Category Archive: Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX
James Hinchcliffe will start the 100th Indy 500 from pole just a year after a near-fatal accident at the track
Just a year after watching the Indianapolis 500 from a hospital bed, James Hinchcliffe has penned the first chapter of a fairy tale comeback story with by claiming the 2016 Indy 500 pole. He was the...
Major Imapct Video: Touring car piledrives track barriers after a tire failure at Spa
In just his third weekend racing in the TCR International Series, Attila Tassi—who has an excellent racing name, we might add—found out the hard way the problems that a front-tire puncture can...
Ford GT wrecks hard at Spa, second car squeaks out second GT podium in a week
“It was the [second-]best of times, it was the worst of times…” [This has been your daily serving of “Boring Platitudes as Story leads.] So goes the saga of a two-car team in endurance...
Motorplex Speedway In Canada Nailed With $100,000 Judgement For Noise – Track Hosts Less Than Five Races Per Year
The body blows continue to rain down on racers and race fans in western Canada. It was just the other day that we reported on the closing of a drag racing facility out there and now it is the circle...
24 Hours of LeMons Michigan Action Gallery and More – The Cars, The Inside Stories Here!
I’ve done recovered from another 24 Hours of LeMons weekend at Gingerman Raceway near South Haven, Michigan, and like most LeMons races, it takes a few days to process the level of insanity one...
CANCELLED: The IndyCar Boston Grand Prix Is Dead – No Racing In City After Quagmire Of Bureaucracy
As a person who lives here, the cancellation of the Indycar Boston Grand Prix was an inevitability from the second that the event was announced. Initially the response was very positive. It was going...
Will Fiat Chrysler Be Broken Up And Sold Off In Pieces By The End Of The Year? This Guy Thinks It Might
Hellcats everywhere, Ram trucks are flying off the shelves, Jeep is one of the strongest brands in the world…but is Fiat Chrysler in trouble? Toronto Star business columnist David Olive...
Is The “Aeroscreen” The Answer To Formula 1’s Safety Issue? Check Out The Testing Footage For Yourself!
After the deaths of IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon (2011), Justin Wilson (2015), Formula 1 driver Jules Bianchi (2015) and the injury sustained by Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa when he was hit by a...
NASCAR Welcomes Tony Stewart Back and Then Promptly Fines Him $35,000
Yesterday NASCAR sent out a short and kind of terse but overall nice statement regarding the return of Tony Stewart to racing. We, like every other media outlet in the known universe got it....
Goodwood announces Festival of Speed lineup for 2016 Hill Climb
Lord March’s estate in England surely has the most famous driveway in the world, as it hosts the Goodwood Festival of Speed Hill Climb on its narrow, twisting asphalt. The event features some of...
Did You Order One? Ford GT Application Stampede Was Yesterday – $400,000+ Super Car Frenzy
Yesterday was a big day for Ford fans out there as the application process for the all new Ford GT was opened up. Thousands of people from around the world applied to be among the lucky 500 that will...
Callaway Releases AeroWagon Package – Expensive Bolt On Trunk Lid Makes Modern Greenwood Sport Wagon
Somewhere John Greenwood is smiling. The rumored to be happening Callaway AeroWagon package has been officially announced by the well known tuning and modification house. While far superior in...
Six State Attorneys Join Fight Against Proposed EPA Legislation – MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD HERE
The battle against the proposed changes to the Clean Air Act has taken a new turn recently as seven states have sent letters to the agency asking that they stop pursuing the proposed changes. State...
After Trouble At Daytona and Sebring Ford GT Racing Program Turned Over To Sloppy Mechanics Facebook Page
After a rough debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona and issues at the 12 hours of Sebring Ford Performance has made a bold change and fired the entire engineering department involved with the Ford GT...