Category Archive: Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
Beating Yourself Up: Is The Kia Stinger Doomed Due To Competition From…Itself?
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Kia Stinger and its hot GT variant are for sure significant cars of the 2010 decade. Kia, the company known for making downmarket cars lead a brand revitalization with the...
Is There Another High Performance Long Roof Cadillac In The Works? We Sure Think So!
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Cadillac CTS Sportwagon along with its mental supercharged V8 brother with a V badge, is a cool car and will remain that way for a while. But with the arrival of the new...
Were They That Bad? Are They That Bad? A Kid’s Take On A Couple Internet Hated Cars
(Words by Tom Lohnes) – Sometimes cars that are actually cool and interesting fail to impress audiences and are often laughed at by the public and internet. A few of these are even known as...
Here It Comes Again, Mazda Rumored To Be Brining Back The Rotary In Supposed RX-9 Model
(By Tom Lohnes) – Mazda has made headlines again. It was first the new Rear-wheel-drive Mazda6 a few days ago which is already exciting in its own right and now the folks over at Mazda have...
QuarantinePiece Theater: This 1976 Documentary About Mario Andretti Is Absolutely Awesome
“Sometimes he tries too hard,” are the words said in about the only critical sentence this documentary has to offer. A 1976 film that follows Mario Andretti through various different...
Mazda Grows Up: New Rear Wheel Drive, 350hp Mazda6 Looks Like The Car American Companies Should Make
(By Tom Lohnes) – Since its launch in 2002 the Mazda6 has been a boring, cookie-cutter daily driver, serving normal people on normal days. Its 2.5-liter naturally aspirated Inline-four and...
Incredible Send Off: This Collection Of The Top 10 Stirling Moss Moments At Goodwood Is Awesome
The world is still celebrating the life and times of Sir Stirling Moss, the British racing legend who owned the world of competitive driving from the late 1950 into the 1960s before suffering a...
Wrecking Machine: A Guy Named Ben Chen Wrecked A Rare Gemballa GT And A Load Of Other Cars On A NYC Street
(By Tom Lohnes) – Ben Chen, the co-founder of the famed gold-rush supercar rally, has done it again. After crashing one of the first Mclaren MP4-12Cs in the United states, a one-of-three...
Raw Speed: Watch Mark Donohue Set The Closed Course Speed Record At Talladega In 1975
There’s a really interesting history behind the whole “closed course” speed record that really started getting a lot of attention in the 1950s. There’s also a weird side note...
Sir Stirling Moss Has Died At Age 90 – One Of The Greatest And Most Versatile Drivers In Racing History
We should all be so lucky as to live 90 years as the legendary Sir Stirling Moss did. One of the greatest race drivers who ever lived, he won more than 200 races in a career that was brought to an...
The Reality Part Isn’t Virtual: Bubba Wallace Loses Real Blue-Emu Sponsorship After Quitting NASCAR iRacing Event
One of the biggest hits of the whole “no racing because of the pandemic” moment we are living through at the moment has been the broadcast of NASCAR iRacing events on FOX Sports 1. These...
Doubling Down: INDYCAR Announces Double Header Weekend At Iowa – Friday and Saturday Races, ARCA Stock Cars As Well
If you are an INDYCAR series fan, we’re thinking that you are going to want to get to Iowa this July to see something that you’ve never seen before. The series has announced that it will...
QuarantinePiece Theater: Fifty Years of Sideways – An Hour and a Half of Epic Video In The World Of Rally
It was a few years ago that dinner with our BangShifty pal Bill Caswell resulted in us learning about a film called “50 Years of Sideways. Caswell went nuts telling us about this film and how...
