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Regarded as one of the most spectacular night sessions on the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series tour, the can’t-miss night session on Friday, July 17 at Sonoma Raceway will have added incentive with the Deecell Power Systems “After Dark Low Qualifier” bonus. The bonus money will go to the low qualifiers in Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock as part of the DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals presented by PowerEdge, enhancing an already epic weekend. Pro Stock opens the Deecell “After Dark Low

With involvement in seven different racing series that touch 26 states and seven countries, the sun never sets at Rick Ware Racing (RWR). Rick Ware’s eponymous team competes on a world tour, fielding entries in the NASCAR Cup Series, NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, HOT ROD Drag Week, Progressive American Flat Track (AFT), FIM World Supercross Championship, zMAX CARS Tour and eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Championship Series. It’s a cornucopia of motorsports that covers ovals, road courses

According to sources the IHRA has laid off staff for the Outlaw Nitro Series. The series has already amended its 2026 schedule. View the full article

Strange Engineering's Max Extension Strut is deigned for maximum weight transfer. Learn how this strut can help any door car hook better.View the full article

We’ve reached the midway point of Street Week Sweden 2026, and are about to start Race Day 4 at Tierp Arena in Sweden within hours of you reading this and checking out the photos. It has been a whirlwind trip that I will never forget and can’t wait to do again next year. I have repeatedly said just how cool these people, tracks, and cars are, but it’s just not enough. This event is truly something special and I can’t wait to tell you more. But until then I’m sharing photos I’ve snapped around th

Goodwood Festival of Speed is an automotive event of epic proportions, held on an insanely beautiful British estate, and not only does it feature amazing cars, performances, and more, but it is also one of the must attend social events of the summer. It is like the Masters golf tournament, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open but with cars. It’s cool as hell and truly special. Thankfully they are live streaming the entire event and you can watch the action all weekend long. We’ll have the complete lives

We’ve been sharing Martin Lundqvist Racing Fabrication videos here on BANGshift for the past few months as they are putting together a new drag and drive machine for Sweden’s Street Week and beyond. It’s being dubbed project 508, as his current Street Week winning car is the 507 Coupe. But what does it take for a veteran like Martin to get the car ready, inspected for public roads, and loaded up to hit the road and race? We were on hand at his race shop just days before Street Week Sweden 2026 k

The fans have spoken and we now have four teams for the $10K Drag Shootout. Team Food Stamp Fast has been selected as the final team.View the full article

The NHRA is heading back to its roots for the start of the 2027 season. Here's a look at the first four races of the 2027 NHRA season. View the full article

Chase Womack has packed a career’s worth of accomplishments into just over two years of drag racing, but the driver of the screw-blown “Hitman” Firebird added his biggest one yet at the Freedom of War no-prep race, July 3-4 at WesTx Abilene Raceway. Womack outlasted a stacked 48-car Small Tire field over six rounds on the West Texas track’s bare-concrete surface to claim the $75,000 winner’s share of the biggest small-tire no-prep purse in history. Making the weekend even sweeter, Womack lin

A return to NHRA’s traditional schedule, the start of a season-long celebration honoring one of the NHRA’s greatest legends and four iconic events will make up the opening of the 2027 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season. NHRA officials announced today that the 2027 campaign – and NHRA’s 76th season – will feature a nod to its roots, opening with the 67th annual NHRA Winternationals on Feb. 18-21 at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip and continuing with races in Phoenix, Gainesville an

The GETTRX NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle All-Star Callout will have big money on the line. The top 8 riders will be battling it out for $25,000.View the full article

Learn how pre-assembly underhood heat management prevents volatile E85 vapor lock, brake fluid boiling, and high-voltage arcing.View the full article

You never know what you are going to get when buying cars at auction, and that’s because you may or may not even be able to start them and hear them run. It totally depends on the auction, and whether or not you can even get there to do an inspection. I’ve bought plenty of things at auction over the years, including cars and trucks, and it is always a little risky. So when Dylan McCool bought this neat old drag car at an auction, and it had a rod knock, there were some decisions to make. Race it

The McLeod RST HD Clutch Kit delivers massive holding capacity. This hybrid disc gives drivers street comfort and heavy track grip.View the full article

