Adri GP they were N/A engines they were awful in 1997-1999. Then they changed to a different kind of N/A engine in 2000 and made the them sound like the turbos from the 80s and most of the 90s but they were not turbo at all.
Nigel Mansell: after finishing third in his very first ever oval race(this one), he then proceeded to dominate _every_ other oval race in 1993: class is real and permanent.
He didn't "Dominate" anything other than Michigan and Nazareth. And really, the Ford/Cosworth XB was putting out 40-50 more hp than the Chevy; so his win at Michigan was nothing more than the car not detonating. Milwaukee and Loudoun were hard fought battles; no dominating there. Mansell is whiner with little class - it showed in his post race interview.
Loved the "Starting Field" music they used in 1993. Truly wish the personalized starting field intros would come back rather than just showing the live intros from the track. These got you so much more story to each of the 33 brave pilots.
Fittipaldi was a great driver! If he hadn't joined his brother's F1 team, he may have won many more F1 championships. His late success in AOWR shows that.
For all of his accomplishments, I've always felt that Emmo's career is a bit underrated by most. He won those two world championships, had a mid-career decline in the late '70s with his brother's team, took a hiatus, then showed up in North America in his late thirties(!) and proceeded, over the next several years, to become one of the best oval(!) racers on the Indy Car circuit, despite having little to no oval track experience until, again, his late thirties(!). He won those two Indy 500s, but if the breaks had broken a little differently, he was in serious contention to win three...or four...or even five. Dominant in 1990 but felled by tire problems. Clutch problem in '91; without it, that late shootout between Michael and Mears would have been a three-way battle, and Fittipaldi would have had better than a puncher's chance to win it. And '94 was basically in the bag until he made that one mistake, which was exceedingly uncommon for him. So, yeah... You wouldn't expect a guy who hadn't raced on ovals until his late thirties(!) to become dominant in that arena, but he did. And he was way, WAY ahead of his time in terms of fitness and nutrition, which is probably a major reason he was competitive into his late forties.
He realistically could have been a 5 time winner at Indy. 1990 - dominates most of the day. Hot conditions lead to blistering tires on the Penske chassis. Had to make extra pit stops as a result, putting him out of contention. 1991 - gearbox/clutch issues. Entered the pits late while leading. Shredded the gearbox while leaving the pits, putting him out. 1994 - dominated all day. Crashed late trying to lap his teammate. Emmo was always tough at Indy. It’s a shame that his last attempt was a DNQ in 1995 after the team withdrew a speed that would have put him in the field.
Wow those pre-1996 Indy 500s were absolutely packed with world class drivers including Americans like Little Al and Sullivan along with multiple F1 World Driving Champions. IndyCar is slowly getting back to where it was back then. Young Americans Newgarden and Rossi along with global drivers Power and Dixon are fantastic and if McLaren and Alonso return full time next year with up and comers like the youngster Herta, IndyCar's future may finally be back on track.
@@sonnydelight5737 "Little Al" is Al Jr's nickname (to distinguish from his dad "Big Al"), much like Dale Earnhardt Jr being nicknamed "Little E" when he started competing alongside his dad ("Big E").
rob mush I have to say that the last trio of Bestwick, Cheever and Goodyear was not so bad. But, in between that, they put Jason Priestley. Jesus, why?
André de Souza well he was trying to get into the sport and Driving in INDY lights or one of the smaller series. He did race professionally. However he had a bad wreck in the early 2000s and gave racing up.
EMO was a my word absolutely brilliant driver. Winning the Formula 1 world championship in 1972 and 1974. Two Indianapolis 500's in 1989 then 1993. Plus also winning the CART Championship in 1989.
