Category Archive: Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX
Want To Buy A Racetrack? Ace Speedway Is For Sale! A Bullring, A Pulling Course, More
If you have been dying to get into the race track ownership business, here’s your chance. No, it is not a drag strip but rather an awesome little circle track in North Carolina. Ace Speedway is...
NASCAR Contemplating Mufflers For Cars As Way Of “Enhancing” Fan Experience
In a continuing effort to destroy their own sport, NASCAR is apparently considering adding mufflers to their cars in order to make the races more fan friendly. Yes, that’s why no one is showing...
Before Bonneville: More Historic Images From The Ormond Beach Speed Trials 1910 and Older!
(Photo credit: DPL Digital Collection) – Last week we showed you the first of a few batches of photos we dug up featuring cars, people, and action at the famed Ormond Beach (Florida) speed...
All-Electric And Doesn’t Need Your Help: NextEV’s NIO EP9 Just Lapped COTA At Over 160 Miles An Hour – Driverless!
As any Tesla fanboy will remind you of happily, the future of electric vehicles isn’t that bleak. Sure, you still have cars like the Nissan Leaf reminding you that it wasn’t long ago that...
Weapons Grade: Meet The 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 With The 1LE Performance Package
(Photos: General Motors) The Chevrolet Camaro has certainly shed most of it’s sketchy, questionable past with the sixth-generation. The four-cylinder is nothing to be ashamed of and is more...
FIA Is Looking To Crack Down On WRC Stage Speeds After Rally Sweden Saw A New Record Set
Containing the speed of the cars competing in rally racing has been a focal point of the FIA ever since the Group B days of the 1980s. To be fair, dirt tracks, jumps, trees, and people lining the...
No More “Chase”, Rest Breaks During Races…Here’s NASCAR’s New Format Changes!
NASCAR has been hard at work trying to figure out how to keep fans entertained and drivers happy, and over the years there have been hits and misses. “Have at it, boys!” racing perked up...
Bye Bye: Bernie Ecclestone Deposed As F1 Leader Ending 40 Year Reign
One of the most interesting, frustrating, outspoken, brash, bombastic, and mercurial personalities in the history of motorsports is out of a job. Bernie Ecclestone has been deposed as the leader of...
Best of 2016: Incredible Photos Of The Astro Spiral Jump During Testing With Video!
(Photos from Al Benker collection) – You are not going to find anything more awesome than the images we have below as provided to us by former Calspan welder and fabricator (and BS reader!) Al...
The Toroidion Electric Supercar From Finland Has The Equivalent Of 1,341hp And Is Insane
We have to thank Finnish BangShifter Jarmo Koivula for the tip off on what could be the most interesting electric car we have ever seen. Built and engineered entirely in Finland, the Troidion 1MW...
Yes, They Actually Built This: The Story Of The Volkswagen Golf Harlequin Edition
(By Greg Rourke- Photo Credit: RossVW.com) – Around here, we salivate when we think of Limited Edition cars. Charger Daytonas, ZL1 Camaros, Boss 429 Mustangs. However, not all Limited Edition...
Another Track Dead? It Appears That The TopGear Test Track Is Doomed To Become Apartments
For over a decade, Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, United Kingdom, has had the distinction of being considered by a worldwide audience the ultimate point of judgement for a vehicle’s performance:...
Check Out the Route for the 2017 Dakar Rally
The year’s first big race—after the Hangover 150, at least—is always the Dakar Rally. The Dakar is no longer the original Paris-to-Dakar format, but it instead covers thousands of kilometers...
Is Dodge Coming Back To NASCAR? Sergio Marchionne Says They’re On The Verge
Motorsport.com is reporting that Fiat-Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne has publicly said that the company is considering a return to NASCAR racing. It was Marchionne who removed the company from the...