Category Archive: Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX
Seriously?! NASCAR Apparently Set To Mandate Standard Air Gun For All Teams In 2018
According to well known NASCAR news website Jayski.com, the racing body is expected the mandate a spec air gun for all teams to use in the pits for changing tires. We totally understand why. This is...
Michelin GT Challenge Series at Virginia International Raceway – Awesome Cars, Awesome Track
(Photos by David Whealon) – There’s something about sports car racing that we dig. The whole scene is pretty awesome and it all starts with the equipment. In this case we’re...
NCM Motorsports Park Has Announced Their Winter Racing Program: “King Of The Heap”! One Car, Four Drivers, One Thousand Dollar Budget!
We might still be a little bit early in looking towards winter, but for racing venues across the country, the time is now. Do you close up shop and say “Happy Holidays, see you in March!”...
IMSA VIR Action Coverage: Killer Sports Cars Tearing It Up At A Beautiful Course
(Words and photos by David Whealon) – Well we’re back to the rolling hills of the southern Virginia countryside at one of the most beautiful and award winning road racing courses in the USA,...
Big Spenders: Lawsuit Reveals That Farmers Was Spending About $660,000 Per Race For NASCAR Sponsorship
Lawsuits have a funny way of bringing interesting stuff to light. In this case a lawsuit has brought to light the sponsorship agreement between Farmers Insurance and Hendrick Motorsports,...
So Long, V8 Utes, Hello, SuperUtes. Holden And Ford Utes Get Replaced With Four-Door Diesel Trucks For 2018
Brian’s article on the state of Supercar racing in Australia paints a dark picture, and that’s no shock: how do you support a home-grown racing series when the home teams were pretty much...
Trouble Down Under: Column Paints Stark Picture Of Aussie Supercar Series
What happens when a factory style racing series loses virtually all of its factories? That’s the question that the organizers of the V8 Supercars series (now the Supercars series) are asking...
NASCAR To Introduce Composite Bodies In 2017 – Mandatory By 2019
NASCAR is going to look a little different under its skin. The racing sanctioning body has announced that it will allow composite bodies at three of its races in 2017 and by 2019 the composite bodies...
Chevrolet To Replace The SS With The Camaro ZL1 In NASCAR – Here’s The First Look At The New Race Car!
(Photos: General Motors) It had to happen…with the death of the Chevrolet SS sedan, a new body had to be chosen for the teams flying the Chevrolet flag in NASCAR’s Monster Energy Cup...
We Found A Volkswagen TDI Recall Regional Holding Facility At An Old Naval Air Base In Southeastern Massachusetts
This is nuts! My son Tom’s pal Adam is as big a car guy as Tom and he made mention to him one day this summer that there were a load of VWs parked on the grounds of what used to be the South...
WELD Racing Named Presenting Sponsor Of Fifth Annual Go-Kart Spectacular at Knoxville Nationals
Great news from our friends at WELD Racing as they have announced the fact that they will once again be the presenting sponsor at the Fifth Annual Go-Kart Spectacular at the Knoxville Nationals....
Richard Hammond Crash Review with Mate Rimac – DriveTribe
Richard Hammond is burning through his spare lives like an alley cat trying to dance through New York traffic. He very nearly took himself out in 2006 when the jet dragster he was piloting had a...
Here’s The Preview For The New Holden Commodore V8 Supercar…Does It Hint At A Hot Buick Regal?
The Holden Commodore that spawned the Chevrolet SS and Caprice PPV for the United States market is dead. Done. Finished. The next Commodore will be a badged version of the Opel Insignia/Buick Regal,...
