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What to watch this Labor Day F1 Weekend (Sept 3rd - Sept 9th)

• Formula 1 - Dutch Grand Prix; from Circuit Zandvoort in Zandvoort, Netherlands. Practice 1. Friday @ 5:25am - 6:30am (ESPN2) live
• Formula 1 - Dutch Grand Prix; from Circuit Zandvoort in Zandvoort, Netherlands. Practice 2. Friday @ 8:55am - 10am (ESPNU) live
• Formula 1 - Dutch Grand Prix; from Circuit Zandvoort in Zandvoort, Netherlands. Practice 3. Friday @ 5:55am - 7am (ESPN2) live
• Formula 1 - Dutch Grand Prix; from Circuit Zandvoort in Zandvoort, Netherlands. Qualifying. Saturday @ 8:55am - 10am (ESPNU) live
• Formula 1 - Dutch Grand Prix; from Circuit Zandvoort in Zandvoort, Netherlands. Race. Sunday @ 9am - 11am (ESPN2) live
• Bitchin Rides. Marathon. Mon @ 12pm - 8pm (MotorTrend) replays
• Bitchin Rides. Tuesday @ 5pm - 6pm (MotorTrend) replay
• Garage Squad. Tue/Wed @ 4pm - 5pm (MotorTrend) replay
• Auto Mundial. Tuesday @ 7pm - 7:30pm (MotorTrend) replay
• Motorweek. Tuesday @ 7:30pm - 8pm (MotorTrend) replay
• Bitchin Rides. Wed @ 8pm - 9pm (MotorTrend) replay
• Top Gear America. Wednesday @ 8pm - 10:30pm (MotorTrend) new

We all saw it so there isn't much to discuss; in some cases we saw it over the course of 12hrs if you were following on DVR and had your live race recording cutoff, waiting for the delayed airing Sunday night. 4 laps behind the safety car, half points for the top ten. This Verstappen homecoming weekend in the Netherlands should be better, weather permitting. The major takeaways from this past weekend at Spa were that George Russell is pretty incredible, taking second in the rain in his Williams; Max and the RBR still have the all-around pace edge even after a tricky weekend. Also, a shame for all the binned and damaged cars over the entire weekend. There were quite a few shunts, ranging from slow to dangerously quick. Looking forward, F1 hasn't been at Zandvoort in years so this should be interesting. Above all else though, please let us get some reasonable weather so we can get some F1 racing action.

Enjoy your motorsport holiday weekends.

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Dope Vid. #357

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What to watch this F1 weekend (Aug 27th - Sept 1st)

• Formula 1 - Grand Prix of Belgium; from circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. Practice 1. Friday @ 5:25am - 6:30am (ESPN2) live
• Formula 1 - Grand Prix of Belgium; from circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. Practice 2. Friday @ 8:55am - 10am (ESPNU) live
• Formula 1 - Grand Prix of Belgium; from circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. Practice 3. Saturday @ 5:55am - 7am (ESPN2) live
• Formula 1 - Grand Prix of Belgium; from circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. Qualifying. Sunday @ 8:55am - 10am (ESPN2) live
• Formula 1 - Grand Prix of Belgium; from circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. Race. Sunday @ 8:55am - 11am (ESPN2) live
• Bitchin Rides. Mon/Tue @ 6pm - 7pm (MotorTrend) replays
• Garage Squad. Mon @ 7pm - 8pm (MotorTrend) replay
• Bitchin Rides. Wed @ 5pm - 6pm (MotorTrend) replays
• Auto Mundial. Tuesday @ 7pm - 7:30pm (MotorTrend) replays
• Motorweek. Tuesday @ 7:30pm - 8pm (MotorTrend) replays
• Top Gear America. Wednesday @ 9pm - 10:30pm (MotorTrend) new

Hungary was a wilder ride than even Silverstone; and once again Red Bull got the short end of the stick. A surprise result for Alpine as their car was incredible and Ocon took his first race win with the help of the wiley Alonso holding up Hamilton's run through the field after the Merc blunder of not switching off wets when the entire field did, following the red flag Valtteri's bowling ball impression caused. I say blunder due to the result, but at the time they were at the front of the field and had no idea what anyone else was doing. So they primarily lost a game of chicken. Back to that bowling ball impression though; plenty of DNFs resulted from that crash, McLaren and RedBull getting the worst of it -- Max continued his race but his barge boards were so destroyed they couldn't be repaired so he raced with jacked up aero all race, but was miraculously able to finish tenth. Another beneficiary of the rain was Vettel, but....as you'll see below his second place finish wasn't meant to be, due to some other issues his car had which lead to him getting DQ'd after the race. That DQ was quite a big deal, because plenty of folks downstream gained points accordingly. William's scored with both cars, but got even more points with the bump. Max got another point, moving from 10th to 9th. Sainz got bumped up to the podium and Alonso got bumped to 4th to bring in the biggest haul for Alpine ever in a single race. And of course Hams moved from 3rd to 2nd, after falling to the very back of the field. Vettel lost out due to the inability to turn over 1L of fuel after the race. Aston Martin put up a fight during the Summer break (video below) but at this time they have no recourse. Everything that's happened has lead to a few things; one, Ferrari has closed the gap to McLaren in the Constructors and has another engine upgrade on the way. Merc has taken the lead over in both Drivers and Constructors Championships. Ricciardo still hasn't gotten a handle on the McLaren and Alonso is as good as he's ever been. Spa is a legendary track where drafting and power are keys to success. It'll be interesting to see how RBR responds and how Valtteri continues working on his bid to keep the Merc seat in 2022. 

Enjoy your motorsport weekends.

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Watch the Formula 1 Hungarian GP race recap here.