Is The DeltaWing Going To Become A Road Car? It Just Might, If Don Panoz Gets His Way
Mar 22, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
Panoz has built cars before, but in extremely limited numbers and only in two main models: the Roadster, which dates back to an Irish sports car developed in the early 1980s, and the Esperante, which...
This 1967 Video Shows What The Stock Car Racing Scene Looked Like In Lancaster, New York – Cool Cars!
Mar 22, 2015Brian Lohnes2
While stock car racing always gets pegged as being a “southern” sport, history shows that there were guys racing in circles in all parts of the country for decades before the explosion of...
Video: Astoundingly Skilled Gymkhana Driving Action
Mar 21, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Astoundingly Skilled Gymkhana Driving Action
Everyone and their mother has seen the incredible video of Ken Block wheeling a Subaru through a series of precision driving techniques and obstacles. That style of automotive competition is called a...
Frederick, Maryland Is The Home Of The Only High Wheeler Bicycle Race In America And It Looks Pretty Awesome
Mar 21, 2015Brian Lohnes1
It seems funny to think about how revolutionary and game changing bicycles were in the 1800s. Today we just kind of take them for granted as bikes because they are everywhere. Kids have them, people...
It’s Official, Folks: The German Grand Prix Is Dead As Hockenhemiring And Nurburgring Both Back Out Of Talks With F1
Mar 21, 2015Bryan McTaggart14
For the first time since 1960, there won’t be a German F1 Grand Prix. Both the Nurburgring and Hockenheimring have thrown in the towel in regards to any negotiation with the Formula One Group...
Hotchkis Sport Suspension Goes BIG With Its Autocross Series In 2015 – Events Across The Nation!
Mar 20, 2015Brian Lohnes3
It was big news when Hotchkis announced that it would be sponsoring autocross events at venues all across the country in 2015 but they have gone ahead and trumped themselves by growing the number of...
Ford Performance’s Latest Video Puts Vaughn Gitten, Jr. On Ice With His New RTR Competition Mustang
Mar 20, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
Y’know, something has been missing here on BangShift for the last few months: Ice racing. Yes, we’ve covered tons of snow-based sports, including Red Bull Frozen Rush this year. Yes,...
Formula E Will Be The First Race Series In Switzerland In Over Sixty Years
Mar 18, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Formula E Will Be The First Race Series In Switzerland In Over Sixty Years
In 1955 one of the most horrifying spectacles to ever occur in motorsports happened during Le Mans. Pierre Levegh’s Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR struck the back of Lance Macklin’s Healey, struck...
This 1980 Monza Is A Cool Little Car With An Engine We Would Have (wrongly) Scrapped In Our Younger Days
Mar 18, 2015Brian Lohnes10
While I don’t think I am necessarily getting any wiser as I advance through the years, I do believe that my ability to make rational and informed decisions is getting better. This 1980s Monza...
Skill, Luck, Or Both? This GT500 Narrowly Avoids A Serious Incident At Hockenheimring
Mar 18, 2015Bryan McTaggart5
Hauling ass on a roadcourse isn’t the time to learn that your car isn’t completely healthy. It’s one thing to have known about an issue when you drive onto the track…whatever...
Touring Car Insanity At It’s Finest – High Speeds, Close Racing And Big Crashes!
Mar 17, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Touring Car Insanity At It’s Finest – High Speeds, Close Racing And Big Crashes!
Touring Car racing is, to me at least, what NASCAR should be. It’s got pretty much everything that makes NASCAR good (close racing, big crashes, drivers with attitude issues) and fixes what...
Thunder-Stang? Is This Mashup Of A 1965 Mustang And A 1957 Thunderbird Genius Or Terrible?
Mar 17, 2015Brian Lohnes3
The internet is a font for all things automotive, great and terrible. We got an email from pal-o-BangShift Jason Lewis who sent us the Craigslist as link for the car you see above and below with the...
BangShift Test Drive: The 2015 Ford Edge Titanium SE and EcoBoost Sport – A True Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde Crossover
Mar 15, 2015Bryan McTaggart7
The Ford Edge isn’t the first vehicle that you would think should pop up on BangShift’s radar. It’s a crossover SUV that does it’s job and that’s that, right? Pretty much what we thought,...
This Is What Happens When The Rear Suspension Fails At 110 Miles An Hour
Mar 15, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
17-year-old Ryan Savage had been having one hell of a day out at Donington Park in his Lotus Elise 111R. He had just set the fastest-ever Donington lap for the Elise Cup and was generally doing very...










