The WORST IndyCar Race of All-time

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In 2002 the CART Series was already on thin ice and trying to stay afloat as a series. Major teams like Team Penske already started to defect to the IRL series at the beginning of the year and IndyCar racing in North America was not in very good shape. The last thing CART needed was another disaster of a race, but that is exactly what happened at the 2002 Honda Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia. Although, not completely CART's fault.
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@arthuralford 11 месяцев назад

Before I clicked on the video, I knew it was 2002 Surfers Paradise. But the worst IndyCar race of all time? The 1973 Indy 500 tops it. From Art Pollard's death in practice, to the first race start with Salt Walther and spectator injuries, to delays, to the deaths of Swede Savage and Armando Tehran. The series made drastic changes to the cars, and took safety far more seriously afterward

@Demise90Racing 11 месяцев назад

I think any race that involves death would be significantly worse. I'm looking at this from a purely entertainment and officiating factor. Sure the start was wild, but the rest of the race must of been agonizing to watch. Especially if you attended this race.

@ltjjenkins 11 месяцев назад

That whole month was hell.

@arenasnow 11 месяцев назад

I think this race was definitely worse than most races where drivers died, but maybe not that one.

@shinystarmiestudios4179 11 месяцев назад

2011 Las Vegas is another one.

@kpcart 11 месяцев назад

I dont agree. I remember watching live. It was similar to spa 98 in f1. But far away from the click bait oppinion of yours. I like your vids in general but not this badly generelised oppinion

@andrewcarter9649 11 месяцев назад

I remember the fall out from this race where every driver and team that was going to the IRL for 2003 straight up accused CART of fixing the race so that a driver and team that was staying would win.

@Leahi84 11 месяцев назад

This was such a BS race, and I felt bad for everyone involved. CART was most definitely on life support at this point.

@tompw3141 10 месяцев назад

What else could CART have done?

@abyss18 10 месяцев назад

this was in absolutely no way CART’s fault.

@therrydicule 10 месяцев назад

@@tompw3141 That thing should have been fixed months prior to this race by making rules that give some elasticity. Like we all knew it can happen because similar situation happened before in other series. But once you get in Australia? The very least is calling it after 36 lap to cut your loses and... Yellow lap at the start instead of having a huge red lap delays.

@dominicbarden4436 11 месяцев назад

This is easily one of the most bizarre races I've ever watched in any series, on RU-vid (like this one) or live on tv. There was something strangely fascinating about watching race strategies playing out at 80mph rather than 180 though! Though perhaps my favourite strange race is the second race of the 2016 London ePrix, the final race of Formula E's second season. After title contenders Sébastien Buemi and Lucas di Grassi (who'd gone into the race level on points) collided on the opening lap there were two races going on: everyone else was racing as normal (and the event was dominated by Buemi's teammate Nicolas Prost), but Buemi and di Grassi swapped to their second cars (in the first four seasons of Formula E the drivers had to change to a second car mid-race as the batteries couldn't make the full race distance), which now had the wing angles cranked up to max, and spent the rest of the race venturing out on the track every now and then to try to set the fastest lap and take the two points that came with it, as whichever one got it would take the championship! Buemi got it in the end. The whole thing had to be seen to be believed, in all honesty.

@jjw8885 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, I remember that too! Crazy circumstances! It was such a farce that Formula E (and F1) changed the rules so that you had to finish inside the top 10 in order to grab the bonus point for fastest lap

@LerockJohn 11 месяцев назад

The fact that there was no HALO system back then and nobody lost their heads is somehow miraculous...

@philgiglio7922 10 месяцев назад

Andretti... that wheel had to have hit his head

@jimgray3346 10 месяцев назад

Racing and its fans have gotten so soft. I swear these losers think the halo has prevented a genocide or something. Racing is SUPPOSED to be dangerous. That's why we watch.

@GowGows 9 месяцев назад

@@jimgray3346 Jim, you talk like someone who's never been behind the wheel of a race car.

@jimgray3346 9 месяцев назад

@@GowGows If racing was safe, no one would watch. What does my racing exerience have to do with anything? No one pays to watch me go 100km/h on the highway in my dodge...

@jackomo1387 2 месяца назад

@jimgray3346 bro wouldnt last a minute in a modern f1/indycar

@SportzyCG 11 месяцев назад

This really was the worst one. My father said he stopped watching it and he was a diehard indycar fan.

