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It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and heavy time of the year. The East Coast Triple $50k at Virginia Motorsports Park promises to be a great event, with tons of heavy hitters going for the big money. Thursday is the American RC/Riggeal’s Warm-Up event where everyone is making sure their stuff is right before fighting it out for the big money starting on Frida

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag Racing, where wheels-up action is the norm, then this is the racing for you. We’re talking Stock, Super Stock, Comp, Alcohol classes, and more right here from Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk Ohio! Check it out and let us know what you think! The post FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend Raceways awesome surface, we know you can expect performance like none other this weekend. Today is the first day of racing and that means everyone will be pushing their rides to get those top qualifying spots. Thanks to NHRATV you can watch all of it LIVE and FREE right here at BANGshift.com. Make sure you

Scrappers Racing will finally have the opportunity to field two Top Fuel entries at the same event when they roll into Hebron, Ohio, this week for the first IHRA Triple Crown race at Darana National Trail Raceway. Top Fuel pilot Jasmine Salinas will welcome her father and Scrappers Racing team owner Mike Salinas back to competition for the first time since he stepped out of the driver’s seat at the beginning of 2024. The father/daughter duo will compete in the same category for the first time in

Set to close out the 2026 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series regular season in style for its 75th anniversary campaign, NHRA officials announced the next group of commemorative tickets for the final four races of the regular season. The special commemorative tickets will continue to feature NHRA legends past and present at the final four regular-season events during the celebratory year, including Brittany Force (Sonoma), Jim Dunn (Seattle), Ron Capps (Brainerd), and Shirley Muldowney, Jo

High performance vehicles run on money and good maintenance. Moser Engineering has what you need to maintain virtually any rearend.View the full article

Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, or Independents, none of it matters if you are a real car guy. In the video below you’ll see Jay Leno and President Joe Biden take a ride through SoCal in Joe’s 1967 Corvette Convertible. He’s had it since it was new, and has kept it despite being told he can’t drive it on public roads. I know there are a lot of guys that own 1967 Corvettes and don’t drive them, but if you watch this video I think you’ll agree that we should all be driving our old cars. This

If you aren’t familiar with Super Modified circle track cars, then you are missing out. This year at PRI, my buddy Bigun and I walked all around one drooling the whole time. While they do have some that are small block powered, the ones I love most are big block Chevrolet powered and that engine is leaned over and hanging as far off the left side of the car as the rules will allow. Getting all that weight low and inside makes these thing handle way better than they would otherwise. And in the vi

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Five video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! Day Three AND Four were both at Pueblo Motorsports Park and then we hit the road for Great Bend. And after a full day or driving, trailer burnouts, bench racing, and squirt gun fights, we made it in time for some parking lot beers as well. The route was fun, with plenty of local interaction, and we enjoyed the break before a long day of racing on Friday. Check it all

THE WES BUCK SHOW – EPISODE 429 “WALLYS, WILD RIDES, AND A THOUSAND AUTOGRAPHS” SOME WEEKS YOU GET A WINNER. SOME WEEKS YOU GET A GOOD STORY. THIS WEEK? WE GOT BOTH. AND THEN SOME. This week on The Wes Buck Show, we’re diving headfirst into one of those episodes that reminds you why drag racing is the greatest reality show on earth. First up, we’ve got Antron Brown fresh off another Top Fuel victory in NHRA competition. The man just keeps finding ways to win. Champion. Team o

ONE WEEK OUT. THREE RACES. ONE MILLION ON THE LINE. EACH.The 2026 IHRA Triple Crown opens at Darana Raceway in Hebron, Ohio on June 19-20. Five classes – Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Mod, Pro Stock, Mountain Motor Pro Stock – are each eligible for a $1 million bonus if a single competitor wins all three races on the Triple Crown calendar. Top Fuel and Funny Car go at 1,000 feet. Pro Mod, Pro Stock and Mountain Motor Pro Stock at the eighth-mile. Pre-race Street Party at Buckeye Lake Village Thursday

We’re spoiled nowadays by mandrel bent tubing that is available for just about any project at any radius you can imagine. Some of it is really affordable too. But not always. And every shape and size you can imaging is out there, but that doesn’t always mean they are right for the project you are working on. If you are building an old school, traditional, hot rod or race car then you might want to do it the way they did back in the day anyway, and that’s where the sand bending method comes into

This year’s Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park will again see an extra level of excitement when the stars of the Pro Stock class face off in the GETTRX Pro Stock NHRA All-Star Callout on Saturday, June 27. The field is officially set for the unique callout-style race, pitting the top eight Pro Stock drivers against each other with bonus purse and bragging rights on the line in Norwalk, which marks the halfway point of the 2026 Mission Foods Dra

