Loading video...

Video Failed to Load

Go Home

It comes as no surprise that Hass completely changed its driver line-up after 2020 It's true that both drivers had enough pace and speed to be in the category, especially Magnussen, who on certain days did some truly spectacular qualifying laps. But there are aspects far beyond pure speed...

20,347 views • 5 months ago •via X (Twitter)

0 Comments

No comments available

Comments from the original post will appear here

Related Videos

“What did you think of Lando being booed at race because people and I've seen it online as well say he doesn't deserve the title because McLaren favored him over his teammate. Do you think that's total nonsense?” Jacques Villeneuve: “That's a little bit ridiculous. When there was some booing in some races, that was embarrassing. You should never boo a driver that's clean, doesn't do anything dirty, on track is respectful, and on top of it is super fast. What's wrong with people? That was embarrassing. And, had it been that Piastri was a second a lap faster than him and somehow Lando was winning because a lot of things were happening, his car breaking down every time, then you could start thinking, okay, that's really not cool. That's not fair. But that wasn't the case. And in the second half, Norris has been faster right at the beginning as well, last year as well. So there's this whole middle of the season where Piastri was driving a lot better than Norris and was getting the points. Norris had an engine blowing up, not Piastri. And so those fans, they don't look at that either. You have to look at the whole picture, at the whole season. And suddenly if your favorite is starting to go backwards, you just got to bite the bullet and accept it. Your favorite is just going backwards. That doesn't mean that the other one is treated better or the other one is undeserving just because the one you're a fan of is not winning right now. That’s really wrong. If you're a fan of the sport, then you have to be a fan of the sport and understand when your driver is maybe not cutting it at this point in time, even though he was before and he will in the future again. It's all a question of timing. But that's the price we have to pay now with social media and how big F1 has become. It's very passionate. The people are passionate and once, you know, fans come from fanatism, you stop thinking, when you get in that mindset and it happens to all of us. You want something so much that you get attached and you cannot - it's hard to start seeing reality. So you will try to mold the reality to your thought process and if your champion is not winning then it cannot be his fault. It has to be something from the outside. It has to be the team destroying his chance or not favoring and so on and so on and so on. But there's nothing concrete behind those comments. It's pure fandom and it'll always be like this. And ultimately it's not a bad thing. You know drivers at that - sportsman at that level have to grow a thick skin. If not, you don't deserve to be there. You just have to have a thick skin because they're all very happy to get the compliments. They love it when it's just positive, but it gets balanced out with negatives and you need to be able to take and accept the negatives as well. It goes both ways. You cannot have the good. You just have to be a thick skin and know that it's part and parcels of what's going on. And in one month, it will be forgotten and maybe everything will change and it be the other driver that suddenly will be criticized and so on. So, it's just that's just the way it is.”

