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I love drag boat racing, and this weekend kicks off the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing series at Lake Crook in Paris Texas. I’ve been to this lake once before, to livestream drag boat racing, and it’s a cool place with a great course. If you like big power, and big speed, on the water then you want to check this out for sure. I’m talking jet boats, flat bottoms, hydros, and more. If you haven’t watched drag boat racing before, this one will be special for you. Check it out and then get to an

(Photos by David Whealon) If you live under a rock and haven’t realized how huge of a splash the IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series made in 2025, then are you in for a treat! With amazing events, huge purses, icons of the sport and new stars alike, this is a racing series that is really doing some awesome things in 2026 and beyond. We’re excited for the 2026 season already and hope you are too. Thanks to BANGshifter extraordinaire David Whealon, we’ve got great photos from Darana Motorsports Park GALOT. C

(Photos by David Whealon) If you live under a rock and haven’t realized how huge of a splash the IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series made in 2025, then are you in for a treat! With amazing events, huge purses, icons of the sport and new stars alike, this is a racing series that is really doing some awesome things in 2026 and beyond. We’re excited for the 2026 season already and hope you are too. Thanks to BANGshifter extraordinaire David Whealon, we’ve got great photos from Darana Motorsports Park GALOT. C

This weekend the International Hot Rod Association visits Milan Michigan for Pro Mod Mania at Darana Dragway which features an insane purse and tons of great racing action. With a total purse of $275,000, one of the biggest ever, there are going to be a lot of Pro Mod and Sportsman racers who are trying to make as much of that theirs as possible. Who will come out on top this weekend? Watch the livestreaming video below to find out! The post IHRA Pro Mod Mania Invades Milan Michigan’s Dar

It’s time for more snow machine drag racing, and it is happening this weekend for the IHRA Snow Outlaws World Finals! This weekend’s racing is going on at Three Lakes Wisconsin and promises to be some great season ending racing. With big money, championships, and pride on the line the action will be great we’re sure. Video Description: The Snow Outlaws are at Three Lakes, WI for the 2026 World Finals. Outlaw, P/X55, and ProMod classes compete. With hosts Ralph Sheheen, Ken Stout and Dani Medin

It’s time for IHRA Snow Outlaws! The first IHRA Snow Outlaws race of 2026 is coming to you live right here from Little St. Germain Lake in Wisconsin! This place is beautiful, and cold, and after all the winter weather we’ve had across the country, it is no surprise that snow machines will be hauling ass this weekend in the white stuff! Watch all the action live right here. Video Description: Eliminations and finals from Little St. Germain Lake in Wisconsin. Presented by St. Germain Chamber of

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! Teams are fired up and ready to rock and roll, but there are plenty of them that haven’t been on the track in a couple of weeks and that means there are plenty of teams that were interested in testing. Thankfully, our friend NC Promoder has been on hand all week long with testing highlights and livestreams. So check out all of the te

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has released its latest safety results for 16 new models, but only two of them achieved the authority’s Top Safety Pick+ award. Those are the 2026 Hyundai Palisade and 2026 Toyota Prius, which achieved near-perfect crashworthiness and crash-prevention scores. For the Palisade particularly, it's a much-needed stamp of approval from the IIHS after the SUV experienced reputation-damaging issues with its rear seats earlier in the year. However, the r

Speed Freaks A common driving misdemeanor is speeding. It is, after all, one of the most heavily enforced rules of the road in any city or state. We've all been there, not really intending to go over the limit but just straying over it a little, or there are those who do it without a care in the world, blasting well past the legal limit. Some states are already introducing new legislation to curb speeders, and some measures being taken are quite extreme. Case in point: Illinois.

I’ve seen some personalized or vanity plates that I was surprised made it through the approval process, but then I’ve also heard about others getting kicked that I didn’t think were bad. To be honest, I wonder who it is that actually approves or denies all the ones that people come up with and submit. I’ve had several personalized plates over the years, but none of them were anything controversial. With that said, I’ve seen a ton I laughed at and wondered how they got approved. Watch the video

Everyone loves a tasteful, funny vanity plate. At roughly $200 or more for a personalized number plate in Illinois, it pays to make sure yours stands out for the right reasons. Still, the state draws a firm line where creativity turns into something else entirely. A new video from Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias shows exactly where that line landed for 2025, revealing the latest batch of rejected plate requests. Some are juvenile, some are crude, and most are so great that we're di

Here we go again! The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series was visiting Watkins Glen in New York which is one of the most famous race tracks in the country! There was a ton of racing that is going on all weekend, in several classes, and we shared all the racing action LIVE right here. But if you missed the livestream, the video below is just the top action from the 6-Hours of Watkins Glen endurance race. If you want to see all the live racing from the weekend, CL

