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John Force Racing is bringing a lot of momentum to Norwalk. The team is ready for the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals. View the full article

The NHRA announced today that its broadcasting team has been honored with six prestigious Telly Awards, including a Gold Telly award for its Chasing Speed documentary. The six overall Telly Awards, which honor excellence in video and television across all screens, mark another stellar achievement for the broadcasting team and add to an impressive milestone total. The team has now received more than 50 Telly Awards over the past decade. This year’s total includes one Gold Telly for the NHRA Chasing Speed and five Bronze Tellys. “Earning six Telly Awards, including a Gold Telly for Chasing Speed, is an incredible achievement for our teams,” NHRA Vice President of Broadcasting Steve Reintjes said. “Their commitment to delivering compelling content and innovative storytelling continues to elevate how fans experience NHRA across every platform. We’re honored to receive this recognition and proud of the work our teams produce throughout the year.” NHRA’s highly successful Chasing Speed documentary premiered this season on Vice, spotlighting some of the sport’s biggest names and brightest future stars. Episode 106, which focused on motorsports legend and NHRA Top Fuel driver Tony Stewart and his wife, Leah Pruett, earned a Gold Telly in the General Sports category, while also earning a Bronze Telly in the General Documentary: Long Form category. NHRA also earned Bronze Telly Awards in the General Sports category, including honors for coverage of the prestigious Cornwell Quality Tools NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, the Texas NHRA FallNationals in Dallas, and its Chasing Speed promotional video. For the first time, NHRA received a Telly Award for its social media video series NHRA Driven, which gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at the daily lives of NHRA drivers at the racetrack. The Bronze Telly was given for a Driven highlighting two-time Top Fuel world champion Brittany Force. Founded in 1979, the Telly Awards were created to honor excellence in local, regional and cable television commercials with non-broadcast video and television programming added soon after. With the recent evolution and rise of digital video (web series, VR, 360, and beyond), the Telly Awards today also reflects and celebrates this exciting new era of the moving image online and offline. The Telly Awards annually showcases the best work created within television and across video, for all screens. Receiving tens of thousands of entries from all 50 states and five continents, Telly Award winners represent work from some of the most respected advertising agencies, television stations, production companies, and publishers from around the world. For more information on NHRA, including the 2026 schedule, please visit www.nhra.com. The post NHRA on FOX, NHRA Social Teams Earn Six Telly Awards for Television Video Excellence first appeared on Drag Illustrated. View the full article

Ron Capps and Maddi Gordon are ready for the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. See how they plan to attack this event.View the full article

Steve Johnson enters the 2026 Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals looking to build on the momentum gained from a strong qualifying effort and a semifinal finish in Bristol two weeks ago. The 12-time NHRA national event winner continues his historic 40th anniversary tour aboard his Suzuki, June 25-28, at Ohio’s spectacular Summit Motorsports Park. As the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle class enters the seventh race and the halfway point of their 14-event Mission Foods Drag Racing Series schedule, Johnson is tied for 9th in the season-long championship points battle. The Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, the penultimate race before the Countdown to the Championship begins and the prelude to the U.S Nationals, will be a crucial step for securing a spot in the Top 10 going into the Countdown. “We go to every race with an effort to make more power,” said Johnson from his Alabama-based shop. “I know we’ve made a strong effort to make more power for Norwalk, and the goal for all our hard work is to put up a big number. I feel lucky to be able to watch other big-name teams, in any category and sanctioning body, with lots of resources struggle because I learn so much from other people,” Johnson added. “I feel if you’re not the quickest in your category, your ‘work fever’ needs to be a little different, and we need to find something new.” Johnson’s 52nd career semifinal finish in Bristol earned the Suzuki racer a spot in the Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge during Saturday’s qualifying at Norwalk. It’s the second time this season the independent racer has earned the special opportunity to gain valuable points and win crucial cash. The race on Saturday doesn’t change the way Johnson approaches qualifying with his Suzuki. “I’ve never been one to have much of a strategy, other than just to work hard to prepare, assemble the best team possible, cut good lights and ride as perfect as I can,” explained Johnson. “Having said that, I’m going to start considering using a strategy because it’s bit me in the past when I’ve been in a specific scenario and I didn’t have one.” The lanky veteran has been successful racing at Norwalk in the past, qualifying No.1 and earning a runner-up finish in a final round appearance in 2021, and qualifying No.1 again in 2023. As Johnson enters his historic, class leading 526th career NHRA national event in Norwalk, he’ll be to seeking to add to his 337 career round wins total. “I’ve always said that there are special race tracks with special ownership on the NHRA tour and Norwalk is definitely one of them,” offered Johnson. “Winning at Norwalk and enjoying some traditional ice cream in the winner’s circle would be a career highlight.” The post Steve Johnson Racing Bringing Momentum into Norwalk for Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals first appeared on Drag Illustrated. View the full article

