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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week Race Day 4 – Mo-Kan Dragway

Chad Reynolds — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:20:01 +0000

It’s go time for Race Day 2 of Rocky Mountain Race Week 2024 and we’re LIVE from the Texas Motorplex in Ennis. With a quickest pass of 6.81 seconds at 217 miles per hour, this is a fast field even though it was 100 degrees outside in Tulsa. Today it is expected to get near 100 as well, but we’re still expecting lots of great racing action. So tell your friends, and click the link below to watch!

It’s time for Rocky Mountain Race Week folks, and that means 5 days of drag and drive action going on LIVE right here at BANGshift.com. We’ll be bringing you the action from all 5 days of racing, PLUS on road streaming action as well throughout the week. We start off Sunday June 23rd at Tulsa Raceway Park, then spend Monday on a beautiful drive through Oklahoma and Texas before hitting the famed Texas Motorplex in Ennis on Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday we’re at Thunder Valley Raceway Park in Noble Oklahoma, and Thursday we make the trek to Mo-Kan Dragway for day 4 racing action. Friday we’re back at Tulsa Raceway Park for several big money heads up shootouts and the bragging rights for who will be crowned champions for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2024!

Racing starts each day around 3pm Central and will go until the last car makes a pass around 11 pm each night. If you aren’t subscribed already, please do that now, and ring the bell so you’ll be notified when we go live from various checkpoints and trailer burnout spots on the route! And if you want to know what those routes are, just visit the / rockymountainraceweek page to see them all!

CLICK HERE TO WATCH ALL THE ACTION LIVE AND FREE!

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Parking Lot Piston Swap On Rocky Mountain Race Week 2024! Nobody Is More Hard Core Than Tom Bagguley From Britain!

Chad Reynolds — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:59:31 +0000

I first met Tom Bagguley after he took off on vacation and flew across the pond to hang out with us on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple years ago. Now he’s been back and forth a couple of times, bought a turbocharged, LS swapped, Fox Mustang sight unseen for cheap, and has been participating in these events with us all over the country. This dude is doing it on the cheap, having a great time, and is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. On this year’s Rocky Mountain Race Week, he hurt a piston on day one and started out the trip by having to swap it out. In a parking lot. By himself. The dude is a legend, a monster, a dude, and we love him for it. Check out the Rocky Mountain Race Week highlight video on his piston swapping adventures below.

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Tom is awesome and has done multiple Race Weeks and Drag and Drive events but this one started off a bit rough when he hurt a piston on day one. He swapped in a “new” one and made the 350 mile trip and laid down another pass to stay in the competition!

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Kansas City’s BRAND NEW TRACK is Born! 1320 Video Makes Their First Visit To Flying H Drag Strip And This Place Is Awesome!

Chad Reynolds — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:59:46 +0000

Flying H Drag Strip has been the talk of the mid-west drag racing community since they started breaking ground. With the latest in drag strip technology, this place promises to be epic with regards to performance. It’s got the flattest concrete possible, poured walls, great timing system, the best prep equipment, and so much more. It’s an amazing spot I can’t wait to visit, because everyone is talking about it. Recently, Kyle and the gang from 1320Video visited for the first time and were so impressed. Given the fact that Kansas City’s famed KCIR shut down years and years ago, and nearby Topeka has spent the last several years embroiled in controversy, ownership and management changes, and so much more everyone was really looking for something new. Well Flying H Drag Strip is just what the doctor ordered.

Check out the video below.

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Flying H Drag Strip is an amazing new facility in Odessa Missouri 30 mins outside Kansas City, and we went to check it out and see Street Car Takeover throw one heck of an event to showcase what this place is all about. Drag racing, roll racing, burnout contest, car show, they did it all. And we’re bringing you guys all the action along with a tour of the facility. Let us know what you guys think of this beautiful new track!

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Drag Racing Action Video: Southeast Gassers A/GAS Recap at Shadyside Dragway – Wheels Up Gasser Action!

Chad Reynolds — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:09:33 +0000

The Southeast Gassers Association puts on some of the most fun drag racing in the world. It’s an awesome series with old school gassers being driven like God intended and they certainly know how to put on a show. That’s why every single venue is packed with spectators and racers. We love this series and one of our favorite things are the names and characters that have been created by the owners, drivers, and teams. With the ladies of the Southeast Gassers Association also playing a big part in the starting line antics and the looks of the series, it’s a full team effort and we dig it.

Here is a new video from our friend Lee Craft, aka Monday Morning Racer, who shot a great feature video from Shadyside Dragway that is all about the A/Gas class. These are the heavy hitters and he not only catches the on track action, but also interviews and more. Check it out.

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Your place for gear smashing, straight axle, heads up, Championship Gasser Racing! We throwback to 1967 at every SEGA event! WATCH LIVE at www.southeastgassers.tv

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Stone Jug Championship Bracket Series – June – Saturday

Chad Reynolds — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 01:08:57 +0000

Big Money Bracket Racing is alive and well in the Northeast and that means Stone Jug Championship bracket racing at Keystone. We’re sharing all the live racing action all weekend long, so stay tuned in to see everyone trying to Be 00 and Take 00.

