Category Archive: Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX
Formula E Announces Plan to Race in Brooklyn Against Manhattan Backdrop
The FIA’s all-electric racing series, F0rmula E, has become an interesting anomaly in the motorsports world. While the cars aren’t particularly fast and the noise of the electric motors...
Sitting Around With Nothing to Watch? The SCCA Runoffs Are Streaming This Weekend
The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) holds their annual championship this weekend, the SCCA Runoffs, at the famous Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. While the world of club racing typically races on their...
USCA Road America Action – Pro Touring’s Finest At One Of America’s Most Beautiful Tracks
(Photos by Bob Chiluk) – For several seasons now, the Ultimate Street Car Association has been bringing its brand of pro touring competition to the beautiful facility known simply as Road...
A Brief History of the Short-Lived Chicago Motor Speedway
The American open-wheel split still has a number of unhealed scars among fans who felt slighted, but the upshot was a number of weird little nuggets of recent racing history. Among those is that of...
NSRA Streetkhana Action 2: More Cars, More Cones, More Cool Photos
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – More coverage from the NSRA StreetKhana. Mild to wild stuff in here. Lots of heavy hitters came out to show off and get folks interested in turning...
NASCAR Truck Race Ends With Motorsport Dumpster Fire, Driver Tackling Rival
While IndyCar was busy setting an absurd pace at Watkins Glen International and a clean win for Scott Dixon last weekend, just across the New York-Canada border, the NASCAR Camping World Trucks...
Rumor: Ecclestone Says Liberty Media to Buy Formula One for $8.5B
American communications company Liberty Media is set to acquire the world’s largest racing series Formula One, Formula One Management (FOM) President and CEO Bernie Ecclestone has told German...
It’s Over: Steve Kinser Announces He’s Done Racing Sprint Cars After Lebanon Valley NY Race
At 62 years old the greatest sprint car racer who ever lived has decided that he’s had enough. After winning more than 600 feature races, claiming the Knoxville Nationals title a dozen times,...
Larry Chen Shoots Quarter Midgets Racing At Indianapolis Motor Speedway And The Results Are Spectacular
We have to admit to being complete fan boys of photographer and writer Larry Chen. The guy is an incredible shooter who captures the events he attends in a way that few others can or could. His...
USAC Champion Bryan Clauson, 27, Dies After Crash In Kansas Last Weekend
Oval-racing champion and Indianapolis 500 competitor Bryan Clauson has died on Sunday, August 7, following injuries sustained from a crash during the United States Auto Club’s (USAC) Belleville...
FOLLOWUP: Derrike Cope’s Explosion At Watkins Glen Was Simply A Tire Failure. Really!
When Derrike Cope’s Xfinity Series Chevrolet Camaro stock car exploded out of nowhere as the car was coasting on the straightaway near the “Bus Stop” kink at Watkins Glen on...
Driver’s OK, Car Sure Isn’t: Check Out Derrike Cope’s Unexplained Explosion From Watkins Glen!
If this doesn’t make it into a NASCAR Top 10 list somewhere this year, someone’s fired, because this is the strangest thing we’ve seen from roundy-round racing this year. During an...
Goodness Gracious: Check Out The Story Of This Ford Shelby GT350 Fireball At Roebling Road!
This photo might be able to say a thousand words on the situation this Shelby GT350 is facing, but we have a good bet that a lot of those words are expletives. We got tipped off to photos of this...
Big Changes At Jamco Parts! New Product Lines, New Focus, Same Great Quality and Service
The name Jamco Parts has been synonymous with shoebox Ford and Mercury suspension systems since the middle part of the 1980s. Well the company has recently announced a significant expansion of its...