@kevinjachim2378 11 месяцев назад

I stopped watching in the early 90's when it was flooded with F-1 losers.

@MrGoombasticveryFantastic 11 месяцев назад

This was a tough era to live through Ive always liked Indycar more than Nascar and even F1 but the split really caused a big watered down talent pool and money to disappear as both series were running smaller grids with less sponsorship. Its good to see the sport healthy with 25+ cars on grid a lot of the time.

@AndyFromBeaverton 11 месяцев назад

Outside of races where people were severely injured or died, yes this was the worst. It was a borefest watching it live.

@karulauk666 11 месяцев назад

Also sounds like your dad was a bit of a wuss.

@SportzyCG 11 месяцев назад

@@karulauk666 Lol he had other things to do but he wanted to watch it

@heartlandauthor 11 месяцев назад

There was a 1981 race at Pocono, where, due to the USAC-CART split (i.e., the first American open-wheel split; the CART-IRL split was the second split), there was a mix of actual IndyCars of that era and dirt cars (USAC Silver Crown cars, IIRC) in the field.

@hubbsllc 11 месяцев назад

Always appreciate hearing the great Bob Varsha calling the race, even for this disaster.

@JohnnyUtah13 11 месяцев назад

Paul Tracy trying to get his car pointed the right direction and doing a donut right into another car is the most Paul Tracy thing imaginable. I knew that was going to happen before it did...and I have never seen these highlights before. lol

@jlo7770 11 месяцев назад

Sounds like he should have black flagged to me

@philgiglio7922 10 месяцев назад

Never a fan of Paul Tracy, he was Indy cars max verstappen...a danger to others. Max is going to kill someone sooner or later. He's too immature...see him running into the back of his teammate Danny Riccardo 4:53

@thembanjoko2844 11 месяцев назад

The worst ever CART race in 2002 at Surfer's Paradise turned out to be "Trouble in Surfer's Paradise." That race was kinda like CART's version of the 2021 Belgian GP, only this time they raced in torrential rain.

@wendigockel 11 месяцев назад

Domínguez went full Ricardo Rosset. Never go full Ricardo Rosset!

@bencartwright9359 11 месяцев назад

I was at this race. Each year I would take my annual holidays to attend this round of the championship and I remember sitting in the grandstand at the start of the main straight at the 'Honda Hairpin'. It was so miserable. I had a poncho on but I was still saturated. It was pretty chilly for that time of year also so I was just shivering my way to the end of the race. If I recall correctly the winner did donuts just in front of us as he was so happy to win his first race, and it made attending the race somewhat worth it. The Gold Coast round of CART was a 4 day extravaganza, Thursday being the quietest day and the remaining 3 days having several different qualifying session and races of several different types of cars. The Australian V8s or supercars would also have rounds on this weekend and it was a great 4 day party. I met my wife at the 2005 round of the indycars and to see it slowly die was sad.

@twisteddrift9860 11 месяцев назад

Hopefully one day we see this back. The current v8 event is great don’t get me wrong. But imagine if IndyCar made a deal to come back. Would be amazing!

@danielhenderson8316 11 месяцев назад

It was bad enough starting the race, but after no improvement on track conditions and nothing on radar showing it would get any better, there's no reason to continue past half way and screw over everyone else. This is the crossover point where IRL started as clowns and became pros while CART started as pros and became clowns.

@fluffskunk 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, IRL didn't have to get better. CART was shooting their entire leg off every chance they got. They hired a guy with a made-up resume as their CEO FFS.

@Ian44_92 11 месяцев назад

I remember watching this on Speed Channel and was in disbelief. I was already an avid NASCAR fan and had seen some bad wrecks but this was on another level.

@rjmidwest6911 11 месяцев назад

I wasn't at the track but Tora Takagi was my team's driver. Crazy watching him end up on his top.

@AndyFromBeaverton 11 месяцев назад

Didn't Tora get the nickname ToraToraTora for some of his suicidal moves?

@CrewGuyPJ 11 месяцев назад

tora was fearless. the last of the late brakers/lifters. In the 5 car at Milwaukee, he was lifting 2 car lengths after everyone else going into turn 1.