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ScottRod Racing is pleased to announce that Foundation Risk Partners, in conjunction with Louisville Aviation, will serve as an associate sponsor for the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio. The partnership was established through longtime supporter Mike Pratt, owner of Louisville Aviation and an MD-11 captain based in Louisville, Kentucky. Through its Louisville office, Foundation Risk Partners has assisted Scott Farley and Michelle Torromeo with their insurance needs, making this sponsorship a natural extension of an existing relationship. “We’re grateful for the support of Foundation Risk Partners and Louisville Aviation as we continue to grow our Top Fuel program,” said Michelle Torromeo, Managing Partner of ScottRod Racing. “Partnerships built on trust and long-term relationships mean a great deal to our team.” The Foundation Risk Partners logo will appear on the ScottRod Racing Top Fuel dragster during the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals as the independent Connecticut-based team competes at one of the premier events on the NHRA schedule. The post Foundation Risk Partners Joins ScottRod Racing for Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals first appeared on Drag Illustrated. View the full article

Everyone's done 'Busa motors. But this one uses BMW plants.View the full article

Robert of Roughchild recently revisited one of the workshop’s earliest custom BMW R100 projects, undertaking a comprehensive modernization of a motorcycle originally completed six years ago. Rather than creating an entirely new machine, the goal was to preserve the character of the original build while incorporating lessons learned through years of development, testing, and refinement. The result is a carefully evolved air-cooled boxer that blends vintage aesthetics with contemporary engineering solutions. The restoration began with a complete teardown to the […] The post Roughchild Revisits and Refines Its Custom BMW R100 appeared first on Return of the Cafe Racers. View the full article

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Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check them out too! (Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More people were crammed into the track than ever and it is no different today. With just a few NHRA National Events selling out each year, it is something special that Epping was one of them again this year. Thankfully, our friend Richard Pasley was on hand to shoot some really great photos from the event and we’ve got them all here to share for your enjoyment. Whether you like Top Fuel, Funny Cars, Pro Stock, or great people pictures from the track and the pits, you are going to dig this coverage. We can’t thank our contributors enough for being a part of the BANGshift family. We couldn’t do it without them and are so appreciative of their photo coverage. We know you enjoy them as well, enjoy the first gallery of photos below and we’ll have more coming over the next few days. CLICK HERE TO SEE ANY OF THE PHOTOS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED SO FAR The post Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event! appeared first on BangShift.com. View the full article

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 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 Motorsports Park and got all kinds of cool photos. He hit the checkpoints and the tracks and said it was an epic trip. The weather was pretty good, if not a bit cold at Kuhnle, but the racing was hot for sure. And then Neal got home, went through the photos, and sent me files on our dropbox. And that’s where yours truly dropped the ball. For some reason all these great photos never got posted and when we talked to Buckeye Skip himself about coming to cover the 2026 event, he asked what every happened to our 2025 coverage. Luckily Neal has no fear of throwing me under the bus when I deserve it, and I don’t have trouble taking responsibility, so we’re making up for it now! If you want to check out the photos, here is our first gallery from Day 1 and we’ll have more coming over the next several days as we’ll have a few galleries for each day of the event. Check them out, and get ready because Buckeye Skips 2026 drag and drive will be here before you know it. CLICK HERE IF YOU MISSED THE PREVIOUS PHOTOS The post Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints! appeared first on BangShift.com. View the full article

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage was cleaned up and moved out of the way of other train traffic, but seeing these train cars on their sides in the dirt made you really wonder how the heck they would get these things out of there. We realized that the train cars that were on site still were laying on their sides and had no “trucks” aka wheels and axles and suspension, under them. They bolt on sort of like the trucks on a skateboard, and weigh a jillion pounds, so we’re sure they are pretty valuable. Because the internet is always listening, as soon as I went on YouTube the next day there were some train videos in my feed. I occasionally look at something railroad related, but this was about derailments and locomotive lifts which caught my attention. I know guys that work on locomotives and have heard them talking about how much they weigh and it must take one heck of a crane to lift and move these locomotives, but how do they get it out to the site? Well, it’s not the kind of crane you think. In fact, the equipment used is more like a bulldozer, a forklift, and a boom truck had a baby. Watch and you’ll see. The post A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting. appeared first on BangShift.com. View the full article