**Update on this comment: Mansell was just interviewed June '24 with both his '92 F1 winning Williams and '93 Indy Car title winning Newman-Haas Lola sitting behind him (the IMS museum lent it during their renovation) which was just an awesome sight of a man and the cars that achieved something that will never be duplicated (and Nigel still looks like he's in his mid 50's!) He revealed a couple things about the '93 500: that he felt both the yellow for Lyn St James' dead car right at the top of the pit lane when he was leading with only 15 laps to go was ridiculous (it was) and that both Fittipaldi and Luyendyk jumped him on the restart in a very 'unsporting' way (welcome to Indy Car!) It's a great interview remembering an incredible achievement in auto racing** 2:37:15 the driving by Mansell after the restart here is some of the best you will ever see at Indy. And it was the guy's first race on an oval of any type, let alone a superspeedway. Passed cars at 200+ inside, outside, with inch-perfect precision as if for fun. Truly phenomenal. Unfortunate he got jumped at the last restart while leading at he was still a bit naive about IndyCar restarts and that jumping the the leader before green is fair game, if he'd known that he'd have won. Still one of the great 500 drives of all time. Especially when you add the injury element from his Phoenix crash which left a gaping cavity in his lower back that required surgery.
I would LOVE to see this race entirely from Nigel Mansell’s onboard camera. The full race, uncut from the start of the formation/sighting laps to the final pull in the pit lane after the finish. Just Nigel’s end of the radio if possible, otherwise just the onboard microphone.
I was at the race between turns 3 and 4. I had travelled from the UK to Toronto and travelled with some friends 'on a fishing trip'. One of our group was arrested on Saturday night and did not get out of jail until the Monday afternoon. There were some interesting stories. One guy met someone and they invited them to sleep on the sofa. He woke up with an Alsation with it's jaws around his neck. The guy had broken into the house and left the guy on the sofa.
@@Spyker8921 C & P Verbatim: Paul Page Net Worth How rich is Paul Page? For this question we spent 14 hours on research (Wikipedia, RU-vid, we read books in libraries, etc) to review the post. Total Net Worth at the moment 2021 year - is about $190 Million.
Paul had a BEAUTIFUL voice, and brought something special to what was already a special event. I liken him to another announcer of a sport I love. The great Tom Durkin, in horse racing.
😁😂😂😂😂😂😂 yeah the love of the sport n drivers will cause one to well up when ever there is n has been a tragedy while a race is going on....I grew up on it n love the sport...
This was my first 500. I was standing at the bottom of the inside grandstands (right behind Emo's pit stall) when he took the checkers. Everyone is a Hoosier on Race Day.
Thank you so much for posting the full build up to the race as well as the race. So few people ever think of doing that. I am indebted to you. From Ireland.
A big THANK YOU to Indycar for posting and allowing others to post past races. F1 claims copyright almost immediately, perhaps for financial reasons but maybe they don't want people seeing how it used to look and sound.
I was there from the UK and was a few more rows back and sitting between turns 3 and 4. We only bought the tickets that morning from a licenced tout outside the track.
God I miss this. This 500 was a great example of what made the race so great. The speed, the noise and the fact that there were a lot of GREAT drivers. It was where young up and comers could challenge all time Indy greats and even former F1 champions. How many former F1 world champions were in this race? I think I count 4? Piquet, Mansell (reigning champ at that point), Andretti and Fittipaldi. I think 94 might have been the last time a former F1 champ raced at the brickyard until Alonso showed up. Piquet didn't return. Mansell, Andretti and Fittipaldi did, but Andretti would retire after 94 and Mansell would return to F1. Fittipaldi, driving for Penske, didn't even qualify for the 500 in 95 thanks to the controversial Mercedes pushrod motor that suddenly became uncompetitive thanks to rules changes. Fittipaldi would retire after a crash a day before the 96 Indy 500 at the rival Michigan 500 race run by CART... The early 90s were peak Indy 500 for speed and prestige for sure. I hope to see them claw it back.
dzelpwr man if TG didnt do his BS and mess with the greatest spectacle in racing with the 33 fastest and not 25 IRL guaranteed starting positions in 1996 things would have better than and the Indy 500 would still the biggest race in the world and nascar woundn’t have gotten all the mainstream popularity as they did in the late 90s and 2000s.
