Category Archive: Apex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
It’s A Match Made In Drifting Heaven: A $350,000 Lexus LFA With A NASCAR TRD V8
The Lexus LFA is a strange beast of a car, because it’s both a technological demonstration and a completely unnecessary supercar that didn’t sell well. Anybody who has ever heard the 4.8L...
Watch Brock Yates, Circa 1982 Describe The Way Real Race Fans Feel About Wrecks And The Drivers Who Suffer Them
Brock Yates is now and forever will be one of my favorite automotive journalists. From his books like Sunday Driver and Cannonball to his work for various magazines and his television coverage of...
This Escort Goes For A Very Violent Crash At The 2014 Urjalan Society Competiton Rally
Jarkko Lankinen and Kari Salminen probably bought their roll cage builder a significant amount of whatever the hell they wanted after this particularly brutal crash at the 2014 Urjalan Rally in...
FY Racing’s Sno*Drift Video Captures A Great Look At Life Behind The Scenes For A Rally Team
Going behind the scenes of a racing team is the only way to get the entire story of what it takes to get man and machine to glory, and there are far more players that anyone would normally realize....
This 1967 Video Shows What The Stock Car Racing Scene Looked Like In Lancaster, New York – Cool Cars!
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
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Can You Help Identify The Persons Responsible For Setting Oil Traps For Bikers In California?
Enthusiasts and the general public have a long history of not getting along. From the street racing controversy to Australia’s “hoon laws” to noise ordinances and the joys of an...
Historic Footage: The 1983 Late-Model Sportsman Coca-Cola 200 at Rockingham
I defy you to find a better collection of cars in one race after 1975 than this 1983 late-model sportsman run at Rockingham in 1983. Just look at the cars: GM X-cars of virtually every type (Novas,...
OK, Now You’re Just Showing Off: BMW’s Self-Drifting Car Versus A Real Drifter
Autonomous technology has been making leaps within the last year or two, and we’ve seen the results when the car is allowed to run to the limits of it’s grip (think the RS7 that Audi sent...
In-Car And External Footage of Ott Tänak and Raigo Molder’s Crash Into A Lake At Rally Guanajuato México
This is the kind of footage that underscores the dangers of rally. Driver Ott Tänak and co-driver Raigo Molder were running on a dirt road next to a reservoir on a stage in the Rally Guanajuato...