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried and true applications, it just means they are finding more and more newer projects that can benefit from all the features and technology that is built into systems like the new Gen 5 that is going into this 4-eye Fox Body Mustang. The great thing with Vintage Air is that they have many direct fit Sure-Fit systems, as well as tons of universal and custom options. And because their Front Runner accessory drives, and variety of brackets and accessories, are designed for every engine and combo you can think of they have you pretty much covered no matter what engine you are swapping into your project. In this video you’ll see the Gen5 Vintage Air system going into a cool 1985 Mustang. One thing to note as well, if you have a car that needs a complete kit, they’ve got that. But if you need just the condensor end of things, they have that available. If you need just the evaporator side of things in the car, they have that available. If you need parts and pieces and advice to outfit something odd, they can help you. Just give them a call or visit them at VintageAir.com. The post The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build! appeared first on BangShift.com. View the full article

He’s back at it, and because I’ve done a similar type of chassis swap myself, I can’t fault him for the idea or the execution. Would I do some stuff different, sure. But I guarantee someone else would do it different than I would. So who cares as long as it works! Watch this video and you’ll see just how much tedious work there is to do a project like this. There are a ton of ways to skin this cat, but it all takes work. Lots and lots of work. If this is the video that makes you think Dylan has lost his mind, you don’t watch enough. And because I have done a similar project to what he’s doing in this video, his crazy is the same as mine. I approve. In this video he’s taking a project that we haven’t seen in years and giving it a complete drivetrain, suspension, and sheet metal transformation. How can he do all that on the cheap? Well, like most late model engine swaps, it’s all about the right donor, and figuring out how to use the most from it in order to get the most for your money. This could be more than you’re expecting. Check it out. Video Description: We dive in on the body swap Dodge Monaco on our 2011 Chrysler 300! This time, we plan to hit the road and make this car drive again! Think they’ll stay together? Stick around to find out. The post The CHEAPEST Hemi Swap EVER Hits the Road! Will This Body Swapped Dodge Actually Survive The Drive? appeared first on BangShift.com. View the full article

The IHRA Triple Crown was more than your typical drag race. Check out our massive gallery of photos from the Hebron event.View the full article

A dedicated motorcycle workshop is more than just a place to store bikes and tools. Where mechanical skill intersects with personal identity. Whether you’re restoring a classic cafe racer, building a custom chopper from the ground up or simply maintaining your daily ride the layout of your workspace will have a direct impact on both productivity and enjoyment. Increasingly, riders are turning to modified shipping containers to find custom shipping solutions for their workshop. These adaptable structures provide a practical […] The post Best Motorcycle Workshop Design Ideas For Creative Professionals appeared first on Return of the Cafe Racers. View the full article

Australian-based Kiwi Anthony ‘Kev’ Stephens came away from his first Isle of Man TT with a Sportbike finish, a 107 mph lap, and plenty of hunger to return stronger... The post Australian-based Kiwi Kev Stephens earns his TT stripes appeared first on MCNews. View the full article