It’s a new year and a new racing season and everyone is starting out hot and heavy. It’s only the beginning of March and IMSA is already several races into their season, with several historic races already in the books. The IMSA Airbnb Endurance Challenge got their first race of the season in this past weekend in Sebring Florida where the action was hot and heavy. Check out the video below and let us know what you think! Video Description: The IMSA Airbnb Endurance Challenge runs as part of IM

If you like endurance road racing, then the Rolex 24 at Daytona is fun as hell to watch. Second only to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Daytona’s 24 Hour Race is America’s greatest endurance race without question. Because it is the season opener for IMSA racing, it sets the stage for the year and it does it in a big way. To start the season off with a 24 hour race, the longest of the season by far, means teams have to be on their game and ready to rock right out of the gate. If they have made major cha

Here we go again! The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series is visiting Watkins Glen in New York which is one of the most famous race tracks in the country! There is a ton of racing that is going on all weekend, in several classes, and we’ll have all the action LIVE right here. We’re talking the Porsche Carrera Cup, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, and Mustang Challenge racing! Check all the action out right here and let us know what your favorites are!   The

Here we go. The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend is the Mobil 1 12 Hours at Sebring, plus tons of other races going on! We’re talking the Michelin Pilot Challenger, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, Mustang Racing and so much more! Check all the action out right here! The post IMSA Spring 2026 Sebring International Raceway Race Weekend. Michelin Pilot Challenge, Mustang Challenge, Mobil 1 12-Hour, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, And More! appeared first on BangShift.com.

The 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship was a great one, with lots of door to door racing action all over the country. The racing was hot and heavy, but Mercedes was once again able to take the season championship. They are aiming for a 3rd in a row in 2026, but nobody else on the grid is going to cut them any slack as they all fight for the win. The 2026 season starts at Daytona in less than two weeks! In the video below they review the 2025 season and talk about what is in store for

In-Car Video Streaming We now live in a world where automotive features and creature comforts are abundant. One of the most recent in-car tech that's becoming a fad these days is video streaming. Yes, some cars can now stream your favorite shows and movies. While it might seem like an unnecessary "gimmick," the streaming feature is actually a plus for family haulers since entertaining young ones during any road trip is a challenge in itself. Recognizing this, Audi has just announced that it's jo

We’ve all pulled our car into the driveway and broke out the car washing stuff and thought “man this thing is dirty”. It’s those wash days that make you smile because of the transformation from horribly dirty to clean. In fact, those are the washes that make you realize you should wash your car more often because it looks so good. But what about a car that has been sitting in the barn for a decade? How about nearly two decades? This 1964 Impala SS 409 car has been doing just that and in this vi

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or just have casual interest, everyone talks about the Indy 500 over Memorial Day weekend. This one should be fun to watch. We’ve been sharing testing and qualifying coverage, but this video below is something special. This is more than 100 years of history, stories, and amazing moments. Watch below. Vide

This weekend marked the inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington, here in the DFW area, and it was the talk of the town. If it wasn’t for the windy conditions on Sunday, the weekend would have picture perfect weather, and according to the drivers the race course was great fun. This is a street circuit, much like the Long Beach Grand Prix, that goes around major landmarks like AT&T Stadium, Globe Life Field, and the Choctaw Stadium. With Arlington already set to handle huge crowds of peop

Purpose Over Performance While the smooth, conservative BMW-sourced engines in the Ineos Grenadier serve their purpose, the retro-styled off-roader hasn’t prioritized high performance. A more potent version may help the Grenadier be in the same conversation as popular 4x4 SUVs such as the Mercedes-AMG G63, but that seems like a long shot. However, CarExpert sought an update from Ineos Automotive on whether the automaker had changed its mind. Perhaps slightly, though nothing particularly convinci

Ineos is adding a new Black Edition to the 2026 Grenadier lineup, packaging a high-spec build with a fixed, all-black look for buyers who want the most premium version without working through a long options list. The edition is available on both the Grenadier Station Wagon SUV and the Quartermaster pickup, and it arrives alongside broader 2026 updates that Ineos says improve how the truck drives day to day.

The company that has made a name for itself in the automotive space by reinventing and toughening the spirit of the original Land Rover Defender, INEOS, wants to expand its menu beyond the Grenadier SUV and Quartermaster pickup to a range of smaller, lighter, and cheaper 4x4 off-roaders. And they will be cheaper, not just because they'll be manufactured in the U.S., but also because INEOS won't be repeating the costly ground-up creation of the Grenadier (which may get a V8 variant). One might as

Simple and Understandable I'd like to think that one of the hardest automotive processes is naming the actual car. As simple as it may be, I'm sure countless man-hours and meetings have been spent on naming. Some brands like to use words and come up with unique names, while others prefer to keep it simple with a combination of letters and numbers. This is usually reserved for the premium brands, but Infiniti is looking to shake things up. After years of using letters and numbers, a change to a m