Just do what I do! On most weekends you can catch the F1 race earlier, and the Indycar race shortly after. Obviously some Indycar and F1 races don’t line up well with each other, but a good bit of them do. Gives you racing all morning and afternoon!
@@VenomousCompany I believe you might be able to get it in a package with sky sports F1? If you don’t have that and don’t mind streaming, Reddit Motorsport always posts links to free streams before the race!
There is a lot more details to this that are missing in the video. Once Alonso crashed they lost a full extra day of on track time in practice because the backup Carlin chassis wasn't painted the right shade of orange; McLaren wanted that perfect papaya before going out on track to even practice. If I remember correctly the backup chassis also wasn't even at the track like it shouldve been, it was still back at the Carlin shop. That's opposed to the Juncos team, who went straight to work trying to piece together their backup car which (in addition to some of the parts being the wrong color) was a road course chassis... wasn't even meant to run an oval. But it was the only other chassis they owned, it was at the track in case it was needed, and Juncos lost far less track time than McLaren as a result. McLaren's operation became more of a farce on the qualifying weekend as well. Once they realized they could be in trouble they started taking setup risks, and once they realized they'd be in last chance qualifying, got more desperate and started spending money. They bought suspension parts and damper setups from Andretti Autosport and Team Penske, but the UK engineers they sent over didn't know how to convert units properly and weren't able to correctly apply the setup. So when Alonso went out for practices runs prior to knock out qualifying the setup was so far off to the point where the car was bottoming out constantly and couldn't be drove wide open. McLaren had a huge hospitality setup they purchased at the track for the month which surely cost into 6 figures, but the whole operation reeked of "we're the big F1 guys, we're gonna come in here and it will be easy. We've assembled our chassis at Woking and we've made sure all our stuff is the best." But nothing they could've done in Woking wouldve been worth shipping the chassis across the ocean twice because at the end of the day all IndyCar's are built on the same chassis, and other than a few parts that they should have spares of the backup chassis they had from Carlin shouldn't have been that different, as long as they didn't willingly forfeit track time like they did.
All of this. I also recall something about them not gearing the car correctly for adequate top speed, and Zak Brown at one point in the process having to go and pick up a steering wheel... himself. It sounds like they were just inadquately prepared from start to finish.
And Kyle Kaiser is not a bad driver by any means. Not Alonso good, but he was an Indy Lights champion, despite the lower car count, and Alonso was both not as experienced and, dare I say, not mature enough to run the ovals. That does hurt to say, but he went from pole one year and he doesn't even make the show another. Let's not forget that McLaren hadn't figured out IndyCar yet at that point. All that I mentioned did not work on paper as much as fans would have loved to believe.
To be fair in recent years Honda engines have been better especially on ovals. The year he took pole was when Honda engines were rocket ships compared to Chevys at ovals.
Hey Dylan, Im really liking the Indycar content after watching a few races last season. Would love to see you cover some of the greatest, or most controversial, Indycar races in history
Only race I can think of that was “controversial was in the CART days. The cars were so fast that drivers were passing out at Texas Motor Speedway. During practice a couple guys passed out and others experienced BAD vertigo. This was due to them feeling SUSTAINED 6G’s into the turns. And when you’re going that fast there’s not a lot of time before you reach the next turn. They ended up canceling the race and fans were refunded. The track sued CART for this.
If you want something controversial because of how f1 ended, there is really nothing like it. There have been some controversies and “bad” officiating stuff but nothing close to this years f1 finish. That’s one of the reasons Indy car is great, not a ton of officiating interference
@@TheOnlyBritishGuy they were goin 240-250 mph I think compared to the 220 they go now. They go 240 at Indianapolis still but that's with 9 degrees of banking. Texas was 26 at the time I believe.
@@EricBurns1 Fastest average speed for a lap was 236 MPH, compared to the IRL cars running speeds in the 215 MPH range. They had to consult NASA doctors who said that they could only go a max of 225 MPH average, but by that point it was too late. When Mauricio Gugelmin crashed in practice, he had no idea what happened and the crash lasted the entire length of the back straight. Had CART been properly prepared and done proper testing it could all have been avoided
great video. but you left out one of the funniest failures on McLaren's part, they lost a full day of practice after Alonso's crash because the backup car was at a shop being repainted because it was a very slight different shade of orange.
My favorite Indy 500 story and probably my favorite racing story ever. For those of you that didn’t know the story there’s a few more details to add for Juncos. They were up a full 24 hours fixing the car and other teams were bringing them food and water to help in any way possible. They had to skip the final practice before qualifying just to get it done in time. So glad they’re back in the series this year.
Juncos is a high quality outfit. They may not have a ton of IndyCar experience but they've been running various levels in the Road to Indy for years, with a lot of success. I hope they (and Ilott) do well in 2022.
I am really interested to see where Chadwick ends up. she signed up for a third W series run but that just seems like a stopgap before those women find rides in other series, WEC, IMSA, INDYCAR, and others. I wish she would give Indy Lights or indycar a serious look
I'd say Tony Stewart is the best overall driver in motorsports history. His skill set is just so diverse. In his prime, you could put him in any kind of car on any type of track and he would be competitive at an elite level. Alonso is great tho. His ability to over achieve what a car is capable of is second to none. You could put him out there on a moped and he'd figure out some way to finish in the points.
This was one of my all-time favorite underdog moments and Bump Day moments. I remember getting ready for my High School graduation and watching Bump Day. I’ll never forget how shocked I was when Kyle Kaiser BEAT Fernando Alonso for the last spot for the big race. I never thought that kind of Underdog Moment would happen
I didnt much care for Kyles reaction after all this happened, they were only missing drinking milk, ya guys qualified last, act less like ya won a race
I flew out to Indy for that Qualifying Weekend. Had a lot of fun when everyone was doing their runs all day Saturday. Unfortunately the rain delay meant I had to leave for the return flight but Kaiser making the race had me cheering at the airport terminal.
The plain white car Kaiser crashed was their new Speedway special. In that car they had plenty of speed. For Juncos to pull out a beat up backup and get it in the show was a herculean effort.
I love the increase in Indycar content on RU-vid recently, honestly Indycar is better than F1 on many weekends and every year the championship is competitive. This series is the only reason that it’s good to be American
As a spanish fan, this was the moment where i realised that Nando had to comeback to F1. He will have time to try the Indy again, but Alonso belongs to F1 and im glad he cameback
Fernando is doing great in F1. I would really, really love to see Fernando try the indy 500 again and I really want to see him win it and become the only the second man in history to win the triple crown: Monaco GP, Lemans, and Indy500
