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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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!
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?
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
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
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...
Gearhead Guys You Should Know: Cale Yarborough
With the weird NASCAR off-track stuff constantly shining the light on all that’s wrong with modern day racing and race car drivers, we thought it a good time to highlight one of the great...
The Tour Continues: More Great Photos From the AMA Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Lots of you really enjoyed the first round of photos that Joe Grippo submitted to us from the AMA Motorcycle Museum and hall of fame yesterday so we’re back with...
