Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, ENGINES, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Dyno Video: Watch An Original Tucker Make Dyno Pulls – Horsepower and Torque Revealed
We don’t need to recount the story of Preston Tucker and his forward thinking car which was the talk of the late 1940s. The company produced a few dozen models before financially foundering and...
QuarantinePiece Theater: Watch The 1976 NHRA World Finals At Ontario Motor Speedway
While the drag racing world and frankly the rest of the world starts to stir these days, we know many of you are still homebound and that’s why we’re keeping the cool and historic...
The Sweet Sound Of Success: Listen To This Tweaked, Titanium Exhaust Equipped Porsche 997 GT3 Make 420+ Horsepower At 8,100 RPM
This right here is some Friday vibes of the automotive type. The car shown in this video is a Porsche 997 GT3, it’s what we’d technically call a 997.1 because it’s the first...
Damned Yankees: Watch The Semis and Finals Of The 1982 NHRA Winternationals From The British Show World of Sport!
This right here is a good watch. Why? You are going to see some killer classic drag racing and you are going to see it with an intro from the BBC show “World of Sport”. This seems like...
Surprise, MF! Rear-Engined Integra With A Turbocharged V6 In Texas!
Okay, let’s think about something for a moment: If you’re playing the game out in the wild, “going for broke” usually means you’re boosting an engine to the moon, or...
NHRA Insider Podcast: Jason Line Talks Engine Building, Don O’Neal Talks Top Sportsman With A Factory Stock Showdown Engine
A couple of good dudes joined me on the NHRA Insider podcast recently and we had some wide ranging conversations covering everything from engine building to how one takes a factory stock showdown...
Pro Stock In The Living Room: How Is Bruno Massel Getting Ready For His 2020 NHRA Pro Stock Debut? On A Neat Simulator!
In drag racing, reputation is everything. Being able to do the job is one facet of being a professional level competitior but being able to do it consistently is what moves you from good to great....
When The Old Lion Roars: Watch This 1930s Alfa Romeo Grand Prix Car Bellow Up The Hill At Goodwood Sideways!
Old race cars are interesting things. Some of them we love for their bizarre attempts at innovation. Some of them we love because of their stylistic beauty. Some of them we love because of who drove...
Went For Broke: Lost Footage Of Finnegan Going All-Out At The Freedom Factory Video Shoot
One of the biggest deals of 2020 that doesn’t have the word “pandemic” attached to it came right at the beginning of the year, when Garrett Mitchell (read: Cleetus McFarland)...
Historic Footage: 1979 Talladega 500, With Lee Petty In The Booth!
If you have never experienced a Southern summer day, you won’t be able to quite grasp the important aspect of the 1979 Talladega 500, so let’s explain that real quick. The air is hot...
The Rookie: A Conversation With Nitro Funny Car Racer Alex Miladinovich – How To Race A Funny Car On A Regular Guy Budget
There are always feel good stories in drag racing and most of them center around people who race with a lot of heart and soul. At the 2020 NHRA Winternationals, the drag racing world got to meet Alex...
NHRA Insider: A Conversation With A Privateer Top Fuel Team Owner and The Man Who Can Drive Anything
We’re still cranking out content at the NHRA Insider audio factory and this one is a gem. The guests on the show are Jim Maroney and Brad Plourd. Maroney is a privateer top fuel racer who has...
This Drone Video Of Brenden Mills Awful Woostock Fire Is Stunning – A Very Close Call, Mills OK
If you are a racer and you can watch this video without thinking about your own safety equipment and habits, you are either doing all the right stuff or you are out to lunch. Brenden Mills is a hard...
The Sound And The Fury: Watching This Incredible Ferrari 312P Attack Goodwood Is A Speaker Melting Joyous Occasion
Good cars have some history. Good cars have raced, maybe won. Great cars have won a lot and they have done so on grand and historic stages. Brilliant cars? Shoot, lots of them have not so much as won...