Category Archive: Apex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
Pro Drifting Meets Ice Racing In Norway! Beat Cabin Fever By Drifting The Winter Blues Away!
If you live in the northern U.S. (or anywhere else that lives in snow during the winter months solidly) then at some point you have come to the conclusion in your life that staying indoors and...
Refueling While Tandem Drifting – This Is How You Keep A BMW Sideways For Over Eight Hours!
Eight hours sideways without stopping…that’s the record that BMW wanted to claim with their new variation of the M5 sport sedan. That’s a lofty goal, when you look at the logistics...
Landon Simon To Field Two Cars At 2018 Chili Bowl Nationals
Landon Simon Racing will field two cars this year at the 32nd annual running of the Chili Bowl Nationals presented by General Tire, Jan. 9-13 in Tulsa, Okla. Team owner and Sprint Car driver Landon...
Best of BS 2017: The Superformance Drift Cobra: A Supercharged Coyote Equals All Anger, All The Time!
Prior to BangShift, the loudest and most brash section of my life was the military. Every day started pretty much the same way: I drug my tired (and probably hung over) ass out of bed, I somehow...
Party Hard: Shoving Andrew W.K. And His Friends In A Drift Infiniti Is A Great Idea!
Andrew W.K. always wants to have a good time. The self-proclaimed “king of partying”, he’s part motivational speaker, part honorary Jackass team member, a couple parts completely...
Morning Symphony: Thoroughbred Italians Playing In The Snow
The Lamborghini Aventador S’s base price is an eye-watering $402,995. Don’t sweat what you can or can’t buy with that kind of cash…just think about this for a second: if...
Morning Symphony: Ryan Tuerck’s Ferrari-Powered “GT4586” Toyota On It’s First Drift Run!
Enzo Ferrari’s legacy is of a racing leader who gave all of the credit to the car. Not the driver, not the team so much, but the car that, along with the engine, bore his name. A...
Best of 2016: Onboard Ice Racing From Garfield Lake In Minnesota – Where A 1990s Buick Can Be Competitive!
There has to be some kind of unnerving feeling inside of a driver when pulling a car the size of a 1990s Buick Roadmaster onto a frozen lake. Questions emerge…for most people, those questions...
Watching A BMW E30 Drift Through A Lovely Autumn Scene Is The Perfect Farewell To Warm Autumn Weather
Yes, I know that winter, technically, is five weeks away. But I’m not bothered about that. As I’m writing this, the awesome Indian summer that BangShift Mid-West has experienced this year...
SEMA 2016: The Tri-Ace Drift Holden Ute – Specially Shipped Over From Australia With Love (And Some Hate!)
If you thought getting a car ready for SEMA was normally a pain in the ass, you can only begin to imagine the headaches that Josh Robinson and the Tri-Ace Tires Drift Ute team had to face: a car that...
SEMA 2016: This Toyota 86 Is Rocking The Engine From A Ferrari 458 Italia!
It’s strange to think that both Lohnes and I almost walked right by this little ball of violence without noticing the two big, red air intakes sticking high above where the hood should be on...
Morning Symphony: Hanging The Tail Out On A RWD-Converted Ford Escort RS Cosworth!
All hail the mighty Cosworth 2.0L four-cylinder turbocharged wonder mill. Paired off with one of the most praised suspension setups in the automotive world and a four-wheel-drive system that just...
Gymkhana Nine! Ken Block Tears Up Buffalo After Australia Has A Panic Attack Over His Take On “Hooning”!
By all rights, the latest and greatest Gymkhana film from Ken Block and the Hoonigan crew is lock-step with the last eight: Block, this time in one of the two Ford Focus RS RX vehicles on the planet,...
Cleetus McFarland Gets A Shot At A LS-Swapped Nissan 350Z At Beech Bend! Check Out The Shenanigans Here!
The Street Car Takeover at Beech Bend earlier this year was a wild event to cover…roll racing, drag racing, car shows, a burnout contest, all while I was near heat exhaustion. In short, it was...