Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX
Morning Symphony: Proto P2 Racers at the 5° Challenge del Lupo – Go Karts For Adults!
Aug 30, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: Proto P2 Racers at the 5° Challenge del Lupo – Go Karts For Adults!
When was the last time you plopped your adult backside into the seat of a go-kart and hit the track? I had the opportunity do just that earlier this summer and while it was great fun racing with a...
This Hill Climb Champion Demonstrates What Flat-Out looks Like
Aug 30, 2016Eric RoodComments Off on This Hill Climb Champion Demonstrates What Flat-Out looks Like
Simone Faggioli is probably one of the best race car drivers you’ve never heard of. The Italian has racked up seven consecutive championships in the FIA European Hill Climb Championship to add to...
The Parting Shift: Ride In An Aussie V8 SuperCar Up The Goodwood Driveway Course
Aug 26, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on The Parting Shift: Ride In An Aussie V8 SuperCar Up The Goodwood Driveway Course
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a bucket list event for virtually every gearhead on the planet and the reason is pretty simple. You can see cars from just about every era, country, and style of...
It’s Udder Insanity When Cows Interrupt This 2014 Canadian Rally Stage
Rally drivers compete with a lot of obstacles while pushing their cars hard on some of the world’s most challenging racing conditions. Road conditions vary greatly across the miles of a given stage...
Even In a Commercial, A Running Diesel Oldsmobile Is Kind Of Amazing
As its name suggests, the Malaise Era was a truly miserable period of American car manufacturing. The last 1970s and early 1980s found carmakers struggling to produce fuel economy in line with...
Major Style Points: This 1959 Cadillac DeVille Owner Took the Car Autocrossing in Dubai
Autocross. The word conveys an image of auto enthusiasts pitching Miatas and CRXs and BMWs and Porsches around a cone-sea in an open parking lot. The nimble little cars squeak through slaloms and...
Ouch! This Evo’s Engine Annihilates Itself at a Track Day in Australia
Sandown Raceway in Australia is one heck of a place. The racing circuit is built around the outside of a horse racing track and hosts one of the big three endurance races on the Virgin Supercars...
Morning Symphony: Listen To These BMW M3s Rip Up A Tight Drift Course!
Aug 24, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
For this morning’s aural treat, we are going straight to the sharp howl of the E36 series BMW M3’s 3.2L inline-six. If you want to see what true brand loyalty looks like, ask a BMW fan...
This Cayman Spins On the Nurburgring At 150 MPH and Somehow Doesn’t Hit Anything
Ah, the Nurburgring-Nordschleife, that narrow 15-mile ribbon of asphalt winding through the Eiffel Mountains in western Germany. The harrowing “Green Hell” has crunched up many a car during...
In Australia, NASCAR Only Used To Turn Right
If you’re a devoted fan of The Simpsons, you already know the most important question about crossing the Equator into the Southern Hemisphere: When you flush a toilet, does the water swirl the...
Get Up Close With A Running, Snorting McLaren M8F Can-Am Vintage Race Car
Aug 22, 2016Eric RoodComments Off on Get Up Close With A Running, Snorting McLaren M8F Can-Am Vintage Race Car
It’s no secret that we at BangShift love the McLaren M8 Can-Am cars: They’re absolutely brutal machines with big displacement, big noise, big power, and requiring big commitment from a driver. As...
We’ve Got Video Of The Hand Built, Street Driven, Kawasaki Powered Mini Nova!
Aug 20, 2016Chad Reynolds2
Last week we showed you pictures of this hand built Kawasaki powered Mini Nova, as we were blown away when we saw this thing. It’s street legal, totally bitchin, and now we’ve got video...
Awesome Video: Peter Brock Talks About The Creation Of The Shelby Daytona Coupe
Aug 19, 2016Brian Lohnes2
If there is a guy who can lay claim to some of the coolest products in American automotive history, it is Peter Brock. A designer of amazing repute, he was the youngest person ever hired by the...
Ever Wonder What NASCAR Racing Would Look Like In The Rain? Check Out The Footage From The Soaked Xfinity Race At Mid-Ohio!
Aug 15, 2016Bryan McTaggart16
It’s the biggest dig most any other auto racing community can make at NASCAR: once drops start falling from the sky, it’s time to go inside. Normally, when rain starts to fall on a race,...