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A new year comes new opportunities in the world of big dollar bracket racing. Such is the case with Staging Lights and Keystone Raceway. When Staging Light’s Michael Beard met with Keystone Raceway Park’s Greg Miller last year in the hopes of securing a date to bring the Staging Light brand of big money bracket racing to the PA/OH/NY/WV/MD region and beyond, Michael never dreamed the meeting would conclude with them partnering on not one race, but THREE events, in a points series! With the inaugural April event being rescheduled after torrential rains in late March and early April the series kicks off this week, June 21-23 at Keystone Raceway Park.

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Born 2 Grudge From Steele Alabama. No Prep, No Time, Grudge Racing Action!

Chad Reynolds — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:49:43 +0000

Here’s the FREE livestream from Steele Alabama thanks to our friend Josh at Ticklefitz. He’s going to be on hand for all the racing action over the next couple of days and that means you get to see it all along with his commentary. Tune in here to see all the action tonight through Saturday night and we promise some fun and exciting racing! This weekend promises to be nuts with test hits on Thursday along with stand alone call outs. Friday night already has over a dozen cars locked in for specific grudge races, along with a $10,000 to win invitational. Saturday features a Small Block shootout worth at least $25,000 and an Anything on 28s, except this list of other stuff, for a minimum of $5000 to win with just a $150 entry. This is going to be big!

Watch!

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Finding HISTORY at the Wally Parks NHRA Nostalgia Nationals: The Hot Rod Hoarder Is Sharing His Favorites!

Chad Reynolds — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:17:08 +0000

For some reason, NHRA decided to change the name of the National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky a couple years ago and now it is called the Wall Parks Nostalgia Nationals. In California, where the California Hot Rod Reunion has been a huge race and event for decades, we streamed years and years of racing and how action. We also did the same at Beech Bend, but haven’t been in a few years now. So when our friend Tommy Lee Byrd posted up some video from this great event, we were thrilled. And it does not disappoint. Check out all these cool rides!

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The Wally Parks Nostalgia Nationals (previously known as the Hot Rod Reunion) is a great place to see historic drag cars, hot rods and wild creations. It’s always held on Father’s Day weekend and my dad and I love to go. While the event has diminished drastically since we first started going in 2008, it’s still one of the greatest collections of nostalgia drag cars East of the Mississippi. We were only there for a day, but let’s take a walk through and see some of the things that caught my attention.

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Sick Summer Day 4 Video From 1320Video And Alex Taylor Racing: An Epic Thrash To Stay Alive, And An Epic T-Bone Crash And Rollover On Track!

Chad Reynolds — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:57:10 +0000

Sick Summer, the latest event from the folks at Sick The Magazine, just started up this week and we’ve got video to share from our friends over at 1320 Video and Alex Taylor Racing. They are visiting cool tracks, have really short routes, and some really heavy hitters which means it is going to be a great week of Drag and Drive action to watch! Kyle and the gang at 1320Video already highlighted some of the fun stuff to see in their Day 0 video, and Alex was already talking about how they screwed up some stuff in her Day 0 video. Day 1 was better for some and worse for others! Day 2 and 3 had quite a bit of carnage, and people were just trying to stay alive. What will Day 4 have in store?

I remember going to most of these year’s ago on Drag Week and can tell you that they are some fun race tracks with cool history.

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125mph ROLLOVER + T-Bone CRASH while Racing! – Sick Summer Day 4

It’s Day 4 of Sick Summer at Great Lakes Dragaway and we witnessed the wildest moment of the entire trip. Had a fairly nasty crash at the top end of the track. A truck rolled at 130mph and slammed into the Camaro in the other lane HARD! Luckily everyone was completely fine and the day continued on! Lots of ups and down for other racers as usual. Looking forward to final day tomorrow!

We THRASHED ALL Day – Can We Make It to the Last Day? Sick Summer Day 4

This is a LONG one guys, but this was a very long day to say the least. After an easy day yesterday, while pulling into the track I heard a squeal. We lashed the valves and found out that a broken lifter and didn’t know what we were going to do. Thankfully we had all the parts and started 3 hours of thrashing. After thinking we had it resolved, we burnt 2 push rods after 15 minutes of driving on the road. It was a long day but we adapted and kept rolling

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Unhinged: Power Tour 2024, From The Eyes Of A First-Timer

Bryan McTaggart — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:08:23 +0000

I remember seeing the call-out in Hot Rod magazine: how would you like to take your street machine, 4×4, whatever you’ve got that’s cool, and join the magazine staff on a trip from California to Norwalk, Ohio? Are you kidding me? As I stared out the window at the engine-less shell of my ’76 Camaro, I wondered what it would be like to peer over the hood as the miles ticked by, listening to the sound of a stout small-block purring away, nothing to bother me but the sound of wind noise pouring in.