@rjmidwest6911 11 месяцев назад

@CrewGuyPJ he was fun to watch when he got in his groove. Great guy in general as well, we had high hopes for him and don't doubt that he could've done better with better teams.

@dxfifa 11 месяцев назад

@@rjmidwest6911 He was an idiot that lacked pace. Not even better than Nakano, pay driver who wasn't worth keeping around

@chads4660 11 месяцев назад

Keep up the good work man, you’re really filling a void for IndyCar content. Love your videos!

@ajwest9296 11 месяцев назад

One of the many nails in CART's coffin during 2001-03. Rio, Texas, teams defecting to the IRL, the 2002 500, etc. If it easn't for Newman-Haas and Forsythe staying to the end CART would have been done after they declared bankruptcy.

@ryanirwin8381 10 месяцев назад

The 01 Euro Tour

@TheHandiestHandle 11 месяцев назад

13:38 the guy standing in front of Dominguez's moving car trying to get him to stop is the bravest man I've ever seen.

@bofat6978 11 месяцев назад

“Yeah motherfucker!” Sums it all up pretty well.

@incrymnia 11 месяцев назад

As an aussie myself I find it sad that this is the reason why I probably won't be able to watch Indycar live. One race is enough to blow a reputation.

@CharlesFreck 11 месяцев назад

Eh. Racing is less popular post 90s/2000s. This was the peak. Hard to justify travelling across the planet to Australia to generate less profits then just doing another event in the US.

@fluffskunk 11 месяцев назад

>implying that was a race If Mario "Ricardo Rosset" Dominguez had any dignity he'd have just shook hands instead of celebrating.

@TheAlphaDingo 7 месяцев назад

I remember watching this race live with a buddy - he told me to never trust a bloke called 'Dominguez', or rather 'DUMinguez'. Started at the back and decided to become a human torpedo and plow through the carnage

@paulday5722 10 месяцев назад

Surfer's Paradise has a population of 26,400. I'm skeptical it was that critical to have all the barriers removed for Monday morning traffic. Once the contract was signed they had to fulfill it but that seems a little overboard by the host city.

@jacekatalakis8316 11 месяцев назад

Since I mentioned it, Demise. Any chance you'd look at New Hampshire 93, it's widely regarded as the best mile oval CART ever put on and it had some awesome battles, great mile racing and was a key race in the 93 championship. I do wish Indycar would go back to NH, Milwaukee and a lot of the tracks I grew up with, Nazareth, Milwaukee, NHMS are the three that leap out, thankfully quite a few are still around

@danielhenderson8316 11 месяцев назад

Milwaukee is a maybe in the next couple of years. According to Racer, they're finishing up some upgrades at the track. Sadly, Nazareth is gone, and I don't know what's up with Loudon because the 93 race was 1 and done and then there was the Double Eagle 400 later on.

@jacekatalakis8316 11 месяцев назад

@@danielhenderson8316 No no I'm refering to the CART races at Loudon from 92-95 and throw in 96 since technically it used old CART stuff, 1993 New England 200 was the best mile oval race CART ever, ever put on, once you got past the opening yellow. That battle between PT and Goodyear is absolutely awesome, how many people could pull ahead from a 90s Penske? Goodyear and Walker Racing could, and did for double digit laps, on a mile oval. In part that was down to the package at the time. Seems like, as with Australia, every year New Hampshire threw out something interesting 92: Inaugural race, Rahal won on his title winning season 93: Mansell schooled the field en route to Newman/Haas having a clean sweep of the miles 94: Scott Sharp flipped and Penske's absolute domination in that race, in that season... 95: Honda's first win, JV's last open wheel oval race in top level series and /that/ on board crash with Fernandez. Seemed for a few years Fernandez had at least one massive crash a year, Elkhart 94, New Hampshire 95, Milwaukee 93 was another one 96: The IRL happened with their bizarre split calendar year season 2011: Indycar screwed up. It's great Milwaukee is coming back. I wish it'd never stopped hosting Indycar honestly, it's one of those iconic, classic tracks that is part of the series history and deserves to be run more. I'd happily swap one of the Iowa dates for Milwaukee, personally. Hell I'd swap Texas for Michigan and another 500 miler, and a 200 miler at Milwaukee. Yes I'm a traditionalist. Gimme Milwaukee in the week after Indy, thankshga

@Gordanovich02 11 месяцев назад

I re-watched the entire 93 race a couple of years ago and it still astounds me how Mansell figured that race out.

