IndyCar's FORGOTTEN Las Vegas Street Race 

The pole master just getting started crazy to think of how many he would later get and average 1 or 2 race wins a year.

I'm intrigued. In what capacity? 🇦🇺🇦🇺 I didn't realise there was a team Australia in Indycar

@stevenlevitzke4011 we were in Champ Car only and operated as Walker Racing but when Will Power came over here we got sponsorship from Aussie Vineyards and the Australian Government so we "rebranded" as Team Australia. I was primarily the painter but we were a smaller team so we all did other stuff too.

@@rjmidwest6911 when you say "came over here" do you mean to the US or Australia? The car looks very good and very Australian 😁

@@rjmidwest6911 and faaaaaaaast

@stevenlevitzke4011 when he came to the US, our shop was in Indianapolis. Everything we had was green and gold lol. The first year we painted the wings black but after that we kept them carbon fiber and just clear coated them. We worked with Sherwin Williams to use their new at the time paint, they used crushed mirrors instead of metal flake to get the metallic look. The cars looked so much better in person than the TV could ever show.

Wait wait, Eurosport covered it? I don't remember that either. I just remember the US feed on Motors TV back in the day, and never could find the Eurosport feed of it. Wonder if there's clips of that race or the race up anywhere. Hinch has a knack for broadcasting, as did the late great Dan Wheldon. I still believe if Dan had survived somehow or not raced in Vegas 2011 he'd have been a great announcer honestly

@@jacekatalakis8316 It was on Eurosport 2. Look up the CrapwagonChampcarFan channel. They have the entire season.

I remember Hinch mentioning about this commentating job last year during Long Beach practice but somehow still forgot it already that he was talking about Champ Car And I definitely didn't realise that he was commentating on Eurosport. That's a cool story

That's really cool. Hinch is a natural as a presenter/commentator.

@@jacekatalakis8316 It's in 2 parts, but it's on CrapwagonChampcarFan's YT page. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mrFGB7bt0wI.htmlsi=UukCCTqwuxmWE7cK ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ug1Dk6YUWUk.htmlsi=zxQIr0X0yOs8JLsL

Just goes to show that the Champ car drivers were on par with the Indy drivers many of them crossing over lots of familiar names on that grid.

I kind of figured that par for the course. It is kind of sad Dan Wilson died at the Vegas speedway would have been neat if Indycar would have returned and gave the oval another shot. F1 can afford it they have more money.

Most of that is just Las Vegas being Las Vegas. The city brings in billions every year, if the city wanted too, they could repave every single street, but they don't. Can't really blame F1 for bad decisions of the cities leadership that has had the same mafia connected family in the mayor's office for 20 years.

@@bartsullivan4866 They probably could with the DW12 since they can vary the boost and remove a lot more downforce. However, I think the track is still way too narrow to be considered today even though IndyCar needs more speedway oval races today.

ChampCar did the same thing at San Jose in 2005 when drivers mentioned turn 1 was dangerous at full speed. Yeah, F1 basically gave a big FU to the fans at Indy. The F1 teams live in their own little bubble.

probably part of fulfilling their nbc deals before the tnt summer series races started later that summer.

They used standing starts at the tracks they could in 2007, don't remember too many staggered rolling starts as the season went on

“I always race him clean,he always races me dirty “ 😂😂

Thanks David. I appreciate it buddy. I'm glad you became a fan!! Don't worry, San Jose is definitely on the list.

I know they did, but despite being in a parking lot it was more of a traditional looking track rather than a street circuit. After F1 didn't come back, CART raced there for two years as well on a weird oval configuration lol.

@@Demise90Racing Really? I did not know that, thanks!

@@Demise90Racing and then after that final CART race in 1984, Caesars sold the land. This is where the Mirage was eventually built in 1989 & is now going to be where the new Hard Rock hotel will be at in 2025/2026 after Hard Rock bought the Mirage from MGM last year.

It's like that because it would kill the on board battery cranking the engine up to about 5-6000 RPM for the engine to start. With the hybrid next year, it shouldn't be as big of a problem.

It was a one and done. The rest of the US coverage was on ESPN with Rick Benjamin and Jon Beekhuis except for Cleveland which was a one off on CBS. That was horrible.

I think the current Detroit and the Crashville street circuit are racing for the worst of all time.

And then IndyCar made an Oval out of it the following two years. It's not really brought up because it wasn't a street track. It was more of a conventual race track built in a parking lot.

A parking lot isn't a street circuit lmao. It literally had gravel run off areas and looked like a conventional race track. And you are also completely wrong about IndyCar racing there 3 decades later, as they raced at Cesar's Palace the very next year after F1 did not return in the 80's as well. You should probably fact check yourself before coming at me...bro.

@@Demise90Racing Still a sanctioned race. Plus it was before modern Las Vegas with streets on the Strip that is more accommodating to do such a race. The Indycar race was downtown and before the roads were repaved. I'm excited to see if more racing happens, but at night. We don't want drivers getting heat exhaustion or heat stroke

I hate having to explain this over and over again, but here we go. Firstly, yes this is an IndyCar race. After reunification in 2008, all USAC, CART, Champ Car, and IRL records and stats merged under the IndyCar banner. It keeps things simple and uniform. And helps with discoverability of American Open Wheel history. Second, everyone and their grandmother knows F1 raced there in the 80's. So did CART the following year after F1 left. It was not a street race. It was a circuit built in the Caesars Palace parking lot that looked like a conventional race track with gravel run offs and such. Third, Nascar started racing at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 1998 and was never ever called the Las Vegas Grand Prix lol. So you literally just made that up. I'm always open to being corrected and criticism, but this comment was just so goofy that I had to respond.

That describes most of that year. Even though Bourdais capped his 4th championship in a row, the DP-01 provided some great racing. It would have been awesome if unification happened and IndyCar ran Dallara Hondas on ovals and the Panoz Cosworth on road courses. But if I could do that, I would have ensured the split never happened.

That is an awesome idea would have been very cool to see that and have the series adopt both platforms. @@danielhenderson8316