I was at the Texas Steve Kinser race. Couldn't believe what I was seeing. I've been to thousands of races of all levels (dirt and pavement) over the course of my life, to this day that was still the most exciting race I've ever seen in person.
I remember the first time Steve Kinser participated in IROC. All the other drivers were in awe of him. They asked a few guys why and Kurt Busch in particular was like "come on guys, it's Steve Kinser for petes sake!"
Would love to see something like this brought back as long as they somehow make it more competitive to allow open wheel stars a chance. This series benefitted Nascar drivers too much most of the time.
at 2:32 french commentators: "... what's up with the Americans, why they find this entertaining ?" 😐 "... damn, they are crazy, they need a large bottles of vanilla extract !" L😆L
Think if IROC ran in 2020,you would have Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso from F-1,Brad Keslowski and Kevin Harvick from NASCAR,Josef Newgarden and James Hinchcliffe.
TOPGUNCANADA00 When did they tear out that other southern California oval? I want to say it was called Ontario (as in Canada, but not), but I could be mistaken.
Because it got tired and played out seeing NASCAR guys win all the time. Especially on plate tracks. Also scheduling is a bitch and you need a couple F1 guys to make it truly international
Hell The Cup Series is almost spec now so all superspeedway races seem like Iroc. It would be nice for wiggle room in the rules and AN IROC series, a goodys dash type series....asa....etc...if I have my sources correct, NASCAR Mexico had folded AND the NASCAR Euro series.....they HAVE to reconnect with the "regular" man, somehow.
bigmancan1 If I remember correctly the biggest backer for the iroc series was Dale Earnhardt. with his passing things got harder. can't remember if it kept going from their but If it did it wouldn't last much longer as after Earnhardt Jr's wreck in the corvette racing le man's car most teams kept their drivers in the premier racing leagues.
Crown Royal was the title sponsor for the series, in 2006 CR announced they would no longer fund the series after the season and the series was looking for a new sponsor. After nobody stepped up, IROC had to pull the plug and all the cars/equipment were auctioned off. Dale Jr's wreck in 2004 had nothing to do with any of it.
Where's Tom Gloy's 1985 Daytona flip? Or the finish of that same race where the top three crash off four on the final lap and DW steals the win. Please do more research before throwing these videos together.
racingNASCAR 88 it was an independent series that invited the best racers in north american motorsports. NASCAR wasnt sanctioning it, or else It may still be here today
@@AMR_Krissy the earlier years had F1 guys like Jacki Ickx Nikki Lauda, Mark Donahue peter Revson, Emmerson Fittipaldi Mario Andretti , Dennis Hulme, Jody Schekter, Graham Hill, James Hunt, Ronnie Petersen, Alan Jones, Clay Regazzoni, But that was under the old format from 73-80
+Milo Ruffing IROC stands for International Race Of Champions, so you had champions from NASCAR, Indy car, Sprint car & maybe other racing series, & they would all race in identical cars, it was great to watch :)
Not even close to that. It's another league where 12 of what they call the "best race car drivers in the world" drive the exact same cars over 4 races. It's meant to make it more of a matter of skill and not different teams having better equipment and all that. It was mostly cup drivers that raced but there were also some Indy car drivers
