The guy who won, Peter Dempsey, is the only one of the four never to race an IndyCar. That was his only Indy Lights win. He now owns a USF Pro2000 team and one of his drivers, Lochie Hughes, won the first race of the year last weekend in St. Pete.
I've seen that FOUR-wide finish in Indy Lights several times before (still one of the greatest finishes in ALL of racing, period.), but that MX-5 Cup finish, holy hell. *A SINGLE THOUSANDTH of a second between first and second. That's insane.*
Having been to Daytona for the 24 the past two years, the MX-5's are easily the best 45 minutes of track time on Thursday and Friday. Especially 2023's Thursday race.
@@insertcolorherehawk3761 I understand that it’s not the same series and it’s more of a variety of branches, but Arca, Mernards, and NASCAR’s 3 main series are kindov like one series with different branches. If that makes any sense
@@insertcolorherehawk3761that is true. Idk why that matters to his point? He's saying NASCAR as a whole creates close finishes... Which is true... I'd much rather watch some of the best racing every week than just watch Max or Lewis win everything every day all the time in F1... And in WEC Penske and/or Ferrari win everything... Heck we showed up to Lemans this year with a NASCAR and went faster than any of your cars that aren't driving computers... 😂😂😂
@@AZ_sports_are_betterBecause I'm being pedantic and that Modifieds *aren't regular stock cars* Also, that ignores Indy and maybe I should lump F2 and F3 into describing F1?
Makes me really happy to see someone putting the modifieds in a video like this with the rest of the worlds top motorsports series. I love driving my modifieds
Thanks, though I still believe I missed a few. There should be another 3 wide finish involving bike racing in this video but it got claimed and prevented to be shown, so it didn't make the cut.
And Portland '97. Yeah, there are a bunch and I'm sure there have been plenty of three-wide finishes in grassroots divisions that were never televised, so I don't think making a video including all such finishes would be possible.
There's also the bike racing 3 wide finish from MotoGP's feeder series in 2015 that was originally meant to be in this video but unfortunately Dorna gets pissy about it and blocked that part. 😔
That 2013 finish was ruined by the caution coming down early before they crossed the finish line, so that didn't make it to the list. There was also 2021 Wawa 250 that almost made the list if not for Justin Allgaier who was pushing AJ Allmendinger stole the P3 from Jeb Burton
The mazda last lap was amazing. Love the battle with actual grass runoff, dirt in the air, different lines to try to beat on corners entry vs exit. I wish f1 could be like this
Is Kyle the only driver in the vid 2 times? he truly is an insane racecar driver. Used to drive for my uncle I think that's him on the radio in the 2007 race. Always said Kyle can drive the car to the max potential and he's one not to be fucked with when racing lol.. Hope he does good this season
For directly involved in the battle for the victory? Yeah Kyle made it twice here. There's also Travis Kvapil but he's not a direct contender in that 2003 Truck race at Daytona.
There was another 3-wide Indy Lights finish at Chicagoland I think in 2003 or 4 when it was the Indy Pro series. Ed Carpenter won it. Not sure how close that one was but I remember them finishing 3 wide...
Ed Carpenter didn't win the race, it was Mark Taylor. Ed finished 2nd, but it was indeed a three wide finish albeit not as close as anything in here. Unfortunately there's no full race footages nor the finish clips of it available anywhere on the internet, tried scouring on RU-vid and Google (I even enter page 2 of the search results lol) and nothing came up other than the images.
I did explained in the description that this would only count by the time the series had implemented electronic timing and scoring, and NASCAR only started implementing that from 1993 onwards. But on second thought, since I did rough estimations on the 2nd and 3rd clip, I do think that should count as one. So when there's a Part 2 of this, that 1981 Dega finish should be included. Thanks for your suggestion! :)
The 2021 Wawa 250? That was _almost_ a three-wide finish but Justin Allgaier, who was pushing AJ Allmendinger, stole P3 under Jeb Burton who was on the bottom lane.
That's between top two. The thing that counts here are the margin between top 3 in a three-wide finish scenario, which is why the 2011 Dega race ranks quite low in this compilation.
Well at least in the case of battle for the win it rarely happened on the rest of the world AFAIK. There have been few three-wide finishes that I know of but they're not battles for the win, only for podium places and anything lower than that, so those didn't count. I think I have replied twice for something similar to this question, but there should be another clip here that's properly from outside the US (and it's a bike racing, too), but unfortunately that one got claimed and prevented from being shown to the public so that didn't make it to the final video.
I think it really goes to show how much American motorsport has figured out how to make race finishes more exciting when they are every clip in here but 1
Everything in this video are all American series though, even that Mazda MX-5 Cup 😅 Well there should be another finish that's properly outside US but unfortunately that got claimed and prevented to be shown, so that didn't make the cut.
I hope that was sarcasm 😅 But if not, F1 never had three-wide finishes in their entire history up until this point. The closest one we got to that was the 1971 Italian GP, where top 3 was separated by 0.09 seconds but François Cevert who finished P3 never went alongside the top 2 at the line
@@kalebdegroot7825 The reason why it's not possible isn't a track size issue, it's just because there is nearly never a pass between them, they just follow each others. The first who pass the finish, who's nearly always the same, has plenty seconds ahead the second. So no, this is the real reason why 3 wide finish isn't possible. Even 2 wide finish seems to be impossible too. This is the most boring motorsport ever.
The difference between the cars is just too great. The field keeps finishing races in performance order for that track almost every time. Driver skill only ends up causing +/- 2 positions over the average F1 race. Quickest solution is to somehow increase the number of accidents & breakdowns per race which would mix the grid up more often. Maybe tell Pirelli to go back to making tyres that randomly explode, since that was the only big source of excitement in the past 5 years of F1 honestly.
That was a great finish but unfortunately that didn't count as three-wide finish because Raul Boesel never went alongside Mark Blundell, his car's nose not even reached Blundell's rear tire when they crossed the line. I would like to assume that because Boesel almost level on Gil De Ferran the other side, who himself was properly alongside Blundell might gave you the impression of a three-wide finish. Thanks for the suggestion though! :)
johnson shouldve been black flagged for that dega win...he dropped left sides below the yellow line. every other driver whos done that gets black flagged...but nascar wanted their golden boy to win so they looked the other way...no one even mentioned it
Well then Tony Stewart should be given black flag too in 2008 fall Dega race, or Dale Jr. in 2004 fall Dega race. Or Elliott Sadler who was under the yellow line in 2015 Xfinity fall Dega race, or Denny Hamlin in 2020 race of, you guessed it, fall Dega, and so on. I'm just saying, the problem is not on the driver that wins the race, but NASCAR's inconsistent interpretation and implementation of the yellow line rule at Daytona and Talladega. But you do you if you hate JJ. 🤷🏻♂️
I’ve watched it quite a few times in the last 2 weeks, but this is the first time I’ve noticed either Clint or Kevin can be barely heard on a hot mic (I assume they muted their own) they think it was Suarez while it was still under race review. Obviously the Play by Play mic would still be on.