As the Pacific Northwest mist dripped off of the forlorn Camaro’s bumper, I vowed that I would make that trip. The first few years were hindered by a lack of a driver’s license or a useable car. Then there were the years where I had a car and license, but was poor enough that I was counting pennies to make sure I had dinner for the week. Then there were the military years, where I had the car and the money, but no free time to hit the road. Then school… then work… you know the story.

This year, I bit the bullet. Hot Rod’s Power Tour happened for the 30th round. I’m 41 now. With my ’76 Charger up and running with fresh gears and an Interstate-friendly transmission, there was no reasonable excuse why I couldn’t go. Haley was willing to co-pilot, I had nothing scheduled on the calendar. And for an added bonus, this year’s route was very close to home: Bowling Green, Nashville, Louisville, Columbus and Indy. PERFECT. Even the weather was looking great, with no rain in the forecast and temperatures in the upper-80s.

The icing on the cake was that Matt at American Powertrain hooked us up with sponsor parking passes, which meant that (A) I spent money on multi-day passes that weren’t required, and (B) I had guaranteed parking at the American Powertrain display on the midway so I could show off the TKX swap. We packed a cooler for drinks, some chairs, sunscreen and on Monday morning, parked up.

Monday and Tuesday were awesome. I was pleasantly surprised to see the reaction to the car and had the pleasure of talking with many people. Some had questions regarding the swap, others wanted to share the memories of cars like mine from the past. I was all about it. Every now and then we’d stretch our legs and go see what interesting rides had been brought to the Tour. We’d arrive early and leave before the traffic jam became insurmountable. We planned to return home until Wednesday, then we’d leave early Friday as we had a family event to attend on Saturday.

Things unraveled pretty fast after leaving Nashville Super Speedway. After exiting Interstate 40 to the country highways, it was clear that the Charger was seriously down on power. Hills that shouldn’t have been a blip on my radar were requiring more throttle to surmount. I suspected that the car was getting hot, so we stopped for dinner in Portland, Tennessee to give the 360 a chance to cool. It seemed to help a little, but by the time we were through Franklin, Kentucky it was evident that the issue was back. I hadn’t messed with anything, so what gives?

I got my answer on the last turn before my driveway: at a complete stop the oil pressure gauge dove to nearly zero and the engine was shaking the car like an earthquake. Sure enough, once I pulled in my driveway I checked the oil and got my answer: nearly none. We had topped off the fluids that morning before driving to Nashville. Not continuing on the Tour wasn’t an option, so the Charger was stuffed into the garage and our truck was employed for the remaining distance.

Aside from the one fly in the ointment, however, the Tour was great. We caught up with many friends throughout the week and got to tour some quieter parts of the middle of the country that we normally would just blast past on the Interstate. I will say that next time I drive the tour, I’m linking up with a group of friends to run with, because driving it on your own leaves something to be desired. Finding the local eateries is a must. Making a 1-2 pull in the tunnel leading into Nashville is a must. Hanging out in the bed of a truck sipping something cold while watching UPS jets taking off from from the airport in Louisville is a must.

Fixing my wounded Mopar for the next adventure isn’t a must. It’s a vow.

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Sick Summer Day 3 Video From 1320Video And Alex Taylor Racing: 16 Year Olds Driving 1,000 Horsepower Cars, And Alex Is Trying Not To Break More Stuff!

Chad Reynolds — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:07:05 +0000

Sick Summer, the latest event from the folks at Sick The Magazine, just started up this week and we’ve got video to share from our friends over at 1320 Video and Alex Taylor Racing. They are visiting cool tracks, have really short routes, and some really heavy hitters which means it is going to be a great week of Drag and Drive action to watch! Kyle and the gang at 1320Video already highlighted some of the fun stuff to see in their Day 0 video, and Alex was already talking about how they screwed up some stuff in her Day 0 video. Day 1 was better for some and worse for others! Day 2 had quite a bit of carnage, and we’re about to find out how Day 3 went. Watch both of their videos below and let us know what you think!

I remember going to most of these year’s ago on Drag Week and can tell you that they are some fun race tracks with cool history.

CLICK HERE IF YOU MISSED DAY PREVIOUS SICK SUMMER VIDEOS

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One and Done, Let’s Get on the Road Street Legal 6 Second 55 – Sick Summer Day 3

This is kind of a short one guys! Buttttt, thankfully that’s because everything went smooth today! We made our first pass ever at the Tri State Raceway in Earlville, Iowa and then loaded up and hit the road to Union Gove, Wisconsin! Since we got in so early we had time to actually go to dinner and spend some classic drag and drive time in the parking lot hanging out. This could be incredibly boring to watch, so continue at your own discretion

Teenager Drives 1000 Horsepower Mustang! – Sick Summer Day 3

It’s day 3 of Sick Summer and we’re at Tri-State Raceway! It is absolutely the hottest day of the trip so far which makes passes tricky and the drives miserable for some of these racers! While many had trouble or at least running slower times while making their pass, Blayne made his fastest pass of the week! Watching a 16 year old pilot 1000+ horsepower down the track is absolutely nuts! There’s only 2 days left of this drag and drive and we can’t wait to see what happens next!

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