naenia ¹ ⁶³

29,833 views • 7 months ago

Christopher Nolan interviewing Michael Mann, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro on the iconic coffee shop meeting in Heat... Nolan: So for all three of you, I mean, one of the great and memorable scenes in the film - there are many - but the iconic coffee shop meeting that people were so struck by when the film came out, seeing two such great actors who had not acted in the same scene together before, together. There was such mythology around it at the time. I remember several friends of mine being convinced that you'd shot it on different days because there was no two-shot… (Michael Mann laughs) Nolan: Was it single camera? Was it two cameras? Did you have two cameras so you could shoot both close-ups at the same time? How did you approach that momentous event? Mann: It started with this consummate respect for the great artists that these two guys are. We talked about the scene and we analysed the scene… We didn't want to do the scene until we were at Cape Mandelini's. And then it was so ingrained that I knew that in all the little tiny organic details it would be different from take to take. So what I wanted to do was shoot with two cameras, two over the shoulders – I knew that there would be an organic unity to one take, and it would be a slightly different organic unity to another; because if you look at it very carefully, if Bob shifts his hand like this a little bit, right in the middle of dialogue, Al is doing something to counter it - because maybe he's shifting his positions so he can get closer to a weapon… Nolan: What do you remember about that shoot? Pacino: I do remember that Bob said – at first I wondered about it and then I thought how right he is – he said, “let’s not rehearse it.” Nolan: Because you love to rehearse. Pacino: Oh yeah. And Bob does too. De Niro: No, I do too at times, but this kind of scene we didn't have to. Pacino: But the thing is, what Bob said is so true about rehearsal – and that is that there is no sense in rehearsing if the people around you don't know how to rehearse. That is an important factor. Might as well not rehearse or rehearse very little. But it's true because it's a certain kind of thing and people either respond to it or they don't. And so, they could be great actors, of course, but they don't want to rehearse. I've had experiences like that… De Niro: Well, it was also that we were stationary. So, it wasn't we had to sort of rehearse blocking or anything and discover how our physical moves would be. We were kind of, there, though there were subtle moves in the scene itself, obviously. But anyway, and we started late and.... we didn't start till after lunch or dinner, which was really like one o'clock in the morning...I loved the scene and I wanted, you know, really wanted it to be as best as it could be. So I was a little unhappy that we started so late in the middle of the night... Mann: It was actually intentional... De Niro: I know, he wanted to tire us out. Nolan: But getting into a scene like that, that you know is going to be such a significant part of the film, huge expectation from both of you as you sit down to perform it. At the end of that night, did you know you had it? Did you feel it? Pacino: I never knew that. De Niro: You never know that. Mann: I knew we had it. Nolan: You knew. That's your job. Pacino: I'd like to do it again actually. Mann: (laughs) We’ll re-shoot it… We normally would rehearse scenes. That scene we talked about, we all as a group decided, you know, we wanted to just talk it through and save it for the event of shooting it, which was the only scene we probably did that with. But I tend to not want to rehearse things to the point where I feel like I wish I'd shot it. That's a disaster – I think things will be perfect once, and they'll never be perfect. They'll never be 100% twice. They'll only be 100% once. You want that happening in front of the camera. From a panel discussion following a special screening of Heat at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on September 7, 2016.

Gangster Cinema Central

36,682 views • 1 month ago

Kyle Busch will go down as arguably the greatest driver to have never won the Daytona 500. I have a special connection to that 2023 race, which was the closest he ever came to winning it. 2023 marked my first time reporting on location from the Daytona 500 as a member of the media. It also came three weeks after the passing of my Grandpa Taranto, who I was very close to. It was an emotional time for me on that front, and I had his prayer card up in the press box with me during the race and as things played out over the closing laps. I remember being up in my seat those final laps during the race between the RCR and RFK cars, thinking vividly that I was about to be a direct witness to something very special and one of those great moments in Daytona 500 history. It wasn't to be. (and that spin by the 99 didn't need to be a caution either. Come on.) I guess in retrospect it's of some comfort that Kyle was leading the Daytona 500 at Lap 200, but the record doesn't give him credit for that, nor others who have endured leading Lap 200 of the Daytona 500 but not winning the race. One year later during Media Day, I asked him about how frustrating that was when I put it in those terms. "Where does that rank on the pain scale?" "High." "Gotcha." "High, yeah. 'Cause I don't have the trophy or the ring, so it just means I coulda, shoulda, woulda if it was prior to 2005. So that sucks, but it is what it is. "I guess 2005, I knew the rules coming in anyways. That's when I first started in the Daytona 500 was 2005. It happens." The next year I went with a slightly different angle, asking if Daytona's repave in 2011 and the muting of variables like character in the track, handling, etc. had made the Daytona 500 a more difficult race to win. Kyle proceeded to give a very detailed and thorough answer about what it was like to race the old Daytona and drive through the bumps/beyond the limits of the tire, while also pointing out certain areas of the current Daytona that were becoming trouble spots. I listened to this back today as well as the followup I asked and I just love the exchange. It feels like I did my job asking Kyle informed questions and he obliged in giving informed answers.

Steven Taranto

48,033 views • 1 month ago