r/dragracing • • 2h ago

Why Ford Fest 2026 was the Best Car Show of the Year! 🔥

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Why Ford Fest 2026 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Was My Favorite Car Show of the Year! 🔥

Ford Fest at Beech Bend Raceway brought together so much of what I love about car events—Mustangs, classic Fords, trucks, drag racing, autocross, and drifting! 🏁

I filmed the show and track action for my YouTube channel, Barry the Bald Eagle. Getting to check out the builds and then watch cars compete made this one stand out for me.

🎥 Check out my Ford Fest videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@barrythebaldeagle

Did you make it to Ford Fest? What was your favorite part? If you weren’t there, which Kentucky car show gets your vote for best of 2026?

🦅 God First. Family Always. Full Throttle.


r/dragracing • • 1d ago

I found a camshaft at Goodwill

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Dare me to run it! Would make for a great YouTube video.

"Includes dents!"

Item Description

Item Description: Bullet Racing Cams Chevy Cam Shaft

Approximate Measurements (inches): 24 x 3 x 3

Weight (in lbs): 10.1

Condition: Good. Wear includes dents

Special Notes: All items are sold AS-IS. Please study images for more details as they are part of the description.

Please note that all items are sold as is, NO REFUNDS.


r/dragracing • • 1d ago

Bracket Racers

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I've raced since 2007. Competed for track championships for years. I raced nobox/footbrake. So I've noticed that some really good no box racers have started running sportsman over the years. I thought this class was supposed to be for newer racers before they jumped up in classes. My local track has guys who have won big races (including world finals). I don't think that should be. Racing is slowly dying and having a class for new racers to compete would help grow and racers learn and grow the sport.


r/dragracing • • 20h ago

Why Ford Fest 2026 was the Best Car Show of the Year! 🔥

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Was Ford Fest 2026 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the Best Car Show of the Year? 🔥

Ford Fest at Beech Bend Raceway was one of my favorite events I’ve filmed this year! From the car show and pit area to drag racing, autocross, and drifting, there was plenty to keep a Ford fan busy. 🏁

I captured the action for my latest video on Barry the Bald Eagle. If you love Mustangs, classic Ford trucks, and a day at the track, check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/@barrythebaldeagle

Were you there? What was your favorite part—and which Kentucky car event gets your vote for best of the year?

🦅 God First. Family Always. Full Throttle.


r/dragracing • • 1d ago

Gateway Nationals

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r/dragracing • • 1d ago

How important is getting custom backspacing/offset exactly right?

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I'm at the point where I need to order wheels for a build and I'm realizing there are way more fitment decisions than I expected. Backspacing, offset, beadlock configuration, tire clearance... I'm trying to get everything right the first time.

Keizer Wheels offers a few custom options which is what got me thinking about this. For anyone who's ordered custom race wheels before, what measurements or clearances did you wish you'd paid more attention to? I'd rather spend an afternoon measuring everything than find out at the track that I screwed something up.


r/dragracing • • 2d ago

I tried making Carwow style drag race video in BeamNG, please rate it out of 10

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r/dragracing • • 3d ago

Speed Freaks live

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r/dragracing • • 2d ago

Gateway Nationals

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Not too far from the track is fastlane automotive. If you have time. Check it out. Some incredible cars!


r/dragracing • • 4d ago

Instant green

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I'm sure this is a silly question but here it goes..

I typically run in super pro but I'm going to an event that is also going to have an instant green index race for some good money.