@philgiglio7922 10 месяцев назад

Phoenix mile always followed Indy 500 and was usually a better race to watch

@kingfloopy 11 месяцев назад

I remember watching this race live when I was in college. You could really feel CART was dying at the end of that season.

@marcelseifert9791 11 месяцев назад

Reminds me of the start crash in Spa/Belgium in Formula 1!

@geofffitz1497 10 месяцев назад

The brilliant minds of CART at work here. "We can run a race with no wiggle room in days to be able to postpone until the next day. Let's also run the next weekend in the US. How hard could flying a whole racing organization 7600 miles be?" DUH.

@mikea3273 11 месяцев назад

That crash was an all-time bullet dodge for all involved.

@vesnabernjak-ord8674 11 месяцев назад

I think IndyCar should return to Australia. It would be really cool if they do!

@socram_jb17 9 месяцев назад

As a F1 Fan I can say it was the U.S. Version of 1998 Belgian GP and a reminiscence too of 1989 and 1991 Australian GP

@nicklythall 11 месяцев назад

I was there, my Dad & I were seated at the final corner. We’d been waiting in the rain alllll day so it was good to see some cars running, but as soon as they got the green flag we knew there’d be carnage. You could hear the massive crunch the whole way down the straight, and friends of ours sitting in the grandstands on the main straight had bits of carbon fibre land around them. Still miss the Indy on the Gold Coast.

@conrailman 15 дней назад

I do remember this race but for some reason I had thought it was Michel Jourdain instead of Mario Dominguez who won. Thanks for refreshing my memory and showing this s***can of a race again.

@patmanbnl 11 месяцев назад

That 2002 Cart pitstop rule was so dumb.

@Demise90Racing 11 месяцев назад

It really was. Especially enforcing it when you do your full stint under yellow. I will give credit to the consistency though.

@mgers75 11 месяцев назад

Ive seen every similar incident in the Halo/windscreen era of open-wheel described as life-saving without the device. It's a miracle that no one was killed or paralyzed or made a vegetable in that pileup!

@Heksu99 11 месяцев назад

Eh, how about Spa 98. That was lucky as there were tyres and cars flying everywhere

@CharlesFreck 11 месяцев назад

I mean, the Windscreen absolutely saves lots of lives, Indycar racing is way more dangerous then F1. But the Halo, eh. It's probably only saved Grosjeans life. People just like to act self righteous about it because racers (quite rightly) thought open wheel racing was diminished by creating closed cockpits, since it's not really just you and the wind anymore.

@NickeyF1 11 месяцев назад

@@CharlesFreck Halo definitely saved Nissanys life in Silverstone and Da Costas life in Rome. Probably Peronis in Monza too. Hamilton (Monza), Leclerc (Spa), Zhou (Silverstone) and Malony (Spa) we don't know, but surely prevented any (serious) injuries.

@CharlesFreck 11 месяцев назад

@NickeyF1 oh sorry, I meant just F1. Halo has saved heaps in Formula E and the junior Formula categories, which are far more deadly then Formula 1

@NickeyF1 11 месяцев назад

@@CharlesFreck Ah I see, no worries! :) You're right with that!

@kailahmann1823 11 месяцев назад

I think it was fair to keep the race rolling for at least 20 more lap after announcing that mandatory stop - however they should have told this to the teams, because then everybody would have come in on lap 21 to create even ground or even some "the fastest pit stop wins".

@kbm118 11 месяцев назад

The mandatory pit window wasn't unique to this race... it was a CART rule for the season. The intention was to eliminate boring fuel-strategy races where cars cruise around trying to save fuel and avoid an extra pit stop, instead of driving hard and passing each other.

@Demise90Racing 11 месяцев назад

Yeah I know, but it was just weird situation here, as nobody knew when the race was going to go back to green or end for that matter. So driving your entire 20 lap stint under caution and being forced to pit is pretty stupid. But, the rules are the rules, so I have to at least give them credit for consistency.

@stevenkilsdonk2046 11 месяцев назад

@@Demise90Racing I was going to make a similar comment if it wasn't already here. The way it's said in the video sounds like they made the rule up for the conditions presented that day.

