Drag Strips

We love a good road trip, and doing one in a topless hot rod sounds like a wonderful idea. I’m a big fan of a good convertible, and so are these guys. In this video you’ll see 100 vintage roadsters cruising through Ohio on their way to some of the coolest roads, sights, and hot rod collections. This is stuff you won’t find anywhere else, and we love it. Check out all the action in the video below from Spanky’s Hot Rods. Video Description: Welcome along on one of the greatest hot rod adventures

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing, and seeing what kind of trouble I can get into so make sure you get your subscription now! Buy the whole week and save! You know we’re big on free livestreams around here, but Street Week Sweden is unlike any other drag and drive you’ll experience. With hundreds of competitors driving through, and racing in, small tow

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 0, when everyone shows up for registration, testing, and wrenching, but we’ve already got photos from BANGshifter Neal Sabo. Neal will be there all week snapping pictures and checking out the cool stuff going on. He is planning to hit all three days, at Darana Dragway at Dragway 42, Darana Raceway National Trail, and Kuhnle Motorspor

The lights of Knoxville Dragway were burning bright. Fans were energetically clamoring for their best spot to view the on-track action. Gassers were on track, displaying the best nostalgia gasser drag racing that is The Southeast Gassers Association Championship competition. Then the rain rolled in through the little valley where the Maynardville, Tennessee, facility sits. That evening’s shower forced the conclusion of the RAM Clutches Nationals at Knoxville Dragway. After completing all of

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show day. Lucky for us, our Colorado BANGshifter Charles Wickam was on site to snap some photos of all the cool rides to share with all of you. And were there some cool rides! This show has an amazing variety, with everything from traditional hot rods, muscles cars, classic trucks, customs, and even lowriders on had, righ

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over there, it’s amazing the dedication they have to still participating in the hot rod and racing community. And thank god for that! This 1,400 horsepower, twin-turbocharged, LS powered beast is nothing short of amazing. Everything about this cool Ute is special and I just can’t stop drooling over it. Thankfu

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for America’s Most Beautiful Roadster were all over the place in terms of style and attitude, both of which describe the Squeeg’s Kustoms built 1932 Ford Roadster that won. It was my personal pick for the car I loved most, in a field of really cool rides, but I really didn’t think it would win because the st

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El Bandito Bronco out on pavement? Pikes Peak baby, that’s what! The El Bandito Ford Bronco has been doing work as the RTR crew prepped it for the world’s most famous hillclimb. The video below shows Loren’s entire run up the mountain on race day, where he took 1st place despite a couple of bobbles, but man was it fun t

Jack Beckman was seeking his career fourth Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals title to celebrate his 60th birthday on Sunday, but the PEAK SQUAD had to settle for their third runner-up finish of the season when Ron Capps beat the PEAK Chevrolet SS Funny Car to the finish line. John Force Racing’s Alexis DeJoria was a semifinalist, Josh Hart bowed out in the second round and Jordan Vandergriff’s day ended in the first round. The long-time competitors and former teammates left the star

Horsepower has never been easier to make, more readily available, or more usable than it is in 2026. And while car prices have climbed, and I certainly can’t afford any of these machines here, the price of a ZR1X and Mustang GTD are low in comparison to what anything trying to be near them in performance would cost and are a fraction of the price of the Lucid and Czinger that are in this video. So can the old American icons take on the other two? Watch and find out. Is this the state of America

1320 Video is back at it, this time with new video from their parking lot party car show. We’re used to having big spaces here in the States, but in many big cities in the rest of the world they take over parking garages for car shows and it totally makes sense. We’ve seen plenty of them on videos from Larry Chen and 1320Video, and they certainly look cool. So when 1320Video decided to throw their own local car show a few years ago, the parking garage party seemed like the perfect fit. Check out

Nitro Funny Car driver Spencer Hyde was a hometown hero this weekend at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park. Both Hyde and his legendary crew chief and team owner, Jim Head, were kept busy on and off the track. Even though they made a fierce race day attempt, the Head Contractors and Engineers Funny Car had an early exit after the first round.   “If we had made the pass we executed during the first round of eliminations during qualifying, today

The IHRA announced major changes to its Outlaw Nitro Series schedule. Several races have been removed the schedule due to facility issues.View the full article

After a standout qualifying performance at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, Alexis DeJoria and the John Force Racing Bandero Café Chevrolet SS Funny Car team carried that momentum into a semifinal finish on race day at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio. The fan-favorite driver outpaced Blake Alexander and Chad Green before tire smoke ended her bid for a Wally trophy against Ron Capps.   DeJoria was competitive and consistent throughout qualifying, landing her B

