Category Archive: Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX
Chrysler Warns People About Doing Business With Their Dealers…Wait, What?! Weirdness In Hellcat Land
Mar 04, 2015Brian Lohnes18
Ok things are getting strange in the land of the Hellcat. There are two things happening, both seemingly independent of themselves which point to what may be a larger issue. The thing that we saw...
Collecting Cars: Paul Kelly’s Huge Wreck In The Australian GT Series At Adelaide
Mar 04, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
If you’re going to wreck during the middle of a race, wreck outside of the traffic line, because nothing is worse than ricocheting back into fast-moving traffic. Any NASCAR driver who has been...
VTEC Really Kicked In, Yo: Honda Civic Type-R Laps The ‘Ring In 7:50:63
Mar 04, 2015Bryan McTaggart8
One of my automotive mantras is “Fast is simply fast.” It doesn’t matter what you’ve got, how you have it set up or what it looks like: if it hauls ass properly, I’m a...
Another Competitor Enters The Ring: The Aston Martin Vulcan Has Arrived To Do Battle In The Track-Only Hypercar War
Feb 26, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
Ferrari FXXK. McLaren P1 GTR. Both of these sociopathically-fast hypercars have one thing in common: they are track-only vehicles. Ferrari pretty much rents the FXXK, much like it did the 599XX, to...
Apex Video: McLaren’s Official P1 GTR Introduction Video, Complete With The F1 GTR
Feb 25, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Apex Video: McLaren’s Official P1 GTR Introduction Video, Complete With The F1 GTR
A few days ago, we told you about the McLaren P1 GTR, the track-only version of the McLaren P1 hybrid supercar. The 986hp beast is the spiritual successor to the McLaren F1 GTR, the de-tuned...
UPDATED: Kurt Busch Suspended Indefinitely From NASCAR – Has Lost First Appeal
Feb 21, 2015Bryan McTaggart10
It’s official: NASCAR has decided to suspend driver Kurt Busch after the Kent County, Delaware family court granted his ex-girlfriend, Patricia Driscoll, a restraining order. The news comes...
The McLaren P1 GTR – The Age Of Horsepower For The Well-Heeled Shows That Hybrid Tech Can Be Used For More Than Social Posturing
Feb 20, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on The McLaren P1 GTR – The Age Of Horsepower For The Well-Heeled Shows That Hybrid Tech Can Be Used For More Than Social Posturing
It costs $1.98 million dollars, it isn’t street legal, you already have to own a street-going McLaren P1 to even get your hands on one, and it won’t be seen in the public until the Geneva...
The Kurt Busch Saga: She Gets The Protection Order, And Busch Will Appeal The Decision While NASCAR Watches Like Vultures
Feb 17, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on The Kurt Busch Saga: She Gets The Protection Order, And Busch Will Appeal The Decision While NASCAR Watches Like Vultures
For once, news involving Kurt Busch and Patricia Driscoll’s ongoing legal issues stemming from a September 2014 incident don’t involve any mention of assassins. The Kent County, Delaware...
Wow! TCI Offers 6 Year/60,000 Mile Warranty On Wear Items! Lifetime Warranty On Those Parts Made By TCI!
Feb 16, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Wow! TCI Offers 6 Year/60,000 Mile Warranty On Wear Items! Lifetime Warranty On Those Parts Made By TCI!
Want to talk about having confidence in the quality and engineering of your product? Look no further than TCI Engineering because these guys just BLEW UP the game with the introduction of a 6...
Daytona 500 News: Clint Bowyer Goes Off On Daytona Qualification Procedure and NASCAR After Qualifying Wreck
Feb 16, 2015Bryan McTaggart19
There’s a quote out there, that goes something along the lines of “There are three types of people in the world who tell the truth: kids, drunk people and anyone who is pissed the ****...
JACKPOT: Rare 1961 Ferrari 250GT SWB Found On French Farm Brings $23-Million At Auction!
Feb 12, 2015Brian Lohnes4
The fifth most expensive car ever sold in the history of car auctions is a 1961 Ferrari 250GT SWB that had been sitting, forgotten and forlorn on a French farm for decades. Part of the incredible...
Good News: British Touring Car Racing Is Coming To U.S. Television!
Feb 10, 2015Bryan McTaggart3
This is happy news for anyone who used to watch Speedvision when it first came on: British Touring Car Championship racing (read: angry Europeans in violent race-prepared road cars) is coming back to...
Crash And Burn: Ivo Breukers Slides Back-End-First Into The Wall At Mount Panorama During The Bathurst 12-Hour
Feb 09, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
The 2015 Bathurst 12-hour race at Mount Panorama proved to be lively, even by the standards that Bathurst is well-known for. The race was very well contested and there was quite a bit more of the...
Planning Your 2015 Car Show Calendar? OPGI Has A 50 State List Of Shows You Need To Check Out!
Jan 31, 2015Brian Lohnes3
We’ve told you repeatedly in the past to make sure that your are checking out the OPGI blog because it isn’t about just telling you about the newest fender that they are making or the...