Category Archive: Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX
Terrible: Nice Impala Mangled By Driver In Hellcat At Car Show
(Photos: SRTLife.com) – This is yet another example of why it does not pay to lose you mind at a car show. According to the staff at SRTLife.com, the very clean and nicely finished Impala...
Laguna Seca Is Safe From ISC And The France Family, But Who Will Ultimately Manage The Track Still Up In The Air
For everyone who is a friend of the Laguna Seca race course, a vowed enemy of anything related to the France family of NASCAR fame, or both, we have good news: International Speedway Corporation...
Good News For V8 Supercar Fans: A Final Gear Change Means That Racing At Mount Panorama Is Going To Be Even Crazier!
It’s been tough to find good news for Aussie racing when Australian manufacturers are packing up shop and switching over to importing vehicles instead, and no other motorsport has been hit like...
NCM Motorsports Park In Process Of Building A Dirt Berm To Block The Noise Of The Neighbors
We have been following NCM Motorsports Park’s issues with their noisy neighbors ever since members of the Clark Circle community and Warren County, Kentucky officials got involved with the...
IndyCar Racer Justin Wilson Dies As Result Of On-Track Head Injury – Profound Loss To Racing Community
(Photo credit: TeenCancerAmerica.org) – The outcome that the racing world was hoping to avoid has arrived, It is being announced that this hour by multiple sources and insiders that Justin...
IndyCar Driver Justin Wilson In A Coma After A Major Crash At Pocono
IndyCar driver Justin Wilson is in a coma after a massive accident at yesterday’s Pocono, when he was struck in the head by the nosecone of Sage Karam’s wrecked Indy car at speed, which...
Zero The Hero: Toyota Mirai FCV Is Run Through Rally Deutschland’s Stages As A Zero Car – Has The Prius-Bashing Has Taken A Toll?
Toyota’s Mirai hydrogen fuel cell vehicle has been rather curious. Elon Musk, Tesla Motors’ mogul, has referred to fuel cell technology as “bullshit”, even though the issues...
Miller Motorsports Park Saved, Is Now In The Hands Of China-Based MiTime Group
Miller Motorsports Park has been taken off of the chopping block and sold for $20 million to the China-based MiTime Investment Group. MiTime is a subsidiary of Geely Automotive, the largest...
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Outside – Team RideTech Hits The Road Again HARD!
You have seen them at the CAM Challenge East, you have seen them at the Optima Search For The Ultimate Street Car events, you have seen them pounding the pavement at the Goodguys autocross series...
Heroic Baltimore Batman Lenny B Robinson Killed In Traffic Accident – Brought Joy To Kids For More Than A Decade
He was known by several names. “Lamborghini Batman”, “Baltimore Batman”, and in real life Lenny B Robinson. The Maryland resident is best known as a Batman impersonator who...
Bangshift Visits The 24 Hours Of LeMons: Pure Automotive Insanity!
Last weekend, the insane automotive circus/racing event/social commentary comedy that is the 24 Hours of LeMons settled in at the Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park in Thompson CT. In brief, the 24...
Bad News: Corvette’s Brakes Hacked Through OBD-II Plug In Insurance Monitor
(Photo credit: CNet) – As if you needed another reason to NOT plug some sort of werido insurance monitoring device into your car, here’s another. Engineers have used one of these...
Pre-Registration For The 2015 Holley LS Fest In Bowling Green, Kentucky Is Now Open! If You Are A Fan Of Late-Model GM Power, This Is For You!
It’s that time again, when the GM faithful descend upon Bowling Green to celebrate the LS/LT late-model V8s by cutting them loose and letting them play. The sixth annual Holley 2015 LS Fest is...
In Memoriam: Buddy Baker, NASCAR’s “Gentle Giant” And Racing Great
On July 7, 2015, during his stint on Sirius XM’s NASCAR Radio channel, Buddy Baker told the listening audience that effective immediately, he was leaving the channel. He had been told by...