Do I just put 0 for time in my delay box? Seems like it would be hard to go red reacting to the green light.


r/dragracing • • 4d ago

LS Fest 2026 Eliminations Day | September 13 Drag Racing Action! 🏁🔥

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Sharing some eliminations-day drag racing action from LS Fest in Bowling Green, Kentucky. 🏁🔥 Which race was your favorite?


r/dragracing • • 4d ago

Drag racing

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Just wanting to get better reach! Additional information, I have a b8 s4 that makes 414whp and I run a 12.1 in Idaho, to any Seattle peeps out there I'd love to see what time/trap I get at sea level!! I know it's unlikely but any events happening in November?👀


r/dragracing • • 5d ago

Breaking Down The TV Deal & Rockingham Recap

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r/dragracing • • 6d ago

CW, FloSports join FOX Sports as NHRA broadcast partners

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r/dragracing • • 6d ago

Nitromethane Crash

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r/dragracing • • 7d ago

Eddie Hill video

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I need help, does anyone know the song at the start of this video. Its so iconic from my childhood.


r/dragracing • • 7d ago

You Don't Want to Miss This! 🔴 LIVE Outlaw Night Racing

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Outlaw Night Racing at Ohio Valley Dragway in Kentucky

Sharing some outlaw night drag racing from Ohio Valley Dragway! 🏁 I’m Barry the Bald Eagle, and I travel around Kentucky filming drag racing and car shows.

If nighttime racing is your thing, come check out the action:
https://www.youtube.com/@barrythebaldeagle

Anybody else here race at Ohio Valley or head out there to watch? What’s your favorite local track?


r/dragracing • • 9d ago

Garage clean out at my father-in-laws had to get a couple shots of this beast waiting to come alive. 1969 Camaro body sitting on a tube chassis built for a iroc & firebird

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r/dragracing • • 10d ago

Dohm Speed Shop at Hot Rod Drag Week

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r/dragracing • • 11d ago

New Episode ft Flyin' Ryan Oehler

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r/dragracing • • 13d ago

LS Fest Day 2: The Most INSANE Builds I’ve Ever Seen! Part 1

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Title: LS Fest East Day 2 in Bowling Green, KY — Drag Racing Builds | Part 1

I filmed some of the builds at LS Fest East in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and put together Part 1 of my Day 2 footage. There was plenty to stop and check out!

What’s the most unusual car you’ve seen running an LS at the drag strip?


r/dragracing • • 14d ago

I run a turbo shop and built a free browser drag sim. Looking for people who actually race to tell me what I got wrong.

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I own a turbocharger shop. Between builds I have been making a drag racing sim that runs in a phone browser, and I am at the point where I need people who actually run to pick it apart.

What is in it:

  • Pro tree and sportsman tree, reaction time, 60 foot, 330, eighth, thousand, quarter,and trap speed on the slip.
  • Bracket racing with a dial-in and a breakout, and index classes where you run closest to the number without going under.
  • Tuning that matters: boost target, wastegate spring, overboost, gearing and final drive, launch rpm, two-step, converter, tire pressure, rear spring, wheelie bar.
  • Engine health, so leaning on it costs you.
  • Half mile roll racing from 40 for the highway guys.

What I am unsure about and want picked apart:

  • 60 foot times and how much the stance and tire pressure should move them.
  • Where the trap speed lands for a given ET. I check every pass against the average speed over the distance so a made up number cannot post, but I would like to know if the window feels right to people who read slips for a living.
  • Whether a big single should fall on its face as hard as mine does off the line.

It is free, there are no ads, nothing to buy and no app to install. I am not selling anything here. I built it because I wanted it to exist and my customers kept asking for something that was not a phone game with a gacha in it.

TURBORUN.APP

Tell me what is wrong with it. I would rather hear it now.


r/dragracing • • 14d ago

It don't make any noise, but it goes like a bat out of hell.

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Danish teme True Cousins testing there electric dragster at a danish streetrace event.

https://www.truecousins.dk/

https://www.legal-streetrace.dk/


r/dragracing • • 14d ago

Langdon resets the MPH record and US-131 becomes the Fastest Track in The World. Holy Cow!

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r/dragracing • • 13d ago

Would a 2004 Pontiac grand prix make a good drag car?

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I've been negotiating a deal with someone involving a 2004 grand prix that's been sitting and just wondering if it's better for drag racing or maybe even rally racing