Category Archive: Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX
Best of BS 2017: Thieves Literally Drive Off From Plant With Millions Of Dollars In Jaguar Engines
In a crime that is pretty impressive for its completely brazen nature, British thieves rolled up to a Jaguar plant, hooked up to a trailer full of engines and disappeared with them. Apparently...
Wow! Former Senior VW Executives Oliver Schmidt Gets 7-Years In The Slammer For Diesel Scandal
After pleading guilty to charges that he was instrumental in the VW “dieselgate” scandal, Oliver Schmidt the man who ran VW’s environmental and engineering office has been handed...
Unveiled: 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 – 755 Horsepower, 715 Ft/Lbs of Torque, And Tuned To Kill
(Photos: General Motors) The Corvette seems to always be working an uphill battle. It’s too plain. Too common. Not powerful enough. Not refined enough. Not threatening enough. 8/10ths of what...
Chris “Smitty” Smith Captures Goodguys National Autocross Championship In RideTech 48 Hour Corvette
National championships in any form or motorsport are very tough to come by. They are never accidental either. These are feats accomplished by motivated and driven individuals who have not only great...
One Man Too Many: Championship Hopes For Matt Kenseth Dashed At Kansas During Pit Stop
When you look at a racing season like NASCAR’s 30+ race monster or the NHRA 24+ race campaign it is really easy to think that there’s some room for error, even when chasing a...
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...
