Category Archive: Apex Spotlight, Apex Video

Keep Your WRX or EVO, We’ll Take This Chopped 1949 Ford As Our Dirt Car Of Choice!

Okay, it might be a 1950. Either way, this dude in Finland kicks ass with his ’49 or ’50 Chopped Ford Custom on wide whites, steelies, and the whole deal. We’re talking tearing up...

Ride Along In A Vintage 1963 Pontiac Stock Car At Hickory Speedway – Nostalgia Stock Car Racing Rules

As much as we love our nostalgia drag racing around here, the expanding popularity of vintage stock car racing has us pretty excited. Guys are dragging out period correct cars and they are also...

Angry Driver: Harsh Words At The Beginning Of The 24 Hours Of Daytona

Racing drivers are ego-driven and tend to be hot-tempered when a race is on. Most drivers can corral that temper when they need to, but press the right buttons or smash the right parts of a car and...

Video: A 1972 Buick GS Attacks the Autocross

Autocrossing is one of the more powerful mechanical addictions that can spring up in the realm of gearheads. Attacking a tight course of cones with wild abandon is incredibly fun, and carving your...

Gold Standard Video: Peugeot’s “Climb Dance”, With Ari Vatanen On Pikes Peak

It is five minutes of driving perfection, pure and simple. Finnish rally racing master Ari Vatanen manhandled a Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 GR rally car up Pikes Peak in in 1988 to set a new record, and...

Terrifying Video: Watch A Lamborghini Huracan Crash At More Than 200mph On A Public Highway In Hungary (In-Car and Aftermath Video)

Before you ask, yes there are speed limits on the highways in Hungary. A road like the one you will see this video has a speed limit of 80mph according to the information we have been able to dig up....

This Video Of An LS Powered Aussie Ute Destroying Tires On A Road Course Finally Has Us Craving Some Domestic Ute Action

For years we have been hearing the pained screams of enthusiasts here in America that we needed more Aussie Utes in our lives and for the most part we agreed from a distance. The little hybrid...

Rally Video: Chris Harris Takes On An R-GT Prepared Porsche 911 In Wales

Porsche and rally racing actually have a long and successful past, with technological advancements culminating in the creation of the 959, one of the baddest Porsches ever made. If you need any more...

Historical Footage: Go For A Ride In A Ford GT40 Around LeMans In 1969

With the 2017 Ford GT stealing damn near everybody’s thunder at the Detroit Auto Show, we figured it would only be fitting to find some historical footage of the GT40 to explain why everyone...

Check Out This In-Car Footage Of The DeltaWing Ripping Around Daytona!

Love or hate the DeltaWing, the dart-shaped car that has run LeMans, American LeMans, Petit Le Mans, and USCC, but there’s no doubt that it’s a capable beast. Created by a collaborative...

Watch Sam Hübinette Drift A Charger SRT8 Like He Absolutely Hates It

It doesn’t matter how good you think you are at something, there is always someone out in the world who’s just a wee bit better at it than you. Sam Hübinette is one of those who is...

100% BangShift Approved Video: Watch A Guy Operate The Throttle Of A Rally Car While Sitting Under The Hood – How Does The Driver See?

There are lots of ways to gauge the dedication of racers. You can look at how many hours they spend slaving in the shop. You can pay attention to how little sleep they guy because of their addiction...

Ride Along With Andy Seuss As He Races A Modified On Ice!

If you haven’t noticed, today’s theme is “cold”…mainly because that is exactly what I am right now. It is bitterly cold, yet it’s sunny and otherwise beautiful...

So This Guy Drove Us To Dinner Last Night……

Intrepid BangShift photo contributor Dave Nutting and I are here at Red Bull Frozen Rush 2015. Last night we went to dinner with a bunch of drivers and people from Red Bull and BFG who are the...