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Mar 27, 20211320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Spotlight, BangShift 1320, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Our FREE LIVE Streaming Video Coverage Of The Spring Fling Million In Las Vegas Continues Today! 5-Days Of FREE RACING!!!

That’s right folks, we’re SUPER excited to be bringing you 5 days of awesome bracket racing from The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway at the 2021 K&N Spring Fling Million presented by Optima Batteries. While the big show starts on Wednesday, we’ll be live on Tuesday afternoon for the American Race Cars, Todd’s Extreme Custom Paint, Dragster Shootout Race. The winner will take home a rolling American Race Cars 240″ Dragster chassis with a complete custom paint job by Todd’s. This is a big shootout for 32 cars and will be the perfect way to start off the weekend here in Vegas.

We will be live Tuesday afternoon, and then all day Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for all the racing action. Check out the flyer below for details on the payout and event prizes, but know that Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday racers will be going after $30,000 to win. Friday is the big money Million race which has a guaranteed purse of $250,000 to the winner regardless of entries. We’re pretty sure this race is going to be off the hook based on our last west coast race this year. Given the fact that all the heavy hitters are heading cross country for it as well, this promises to be one hell of an event.

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Jan 19, 20211320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

The Rad Man Wins: Watch Connie Kalitta’s Historic Victory In Top Fuel At The 1994 NHRA US Nationals

When it comes to people who personify guts, endurance, and an incredible will to succeed, Connie Kalitta’s name is going to be in the conversation. As a guy who started an air freight empire with a dragster and an airplane he bought from Ted Halibrand, it has been dogged determination and hard work that have continued to propel him to this day. Connie Kalitta had been trying to win the US Nationals since the late 1950s and over the years he came close, but had never actually won the race. Astonishingly it took him all the way to the mid 1990s before he was able to claim a proper win at The Nationals. As a guy who had done and continues to do so much for the sport, this was a moment of celebration no just for him but for the many people he had helped and influenced over the years.

It was fitting that Eddie Hill was on the other side of the track on this late night finish. Why? It made this pair the oldest TF pass in the history of the sport by virtue of the drivers’, ummm, life experience.

The run is great and the top end interview is even better. You can tell how much this one means to the big guy.

Hit the image of Connie to watch him win the 1994 NHRA US Nationals – Legendary stuff!

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Peak 80s Goodness: This United States Hot Rod Association Promotional Video Is A Gearhead Highlight Reel That We Love

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Nov 07, 2020Apex Video, BangShift APEX, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Classic YouTube: Watch As This VW Golf Monsters Hillclimbs At Full Chat!

If there is one truth to racing, it’s that you never half-ass anything you do. If you can’t be bothered to give it your all, don’t bother showing up. That goes for any form of racing out there. But what does 100% look like? Full-on maximum attack, where you wonder if insanity has overridden the survival instinct, that’s what. It’s the difference between pedaling out of a bad situation on the strip versus hanging the hell on and crossing the stripe a tenth faster. It’s moderating a trail versus flying over every fourth little incline to keep up momentum in a rally. And in a hillclimb…well, here’s your lesson’s subject of the day. The driver is Daniel Wittwer, and his early VW Golf is the car. The Golf is only pushing out about 25o horsepower from a 16V 2.0L four, but you’d swear that there’s more the way that Wittwer is pushing this little VW. We are pretty sure that he used the Armco barrier as a ricochet device, bouncing the car back onto the asphalt. We’re almost proof-positive that at one point he was two tires off on the shoulder besides one glaringly obvious moment. We are pretty sure that the rear tires are worn a quarter less than the fronts, given how much hang time they got in corners. And the cover photo speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Maybe not as much as Wittwer’s celebration after the run…we’d be happy to be alive, too, after a hell ride like that!

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Sep 30, 2020RACING & ACTION, Videos

Morning Symphony: All Manner Of Manic Rally Machines At Rallylegend 2019

“Manic”…there was never a more proper word for what a rally car driven in pure anger is. With revs high, the turbo spooled to the moon and the tires scratching in like a housecat the moment Dad lets one of his “nuclear blast” sneezes go, the tiny little power-sliding, nimble and radical little rally cars of both present and past put on a show. At the hands of a skilled driver, it’s the closest thing I believe you can get to a motorsports equivalent of a Cirque du Soleil show, more theatrics, gymnastics and acoustics than anything else remotely close to automotive competition. What’s your poison? A tricked-out Lada giving those with Commie Cars jokes something to think about for a moment? A classic Ford Escort hanging the tail as wide as possible while a Cosworth screams? The undeniable anger of a Group B legend as it spits flame out the pipe?

Rally is an all-inclusive show: the acceleration of a drag car, the showmanship of a drift show, enough tire-frying action to keep an Aussie engaged, off-road sections for those who prefer that kind of thing, and when somebody slips? Well, at least the demo-derby fans will have something to study. You have to love it…

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Scary Machine: Old Video of International Harvester's Automatic Mine Layer

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Aug 30, 2020Event Coverage, LAND SPEED RACES, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Bonneville Speed Week Video: Record Setting Runs And Muscle Cars On The Salt During Speed Week 2020

What truly makes Bonneville Speed Week special is the variety of vehicles that you see hauling ass down the salt. Different body styles, different engine combos, and different visions are what Bonneville Speed Week is all about, and it is what people who come for the first time always comment on. There are so many classes, so many combos within those classes, and so much flexibility in how you build your perfect race car for Speed Week, that there is no way that any two are exactly the same. Streamliners, Lakesters, door cars, roadsters, and sports cars just scratch the surface as there are so many different classes, variations, and interpretations of each of these classifications. When you watch the two videos below, one that is all record runs from Bonneville Speed Week 2020, and the other that is nothing but Muscle Cars on the salt, you’ll get to see just how cool this place is and just how cool the racing is.

Watch and see what you think and tell us what vehicle in these videos is your favorite. Would you rather drive a streamliner down the salt? A lakester? That’s like a streamliner but with the wheels hanging out. Or a door car? Maybe a roadster?

Watch and tell us what you think.

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May 13, 2020BangShift XL, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos

Video: 1950s Tractor Crash Testing Is The Best Crash Testing – The Creepy Music Adds To The Weirdness

When is comes to crash testing, tractor crash testing is kind of the weirdest. Why? Because lots of times when you crash a tractor you die and you don’t die some quick way, it’s like being stuck under the thing or worse. So companies have worked over the years on safety guard to protect operators in the event of different wrecking situations. How? They use dummies and place the tractors in the kinds of places that cause the physics to go pear shaped and them to end up with the wrong side up. Be that a steep side grade, climbing a too steep hill or more.

This black and white video shows a John Deere 4010 going through various different crashing scenarios and the dummy riding on the seat is really in for it in more ways than one. While this guy does not get the bad end of it every time, he does most times and that’s the rub here. Farming is a dangerous job for lots of reasons, but the bottom line is the tractor does not really care about you near as much as you care about it.

Our favorite test in this film is the “side entry steep ditch” program. We have no idea if that is what it’s called but that is what we’re tagging it as. Seeing that thing go in head long and at speed is pretty awesome. The ROPS (roll over protection system) works well although we’re thinking that if were human the guy would be hating life pretty bad.

Enjoy!

Press play below to see this awesome film of old school 1950s tractor crash testing

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Funny Car Chaos And BangShift.com Launching Chaos Live Stream! Funny Car Racing Is Coming Soon!