Here’s our first gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link to those below as well. (Photos by Neal Sabo) When BANGshifter Neal Sabo said he was going to head down to Buckeye Skips 2025 Drag and Drive, to snap pictures and check out the cool stuff going on, we were like “Hell yeah!” He hit all three days, at Darana Dragway at Dragway 42, Quaker Dragway, and Kuhnle Mo

Returning to the site of her first career victory, Melanie Johnson is set to defend her Top Alcohol Dragster title at this weekend’s 20th Annual Cavalcade of Stars at Summit Motorsports Park. The event marks a pivotal Central Regional stop on the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series tour. Last year, in just her sixth career start in the category, Johnson drove the McPhillips Racing A/Fuel Dragster to a hard-earned victory at the Norwalk facility. While she has since secured multiple semifinal f

Rick Ware Racing has acquired Jeff Lutz’s iconic Mad Max Camaro, with Lutz signed to a multiyear deal targeting major drag-and-drive events.View the full article

Veteran racer Shane Molinari tragically lost his life following an on-track accident at Sonoma Raceway during the annual RaceWorz event. View the full article

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, and man this thing is really coming along. In this installment we are sharing three videos that cover everything from the Vintage Air A/C, the Atlas Twin-Stick transfer case, the new custom grill, and more. There is a lot of fabrication going on in this project, so we hope it inspires you to get out there and start cutting and welding something on your ride this week. Shannon and Jess are moving right along on the FJ40 and things just keep getting be

J.R. Todd and the DHL Funny Car team continue to produce consistent results on the track. The team is gearing up for another title run.View the full article

The insane, 1600+ horsepower Top Fuel Motorcycles (TFM) are back on track this weekend, June 19-20, at IHRA’s Triple Crown race at Darana National Trail Raceway, Hebron, Ohio.  With eight supercharged, nitromethane-burning bikes, it will be the biggest field in many, many years for these mythical beasts known as the Kings of the Sport. Larry “Spiderman” McBride will start the run for his 25th title as the favorite. He and brother/tuner Steve McBride have spent their careers being nearly

After more than a month out of the driver’s seat, Top Fuel pilot Jasmine Salinas proved that the Valley Services Scrappers Racing team should not be taken lightly despite their part-time status in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series. The talented up-and-comer qualified in the top half of the competitive Top Fuel field this weekend at the Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals but fell to Shawn Langdon in the opening round of eliminations. Nevertheless, Salinas is leaving Bristol Dragway

Alexis DeJoria, the driver of the Bandero Café Funny Car, landed the best qualifying position among her John Force Racing teammates at this weekend’s Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals in Bristol, Tennessee. DeJoria, who won this event in 2021, qualified second in the category but made an early exit on race day against her teammate Jordan Vandergriff.    Bristol Motor Speedway recently resurfaced the track at Bristol Dragway and NHRA competitors were eager to begin collecting data on the r

Here’s our third gallery of lost photos from Day 1 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link to those below as well. (Photos by Neal Sabo) When BANGshifter Neal Sabo said he was going to head down to Buckeye Skips 2025 Drag and Drive, to snap pictures and check out the cool stuff going on, we were like “Hell yeah!” He hit all three days, at Darana Dragway at Dragway 42, Quaker Dragway, and Kuhnle Mo

NHRA Rookie of the Year contender Maddi Gordon’s first trip to Bristol Dragway came to an end in the second round of the Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals as she lost to 2025 regular season champion Tony Stewart. It was another learning experience for Gordon and the upstart Carlyle Tools Top Fuel team out of the Ron Capps Motorsports organization as they dealt with a brand-new racing surface and atmospheric conditions unlike any other track on the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series tou

While Bonneville gets most of the attention in Land Speed Racing, because it clearly is home to the biggest and baddest land speed racing events of the year, most land speed racers will tell you that El Mirage is the most challenging and rewarding land speed racing venue anywhere. And if you have been there, you understand that. If you haven’t been there though, you’ll need to see it to believe it. Thankfully, you can watch this weekend’s SCTA races from El Mirage right here. Check out all the

Rain wasn’t the only black cloud hanging over John Force Racing on Sunday at Bristol Dragway as all four of its teams were eliminated after the second round of competition in the Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals. The PEAK Chevrolet SS Funny Car team of Jack Beckman and the Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car team of Jordan Vandergriff were eliminated in the quarterfinals while the Bandero Café Chevrolet SS Funny Car team of Alexis DeJoria and the Speedmaster Top Fuel dragster team

Years and years ago I built a 1987 Toyota FJ-62 for my buddy Sean and I loved it. We painted it, lifted it, improved a bunch of suspension and drivetrain, and then he drove the hell out of it. It was awesome. They are like a miniature Suburban, or a big Four Runner. But these OG rides have bulletproof Toyota solid axles front and rear, are comfortable to haul you and your friends and the dog on the trails, and there are jillions of parts available for them. So it’s no wonder that Fred was excite