Tag Archive: spotlight
UPDATE Breaking News: Garlits Attempting To Break 200 MPH Barrier On Batteries RIGHT NOW!
Update 3:30pm Eastern Time: On the third run with the dragster the power shut off unexpectedly at half track. The crew says that early numbers show that it would have easily been a 200 mph run, but a...
2014 FE Race And Reunion At Beaver Springs Raceway – Historic, Cool, And Fast Fords Take Over The Strip
(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) – Well, it happened again. Jody Aberts, Doug Bender and Beaver Bob McCardle pulled off another fantastic weekend of Drag Racing and Car Show actioffeaturing...
More Big Air Photos From The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series In Lake Elsinore
If you liked the big air and rollover photos we had yesterday from the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series at Lake Elsinore this past weekend, then you’ll dig these ones too. It’s an awesome...
Gallery: Speedfest at the Classic Motorsports Mitty Provides Awesome Vintage Road Racing Action
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Vintage road racing is beyond cool. The racers are typically guys with deep enough pockets to take priceless historic racecars and beat them mercilessly...
Wheels Up Stock And Super Stock Action Photos From The 2014 NHRA O’Reilly Spring Nationals
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It was a great weekend of drag racing in Texas just a couple days back as the NHRA tour swung though Royal Purple Raceway and fans flooded in from all over the...
PSCA Drag Racing Finally Returns To AutoClub Dragway In Fontana And We’ve Got Photos!
The look of satisfaction on the faces of the Ray Wilkings, General Manager of Auto Club Speedway, Tracy Fischle, Track Manager at Auto Club Dragway, and Mel Roth, President of the Pacific Street Car...
High Flying, Dirt Throwing, Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Trucks In Action From Elsinore
This past weekend was Round 3 and 4 of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, and all the high flying Pro Lite, Pro 2, and Pro 4 trucks you love to see flying through the air were on hand at Lake...
Dwayne Klippert’s 1967 Camaro Is More Than Meets The Eye As Custom Meets Pro-Touring
Dwayne Klippert is yet another crazy Canadian that we have the pleasure of seeing at events all over the country. Along with pal Grant Reierson, who’s bitchin little Chevy II we featured last...
Modern Super Cars At The Lingenfelter Collection – Mechanical Art Work That’s Blindingly Fast
One of the things we have always prided ourselves here at BangShift on is the fact that we’ve never pigeonholed ourselves into one thing. We’ve always been very honest in the fact that...
Take A BangShifty Photo Tour Of The Richard Petty Museum – Incredible History Here
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We all know and love Joe Grippo as a dyed in the wool Mustang guy here at BangShift and that means there was one of two places he was going to be last weekend, Vegas or...
Rat Autopsy: Watch Some Buddies Pull Apart The Most Destroyed Big Block Chevy We’ve Ever Seen
Anyone who has ever raced something has been exactly where the guys in this video are. Ok, maybe not quite in this exact level of destruction autopsy but you know what we are getting at. We’ve...
Ken Block’s New Gymkhana Video Is…FootKhana?
Last week we were tipped off that Ken Block would be releasing a new Gymkhana video on Tuesday, April 22nd. We were so hot and bothered by this news (Well, I was at least) that we binge-watched the...
Radial Resurrection: Bringing Outlaw Drag Racing Back to its Roots – Wild Eighth-Mile Drag Radial Action
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip—some say it is the birthplace of outlaw street car racing in the Southeast. In the ‘90s and 2000’s, it was a hotbed...
