Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX
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...
This Escort Goes For A Very Violent Crash At The 2014 Urjalan Society Competiton Rally
Jarkko Lankinen and Kari Salminen probably bought their roll cage builder a significant amount of whatever the hell they wanted after this particularly brutal crash at the 2014 Urjalan Rally in...
FY Racing’s Sno*Drift Video Captures A Great Look At Life Behind The Scenes For A Rally Team
Going behind the scenes of a racing team is the only way to get the entire story of what it takes to get man and machine to glory, and there are far more players that anyone would normally realize....
This 1967 Video Shows What The Stock Car Racing Scene Looked Like In Lancaster, New York – Cool Cars!
While stock car racing always gets pegged as being a “southern” sport, history shows that there were guys racing in circles in all parts of the country for decades before the explosion of...
Video: Astoundingly Skilled Gymkhana Driving Action
Everyone and their mother has seen the incredible video of Ken Block wheeling a Subaru through a series of precision driving techniques and obstacles. That style of automotive competition is called a...
Ford Performance’s Latest Video Puts Vaughn Gitten, Jr. On Ice With His New RTR Competition Mustang
Y’know, something has been missing here on BangShift for the last few months: Ice racing. Yes, we’ve covered tons of snow-based sports, including Red Bull Frozen Rush this year. Yes,...