@Demise90Racing 11 месяцев назад

@@stevenkilsdonk2046 Yeah I should have done a better job explaining the rule was at every race in 2002. But this race specifically exposed how dumb it really was.

@TheGridSimracing 11 месяцев назад

This race was better than F1 Spa 2021 fiasco.

@arenasnow 11 месяцев назад

No. This was worse because at least that "race" properly reflected driver/team speed and wasn't decided by some arbitrary strategy gimmick, there was no big wreck, no injuries, and the driver who caused one of those injuries in an extremely dumb wreck didn't win.

@natec5373 11 месяцев назад

@@arenasnowdog, Williams got second... In 2021

@arenasnow 11 месяцев назад

@@natec5373 Because Russell legitimately qualified 2nd. Would he have finished there in a full race? No. But at least he EARNED that position based on his qualifying, while Dominguez did not earn his position in this race. That is my point.

@andyhamilton8940 11 месяцев назад

Michael should have pretended he had radio problems from the weather and stayed out.

@zachbuchanan3928 11 месяцев назад

For years I’d wanted to do a video titled this. So glad somebody’s done it! For sure the worst AOW race. Well done!

@Dat-Mudkip 11 месяцев назад

If CART had stuck with the original plan of 35 laps and/or had not mandated a pit stop window they likely could have gotten away with it.

@Ultimate23Dragon 11 месяцев назад

Definitions can vary based on certain things on the worst anything, but I definitely see the argument beyond just the wreck for this one.

@adambradshaw86 11 месяцев назад

Another great video. Big props from Europe.

@faliray4889 11 месяцев назад

I think it's halarious that Domingous won. Makes the video worthwhile.

@scottnicholson7696 11 месяцев назад

I'd recommend anyone watch the fan footage of the initial crash. Most violent sounding crash you'll ever here

@PurestBollocks 11 месяцев назад

I was there. It was an awful day. Proper summer storms for the area. It was freezing cold with the breeze coming in off the Pacific. Soaking wet and seeing no racing laps. Worst day I've had at a track. But i still wish they raced at Surfers

@michaelruston5190 11 месяцев назад

This reminds me of the Formula 1, 1998 Belgian Grand Prix, at Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, where mutliple cars crashed on the start, as well as the 1973 Indianapolis 500, where multiple cars crashed on the start as well.

@zachbuchanan3928 11 месяцев назад

IIRC, the entire 2002 season was where CART had mandatory pit windows, so it wasn’t exclusive to this race

@jbj7599 11 месяцев назад

Bring Indy back to the Milwaukee Mile!

@SeinenNinja 18 дней назад

They are this year

@jbj7599 16 дней назад

@SeinenNinja yeah I think they announced it a month or two after my comment. I'd like to think that was what made it happen lol.

@food223 9 месяцев назад

this video makes me feel ancient especially seeing Scott Dixon's name there, he has been around for such a long time, i remember that race live but i only remember the starting crash(hard to forget that)

@RebelTXWrestling 11 месяцев назад

To this day some open wheel fans think CART fixed the race for Mario Dominguez to win consider the drivers and teams ahead of him before their mandatory pit stop were heading to Indycar or NASCAR. Mario Dominguez gifted first win would end up giving him a karma years down the road. He DNQ'd at Indy and the team he drove for end up closing their doors. Dominguez never got another shot at Indy ever.

@parabellumgaming5031 10 месяцев назад

I remember this event so well as I was there getting absolutely soaked by the rain all day long. I really do miss this event and would have loved another championship to continue here but understandable the cost can not be justified some times. On a side note, I do have in my possession Mario's visor from this event, along with a few other items.

@michaelruston5190 10 месяцев назад

This was the worst race, 31 laps under caution, and only 7 laps ran under green, the race the 2002 Honda Indy 300, from Surfers Paradise in Queensland, Australia, originally 70 laps, then reduced to 50 laps, now 41 laps, because of the terrible crash, and terrible weather.

@Posirep 11 месяцев назад

Scott Dixon suffered the horrors of this race, Texas 2001 and the first Nashville race. lol

@ajwest9296 11 месяцев назад

I got to admit it is strange to see him in any CGR car without the number 9.

@Posirep 11 месяцев назад

@ajwest9296 It was the following season in 2003 when they switched to 9 and the rest is history.

