The Classic IndyCar/CART thread

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:16 pm

I think this thread has already exhausted most of the Road America races, but no problem in revisiting them!

Dan Belcher wrote:

One of my favorite races, because it's so positively batshit insane, is the 1996 CART race at Road America. The start crash, Greg Moore's wild ride followed by Davy Jones flipping under caution, Christian Fittipaldi sitting on the fence, the Pac West guys crashing each other out in spectacular fashion, Robby Gordon having the most Robby Gordon day possible and taking a cheap shot at Ford, and of course the "what the fuck just happened???" final lap.

This!

westracing01 · PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:53 pm

Next up for the stars and cars of the Verizon Indycar Series is the fast and difficult Pocono International Raceway. In honor of this here we have some previous Pocono action in the 1989 flavor.

SecretAgentHarvick · PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 2:58 pm

What year was it that John Andretti sawed his car in half against the pit wall?

westracing01 · PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:57 pm

^ That would be 1988. There is no footage that I know about of the crash itself though there are some still photographs floating around.

SecretAgentHarvick · PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 2:19 pm

westracing01 wrote:

^ That would be 1988. There is no footage that I know about of the crash itself though there are some still photographs floating around.

Yeah, I found the NBC broadcast of that race on Youtube yesterday. The announcers talk about it and a still shot of the car upside down in the pit lane is shown, but no video of the actual crash.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 2:22 pm

Road America has certainly had its fair share of big crashes over the years - Foyt, Tracy, Shaldack, Andretti, Gidley, Moore etc.

Dan Belcher · PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 2:39 pm

SecretAgentHarvick wrote:

westracing01 wrote:

^ That would be 1988. There is no footage that I know about of the crash itself though there are some still photographs floating around.

Yeah, I found the NBC broadcast of that race on Youtube yesterday. The announcers talk about it and a still shot of the car upside down in the pit lane is shown, but no video of the actual crash.

Anyone have a screenshot/picture of this handy by chance?

SecretAgentHarvick · PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:39 pm

Dan Belcher wrote:

SecretAgentHarvick wrote:

westracing01 wrote:

^ That would be 1988. There is no footage that I know about of the crash itself though there are some still photographs floating around.

Yeah, I found the NBC broadcast of that race on Youtube yesterday. The announcers talk about it and a still shot of the car upside down in the pit lane is shown, but no video of the actual crash.

Anyone have a screenshot/picture of this handy by chance?

At 1:27:40 into this video...

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:16 pm

dicksplaash wrote:

I think this thread has already exhausted most of the Road America races, but no problem in revisiting them!

Dan Belcher wrote:

One of my favorite races, because it's so positively batshit insane, is the 1996 CART race at Road America. The start crash, Greg Moore's wild ride followed by Davy Jones flipping under caution, Christian Fittipaldi sitting on the fence, the Pac West guys crashing each other out in spectacular fashion, Robby Gordon having the most Robby Gordon day possible and taking a cheap shot at Ford, and of course the "what the fuck just happened???" final lap.

This!

No wonder I got to be a motorsport addict, dispite loosing indianapolis, 96 and 97 were some great years for Indycars.

iks · PostPosted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:54 am

Soul Reaver wrote:

dicksplaash wrote:

I think this thread has already exhausted most of the Road America races, but no problem in revisiting them!

Dan Belcher wrote:

One of my favorite races, because it's so positively batshit insane, is the 1996 CART race at Road America. The start crash, Greg Moore's wild ride followed by Davy Jones flipping under caution, Christian Fittipaldi sitting on the fence, the Pac West guys crashing each other out in spectacular fashion, Robby Gordon having the most Robby Gordon day possible and taking a cheap shot at Ford, and of course the "what the fuck just happened???" final lap.

This!

No wonder I got to be a motorsport addict, dispite loosing indianapolis, 96 and 97 were some great years for Indycars.

yeah those were some of the best years of CART. It's also when I first started watching. I remember watching Stefan Johansson practicing at Cleveland on ESPN in 1996.

And Moore's two wins at Milwaukee and Detroit were phenomenal, as was Mark Blundell's at Portland.

*sigh*

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:01 pm

And all the brazillians, while there was nothing in F1, there was plenty here.

Wayne · PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 5:54 am

Here's the 1995 race from Mid-Ohio.

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 10:39 am

Wayne wrote:

Here's the 1995 race from Mid-Ohio.

Spoiler:

racer612008 · PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 9:44 pm

another Pocono race

iks · PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:45 am

We'll miss you Justin. :cry:

Wayne · PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 3:11 am

Justin Wilson's first career win.

racer612008 · PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:34 pm

Justin's last win, and his only career oval win in a AOWR series.

racer612008 · PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 3:14 pm

IndyCar uploaded the raw feed of the 2004 IRL Phoenix race. I think this is the first time the full race has been uploaded as ABC missed the start (they joined on at lap 13)

racer612008 · PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:57 pm

IndyCar has started to post some classic races on YouTube again. You can vote on the IndyCar website weekly on which race they will have next, this week was between the 1992 500, 2002 Texas, 2013 Sao Paulo

racer612008 · PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 6:38 pm

this week's classic race upload by IndyCar, the 1984 Michigan 500

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