The best thing about the reconciliation between ChampCar and IndyCar is that there is now one owner of all of the historic video. So, we now get to see these wonderful old races online. Thank you, IndyCar!
Here you can see the difference between a proved road racer like Mario Andretti and all the oval specialists. It's like when the IRL startet road racing.
One thing that deceives fans is that grandstands do not matter on wonderful circuits such as Mid-Ohio, Road America, and the rest. Fans prefer to drive the family car or truck, load up the campers as they would for their favourite gridiron team, and watch the race from a spot in the infield. A great example is the Daytona 24 hours where they have sold out the infield. Full campers matter.
Hello. I've only listened to the first few laps so far, but the commentary is being done by Larry Nuber (who did ESPN racing with Bob Jenkins for a good part of the 1980s). I am not sure who the second voice belongs to... it might be Chip Ganassi (who was still driving then I believe) but it's definitely Nuber doing the "play by play".
that's true, though even when CART/champcar/IRL/whatever did decide they needed a race with right-hand turns, they went to long beach or belle isle (or down here to the gold coast!) rather than use a road course. I mean, road america, road atlanta, sebring, infineon, laguna seca, mid ohio, lime rock, portland, ... even the indy road course. I'm an aussie and i know every race fan in aus would KILL for that kind of selection!
@rpdexter01 sorry, but watching someone draft behind another car for eight laps on an oval and then slowly inch past them is just not exciting. and the only reason that oval racing is 'close' is because they have a zillion full-course yellows for every single bit of contact which artificially bunches up the field. give me divebomb outbraking manouvres into hairpins, elevation changes, and (gasp!) right-hand corners over oval racing any day of the week.