@Db_SpaceFace 7 месяцев назад

I was sitting near the turn 1 chicane all race weekend that year. I'm sure you can understand the rage I felt when THIS is how the race played out. Particularly after toughing out the monsoon weather all afternoon.

@elmonteslim3711 Месяц назад

I was at that Race in Gold Coast because my Company was the sponser (Lexmark). I got Mario to sign my hat before the race and everybody laughed at me....and then he WON

@smithy2 11 месяцев назад

Loved watching champcar back in the early 90s, such a memorable race and crash. The OG indy course was so much better than the new layout supercars uses today

@Atticus3lack 11 месяцев назад

4mins into the video... Never seen that crash before. I'm kinda in shock to be honest. I'm so surprised no one died.

@pursang6792 11 месяцев назад

A new racing event, IndyCar (CART) Bowling. I feel for the spectators, spending all that money for an amateur run event. I understand that rain causes problems but a series should have a good Plan B that doesn't include running 75% (approx.) of the race under yellow.

@KevinHarvickisnothappy4 11 месяцев назад

You know a race is bad when multiple drivers get injured and are slipping and smashing in standing water

@P1nkR 10 месяцев назад

There used to be an incredible video of footage from the start crash shot from the grand stands. I cannot seem to find it anymore though.

@macporteiro 10 месяцев назад

I was watching it in Brazil back in the day. Live on TV, with commentators going crazy at Mario Dominguez for his pile crash at the start. They were mocking him during the whole broadcast every time they had a chance, and it was actually fun to watch, as the commentators were working their mouths off to give spectators something close to entertainment and information. Lots of F1 drivers were also at their homes watching and called the TV, such as Barrichello and Emerson Fittipaldi. And as the event unfolded, Mario Dominguez was about to win, so the second commentator had to say his name mouthful as a remark of how weird the whole “race” was.

@seannolan9857 11 месяцев назад

The honor of worst Champ Car race ever goes to a AAA race at Morris Park in the Bronx, held on the fourth of July 1905. 8 cars qualified for the race, but six of them failed to start. Louis Chevrolet started, but blew his engine on the first lap. Webb Jay completed one lap and was then declared the winner. It was the only win of his career.

@berserksamurai 11 месяцев назад

more entertaining than 2021 Spa though

@Demise90Racing 11 месяцев назад

10000% lol

@arenasnow 11 месяцев назад

This race was worse because at least that race properly reflected driver/team speed and didn't have a bunch of arbitrary reshuffles and there were no big wrecks and injuries in that one.

@brandensimmons653 11 месяцев назад

Be the battery ram but win the race anyway quite a bizzare scene in surfer's paradise

@Iris_and_or_George 10 месяцев назад

Hilarious! Thank you!

@matsimmo6208 11 месяцев назад

There’s an additional camera angle from a spectator in the grandstand, it’s wild

@AeroGuy07 11 месяцев назад

I remember watching this race and thinking that someone was probably dead or seriously injured after that front stretch crash.

@tylermathis-kx7pu 11 месяцев назад

Yep. THAT race 🤦‍♂️

@kevinb9062 11 месяцев назад

Worst is subjective. Races where a driver dies is far worse than a trival rain affected race.

@arenasnow 11 месяцев назад

I think I disagree with that. There were a lot of NASCAR Daytona races worse than the 2001 Daytona 500 and a lot of CART races worse than the race where Greg Moore died. And the Moore thing seemed entirely like a freak incident while there were injuries in this one caused by Dominguez's stupidity. The 1998 CART race at Michigan was definitely one of the most exciting ever even though that tire went into the stands. I'd definitely say Las Vegas 2011 was worse though especially because they decided to abandon the race afterward and I'd probably agree that the 1973 Indy 500 was.

@JK-zx3go 11 месяцев назад

So lucky that someone didn't end up with a broken neck.

@tallowatt34 11 месяцев назад

Wait wait wait...if the race is shortened to 50 laps then halfway would be lap 25 not 35...right? Or do the rules state the initial halfway point?

@RazingthenRaising 10 месяцев назад

Wow. Reminds me of Spa a couple of years ago.... Pitiful.

