Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX
A BMW Autocrossing On Snow Tires – That Looks A Little Sketchy!
Dec 21, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on A BMW Autocrossing On Snow Tires – That Looks A Little Sketchy!
While we tend to wind down from the racing action throughout the colder months, it doesn’t mean that everybody just stops racing at Thanksgiving and we pick it back up full-time around March or...
Redline Rebuild: The Latest Video In The Series is The Resurrection Of A Dead Tri-Power Pontiac 389!
Dec 19, 2018Brian Lohnes4
They’re back! The latest installment of the Redline Rebuild series from Hagerty is the resurrection of a dead Tri-power 389 Pontiac and this one is our favorite yet. Why? The engine really was...
Classic YouTube: Tanner Foust, Shredding The Cheese With A Drift Car
Dec 19, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Classic YouTube: Tanner Foust, Shredding The Cheese With A Drift Car
Did you ever hear of the show “Masters of Champions”? Probably not…only a small handful of episodes were aired by ABC before the plug got pulled. I never watched it, but from what I...
GYMKHANA TEN: Ken Block’s Five-Location, Five-Machine Masterpiece
Dec 18, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
The cars: A World Rally Car Ford Fiesta, a Ford Focus RS RX, a 1991 Ford Escort RS Cosworth that replaced the car that burned after an accident at the New England Forest Rally back in July, the...
Killer Video: Ride With Kyle Larson As He Rips A Sprint Car Around Antioch Speedway
Dec 17, 2018Brian Lohnes1
Outside of the drag strip the one type of racing that really knocks us on our ass is sprint car racing. We do not get a chance to see a ton of it in person but we love living vicariously through...
Braver Than Most: The Many Faces Of The One-Time Rally Passenger
Dec 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Braver Than Most: The Many Faces Of The One-Time Rally Passenger
Be honest with yourself for one moment: if, by sheer luck, you got an invite to ride in the empty seat next to Sébastian Ogier on a rally stage in his WRC race car, would you honestly have the...
Traveling Al Frisco: Petrolicious Looks At A Truly Cool 1971 Porsche 911 That Has Lived A Couple Of Lives
Dec 14, 2018Brian LohnesComments Off on Traveling Al Frisco: Petrolicious Looks At A Truly Cool 1971 Porsche 911 That Has Lived A Couple Of Lives
Those of us that love cars talk about them as if they were somehow human in many ways. We look at their features, their foibles, we think about their strain and toil when they are driven hard. Long...
Hazing The New Guy: Introducing The NASCAR Mustang, Drifting With Vaughn Gittin, Jr.!
Dec 14, 2018Bryan McTaggart3
It’s official: the Ford Fusion is out and the Ford Mustang will be in for NASCAR, and not just in the Xfinity Series, either. The full-deal, top-tier Cup car will become the Ford Mustang for...
Video: 2018 JE Pistons Masters of Motors At SEMA – Picking The Coolest Engines At The Show!
Dec 12, 2018Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: 2018 JE Pistons Masters of Motors At SEMA – Picking The Coolest Engines At The Show!
2018 has been a killer year for experiencing and being involved in cool stuff. A personal highpoint was being part of the judging panel for an innovative new awards program that JE Pistons came up...
Crazy Video: Here’s Why You Never Want To Crash A T-Bucket – These Guys Lived
Dec 10, 2018Brian Lohnes16
This is the type of video that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up when you watch it and not for great reasons. Shot in South Africa about a year ago, things open up with an older guy...
The Small-Track Hit: Spectator Racing At New Smyrna Speedway Takes A Sacrifice
Dec 09, 2018Bryan McTaggart11
Spectator racing is one of those strange events that we aren’t sure if we approve of or not. Seeing a couple of ratty third-gen F-bodies try to outgun the other at a circle track in a spectator...
Project Mongrel Continues! This Little Car Is Getting More Beastly By The Minute
Dec 08, 2018Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Project Mongrel Continues! This Little Car Is Getting More Beastly By The Minute
When we first started following Project Mongrel we thought it was kinda cool. But now we think it is down right bitchin. The fab work on this thing is simple but clean and nice and shows just how a...
Morning Symphony: Secret Squirrel C8 Corvette Prototype Testing At Sebring
Dec 07, 2018Bryan McTaggart6
Ever since a very hacked-up Holden Ute was spotted on GM testing grounds property back in 2015, the new-car world has been in a constant state of hyper-vigilance over any and everything to do with...
Racing Action From King Of The Heap! Are $1,000 Crapcans Good At Racing?
Dec 06, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Racing Action From King Of The Heap! Are $1,000 Crapcans Good At Racing?
Alright, I’m going to cop to a failure: I was planning on getting videos and much more photos from the first King of the Heap event of the year at NCM Motorsports Park. What ended up happening...