In 2002, Sam Hornish, Jr, won the Delphi Indy 300 in Chicago in what is believed to be the closest finish to a race ever. THis was a free download from the Indy Racing League site
This race was and is the greatest race of all time with a man made machine. There could never ever be an Indy car driver like Sam Hornish Jr. It was such a pleasure watching his races on TV.
I was at Indy when Emmo touch wheels with Al Jr,,, I watch Emmo come out of Turn 2 scooting towards the Wall,,I thought don't crash,,,he brush the wall,, mag's lite wall on fire,, concrete dust.. He Won..
This and Kurt Busch/Ricky Craven at Darlington are my favorite finishes.... It's a shame that this has become a rarity in both IRL and NASCAR. I remember just a couple years ago every IRL race ended up like this. Now it's pretty much just pick a winner out of about 6 competitive cars.(Ganassi/Penske/2 of the Andretti-Green cars)
Yes it was.... At the time, to speech about a race finishing with a gap of 1/1000 of a second was crazy and "impossible", and then that happen and everybody say "what the hell? How can this happen? Wow!".
CART in the late 90's and Early 2000s were sooo much faster with the turbo's...230mph+ at Michigan and Califorina, and they were too fast for Texas in '01.
@@DoctorAustin It went out of business but it’s a far better quality product than the watered down BS of today. The cars looked and sounded nicer and produced faster and better racing.
Well, you are right for that... 1998 cart was great. But, indycar could go to a similar level in less 10 years... And, with a 16 race schedule, It still have place for those track in indycar series but they talk a lots about Mexico City, Road America, Laguna Seca, and a double race at Cleveland (an oval configuration of the airport and the classic track).
Because of politics. Montréal try to get formula one and Nascar sprint... But, because of the winter and some "configuration work" to do(Mostly the pit lane extension use/not use, and some tire wall), their is little place for a third race week-end... It is still possible to bring 2 race there (I would say indycar and a 24 hours ALMS), but all politician would ask if it worth it ;) The other problem is that you are in a park "downtown" so... Noise and other touristic aspects ;)
I think it would be more like 260+ for the top speed at a track like Daytona oval... Or, maybe we should look at the old IMSA GTP for an idea... That why I recommend the motorcycle track and the longest bus stop: it cut some of the stretch a little bit and so the car lose a bit of speed ;)
For this one it is not Bernie, but rather the municipality itself. Daytona: no schedule trouble... And they talk about it, after it would repaired because it is bumpy even for nascar now. If I was a driver, I would ask for the road course use by the superbike with the longer bus stop, not the one use by the prototype for pure safety question: have you see the speed these cars could get?
@0143932823 NASCAR was founded in 1947... Indy (the track) was opened in 1909, but the series that would become the National Championship (and now the IndyCar Series) began somewhere between 1902 and 1905...they didn't crown season champions for the first several years, and then did it retro-actively.
Yeah, there's a reason I've saved this video for so long. Even if someone isn't a racing fan and never will be, this will at least let them understand what all the fuss is about.
@vsa2o From the beginning to 1955 Championship Car racing (the traditional name of indy car) was sanctioned by AAA (Yes...that "triple A") After the 1955 Le Mans Desaster AAA pulled out of auto racing and Tony Hulman formed USAC but by the end of the 1970's the owners were fed up with USAC's backward ways and formed CART in 1979, then after that it gets complicated ;)
Side by side racing, we've never seen that before...the IRL is a friggin bore, I'll neve go to a race unless they get their cars up to spec of what CART was, othewise see ya!.......
hi u.s fellas ... when cart and tony george broke up , in early 90s was a terrible mistake for u.s open wheel .... now its going to take a litle bit of time to new bright days shining for you there , the competition lost a lot of the pastdays glamour....as we could see past year ... i think you agree with me ... was a boring year in IRL ...teams and drivers that came from cart was not a shit prepared to the competition , including my country brothers from brazil, simply sucked
Does american motorsport want to go down the f1 route and take all the fun and passing out of that just to make it safe? I'm not going to answer that. Go Dan Wheldon!
tire, i'm a big fan of both series, but the racing in this video is nothing i've ever seen on a 1.5 track in nascar, side by side and 3 wide all the way around for the entire race. that's done 4 times a year in nascar and that's only because no one has any proper solution to not having a bobby allison 1987 super crash. the answer to your question is money and health of the sport, nascar didn't split in two peices and stay that way for 12 years
Formula 1 has the toughest venues in the world, but I disagree on Formula 1 drivers being the best and most skilled because their hands never have to leave the steering wheel,they have traction control, and the car almost drives itself. The most advanced racing machines doesn't make the drivers the best and most skilled. If the F1 field drove the COT of NASCAR around Monaco and did all their shifting on the floor, then I would give them second behind the world rally drivers.
A lot of blabbin', and all that happened was the two remained side-by-side the entire time. This type of racing sucked. It's not fun to watch no one pass. Indycar realized this and is beginning to recover. Nascar is still going with crap style and they are still dying.