As the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series enters its final stretch of the regular season, the intensity continues to build during NHRA’s 75th anniversary season at the 37th annual Muckleshoot Casino Resort NHRA Northwest Nationals, which takes place July 24-26 at Pacific Raceways. This year’s trip to the scenic Pacific Raceways will see the return of a traditional schedule of two qualifying sessions on Friday and two on Saturday. The biggest names on the NHRA tour will head to Seattle, as

Eight of the top stars in NHRA’s Pro Stock Motorcycle category are headed west to Sonoma Raceway to compete in the GETTRX NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle All-Star Callout on Saturday, July 18, as part of the 38th annual DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals presented by PowerEdge. The unique callout style event will pit eight top riders in the class against each other, with two-time world champion Gaige Herrera getting the first pick. Herrera is seeded first, followed in order by reigning world champ Richar

2025 NHRA Rookie of the Year and 2026 Funny Car championship contender Spencer Hyde will make his debut appearance at the 49th annual Cornwell Tools Night Under Fire at Summit Motorsports Park, July 31-August 1. The Stratford, Ontario, Canada native will race the Head Engineering and Construction 12,000-horsepower Funny Car against some of the fiercest Funny Car competitors in the country for the coveted Night Under Fire championship. Hyde will square off against Jordan Vandergriff, Cruz Pedrego

You need the right shock for your racing application. We look at the differences between AFCO's Big Gun and Big Gun X shocks.View the full article

Trick-Tools Racing is proud to announce a new partnership with PowerEdge®, a brand of DENSO Products and Services Americas, Inc., for the remainder of the 2026 NHRA Drag Racing season. PowerEdge will serve as an associate sponsor on rider Chase Van Sant’s Pro Stock Motorcycle throughout the season and will be the primary sponsor at two marquee events: the GETTRX All-Star Pro Stock Motorcycle Callout event at the DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals, and the Mopar NHRA Las Vegas Nationals at The Strip at

Luck in the way of good weather and racing was on full display at the annual trek to Kentucky for the nostalgia drag racing extravaganza that is the National Hot Rod Reunion. After a long March Meet layover, the NHRA Heritage Top Fuel combatants were back in action, ready for battle. Despite only five AA/FDs in the pits, the race action and drama was 16-car-field worthy. Tyler Hilton and the Great Expectations team rolled into Beech Bend with great expectations – the team won the March Meet

The Neff family has taken a unique approach to Comp Eliminator racing. Check out their wild six-second Ford-powered A/ED dragster.View the full article

Everyone I know that buys a newer diesel tow rig has a love and hate relationship with their truck because the love they have for the diesel power and efficiency is sometimes matched by the hate they feel for the DPF and emissions systems. Regen, DPF fillups, and so much more can be frustrating, especially because they seem to rear their ugly head when you need the truck at its best, when you need to tow your rig to the show, race, or home. That’s where Cataclean comes into play. Cataclean has b

It’s time for our final coverage from the 3rd Formula Offroad race of the 2026 Season in Iceland and here’s the video coverage. If you haven’t watched this kind of racing before, you are in for a treat. It’s all big power, big noise, crash and burn, and high flying action in an environment unlike any other. If you are new around there then you might not know that we seriously dig Formula Off-Road racing here at BANGshift.com. This is high flying, loud, and intense racing that involves what look

There are many things that I miss from living in Southern California, and one of them is the Pomona Swap Meet. Unless I was out of town at a race, I was there with Crosby and Jay and the crew, window shopping, parts buying, and shooting tons of photos for all of you out there. So when my friend Dane posted up video from his visit to the June Pomona Swap Meet, I knew I had to check it out and share. I want you to watch and let us know what surprised you, what you would have bought, and whether yo

1950’s American cars have historically been the basis of the majority of true customs, and for good reason. The lines flow, the shapes lend themselves to chopping, sectioning, and frenching, but it’s the factory shape that inspires those changes. What that means for folks who want to start their own custom project is that they can do some very simple modifications to get their project going in the hot rod direction without actually cutting anything up and shaping new metal. And don’t think of th

Our friend Tommy Lee Byrd recently got the chance to visit the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, and the very special section, underneath this HUGE space that is called The Vault. It’s a special place that houses some of the most valuable, rare, and unique machines, and is only accessible to a limited number of people each week. Even if you don’t make it to the vault, the Petersen is insanely cool. But if you get the chance to visit the Vault you should. Here’s what our friend Tommy tho