wow i remeber this race like it was yesterday! Up until this race all I cared about was Nascar. The nascar race was the night before and I had no kart race that day so I was just watching t.v when I came across this and the champ car race. Both races were amazing and forever changed me, as I realized open-wheel racing is the best!!!! :D
This is how the IndyCar championship race should be. There were FIVE title contenders from FOUR teams, major non-championship storylines (de Ferran's retirement, Hornishn to make history, etc.), and a fight to the finish. Of course, the one thing I believe everyone here can agree upon is not having a wreck as scary as Kenny Brack's. Othere than that, I would love to see a title fight like this play out in the future.
Certainly not commenting on RU-vid. You realize that people had opinions before social media was a thing? These races were immensely popular at the time, especially when CC started bleeding even more. These people were there back in the day too. Problem is that the younger fans keep complaining about the ovals, even noticeable in this comment section. So yeah...
@@kg0173 I don't know if it's more difficult than Indycar but driving a stock car is totally different than an open wheeler. Just cause your good at one doesn't mean you'll be good at the other
@@tedskins I think its about competition. NASCAR you have to beat 20 cars in IndyCar no more than 10, that is for a top driver in top team. NASCAR has competition much more intense. Sometimes in IndyCar when you have good car and have found the setup, you can easily dominate and win, in NASCAR that almost never happens because there usually is someone else who is having a good day. Besides NASCAR races are longer, conditions change, more difficult to predict and to find the right setups. Engineers have more help in IndyCar than NASCAR. NASCAR probably requires more driver experience. All that makes transition from IndyCar to NASCAR difficult. Of course going from NASCAR to IndyCar isn't easy either, but you have more chance when you get in good car. In NASCAR good car doesn't mean much.
@@kg0173 You're arguing people rarely dominate in nascar? I've watched Kyle Bush, Kevin Harvick, and Jimmy Johnson just to name a few make races absolute borefests because they can dominate. Half of what you just said is bogus. The biggest struggle for most is going from a very light car with amazing downforce to a huge heavy car with very little downforce and having to contend with the incredibly complex aerodynamics of stock car pack racing.
JJ4824 no no one has ever been killed at IRL at Texas only at homestead Paul Dana, vegas, dan wheldon, and pocono, Justin Wilson. Oh and IMS Scott brayton.
isn't it appropriate that Scott Dixon wins his first "IndyCar" race, and wins the championship in his first try ... and he will eventually retire as the greatest driver in the history of the sport
Were these engines turning more RPMs than the IRL engines of the late 90s? I know the production based formula was more or less the same - albeit with a smaller displacement - but they sound much better here.
I think that has to do, at least partially, because these engines were naturally aspirated versus today's engines that are turbocharged. Edit: per some research, they were also using a 3.5L displacement and were also V8s, not the 2.2L twin turbocharged V6s used today.
@3Paige14 What are you complaining about?? The championship has gone down to the last race in every season without using any stupid 'point reset' style gimmick. What more could you ask for in a racing series?
Id rather have open spec racing as sn engineer il never be sble to build an open wheel indy 500 winner dedignef by me like my idol Collin Chspman, Bruce McLarren, or Preston Tucker
And, i am not a big fan of Indy, all I know of it is f1 looking cars speeding around a NASCAR like track. I am a bigger fan of NASCAR, F1, and Le Mans.
