Friday, August 14, 2020
Thursday, August 13, 2020
What to watch this F1 Weekend (Aug 14th - Aug 19th)
- Formula 1 - Spanish Grand Prix; from Catalunya Circuit, Spain. Practice 1. Friday @ 4:55am - 7am (ESPN2) live
- Formula 1 - Spanish Grand Prix; from Catalunya Circuit, Spain. Practice 2. Friday @ 8:55am - 11am (ESPN2) live
- Formula 1 - Spanish Grand Prix; from Catalunya Circuit, Spain. Practice 3. Saturday @ 5:55am - 7:30am (ESPN2) live
- Formula 1 - Spanish Grand Prix; from Catalunya Circuit, Spain. Qualifying. Saturday @ 8:55am - 10am (ESPN) live
- Formula 1 - Spanish Grand Prix; from Catalunya Circuit, Spain. Race. Sunday @ 9:05am - 11am (ESPN) live
- Bitchin Rides. Mon/Wed @ 7pm - 8pm (MotorTrend) replay
- Hot Rod Garage. Tuesday @ 7pm - 7:30pm (MotorTrend) replay
- Motorweek. Tuesday @ 7:30pm - 8pm (MotorTrend) replay
- Geared up. 1973 Porsche 911 RS. Tuesday @ 9pm - 10pm (MotorTrend) new
- Wheeler Dealers: Dream Cars. Wednesday @ 9pm - 10pm (MotorTrend) new
Short week so I'll keep it brief. The biggest takeaways from the second race at Silverstone was Max Verstappen was right, the Merc doesn't like high temps and rear tires with the upped pressures enforced by FIA to avoid tire blow outs, and fortune favors the bold. Some nice one stoppers out there for points, Hulk's Racing Point fires up on race day and he scores points in 7th, while Perez recovers from covid. The strategy didn't pay off for Bottas, but it seemed more like trying to mix things up turned out to work better for Hams after thinking Bottas covered off Max; the Red Bull's pace was just too strong in the heat for the Merc. Max earned that win, Hamilton did well to take second with fresh tires late, but took a little to long to pass Leclerc during his second stint. Bottas, dropped two spots from pole and will have a bad taste in his mouth heading to Spain. Merc is going to have to figure out why they can't handle the heat; it could be too much downforce based on discussions from post-race, but we'll see how the long run tire performance looks for the teams comes FP2. Everyone is heading to Spain in August so it should be another hot one. With the checkered flag dropped, the Driver's Championship standings are as follows: Hamilton, Verstappen (-30), Bottas (-34), Leclerc (-62), Norris (-69), Albon (-71). As you can see, Bottas' 11th place finish in the BGP has cost him quite a bit and he has good reason to be peeved, but there's a lot of bad luck in play which he can hopefully shake going forward.
Video courtesy of JoeAchillies.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Monday, August 10, 2020
Current Events: T50 by Gordon Murray, The New McLaren F1: In-Depth First Look (Carfection)
Henry talks with Gordon Murray about the T.50; the successor to the McLaren F1. I mean...986KG.
Video courtesy of Carfection.
Video courtesy of Carfection.
Friday, August 7, 2020
Thursday, August 6, 2020
What to watch this F1 Weekend (Aug 7th - Aug 12th)
- Formula 1 - 70th Anniversary Grand Prix; from Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England. Practice 1. Friday @ 5:55am - 7:30am (ESPN2) live
- Formula 1 - 70th Anniversary Grand Prix; from Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England. Practice 2. Friday @ 9:55am - 11:30am (ESPN2) live
- Formula 1 - 70th Anniversary Grand Prix; from Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England. Practice 3. Saturday @ 5:55am - 7am (ESPN2) live
- Formula 1 - 70th Anniversary Grand Prix; from Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England. Qualifying. Saturday @ 8:55am - 10am (ESPN) live
- Formula 1 - 70th Anniversary Grand Prix; from Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England. Race. Sunday @ 9:05am - 11:30am (ESPN) live
- Bitchin Rides. Mon/Wed @ 7pm - 8pm (MotorTrend) replay
- Bitchin Ranchero. Monday @ 9pm - 11pm (MotorTrend) replay
- Hot Rod Garage. Tuesday @ 7pm - 7:30pm (MotorTrend) replay
- Motorweek. Tuesday @ 7:30pm - 8pm (MotorTrend) replay
- Geared up. 1962 Mercedes-Benz 220 SE Cab. Tuesday @ 9pm - 10pm (MotorTrend) new
- Wheeler Dealers: Dream Cars. Wednesday @ 9pm - 10pm (MotorTrend)
Some would say it's better to be lucky than good, but when you're good and have luck on your side, you're unstoppable. One of the most incredible finishes in recent memory, chaos across the board late in the race in the form of hard tires unraveling across the field and causing some serious mayhem. It appeared to happen with Kvyat, it happened to Sainz; it happened to Hams on his last lap and most importantly it happened to Bottas with a few laps left, taking him from hunting Hams down late to getting held off from the final championship point by a recently struggling 4-time world champion in a red car. With Hamilton making it across the finish line, with sparks flying and his LF tire carcass almost completely separated, Hamilton's record collection was pushed even further along, but his point total was also increased by a margin of 25 over Bottas'. Valteri got a pretty bad draw and in reaction to all of the tire destruction and plans of going with even softer compounds for this weekends 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, at the very same tire abusing track, Pirelli looked into this matter quite seriously. I'll leave the other race highlights to today's video, but strong performances by many drivers in the top ten, including Ricciardo, Lando and Charles. With the checkered flag dropped, the Driver's Championship standings are as follows: Hamilton, Bottas (-30), Verstappen (-36), Norris (-52), Leclerc (-55), Albon (-62).
Enjoy your motorsport weekends.
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