🏆 Cracking matches: 3️⃣ key moments from Copa Libertadores night

06-05-2025

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.
Today marks the beginning of the fourth day of the Copa Libertadores, where all teams start to define their future.
Star-studded duel in Lima
Without a doubt, we will have a great match in the first round of the Copa. São Paulo visits Peru to play against Alianza, who doesn't have much margin for error if they want to make it to the round of 16.
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The Peruvian team is obliged, but the tricolores want to close their qualification as soon as possible. A duel of contrasts, but with the three points at stake.
Para entrar no clima do duelo de hoje, uma #MemóriaTricolor!
🔙 Na CONMEBOL Libertadores de 2004, o Tricolor venceu o Alianza Lima fora de casa por 2 a 1.
⚽️ Rogério Ceni
⚽️ Fabão#SPFCpédia #VamosSãoPaulo 🇾🇪 pic.twitter.com/PtiIROjuGV
— São Paulo FC (@SaoPauloFC) May 6, 2025
Group E could start taking shape
And talking about first rounds, in Colombia we will have an electrifying duel between Bucaramanga and Racing, the current South American champion. However, the match has a revenge tone due to the fact that Los Leopardos won in Avellaneda.
¡Un hincha fiel! ¡Conoce la historia de Alejandro, un seguidor de Racing, que hizo una gran travesía para llegar a Bucaramanga!#DespiertaWIN pic.twitter.com/IQ5RvOvHe8
— Win Sports (@WinSportsTV) May 6, 2025
A few hours later, Fortaleza and Colo Colo will finally meet again after the incidents that occurred in the first leg, which ended with three points for the Brazilian club. El Cacique needs to win to get back into the fight.
🚨⚽🏆 ¡Mucha atención, Albos!
Fortaleza emitió un comunicado explicando que ningún hincha de #ColoColo podrá ingresar al Arena Castelao para el partido por #CopaLibertadores. Esto, tras una reunión con diferentes organismos locales e internacionales. pic.twitter.com/cf76YYvj8g
— TNT Sports Chile (@TNTSportsCL) May 6, 2025
San Antonio Bulo Bulo could confirm itself as a big surprise
Without a doubt, one of the big surprises of the Copa has been the Bolivian team that receives Peñarol at home, but with a victory could take a huge step towards making it to the round of 16.
Now, El Carbonero seeks to beat them again, as happened in the second round, to get into the qualifying zone.
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Perfection on Wheels: Driving the Pagani Huayra R Evo at Monza

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Perfection on Wheels: Driving the Pagani Huayra R Evo at Monza

Hurry up and wait, they said. Red flags waved up and down the front straight at Autodromo di Monza—Italy's so-called Temple of Speed, the fastest track on the F1 calendar. Reports came back that a driver had speared off track and anxiety poured through the Pagani pit box like a choking fog. "It's okay. In a minute, you go. Just be ready to go," the PR handler insisted. My gloved fingers drummed against my race suit. A few moments became five minutes. Five minutes became 25. My shoulders relaxed. "Don't worry, we'll put you into a different session later," he said. I pulled the HANS off my shoulders, pried the helmet off my head, and did my best to put on an easygoing smile. My confrontation with the 900-horse, 2,300-pound, multimillion-dollar Pagani Huayra R Evo Roadster would wait. But like a whip crack, the unmistakable howl of a Pagani V-12 broke the silence, echoing from beyond Monza's legendary front straight and down to its terminus as the red-flagged car roared back into pit lane. "Okay. Now izzz time to go." An Italian engineer pushed me gently toward the cockpit and suddenly there was no more "Wait!" Only "Andiamo!" In a few frantic seconds, I'd clipped back into my HANS and humped over the Pagani's carbon-weave LMP-style crash structure and into the belly of the thing. Another engineer yanked at the five-point harness then flashed a quick thumbs-up and a smile. Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 Before me, all possibilities. Greatness and ruin. What a beautiful view. In the Huayra R Evo Roadster —colloquially called "REVO" by Pagani staff—you sit more upright than you'd think, a perfect sightline aimed over the car's narrow sloping nose. The driver-friendly design owes its roots to this Pagani's purpose. Despite its looks, the REVO isn't a race car. Nor is it a road car. This Pagani is destined for track use only, earmarked for the marque's 'Arte in Pista' events. Effectively, these are track days for Pagani's Huayra R (and now REVO) clients, in the vein of Ferrari's Corse Clienti program. But according to one well-heeled Pagani owner I spoke with in a cooldown session between track stints, "These [Pagani events] are the best. The customer service here is… This is ten times the other brands," he said. "I didn't get to have lunch with Enzo, and from what I understand, it wouldn't have been a very pleasant lunch anyway." Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 Before me, all possibilities. Greatness and ruin. What a beautiful view. That means Horacio Pagani is there in person, glad-handing attendees like the mayor. The Arte in Pista also provides beautifully catered meals with endless espresso, shuttles to and from the airport and race track and hotel, a pit box stuffed with race engineers, and nothing but the world's greatest tarmac laid like a red carpet in front of your NA V-12 Pagani hypercar. Of course, there are dinners at night, and driving coaches there for one-on-one instruction, an engineer to parse your driving data, and even planned outings for the kids. Horacio reiterated, again and again during the program itself, that these track days are about enjoying family, whether that's biological or fellow Paganisti. I want so badly to be cynical about these sorts of things—the ultra-wealthy enjoying their toys— because they don't cater to my specific dirtbag sensibilities. But I can't. The customers are too joyous, the cars too awesome, the company itself so deeply admirable, I just couldn't help but enjoy the… Pagani-ness of it all. Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 At a dinner for Arte in Pista customers the night before the first track sessions, one Huarya R owner from Miami with a similar build to mine (long, lean) recommended some foam under the seat of my race suit, so I'd have enough room to elbow the REVO around Monza without hitting my elbows on the car's crash structure. It proved salient advice. A deep breath and a moment to focus while my hand flicked at the master and ignition switches on the REVO's center console. I craned my head down at the steering wheel, fighting at the HANS straps to recall the starting procedure. Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 "START" fired the mighty 6.0-liter V-12 over with a whirr whirr whirr BAM . Then it all went noisy. The uncatalyzed, unmuffled exhaust manifolds absolutely howitzered a racket at the back of the garage, vibrating and resonating in a full basso that played my kneecaps like tuning forks. A flick at the wheel-mounted paddle shifted the REVO into first, and I sat and revved the engine like a buffoon before remembering the car's clutch is engaged and disengaged by a servo on the sequential transmission, which is actuated by a "DRIVE" button on the steering wheel. This setup avoids a typical hand-clutch like you'd find on a similarly gnarly race car, another little touch on this track-special Pagani that's supposed to wrap the most extreme performance in a truly driver-friendly package. For context, the REVO's quickest lap at Monza wouldn't have just kept up with LMP2 the last time WEC ran here, it would've put the REVO on pole. It's that quick. Prototype-quick. In truth, after I wheeled out onto the track and saw Monza's first chicane over the REVO's hood, my mind snapped free of notary mode and left the journalist-observer framework behind. In slower cars, in cheaper cars, on tracks you know, you develop the ability to prod a car quickly up to its limits and record some mental notes about what it likes, what it doesn't like, and what sticks out that's worth relaying to the reader. Not here. Not with 900 NA V-12 horses shouting Vivaldi fortissimo at the grandstands. Not with millions of dollars in crash damage separated from Monza's strangling walls by only my right foot. Mostly, I vacillated between "If you crash this, it better kill you," and "this has to be the greatest thing I've ever driven." Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 Of the scheduled 40 minutes at the wheel, I had just a few flying laps to learn the track and the car, owing to the red-flagged session earlier on, so I never settled fully into the car or track. It's not meant as a gripe, but as a disclaimer: If you're shopping for a REVO and landed here, or are just a curious reader, I won't be able to relay much about this Pagani's limit handling or its balance flat-out through Monza's high-speed bends. What I can tell you, emphatically, is that the REVO is perhaps the most awesome piece of rolling machinery on this planet. I've driven every model of Pagani in anger at this point, including a pair of Huayras, the new Utopia (manual transmission, grazie mille), and Horacio's own Zonda F. That final car will always have the largest piece of my heart, but the REVO is something else entirely. No road car can match a race car's sense of immediacy or connection. Equally, race cars aren't always friendly to their drivers. Often, they're an equation on wheels, asking for solutions you aren't naturally inclined to provide. The REVO occupies a special pocket between the two, where it pretends to be a race car, but is wrapped in just enough cotton that you can enjoy stretching its legs with confidence. Through Monza's iconic first chicane, I kept waiting for a hint of push from the nose, equally ready to snatch at the rear end going loose when I trailed that last bit of speed down from more than 190 mph and tossed the REVO's nose toward that first apex. Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 What I can tell you, emphatically, is that the REVO is perhaps the most awesome piece of rolling machinery on this planet. All I found was more grip than I'd thought to ask for, every single time I rolled through the curves. As track temps soared near 100 degrees, the tires stuck firm out of every corner exit. My stint wasn't long enough to find out how they'd hold up over the course of a day, but the bespoke Pirelli P Zero slick compound got rave reviews from the Huayra R customer-drivers, and several of Pagani's instructors and test drivers, all of whom are pros. Pirelli developed the compound to bring a smidge of road-tire feel and breakaway character to these mile-wide racing slicks. It's a tough task to balance both, and a tougher task to satisfy whoever's in the driver's seat. But that's the car's mission—flatter everyone, bring them joy. Pagani's Arte In Pista customers run the gamut from former F1 drivers to people who had never driven a car on track before buying their track-special Pagani. That's not hyperbole. In speaking to the customers, both types were equally satisfied with the car. So was I, despite myself. Data showed I was something like 9 seconds a lap slower than the 'pole' time on my final flier, braking many meters sooner than I needed to, and with far less pedal pressure than the pro driver's fastest lap. I committed every sin in the name of abundant caution, giving up entry and apex speed everywhere. About the only things I did right, according to the data analyst, were steering smoothly and getting on throttle quickly and early (which is easier to do when you're parking in the corners). Still, by picking up throttle earlier and earlier on each successive lap and learning to trust where the car would stick, my confidence grew. On the final lap, I was bumping past 300 kph on the front straight. I had so much fun. Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 The REVO looks about as thrilling as it does intimidating, but once you're at speed, nothing wants to hurt you. The brakes are slightly boosted, I was told, still with that race-car-like resistance across the pedal's travel that's so critical to modulating your braking efficiently while still offering a granular accuracy. The steering is light, with a hyper-quick rack that makes for economical efforts, especially in Monza's first chicane, which is best taken with a super squared-off approach. In corners, and especially once all that downforce kicks in, weight builds beautifully in the steering effort, perfectly relaying how the car's behaving. Then there's the REVO's excellent visibility, its simple, user-friendly control layout, and the balance of the whole package… I've met Girl Scout Cookie sellers who were less friendly. But, more than anything about the REVO, there's that noise. To be honest, the engine sounds better when you're stood on pit wall than it does from inside the car. Impossibly vicious and harmonic, echoing its siren call from nowhere and RIGHT THERE all at once. Even if you never get the chance to drive one, make it out to your nearest Arte In Pista to hear these things run flat out. Photo by: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 Its 60-degree, 6.0-liter naturally aspirated V-12 is on par with the best-sounding engines I've ever heard. No road car ever built sounds this good. Only golden-era Formula 1 could surpass the Pagani unit for soundtrack bliss. The engine itself is a masterpiece. This unit, designed and built from scratch by HWA, produces a glorious cavalcade of numbers. Nine-hundred horses at 8,750 rpm and 568 pound-feet from 5,800 - 8,200 rpm. Twelve naturally aspirated cylinders. Sixty-degree banking that imparts a natural balance and refinement. But really, it's the sound that impresses me most. From inside the cockpit, it's more like a mechanical thrash, a roar of gnashing whine and frequencies from the six-speed dog-ring sequential 'box. A sintered-metal three-disc clutch reins in all the power. At the REVO's astonishing 9,250-rpm redline, there's this glorious intoxicating metallic shout from all that rotating mass and the wind rushing over the overhead portholes sculpted into the carbon monocoque. It is cacophonous. It is glorious. It is Pagani at its absolute best. 30 Source: Sevian Daupi | Motor1 And that's my takeaway from my brief time meeting the REVO. I spent maybe 15 minutes behind the wheel and the rest of the day listening to it scream down Monza's front straight. When the car was still, I stood by it, mesmerized. I prodded around its beautifully constructed suspension and hunched over to view every last component. I bothered Pagani's engineers about every last detail as the car sat with its carbon clamshell off, exposed, waiting for the next driver. I got just as much joy sharing in the infectious pride of the people who built the car as I did edging up to 200 mph on that front straight. Writing about cars requires a balance wherein you must still be in love with the subject matter and yet be distanced enough from the subject itself. Personally, I'm enamored by Pagani and the things it builds. Professionally, I'm struck by Pagani's adherence to ultimate quality, to blending money-no-object craftsmanship with an artful spirit and cutting-edge composites. These are values worth admiring, and the REVO hasn't fallen short by any metric. It is, simply, a dream on wheels. Perfection. More From Pagani The Pagani Huayra Codalunga Loses Its Roof and Adds a Manual 'No One Showed Interest:' Pagani Customers Don't Want An Electric Hypercar Get the best news, reviews, columns, and more delivered straight to your inbox, daily. back Sign up For more information, read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use . Share this Story Facebook X LinkedIn Flipboard Reddit WhatsApp E-Mail Got a tip for us? Email: tips@ Join the conversation ( )