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Motion Raceworks Rocky Mountain Race Week Daily Coverage: Day One Action From Thunder Valley

Sep 25, 20211320 Event Coverage, 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Motion Raceworks Rocky Mountain Race Week Daily Coverage: Day One Action From Thunder Valley

Rocky Mountain Race Week is in the books, and we were traveling the route with all these folks so we could bring you the FREE livestream that we had going all week long. It was a week full of fun, adventures, carnage, and more, but even if you were there you wouldn’t have been able to see it all. There is that much going on! But thanks to the folks at Motion Raceworks we’ve got more cool video coverage from the entire week and we’re going to share it all with you one day at a time. They were on-site with their parts merch trailer and were helping people out with great stuff all week long. This is the first video from Day One at Thunder Valley in Noble Oklahoma, which means everyone is racing and there is no on road carnage or anything yet. This is the day where everyone thinks everything is great and that they can win this whole thing. Spirits are high. At least until the racing gets going.

Why? Because some of these poor folks are going to tear their stuff up before they ever get to leave the first track. The good news is that they have all night to work on them because we don’t leave for the next track until the next morning, and the drive isn’t horrible from Thunder Valley to the Texas Motorplex in Ennis. Plus, there is the World’s Largest Summit Racing Equipment store on the way and it’s full of great parts to fix most anything.

Between Summit and the Motion Raceworks trailer full of parts, there was no shortage of new stuff going on hot rods Sunday night.

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Finnegan And Newbern Make The World’s Biggest Rooster Tail With The Rogers Jet Boat!

Sep 06, 2021FUNNY STUFF, Hack of the Week, MISC, OTHER, RACING & ACTION, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos

Finnegan And Newbern Make The World’s Biggest Rooster Tail With The Rogers Jet Boat!

Jet boat owners love a big rooster tail, because it looks cool not because it makes it go fast. With that said, there is an ideal angle for particular jet boat setups based on hull design, setback, etc. When in “race mode” a boat like this Rogers will want an angle of somewhere around 5 degrees up, but to get an ideal launch you want more water in the water. This is why race boats control the angle of the nozzle so that it can be in the ideal position for launch and then change to the ideal angle for high speed. But some folks use these to make a bigger rooster tail so they can look cool on the river. But not this big of a rooster tail. Cause this, this is something special. You know, like Newbern and Finnegan. This thing is a wheel standing, launch it out of the water machine now. It’s crazy.

They have stacked all the stuff that can make the nozzle aim higher, and taken off every single limiter. And now they have an insane angle that quite literally makes the biggest jet boat rooster tail in history. Oh and did I mention they tested it in a thunderstorm, on the lake, with the pouring rain and lightning all around them? Yeah, cause lightning doesn’t strike water….

Oh, and based on the level of giddy they have going on in this video, I’m expecting a second attempt for even bigger shenanigans.

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FREE LIVE BRACKET RACING: The BTE Labor Day $250K Is On! The Richest Footbrake Purse In History!

Sep 04, 20211320 Event Coverage, 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage, RACING & ACTION, Videos

FREE LIVE BRACKET RACING: The BTE Labor Day $250K Is On! The Richest Footbrake Purse In History!

It’s on like Donkey Kong this weekend, with big payouts at the Yellow Bullet Nationals and here at the BTE Labor Day $250K. Whether you like heads-up drag racing or the ultra-tight margins of victory you see at the big money bracket races, you’ll have plenty to watch this weekend. Right here, all weekend long, you’ll get to see some of the baddest bracket racers in the country ripping it up on the strip at Bristol’s Thunder Valley in search of the big money. And as the title says, there are no trans brakes or delay boxes here, this is all footbrake racing and that means tons of great door car action.

We’re excited to see just how all this pans out, but are just as excited to see a purse this big for footbrake racers. Last year’s race was worth $100k, and they stepped it up in a REALLY big way this year by going all the way to $250K. Man, this is going to be fun to watch.

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RockyNats 2021 Video: Burnouts, Rev Limiters, Cruises And More. And That’s Just Day One!

May 13, 2021Event Coverage, RACING & ACTION, Videos

RockyNats 2021 Video: Burnouts, Rev Limiters, Cruises And More. And That’s Just Day One!

The Aussies sure know how to have a good time, and RockyNats proves it. Like most of their big shows, there is tons of car show going on, lots of cruising, and epic burnouts happening each and every day of the event! This video is from Day One of the RockyNats and is brought to us by our friends at Street Machine TV. If you aren’t familiar with RockyNats, that’s okay as it is SuperNats but brought to Central Queensland in Australia. Check out the cool cars, and amazing burnouts. The talent to keep the car inside the barriers without running into them, all while moving around the pit like a champ, is what makes them better at this than anyone else.

And the engine combos are awesome. I used to wonder why anyone would need such big power to do burnouts like this, but now I know. It’s because the pit is so full of rubber, and with so much laid down on the ground, that it can get hard to spin the tires. All the marbles also make it hard to hold the car in one place sometimes, so the combo just makes it more of a challenge than you might think.

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ABS On Tractors? This Video Demonstration Proves How Necessary It Actually Is!

