1) With the US Grand Prix on Sunday, some choice moments from F1 in the US: Bruce McLaren takes the flag, becoming the sport’s youngest winner but Jack Brabham is the star – pushing his car over the line to take fourth and the world championship at Sebring in 1959; Gilles Villeneuve magnificent in the wet at Watkins Glen 1979; John Watson with some glorious overtaking during his win at Detroit in 1982 and his comeback to win from 22nd on the grid in 1983 at Long Beach in full: parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight; Watson talking through both races; Keke Rosberg and Villeneuve battle at Long Beach in 1982; Ayrton Sennna v Jean Alesi at Phoenix in 1990 and Lewis Hamilton uncompromising through turn one at the Circuit of the Americas on his way to the world championship last year.
2) 14 years ago: remember the name – how Wayne Rooney’s introduced himself with that first goal against Arsenal, more were to follow. More up to date: Egyptian goalie makes great save outside the box, no one notices, photographer fails to make catch outside the end zone, everyone notices.
3) Kevin Eriksson takes a huge drift to go round the outside off the start in the World Rallycross Championship.
4) Inspired by pigs on the pitch at Charlton last weekend more items in the air: top ten at ice hockey; those tennis balls at Borussia Dortmund; Dani Alves deals with a banana; the world’s greatest paper aeroplane; a pigs head and back at Charlton its beachballs this time.
5) Joey Barton: “Homophobia in football shows the problems the UK faces” – Owen Jones meets Barton at, yes, the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
6) Wales’s Justin Tipuric does it all himself with this spectacular try.
Highlights from last week’s blog
1) Karate football. Sounds good enough on its own right? But stick to the end as whatever it is, it get increasingly bonkers until concluding with a naked goalie in a hurricane. Equally surreal here’s what happens when two Japanese horror icons face off at a baseball match. And to round off the triple bill: ladies and gentlemen, start your, er, belt sanders.
2) 1975 and “Snatch of the Day” gives a pleasing spin to the football roundup, in this public information film on the dangers of pickpockets. “Where is it impossible to snatch? A nudist colony ...” More gorgeous retro film here with a 1950s ski jumping competition in Norway. Clue it is the fifties: one of the competitors is wearing a proper collar and tie.
3) Jimmy Greaves: “I haven’t seen a boardroom like this since I was in Doug Ellis’s house.” When Donald Trump made the draw for the 1992 League Cup quarter-finals.
4) What a talent: Venezuela’s Deyna Castellanos slots a cracker at the Under-17 World Cup and another.
5) Remembering Jerry Quarry and his fights with Muhammad Ali: His first in 1970, the second in 1972 and as evidence of his grand spirit, his brilliant imitation of Ali. Before he died in 1999, suffering from dementia, he was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame but was sadly barely aware of where he was, as seen in this very moving tribute.
6) Red Bull continues its quest to become the world’s premier supplier of caffeine-based drinks that pay men to hurtle about on bicycles: Danny MacAskill revels in the HD beauty of Scotland’s countryside; Man attaches lump of meat to back in order to make a peregrine falcon chase him down a mountain and Dan Atherton on the breathtaking hardline downhill track.
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