@muhammadwahyuhidayat21498 11 месяцев назад

Next week,the 2003 Beef Feud of Ricky Rudd vs Kevin Harvick at Richmond Night Race Nascar Cup Series playoffs

@cameronjones305 11 месяцев назад

NASCAR sucks

@alessandrosanna1270 11 месяцев назад

In australia nel 1991 in f1 era sucessa una cosa simile o monaco 1984 però le gare furono interotte proprio per la visibilità

@daebi37 11 месяцев назад

I wish no harm to any driver currently alive. I am not a fan of road courses nor open wheel racing. Stuff like this would absolutely make me tune in every week.

@dmor6696 10 месяцев назад

this is crazy. i am glad the motorsport evolved towards safety

@chillenlikeavillain 11 месяцев назад

I'd want my money back

@GowGows 9 месяцев назад

Damn, I thought last weekend at Laguna Seca was bad and I was there

@AlonsoRules 10 месяцев назад

That was one of the worst crashes in the history of motor racing

@brokenmusician1 10 месяцев назад

if you found this interesting, check out the 1998 Spa Grand Prix. Utter carnage. Also shows how good Schumy was in the wet. Get well soon Micheal x.

@Demise90Racing 10 месяцев назад

I actually did a video on that race already. It's on my channel 😀

@brokenmusician1 10 месяцев назад

@@Demise90Racing Cool stuff, I'll check it. I re-watched it recently. Aside from the carnage, the racing was actually really good. Just why they went for a standing start in those conditions is baffling. Thanks for the vids.

@chee_wai 10 месяцев назад

I was at this race. It's not till now I realised what happened

@tonykartracer8032 11 месяцев назад

I saw this live on TV...... strange race, indeed.

@gofastandwynn 10 месяцев назад

So I actually had the opportunity to meet Chris Kneifel a few years ago and I asked him about this race, and his exact words were he doesn’t talk about his days as chief steward

@victoruribe2465 10 месяцев назад

That race was a no-contest following the accident and the poor visibility.

@269productions 11 месяцев назад

Amazing how they could get this track apart in one night, but Nascar couldn't clear Chicago for weeks. Nascar should have just put up signs saying free scrap, help yourselves 😂

@stevenkilsdonk2046 11 месяцев назад

I doubt it was completely apart, but the roads were passable. I visited Surfers before Bathurst one year and they were installing barriers then, over two weeks before the event.

@voodoobluetaco 11 месяцев назад

I still believe the race in Vegas in 2011 was the worst.

@BigBullet-sk8vg 10 месяцев назад

Cristiano Da Matta would make his F1 debut with Toyota in 2003. He would then be dropped by Toyota halfway through the 2004 season, partly due to his performances but also because of his comments about the car being uncompetitive. He was replaced by Toyota test driver Ricardo Zonta for the rest of the season.

@edwardharris9810 10 месяцев назад

Not sure this was the worst IndyCar race of all time but it certainly was a bizarre race.

@clips65 11 месяцев назад

I knew it was this race and still have the VHS recording !!!

@CptJET-he8nc 11 месяцев назад

TY/GJ👍

@bradsanders407 10 месяцев назад

Worst Indycar race, proceeds to show a Cart race.

@Demise90Racing 10 месяцев назад

After reunification in 2008, USAC, CART, Champ Car, and IRL all fall under the Indycar banner. So yes, it is an IndyCar race.

@ntnsty 11 месяцев назад

7 green flag laps. Agree the worst. Why would anyone celebrate a victory like that.

@Mhjeffrey027running 11 месяцев назад

In hindsight im sure the officials should have started the race under yellow, qs arguably the best conditions during the period of the "race" was during the clean up. As for Dominguez, who probably celebrated knowing that clinched Rookie of the Year (the only other contender Townsend Bell was sacked about 8 rounds earlier but was still leading prior to this round), at least he got another race win at Miami a year later where he could celebrate legitimately.

@hawkmoon419 11 месяцев назад

I remember watching this live, What a debacle.

@SharDarksoul 10 месяцев назад

This is the race that killed CART off.

@HouzBinPharteen 11 месяцев назад

Things like that were the exact reason why cart went ...buh bye. Seems Nascart didn't learn anything from their example. There used to be years long waitlists to get into Nascart races. Now you can get free tickets if you buy an Icee and a candy bar from a gas station near the track. I stopped watching Nascart when they started doing all the gimmicky crap with the points and then that god awful playoff crap. That, and most of the teenage drivers that flooded Nascart were a bunch of whiny cry babies.