We bring you home speed
This year with some perimeter confinements we have not had the opportunity to drive. Endless roads, the sound of the engine when you plug it in, the breeze of the wind when you roll down the car windows, meet people with your same hobbies … there are several triggers for motorsport fans like us. And it is what a pleasure to be able to drive.
But for some motor enthusiasts like us, this is a matter of life and death. Wheels, motors, speed, adrenaline … For this reason, we bring you the way to bring you these wonderful sensations from the comfort of your homes…
Here are recommendations for movies and motor shows for those days when you have to park your vehicle a bit.
1. Formula 1: Drive to survive, season 3 (2021)
“Formula 1: Drive to survive” It arises during 2020, due to the pandemic, many sports canceled or modified various events. Most were developed without spectators and with some changes to protect athletes and other close people involved. For F1 it was no exception, and in this environment cameras were introduced to capture as much as possible during the atypical season of this premier class.
It is a documentary series about the Formula 1 World Championship that premiered in March 2019. They recently released the third season which provides the series with no less than 30 chapters in total. Entertainment for a while, which has generated different opinions among users, but if not everyone agrees on one thing, their passion for speed and motor.
Next we leave you the organization of chapters and their plots so that you can see a little of what is going on:
- Money is what matters: the first chapter shows the sport trying to deal with the covid-19 pandemic, but also the preseason tests, where the main issue on the table is the controversy of the ‘Pink Mercedes’. We are also introduced to the billionaire father of Lance Stroll, current owner of the Aston Martin team. The episode ends with the cancellation of the Australian Grand Prix, which casts great uncertainty as to whether the season can be held.
- Back on track: the second chapter advances a few months towards the first race of the year, the Austrian Grand Prix. Like the rest of the world, the producers of the documentary were also affected by the pandemic. This means that instead of interviews with the protagonists between clips from previous seasons, we are going to find Zoom calls. An episode with a Christian Horner as the protagonist determined to fight with all possible weapons to defeat Mercedes.
- Nobody is a fool: chapter focused on a Valtteri Bottas working on how to beat his closest rival, his teammate Lewis Hamilton. The episode reflects on how he receives being considered the “second Mercedes driver.”
- We have to talk about Ferrari: one of the best episodes. Pure tension. The episode portrays a moody Vettel, who knows that his days at the Scuderia are coming to an end without having managed to win a World Cup with them. Chronicle of an announced divorce.
- The end of the ‘affair’: it narrates the low blow that Cyril Abiteboul is supposed to lose to his millionaire signing Daniel Ricciardo, who decides to go to McLaren. Episode centered on the British GP, where Renault files a formal complaint about Racing Point. A chapter that is also an appetizer of the tight battle to be the best of the rest.
- The return of the child: one of the most anticipated chapters. Its protagonist? A regretful Gasly for his failures at Red Bull growing up to deliver a surprise win at Monza, as Alex Albon ‘crawls’ in his old seat. A true roller coaster of emotions that reflects on whether Christian Horner and Helmut Marko made the right decision by replacing Gasly with Albon.
- Guenther’s Choice: Haas is at his worst, so one of the stars of the documentary, Guenther Steiner, must decide what is best for the team. The episode also talks about Alfa Romeo, the main rival of the Americans in 2020.
- Without regrets: the signing of Carlos Sainz by Ferrari and his departure from McLaren are the protagonists. The chapter tells us about the Spanish battle for the victory in Monza and tells how the march of Carlos is lived in Woking.
- Burning Man: Netflix dedicates a special chapter, longer than the rest, to the image of the season: the Romain Grosjean accident in Bahrain. The documentary makes us relive the long minutes of uncertainty before knowing that the pilot was fine as if we were seeing them for the first time. Romain himself and his wife, Marion, give us their testimony. In addition, the episode also highlights Pérez’s victory, key in his subsequent signing by Red Bull.
- Time Attack:chronicles the close battle for third place in the Constructors’ Championship between McLaren, Racing Point and Renault. It also exposes one of the controversies of the season, the fight against racism and the role that Formula 1 can have in it, with seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton as spokesman.
2. Apex
Apex: The Story of the Hyper Car. This documentary released in 2016 and available on Netflix projects us a new class of sports cars capable of reaching from 0 to 320 km / h in seconds. Rocket science joins the motor industry as “APEX” by following the thread from the beginning in design studios and research and development labs where these “asphalt fighter jets” are created. Which brings us to a dangerous asphalt track in Germany, where riders can achieve new, never-before-seen expectations for speed and vehicle performance. They just have to dare.
Equal parts drama and speed in this “APEX” installment that follows the life of Swedish entrepreneur Christian Von Koenigsegg, a sports car enthusiast with a personal quest to create a “Super Car” whose goal is to defy all expectations of speed generated so far. With the vision of the best engineers and designers, “APEX” removes the curtain on the most secret development factories of Porsche, Ferrari, McLaren and Pagani: where these impressive “Hyper cars” are imagined and built, putting the spectators to inches of action with the best drivers testing these vehicles on the best racetracks in the world.
3. Fangio, the man who tamed machines
Fangio the Man Who Tamed Machines(2020) is an hour-and-a-half film about Fangio, the number 1 driver in Formula 1 history that should be on your essential movie list. Based on a 2016 study by the University of Sheffield that determined that Juan Manuel Fangio is the best F1 driver in history, Fangio, the man who tamed machines, seeks to get inside the mind of myth throughout his career and personal life to understand that it led him and other drivers to risk their lives racing in cars that flew at the same speeds as those of today, but with minimal safety precautions and where many of them do not survive until the end it’s from the season.
4. Other recommendations
If with these three recommendations you are still wanting more, we recommend the series ofFastest Cars andCar Masters, from scrapping to glory.. Two series published in 2018 on car tuning. The first focuses on tuned car racing against brands such as Ferrari or Lamborghini. The second is a reality show where 5 characters restore cars and then exchange them for others or sell them at a very good price.
Best of all, you can enjoy all these movies and series on one platform, Netflix. If you have been wanting to know more, read this article by La Vanguardia about “The 20 best motor movies and series. “
And finally, for fans of cars and the PlayStation, we have good news. In July, the new Formula 1 game adapted for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, will be released | S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC via Steam. The new update of the game includes three new circuits and you and your friends will be able to play simultaneously online and cooperatively.