Four world champions with seven titles among them! You'll never see that in IndyCar ever again - all but Piquet were full-season runners. Amazing to have the reigning world champion in CART that year
@@StaySqueezy12 fastest whole field, yes, but that's due to how close the competition is with identical chassis and only 2 engine suppliers. But the fastest of today's cars still haven't come close to the 1996 track record... And if CART were still using their cars at the speedway through the late 90s, that record would have been broken a few more times--likely into the 240 MPH lap average speed range like they managed to accomplish at Fontana twice. Once in 97 with Gugelmin before they put the drag-creating wings on, and again in 2000 with the drag-making Handford device with Gil de Ferran.
All those fans on the inside off the track over 400,000 people the greatest sporting event in the world its now just a schell of itself so sad what ha happened to that great event!
Fittipaldi's popularity took a nose dive after he refused the milk. In the grand scheme of things he is just the latest in a list of over 30 drivers who did not drink milk in victory lane after winning the Indianapolis 500. That list includes Bobby Unser, Bill Vukovich, Sam Hanks and Mauri Rose. I also find it interesting that they no longer offer buttermilk...which is what Louis Meyer originally requested.
I don't blame him for refusing milk. If you do the police work. Retrace the evidence back. You'll realize you're suckling from another species. *SICK!*
The 2:37:28 mark - The big move that blipped everybody live! I remember watching it live saying "Mansell took the lead!" when they came out of Turn 2 and both ABC and IMS Radio thinking for a lap that Mario and Emmo were both dueling for the lead.
thanks for the time stamp I watched this live in England when it ran, that restart was crazy the man's an animal, round the outside into turn 1 three wide :)
He drank orange juice as part of a commercial promo for which he had a direct interest in. The Indy milk tradition was also a commercial stunt for someone’s profit, so I see nothing at all wrong with Emmo co-opting it. Why should people hold sacred, a commercial stunt just because that particular commercial stunt has been slavishly adopted as a “tradition”?
This entire early 90's era is the pinnacle of IndyCar... The old and the new ... Andretti, Foyt, Unser, Mears, Fittipaldi, Paul Tracy ... '91 front row; Mears, Foyt, Andretti All this in modern cars essentially indistinguishable from the cars of today.
Listening to Emmo speak I couldn't help but hear a similarity to Ayrton in his voice. This is how he probably would have sounded as he got older. If only......
He would have been sick in IndyCar. I loved IndyCar, but to me, I think the cream of the crop was and always will be F1. More than a few IndyCar superstars went to F1 and were terrible. Consequently, guys like Mansell and Cheever came to IndyCar from F1, and were REALLY good.
It was the first year of the big grandstand on the north chute. The “down the backstretch through turn 3” camera station hadn’t been built yet, so ABC decided to shoot everything from the infield.
44:07 race start 53:10 first yellow flag 56:52 second green flag 1:05:09 second yellow flag 1:09:10 third green flag 1:38:32 third yellow flag 1:43:13 fourth green flag 1:44:49 fourth yellow flag 1:47:41 fifth green flag 2:03:33 fifth yellow flag 2:13:47 sixth green flag 2:32:55 sixth yellow flag 2:37:19 seventh green flag 2:43:59 seventh yellow flag 2:47:20 eighth green flag 2:52:54 eighth yellow flag 2:56:24 ninth green flag 3:00:00 end of the race
Those 1993 Camaro Pace Cars are really nice, I've seen one myself, they have a bigger interior in them than the traditional Camaros, and They are faster #BestCamaroPaceCar!
Thought the thumbnail was a McLaren F1 car from the late 80s at first glance. Clicked anyway, watched the start and the last 20 laps or so (not much time), TIL Mansell did the Indy 500! Good job too seeing him perform quite well. Hopefully Alonso can do well this year!
Indy car hasn't been as healthy as it is today since this race, which by the way was my first and so far only Indy 500. It's easy to point fingers at Tony George or the CART team owners for the split, but that is history now and the sport is doing well
Jay J I had a crazy dream recently were I was somewhere probably in Indianapolis and saw Tony George at a restaurant. I saw him and I gave him the finger and told him what he did to Indy. He got up and We almost got into a fight. I have never to to Indy but would like to go to take of my bucket list. I’m only 23 but have loved watching the Indy 500 since I have been 6 or 7. Thank god I don’t remember the true start of the split but theses videos are sad to watch what happened to the biggest race in the world turned into the most pointless war in history. very sad and frustrating time in the 90s for Indycar.