Jeff Rudolf experienced a horrific crash at the end of the 2025 season at Bradenton. Rudolf has rebuilt his Pro Mod and is back racing.View the full article

Seven months ago, no driver in Pro Modified history had ever competed for a million dollars. Since that time, Jason Harris has not only achieved that opportunity – he’s done it twice. His first chance came in December after winning the Snowbird Outlaw Nationals presented by Motion Raceworks, the first race of the 2025/26 Drag Illustrated Winter Series presented by J&A Service. The Elite Motorsports Million offered $1 million to any driver that could win all three events of the Winter Ser

The International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) today announced revisions to its remaining 2026 drag racing schedule as the organization continues making significant investments in its facilities and implementing key initiatives designed to strengthen the future of the series. While IHRA fully intended to return to Darana Dragway – Milan, Michigan, Empire Dragway, Darana-Heartland Motorsports Park, and Atlanta Dragway during the 2026 season, the organization has made the difficult decision to r

After battling through a challenging qualifying effort, four-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion Antron Brown and the AB Motorsports team found their stride when it mattered most, racing to a runner-up finish Sunday at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park. The event carried extra significance for Brown and the Matco Tools team. Norwalk serves as a homecoming race with longtime partners Matco Tools and Summit Racing Equipment, headquartered nearby. Earlier in ra

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Arguably the biggest bombshell news story that came out of last year’s PRI show was the legendary Pennsylvania drag strip Maple Grove Raceway being acquired by the newly reinvigorated IHRA sanctioning body. The seismic ripples were felt throughout the drag racing world, but none more than in my neck of the woods. Maple Grove Raceway is my home track, I have been going there since I was child, watching my dad Joe Sr. racing his Mach 1. I was finally able to race a

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show day. Lucky for us, our Colorado BANGshifter Charles Wickam was on site to snap some photos of all the cool rides to share with all of you. And were there some cool rides! This show has an amazing variety, with everything from traditional hot rods, muscles cars, classic trucks, customs, and even lowriders on had, righ

The 2026 PDRA season reached its halfway point at MDIR. Here's a recap of all the action from the PDRA North vs South Shootout. View the full article

Aaron Stanfield and the Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage / Melling Performance / Janac Brothers Racing team rallied to victory Sunday at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park. After a lethal display on the starting line through the weekend, including a sharp .001 reaction time in the second round, Stanfield took the victory in the final round on a holeshot, cutting a near-perfect .002 reaction time to hold off a hard-charging Matt Hartford. Stanf

Doors that shut and wheels that turn might not sound super exciting, but they require fabrication and time in order to be right and that’s what we dig. This project has been fun to follow, and we can’t wait to see it out on the rocks having fun too. Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, and man this thing is really coming along. In this installment we are sharing two videos that cover making the doors fit, fixing steering issues, and more. There is a lot of fabrication going on in this p

In just her 10th career NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series event, Rookie of the Year candidate Maddi Gordon became the eighth woman in NHRA history to win in Top Fuel Sunday afternoon at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio. Gordon’s triumph in her Carlyle Tools Top Fuel dragster completed the first double-up victory for the Ron Capps Motorsports organization, as team owner Ron Capps drove his NAPA Auto Care Funny Car to the win just moments e

We’ve shared some live track testing going on at Maryland International Raceway where PDRA’s top teams were on hand to see what kind of improvements they can make as they got ready for this past weekend’s PDRA North vs South Shootout at MIR. Once the racing weekend started the official PDRA livestream took over, but if you didn’t pay for the pay per view to watch, you can still catch all the qualifying action right here thanks to NCProModer and Straight Line Media who were both on hand and have

At Summit Motorsports Park second generation drag racer Taylor Dietsch won for the first time in 2026 and captured his third Flexjet Factory Stock Showdown Series national event win. Dietsch took out the points leader Jonathan Allegrucci in an all-Ford Mustang Cobra Jet final and ended his three-race win streak in the process. The win also moved the young Dietsch to 11th in points, just six points out of the Top Ten.   “It’s just been a perfect day,” said Dietsch. “We couldn’t have asked for a b

We share all kinds of live racing action from the 24 Hours of SPA this weekend, but if you missed any of that we’ve got great highlight video below that shows the best racing action from the weekend. We’re talking 24 Hour Endurance Road Racing, which is not for the weak of heart. This is racing that tests teams, drivers, crews, strategies, and more. It’s a never ending battle, in often changing conditions, and that means the racing action can something get a little dicey. But don’t worrry, you g