If reigning NHRA Rookie of the Year Spencer Hyde had to pick a home track, the Canadian’s first choice would be Summit Motorsports Park, the site of this weekend’s fan-favorite 20th annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. If Hyde’s tuner and team owner, Jim Head, had to select a home track, the Columbus, Ohio native would also absolutely pick the standout facility in Norwalk, which makes this weekend’s NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series event incredibly important for both on several levels. Hyde grew up racing at the track, while Head will be the featured legend honored during the weekend as part of NHRA’s milestone campaign. Head also appears on the event’s commemorative ticket available for purchase, which adds to how special it would be for Hyde to pick up his first career NHRA win this weekend in the 12,000-horsepower Head Contractors and Engineers Funny Car. Now in his second season racing for Head, Hyde continues to enjoy racing for the legendary driver and tuner, especially during what will be a memorable weekend at Summit Motorsports Park. “Seeing Jim recognized in this way means a lot. Jim is a unique guy and he’s been around nitro racing for a very long time,” Hyde said. “Other than Big Jim Dunn, I’d say he’s the longest-running nitro guy out there who’s still active. “It’s really cool to have a race in Jim’s backyard, and it also adds a little bit of pressure for me as a driver, just because not only is it his hometown, but I consider this my home race as well. You want to do well in front of your friends and family, and all of the Canadians at this event.” Last year, Justin Ashley (Top Fuel), Austin Prock (Funny Car), Cory Reed (Pro Stock) and John Hall (Pro Stock Motorcycle) all won the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. This year’s race will again be broadcast on FOX, with qualifying and the GETTRX Pro Stock NHRA All-Star Callout coverage on FS1 and eliminations on FOX at 5:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, June 28. It is the 10th of 20 races during the 2026 season and this weekend’s event also features the GETTRX Pro Stock All-Star Callout bonus race and the Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge in Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock Motorcycle. For Hyde, he views the weekend as a big opportunity as the season hits the halfway point. He started the year strong, hit a lull, but appeared to get back on track at the most recent race in Bristol, qualifying fourth and winning a round. Now eighth in points, Hyde knows the chance is there to make a jump to close out the regular season. That starts in Norwalk, where a victory would be massive for the second-year standout, especially taking on the likes of points leader Ron Capps, Bristol winner Matt Hagan, Funny Car newcomer Jordan Vandergriff, Jack Beckman, Chad Green, who has two wins this season, and back-to-back world champ Prock. “Last year we qualified decent (in Norwalk), but we didn’t race very well, so we’re hoping to turn that around this year,” Hyde said. “It would be incredible to win my first Wally at this race. I don’t know if you could write it up any better. It would mean a lot to me to be in front of my family and friends and all my hometown fans when that moment happens. “Coming out of a good weekend in Bristol, we went out second round, but we made it down the track five out of six times. To have that confidence in the race car coming into Norwalk event, I’ve got high expectations. Jim and the guys won this event in 2024 (with Blake Alexander), so we know we’ve got a capable car. It would just be extra special to get my first win in front of the hometown crowd.” Ashley is after his first Top Fuel win of the season, but it won’t be easy against a group that includes dominant points leader Shawn Langdon, who has four wins in 2026, reigning world champion Doug Kalitta, racing legend Tony Stewart, Leah Pruett, who won the Epping race, Bristol winner Antron Brown, Clay Millican and Josh Hart. Matt Hartford won in Bristol and is also the reigning winner in the GETTRX Pro Stock All-Star Callout. He’ll look to repeat and sweep the weekend against a Callout field of Greg Anderson, who is the top seed and has the first pick, reigning world champ Dallas Glenn, Eric Latino, Greg Stanfield, Enders, Aaron Stanfield and Jeg Coughlin. Hall wants a repeat Pro Stock Motorcycle win in Norwalk against a talented field that includes points leader and reigning world champ Richard Gadson, Angie Smith, Gaige Herrera, Chase Van Sant, Steve Johnson, Jianna Evaristo and Ryan Oehler. Race fans also get to see action in the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, the JBS Equipment NHRA Pro Mod Series and Flexjet NHRA Factory Stock Showdown. Norwalk race fans can enjoy the special pre-race ceremonies that introduce each driver and includes the fan favorite SealMaster Track Walk and congratulate the winners at the winner’s circle celebration on Sunday. As always, fans get a pit pass to the most powerful and sensory-filled motorsports attraction on the planet. They can visit NHRA’s Manufacturers Midway, where sponsors and vendors create an exciting atmosphere. NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series qualifying will feature two rounds at 5 and 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday, June 26, and the final two rounds of qualifying on Saturday, June 27 at 12 and 2:30 p.m. Eliminations will begin at 11 a.m. ET on Sunday, June 28. The GETTRX Pro Stock NHRA All-Star Callout starts Friday, June 26 at 3 p.m., where the drivers will make their first-round picks. The first round of the Callout is Saturday, June 27 at 11:30 a.m., followed by the semifinals at 1:15 p.m. and the finals at 4 p.m. Television coverage begins Sunday, June 28 and includes the GETTRX Pro Stock NHRA All-Star Callout on FS1 at 11 a.m., leading into qualifying coverage at 12 p.m. Elimination coverage kicks off at 5:30 p.m. on FOX. To purchase tickets to Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, fans can visit www.NHRA.com/tickets. Children 12 and under are free in general admission areas with the purchase of an adult ticket. The post Plenty on the Line for Funny Car’s Spencer Hyde at Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals first appeared on Drag Illustrated. View the full article

Elite Motorsports is riding into Summit Motorsports Park ready to collect some hardware. Each team has big hopes for this event.View the full article

Team Kalitta heads to Summit Motorsports Park on a roll. Each of the nitro teams are in the hunt for a regular season title in 2026.View the full article

The refreshed Bajaj Chetak raises a bigger question: are American commuters finally ready for practical electric scooters?View the full article