Reverse on the Left: 2021-04-25

Friday, April 30, 2021

Dope Vid. #340

Video courtesy of ILBTV.

Thursday, April 29, 2021

What to watch this F1 Weekend (Apr 30th - May 5th)

Formula 1 - Portugal Grand Prix; from Autodromo Internacional do Algarve. Practice 1. Friday @ 6:25am - 7:30am (ESPNU) live
Formula 1 - Portugal Grand Prix; from Autodromo Internacional do Algarve. Practice 2. Friday @ 9:55am - 11am (ESPNU) live
Formula 1 - Portugal Grand Prix; from Autodromo Internacional do Algarve. Practice 3. Saturday @ 6:55am - 8am (ESPN2) live
Formula 1 - Portugal Grand Prix; from Autodromo Internacional do Algarve. Qualifying. Saturday @ 9:55am - 11am @ (ESPN2) live
Formula 1 - Portugal Grand Prix; from Autodromo Internacional do Algarve. Race. Sunday @ 9:55am - 12pm (ESPN) live; pre-race at 8:25am
Garage Squad. Mon/Tue/Wed @ 4pm - 5pm (MotorTrend) replays
Bitchin Rides. Mon/Wed @ 7pm - 8pm (MotorTrend) replays
Auto Mundial. Tuesday @ 7pm - 7:30pm (MotorTrend)
Motorweek. Tuesday @ 7:30pm - 8pm (MotorTrend)

Action in Imola was both treacherous and intense. Countless cars spinning off track, countless shunts, many red flags and the race winner was determined by who kept it the cleanest and the ones who made the best decisions during the dry out phase on slicks. Max wasn't the fastest through qualy, Ham's taking pole on a 30th circuit, but his car was definitely faster in race pace per usual and for some reason Valtteri lost his mojo and was no where close to Hams. Meanwhile Perez did well in qualy reversing the typical arrangement at the front of the field; two Redbulls against one Merc. While all that was happening McLaren has proven to be quite the spicy meatball; Lando is legitimately fast. Leclerc was in his usual position in touch with the fastest cars, but not fast enough to compete for the podium. Hamilton has the luck of the Irish; Perez had an unfortunate slide late in the race which took him out of contention. Bottas and Russell came together at triple digits which led to plenty of controversy; unfortunately, after further review it appears that Bottas didn't do George as bad as he initially reacted, but the outside line was so wet at that stage of the race that there was no way it would've succeeded. Too late now though, they were both out; Perez was also out of the points as well, bringing us back to the manufacturers chip points; Lando was able to hold onto 3rd, Hams recovered from his safety car off to take second, which was nothing short of miraculous and Max rode off into the sunset for his first win in Italy at anytime. Meanwhile Leclerc and Sainz took really good points in 4/5, respectively. Ricciardo seems to still be getting used to his Merc and can't extract everything he wants from it yet; the same goes for Perez in the RBR. Portugal should be another interesting race to see where the mid-field and new drivers sort themselves out.

Enjoy your motorsport weekends.