BangShift.com THE APRIL BIG DOG SHOOTOUT 2025 VIDEO COVERAGE: THE BADDEST DOORSLAMMERS AT PIEDMONT!!!

Since 1996, the Big Dog Shootout has been the place to go to watch pro modified racing on a regular basis in northern North Carolina. Open in the late 50’s as a divided lanes dragstrip, Piedmont Dragway is your typical 1/8th mile track for the region. Performances of race cars back then were much slower and little tracks made economical sense to the local and regional markets. But as performances grew the little tracks that may have run 1/4 mile racing with short shutdown distance found themselves limited to shorter racing distance and became less attractive for big events, especially with nitro classes. Nevertheless, with one of the largest concentrations of race tracks only behind the state of Texas, racing kept going in NC and neighboring states, thanks to large count of local racers. But even regional racing will eventually grow.

While big national events kept being added and getting bigger, so did this less well known regional racing activity. Eventually tracks found ways to grow classes via the IHRA and connect formal and less formal series anywhere from Texas to the entire East Coast. That’s how Top Sportsman became a big thing back in the late 80’s thanks in part to the introduction of nitrous on door and rail cars. Eventually all this activity gave birth to pro modified and less than ten years later, the first Big Dog was introduced. Piedmont, the track that hosts these events, has all the particularities of that 80’s early TS racing on a short track but host big modern racing power.

And thanks to our friends at Spoold Media, we’ve got video from the April 2025 Big Dog.

Video Description:

The baddest Thursday night Pro Mod shootout once again is back for 2025 at Piedmont Dragway!!!!! Watch as The baddest big tire cars from the area go head to head to see who can make the 8 car field and take home one of the most legendary prizes in door slammer history!!!!!!!!