Steve Brady i think Tony George listened to the wrong people and tried to take advantage of the USAC Indy 500 only entries. However he got nascar to the track as well but gave nascar a huge boost in popularity for national expansion to non traditional nascar markets that were Indycar ones.
Roberto Guerrero’s day ended after he collided with the same car (literally the same chassis) he had driven to the pole (and then crashed before the start) a year prior, which he would also end up driving again in ‘94.
1:01:15 Typical poor communication and judgment by USAC: 1) Boesel passed Mario after the blend line at pit exit. USAC assessed a penalty for passing on the pitlane 2) The proper response by race control is to communicate the proper running order, which apparently was done as Raúl dropped behind Mario before the restart; no further action needed. USAC assessed a stop and go penalty, which was overkill. However, this wouldn't be the worst call by USAC, and it wouldn't be the last bad call they made.
I’m usually one for tradition, but I honestly don’t mind that Emerson drank orange juice, mainly for three reasons: 1: In case you’re lactose-intolerant, there’s no reason to limit your options. 2: Maybe you don’t like milk. Maybe you just like oranges. 3: He already drank milk after his first victory.
he's not lactose intolerant, he did it to promote his own orange juice brand and they attach a part of the winner's purse to the drinking of the milk. everything about it was dumb.
@@gfoot9916 If you have class, you cover that before the race. You DON'T make a point of yapping in the Victory Lane interview being heard by the entire crowd and everyone watching that you're giving a middle finger to the tradition which was what ticked people off.
Arguably the last great Indy 500, certainly the last between Ford, Chevy and Buick as we knew it. What a great 2-year battle it was between the three nameplates, though. If I recall, Chevy and Buick withdrew their factory support after the end of the ‘93 season. In the case of Chevy, there was really nothing left to prove in CART and at Indy at that point. So Ilmor was just that in ‘94 - the Ilmor Indy V8, which still gave Ford/Cosworth a run for its money. And that’s not even counting Penske’s Ilmor 500i, which Mercedes-Benz began factory support. Still, whatever form of motorsport, Ford vs Chevy will always be the best rivalry. I’d love to see Ford make a comeback in IndyCar once again and duke it out with Chevrolet.
I'm European and i can say that Tony George has killed the open wheels race in your country. In 1993, F1's directors were anxious about the popularity of CART. But the seperation in 1996 and the creation of the IRL have killed open-wheels competition in US. Today, most popular motorsport in your country is NASCAR, and seriously, i don't think NASCAR is very exciting like CART. To finish a question, what are the engines in CART in 1993? Sorry for.my English😑
Not only turbo v8's but you also had the Buick v6, (wich was way down on power) the ford cosworth xa, xb, and the famous ilmor Chevrolet v8 series, this was the year mansell had the best equipment and was with one of the most dominant Indy car teams besides Penske with the Chevy v8. This was when Indy car (aka champ car) was in it's element and you had more chassis and engine combinations.
Some say Bernie from F1 played a part in the split and guided Tony George along with Bill France from NASCAR. Tony George wanted Jeff Gordon at the Indy 500 and was pissed when he went to NASCAR from USAC which also controlled the Indy 500 back then and Bernie was probably as well due to Nigel Mansell coming to indycar after winning the world driving championship as a popular driver along with seyna having a test with Penske and scaring all of F1 shitless. now it seems that some in the Motorsport media compare F1 to NASCAR and always have driver swaps. However F1 and NASCAR ain’t even close. By from the split Tony George made that F1 and NASCAR relationship possible due to having them at Indy. So maybe the split was a plot deep down by NASCAR and F1.
@@robminmonaca The more posts you make looking to conspiracies to justify your CART was perfect it didn't need to change a thing thinking, the more stupid you look.
The Seventy Seventh May 30 1993. 30 Years ago this May. World Champions in the Starting Field. Only 500 to be won from the 9th starting position outside Row 3.
Despite not winning, Mansell drove a superb race for a rookie. Had he been a little more experienced he'd have won but this was his first time out on an oval other than his wreck at Phoenix...