Category Archive: Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX

BREAKING NEWS: Nissan GT-R Wreck Made It To A Spectator Area – One Dead, Several Injured

Reports from Jalopnik, CarThrottle and Autosport are reporting that one spectator has died and that four are injured after a Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 driven by Jann Mardenborough went over the catch...

Have A Hankering To Try Road Racing? The SCCA Track Night Program Has You Covered!

(Image by the author) Interested in trying road racing but don’t have a club to sign up with and/or can’t justify the not-insignificant bill for a weekend track day? Well, the Sports Car...

Jeremy Clarkson Fired: BBC Refuses To Renew Contract After Physical Altercation While Filming Show

It is being reported by news outlets around the world that Jeremy Clarkson has been fired for the physical altercation with a producer that he instigated a short time ago. The statement made by the...

Expensive Carnage: The Mercedes “Porter Special” Crashed Into A Lister-Jaguar At The Goodwood Circuit

(Photos: Motoring Research via AutoEvolution.com) Historical races are a great way to see the race cars of yesteryear come out and exercise instead of sitting static in a museum, but there is always...

Irwindale Speedway Likely To Be Demolished To Make Room For An Outlet Mall

California speed freaks, got some bad news for you. Irwindale Speedway is all but condemned to be razed and repurposed as an outlet mall. City officials and Irwindale Outlet Partners, LLC will meet...

Is The DeltaWing Going To Become A Road Car? It Just Might, If Don Panoz Gets His Way

Panoz has built cars before, but in extremely limited numbers and only in two main models: the Roadster, which dates back to an Irish sports car developed in the early 1980s, and the Esperante, which...

Frederick, Maryland Is The Home Of The Only High Wheeler Bicycle Race In America And It Looks Pretty Awesome

It seems funny to think about how revolutionary and game changing bicycles were in the 1800s. Today we just kind of take them for granted as bikes because they are everywhere. Kids have them, people...

It’s Official, Folks: The German Grand Prix Is Dead As Hockenhemiring And Nurburgring Both Back Out Of Talks With F1

For the first time since 1960, there won’t be a German F1 Grand Prix. Both the Nurburgring and Hockenheimring have thrown in the towel in regards to any negotiation with the Formula One Group...

Hotchkis Sport Suspension Goes BIG With Its Autocross Series In 2015 – Events Across The Nation!

It was big news when Hotchkis announced that it would be sponsoring autocross events at venues all across the country in 2015 but they have gone ahead and trumped themselves by growing the number of...

Formula E Will Be The First Race Series In Switzerland In Over Sixty Years

In 1955 one of the most horrifying spectacles to ever occur in motorsports happened during Le Mans. Pierre Levegh’s Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR struck the back of Lance Macklin’s Healey, struck...

Gearhead Guys You Should Know: Cale Yarborough

With the weird NASCAR off-track stuff constantly shining the light on all that’s wrong with modern day racing and race car drivers, we thought it a good time to highlight one of the great...

Trucks Over 30-Feet Long To Be Banned From Famed “Tail Of The Dragon” In Tennessee – Videos Of Why This Is A Good Idea Inside

(Lead Photo – TailofTheDragon.com) -(By Scott Parker) –  It is one of America’s most famous roads and one of the automotive attractions (along with Bonneville) that has gotten...

Caption This: So Many Spoilers! Honda’s New IndyCar “Aero Kit” Looks Like It Was Put Through A Shredder!

When trying to make your race car appear different that all the others, there is a good way and a bad way to do it. Ferrari, in a move meant to absolutely piss off Formula One and the FIA, went...

This Concept Ferrari F1 Is Meant To Do One Thing Only: Aggravate Formula One Into Action

Bernie Ecclestone isn’t a man who takes criticism. As the dictator leadership behind Formula One, he has pretty much implemented a “my way or the highway” approach to how teams...