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When Last Minute Testing Your Burnout Truck For Cleetus And Cars, Sometimes Your Driveway Becomes The Burnout Pad

May 02, 20211320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos, FUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos

When Last Minute Testing Your Burnout Truck For Cleetus And Cars, Sometimes Your Driveway Becomes The Burnout Pad

Yep, James is no poser, that’s for sure. When under a time crunch to get their LS Swapped S10 Burnout truck, aka Burnie, ready for Cleetus and Cars Burnout Rivals in Indy, sometimes you have to piss off the neighbors. After stealing the trans out of his race car, and going through brake issues and a couple other snags, Burnie was back up and running with just hours to go before leaving for Indy. Of course there were a couple other snags and just an hour before it had to be on the trailer there was testing that needed going. After all, you got to know if there are vibrations, if the new torque converter is okay, and whether the brakes will hold for big time tire frying excitement or not.

Testing was in order and with no time to go anywhere else, the driveway became the burnout pad whether the neighbors liked it or not. Now I happen to know James’ neighborhood. I went there to pick up some tires he hooked me up with for the drive days on Rocky Mountain Race Week in 2019. It’s your average Colorado high desert neighborhood with family homes all around. This is not the country, and it is not remote. It is very close to town.

But the testing had to happen and the results were no vibrations, a tune that needs some tweaks, and brakes that need more bleeding to hold. But most importantly the smoke happened. And lots of it. Watch.

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Street Racing Action From The Small Tire Short Notice KC Cash Days In Mexico

Apr 18, 20211320 Videos, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Street Racing Action From The Small Tire Short Notice KC Cash Days In Mexico

The Wyco Racing Small Tire Short Notice Cash Days event looked to have a very diverse group of racers ready to throw down on the street. The location was interesting as well, and in this great video from Urban Hillbilly Videos you’ll get to see all the action from start to finish. And like I said, there are some interesting cars at this one. Sure you are going to see Camaros and Mustangs and Novas oh my, but you are also going to see interesting imports, Mopars, trucks, and more. This is a cool video that is fun to watch. And the road? WTF are they thinking? This thing goes up and then down before a huge hill after the finish line. I guess it helps you slow down quick, but man it looks like a weird place to race.

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

Mar 28, 20211320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Spotlight, BangShift 1320, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Watch the replay of the 2021 Spring Fling MILLION From Las Vegas! Insanely Tight Bracket Racing Action

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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Retro Review: This Look Back At Motor Week’s Drive Of The The New 1988 Chevy Cheyenne Is Great

Horsepower On The Waves: This Film Showing The 1956 Gold Cup Hydroplane Race Is Awesome – Aircraft Engines Galore

Feb 03, 2021Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Horsepower On The Waves: This Film Showing The 1956 Gold Cup Hydroplane Race Is Awesome – Aircraft Engines Galore

Boat racing has always been the realm of big money and when we say “always” we mean ALWAYS. Think about the days of Gar Wood hammering international competition in the 1920s and then the evolution from there to where we are even today. Off-shore and hydroplane racing are huge money endeavors which are a fantastic spectacle. Hell, even drag boat racing will sink a decent wallet in no time flat but the allure of competition on the water has drawn and continues to draw the passion, the money, and the horsepower, to liquid race tracks all over the world.

So the Gold Cup was THE race to win in hydroplane racing during the era when this video was made. The boats themselves are amazing hot rods. Made of wood and powered by huge aircraft engines, they are violent and blazingly fast. You’ll see a Rolls-Royce mill, Allisons for days, and they all have this just killer look that make them some of the most visually stunning racing machines of their era.

While we have seen some of these old hydros sitting in museums and stuff, maybe occasionally idled around in the water, we had never seen them actually racing hull to hull before this video. How these drivers saw anything or didn’t have their guts shaken out of their throats over the course of the race is stunning. Watch the boats bounce, heave, and generally pulverize themselves on the water. This is wild!

Great horsepower, great history, and some of the coolest boats ever built.

Press play below to see this amazing account of the 1956 Gold Cup race in Seattle –

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Wheelstand And Deliver: Watch Craig Sullivan and Jerico Balduf Go Wheels Up While Hammer Down In Bradenton
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Classic YouTube: Watch As This VW Golf Monsters Hillclimbs At Full Chat!

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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WILD RIDE: Top Sportsman Racer, Ronnie Proctor, Goes For One Hell Of A Ride

Sep 05, 20201320 Videos, CRASH & BURN, RACING & ACTION, Videos

WILD RIDE: Top Sportsman Racer, Ronnie Proctor, Goes For One Hell Of A Ride

Sometimes stuff just doesn’t go the way you think it’s going to go, and sometimes when that happens it will get your attention in a hurry. Such is the case with poor Ronnie Proctor, who went for one hell of a wild ride at Indy yesterday. You have to give him some credit for keeping his head on straight. Sure he’s along for the ride for most of it, but thank god he kept his foot off the skinny pedal on the right, because otherwise this sucker could have been running into the tree from the wrong way. You have to wonder what his heart rate was as he got it straight and rolled past the blocks after getting unbelievably close to crossing the center line. Of course none of that matters at that point, but most racers can’t say they’ve been facing both directions in their own lane before even going 330 feet down the track, nor would they want to.

At least if you are going to do something exciting you might as well make sure it counts, and since it is the US Nationals, you know that it will all be caught on camera. Since he’s okay, and so is the car, we’ll give him a hearty congrats on being the talk of the town for today and hope the rest of his weekend goes smoother than this one run.

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Ultimate Zombie Apocalypse Vehicle? Couple Converts Army Truck into Apocalypse Surviving Tiny Home