Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX

Behind The Scenes Video: Great Footage From The Making Of The Pennzoil Hellcat Tires Shredding Drift Film

We recently got tipped off to some cool behind the scenes, “making of” video that shows just how Pennzoil and the crew that made the film pulled off the awesome drifting scenes that we...

Awesome Video: This Go Pro Footage Shot During The Making Of Fast And Furious 7 Shows The Insanity Of The Car Stunts

Love them or hate them the Fast and Furious series of movies are based around wild cars and have produced some of the highest grossing films of all time. We would run down the list of the other movie...

Classic YouTube: Carl Edwards Shoving Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. Across The Line At Iowa

Would you rather be lucky, or good? If you were in Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.’s shoes at the U.S. Cellular 250 at Iowa in August 2011, you probably walked out of the track that night thinking...

Somehow Pennzoil Managed To Make One Of The Coolest Hellcat Videos Yet – What Has Gotten Into Those Guys?

There was a time when Pennzoil was a pretty cool brand. They were in all kinds of motorsports and had a good high performance image. For whatever reason, that promotional direction changed and they...

Top-Tier Shootout: McLaren P1 Vs. Porsche 918 Spyder, One Track, One Driver, And One Missing Ferrari

The McLaren P1, Porsche 918 Spyder and LaFerrari are currently the ultimate end of street-legal production cars. All three sport a combination of gas and electric power, all are expensive enough to...

These Two Hellcat Owners Nearly Get Tossed Out Of Texas Motorplex – Owning A Fast Car Does Not Make You A Racer

In a race there are two parts to the equation of winning: the car, and the driver. Most drivers look to the car to do all of the work, but as most good racers know, owning a badass car doesn’t...

Watch This Screw Blown, LS Powered Factory Five Type 65 Coupe Roar Out 650hp At The Tires On The Dyno!

We are gearing up to do some really cool stuff with our friend Fred Simmons at SMG Motoring in the coming weeks. You’ll remember SMG as the shop we last dyno tested Buford T Justice before...

Drifting Paralyzed: The Story Of Rob “Chairslayer” Parsons And His Determination To Drive

Look at your legs for a second. For the majority of us, they are there, have been there, and function as expected. What would you do if you lost them? How would you cope if you got into an accident...

Ride Along With Jeff Zwart As He Makes A Time Attack Run Up Pikes Peak

Just because the road to the summit was paved doesn’t mean that Pikes Peak is any less dangerous. The hill climb is still a dangerous affair and if anything, the addition of asphalt has created...

In Car Video That Proves How a 100hp Car Can Be Hellacious Fun!

While we’re not planning on trading our big blocks for air cooled VW engines any time soon, we always dig seeing video that proves the concept of power to weight ratio. Take this awesome in-car...

This Is The Most Insane Pass At The Goodwood Member’s Meeting – Automotive Leapfrog!

The 73rd Annual Goodwood Members’ Meeting had a pretty good show for what is basically a bunch of valuable race cars playing about, but out of all of the fun we weren’t even aware was...

Rally Lesson: Watch How This Finnish Rally Rollover Is Turned From A Fail To A Win

Accidents happen in rally racing. It’s one of the risks of blasting through wooded areas on some of the worst possible roads in powerful cars. But if a driver does have an accident, and the...

It’s A Match Made In Drifting Heaven: A $350,000 Lexus LFA With A NASCAR TRD V8

The Lexus LFA is a strange beast of a car, because it’s both a technological demonstration and a completely unnecessary supercar that didn’t sell well. Anybody who has ever heard the 4.8L...

Watch Brock Yates, Circa 1982 Describe The Way Real Race Fans Feel About Wrecks And The Drivers Who Suffer Them

Brock Yates is now and forever will be one of my favorite automotive journalists. From his books like Sunday Driver and Cannonball to his work for various magazines and his television coverage of...