Dope. #45

Photo courtesy of Naess.net

What to watch this weekend (April 14th - April 17th)

• Inside West Coast Customs. Ox-Tundra. Thursday @ 8pm - 9pm (Discovery's HD Theater)
• Chasing Classic Cars. Friday @ 9pm - 11pm (Discovery's HD Theater) 2nd season replays
• Formula 1 - Chinese Grand Prix; from Shanghai, China/Shanghai International Circuit. Qualifying. Saturday @ 2am - 3:30am (SPEED/SPEEDHD) live
• Formula 1 - Chinese Grand Prix; from Shanghai, China/Shanghai International Circuit. Race. Sunday @ 2:30am - 5am (SPEED/SPEEDHD) live - replay Monday @ 12pm
• WRC - Rally Mexico. Days 1 through 3. Sunday @ 11:30am - 1pm (Discovery's HD Theater) not a live telecast - preview starts at 10:30am
• IndyCar Series - Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Street track in Long Beach, California. Sunday @ 3:30pm - 6:30pm (VS/VSHD) live
• American Le Mans Series - Tequila Patron ALMS at Long Beach. Sunday @ 5pm - 7:30pm (ESPN2/ESPN2HD) replay - live on epsn3.com Saturday @ 4:15pm

This weekend we have a motorsport quadruple play; Formula 1, WRC, ALMS and an IndyCar Series street race all rolled in one. Redbull Racings F1 team was as impressive as ever in Malaysia last week. The WRC 2011 Season has started off as anyone's to take, rather than the typical dominance expected by Citroen's Sebastien Loeb. And last but not least, Simona De Silvestro has been living up to the hype in IndyCar thus far. Enjoy the race weekend...and the first round of the NBA Playoffs (oops).

Photo courtesy of lbpost.com/Samuel Lippke

Orbital Dreams: Carrera GT 'engine out' detail

Well if you ever felt like you're too thorough at detailing, you're wrong. Don't get discouraged though, get fired up!


Video courtesy of Miracle Detail.

Quick Vid: The F1 Report - Round 2 (AutomotiveTV)

While scouring the web I found this F1 coverage series that may turn out to be a great addition to our lineup of posts for our F1 enthusiast contingent. I'm happy that someone is doing a webisode style show covering the F1 season round by round. Please note that this video was made (to be viewed) prior to this past weekends Malaysian GP, so no 'spoiler alert' needed this time around; but seriously, you should have watched it by now.

THE F1 REPORT - 2011 Round 2 from Automotive Tv on Vimeo.

Car Pron: MIVW 2009 (by Loniek/Wolfsgruppe)

I've been collecting parts on a weekly basis to refresh the daily and I'm finally getting off the couch and into the garage. I have a handful of small projects I want to get done before the oppressive summer heat rolls in, which got me on a show video kick. Having your ride look it's best is always the goal, so why not see some cars that live up to this bill. This time around we're going back two years for the MIVW 2009 show video recap by Wolfsgruppe.


M.I.V.W 2009 from Loniek on Vimeo.