class we were excited and more than a little interested to read the rules. As of today, our interest has been satisfied because the...
This is the Most Insane Race Car Fire Video We Have Ever Seen
We have seen and featured hundreds, perhaps thousands of crash videos here on BangShift over the years, but we’ve never seen anything like this. Aussie V8 Supercar racer David Besnard suffered...
Watch Bill Maier’s Trans-Am Mustang Get Destroyed at Leguna Seca in 1982!
Despite the fact that we always seem to concentrate on Trans Am racing from the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was great racing for many years past that era. This video, shot at Leguna Seca in...
Mini-Feature: An Upclose Look at Mike Piraino’s Wild Twin Turbo Super Comp/Top Dragster Rail! [w/dyno video]
When Chad called me breathlessly from the pits a Pomona during the NHRA Winternationals, I figured he had been chasing the ice cream truck…again. As it turns out, he was going ape over this...