Beautiful last laps between Newgarden, Pato and Palou. Pure adrenaline and incredibly CLEAN and fair racing to the absolute limit. And what a great driver Newgarden is too.
Really feel for Grosjean, he keeps coming so close to a good result, and then it gets away from him. He's really got it in him to bag a few wins this year
Now THAT was a RACE!!! INDYCAR 2023 is shaping up to be an amazing year!!! Now onto my favorite street circuit: The Battle at the beach, AKA The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🏁🏁🏁
My sweet LORD, Pato was on HYPERSPEED!!! How is it possible to lap 3rd place halfway through the race on pure pace in a spec series?!! 🤯🤯🤯 Sure Texas is a short oval but still, it is insane! Everybody else was given a 2nd wing with Rosenqvists yellow flag. But oh man we should not ignore the sheer skills of this young mexican. He definitely is the next big thing in the motorsports world.
I know right. That Mclaren of Pato putting on a Blitzkrieg. Not only that, that last 10 laps Pati was essentially somewhat able keep up his pace even with old tires. Me and my girlfriend were basically going crazy during those last 10 laps.
@@lukmaanpratomo6866 did you & your gf jump up & down and swing fists wildly like baboons? Cuz i sure was during that last stanza. Goodness me that was a dogfight.
IndyCar is slowly becoming the purest racing series in the world. NASCAR is a circus on wheels with their endless gimmicks and even F1 thanks to Drive To Survive is becoming more and more convoluted and artificial. Look at the Australian GP.
I went to the race yesterday, drove over 4 hours from the final 4, and this event was empty (which was shocking) it was my first race and it was amazing!!! Indy needs to do more promoting because this track is amazing!!!!! For racing
@@canescatsheat3056 Went to F1 in Austin this year, absolutely packed and inconvenient logistically to get to and from. Watching this IndyCar race, looks like a very nice venue and I couldn't believe how empty it was. I will definitely try to attend next year.
@@ryantrudell4686 definitely do it. All the action unfolds right in front of you. Now that they figured out the extra aero tweaks, this race is phenomenal
This was a fantastic race. The only series today that says the race is over when it's supposed to be over. No green white checkered mess. No manufactured red flags to force everyone back together just to have everyone wreck. The "you get what you get" while it's a brave approach it's the most pure
Texas was a total dud two years ago and a good race last year. This race the way they got two and three lanes working made for an awesome race I hope they sell tickets for the next one.
Indycar was on a decline with fans for a while. Doesn't help that the cars sound worse than f1. But the racing is a lot closer and overall entertaining, and they still do refueling.
What a great race!! Congrats Joseph....what a run frm Pato....feel bad for Graham. The yellows played a big part in this one. Excellent close racing, Thank you NTT Indycar!! 👍👍
Incredible those tri-oval or oval courses is true Newgarden territory Unlucky Grosjean spins out right on the penultimate lap after an all great pace this weekend I feel that he can win a indycar race finally this season ❤️
Fantastic race. Why should anyone bother watching that clown show that F1 has become when you can get some serious, real, balls-to-the-wall driving here. This is not just sport, it's art, I love it!
@@kalebdegroot7825 F1 would be cool in its own way if they wouldn't be all about milking the DTS fake drama crowd at the expense of the sporting aspect nowadays. I've been an F1 fan primarily since my earliest memories as a kid but they're making it more and more difficult to stick with them
@Kaleb DeGroot Only thing cool left about f1 are some of the classic tracks. Way too much inconsistency with penalties,no tire wars,no refueling and terrible sounding engines.
Desde Argentina felicitaciones por tan emocionante carrera y muy bien el equipo Argentino JUNCOS y nuestro debutante Agustin Canapino que es la primera vez que en un indy corre en un Ovalo .
Awesome side by sides all race, masterclass from Newgarden,after he lapped almost everyone except one i feel bad for O'ward, like he was robbed of the chance to win. Gutted for Grosjean ,but he still has a long way to go before that win
Huge gap in the market for Indycar to pounce on. So many old school motorsport fans sick of the current state of F1. Indy could really fill the void in the proper motor racing.
if the races are always this tight then I may just drop F1 races from my motorsport watching schedule lol, the development war is still undoubtedly interesting but I'd rather watch this rather than the trainwreck that was the Aus GP
7:01 Someone explain why Hinch and Townsend would think that it was Kirkwood's fault for Rossi being released unsafely (other than Hinch and Rossi being best buds).
Their explanation - which I agree with btw - was Kirkwood was in the third lane rather than second. Normally that’d be cars that had received service and were outbound from the pits. Heck you can see it was likely to cause Kirkwood problems if you watch his on-board, the angle he’s having to come in at is very steep. Now you can also say that whoever’s responsible for the release should have those around them memorised but not sure that’s practical at the speed things happen in the pits and with some very similar paint jobs. On balance both could have done better but a penalty for Rossi after he’d already lost 6 laps as a result felt.. umm, let’s go with strange.
Can some American explain me why NASCAR has full crowd stadiums and indycar barely fills the grand stand? Indycar is so much more exciting and the quality of drivers is much higher than in NASCAR. Being a simple European, i just don't get it.
(Canadian here) NASCAR for the last 35 years has marketed its drivers 1000% better than IndyCar, which for half of that time was too busy with infighting to do anything about NASCAR's rise. Like how in Europe, F1 drivers have almost cult-like status amongst highly loyal fans, in America, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Dale Jarrett, Terry and Bobby Labonte, Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth, Kurt and Kyle Busch are all household names that people either love, or love to hate. IndyCar to this day still lags behind in marketing.
It had to do with broadcasting deals. Unlike F1 and NASCAR who now control their own TV deals, the current IndyCar TV deals basically making the current holder (NBC) had control on when the race could be started. Now as a national broadcaster, never expect a motorracing showed on prime time i.e 6pm because really nobody wants it. As a result, some of the race were started not in such an ideal time that it not warrant enough people to came(A problem that was obvious on track like Texas and Gateway at recent time, and pretty much the reason why we don't see any single night race even in street circuit). In the past, this problem was solved by having races aired on cable network which was why we've still got night races. But that channel died couple of years ago so we've got this. If anything, the only choices they got is to broadcasted it on streaming services which unless you're F1 TV, it never going to work.
@@steveo_80 you've got a good point there , Sir Maple Tree. I've never followed NASCAR and still I know all those names you mentioned. When i started to follow indycar, i didn't knew any of the drivers.
Look up "The Indycar Split" video series by nascarman. From 1996-2008 Indycar was split into two series, CART and the IRL, and in the process killed viewership of both series. Fifteen years later the series still feels the effects of that period.
I’m not a Kirkwood fan. I’m am a fan of Rossi fan. 100% fault of Rossi’s crew chief. Rossi should have not be released. Kirkwood was in the third lane so as to allow cars to leave their pit box cleanly. That’s why Kirkwood came in at that time trek angle. Incoming car or car already in the driving lane always has right of way over car leaving pit. Indy, F1, IMSA all have this rule. Kirkwood would have collected another racer if he had slowed too much. Also no way Kirkwood would have seen Rossi. No way Rossi would have seen Kirkwood. That’s while the release is on the crew chief. The penalty was on the team.
I watched the NASCAR race on the exact same day as this. An odd veteran in Kyle Larson wound up getting the win. And the very next day, I see the highlight video for this race, and I think, “Wow. I was watching the disappointing result of the NASCAR race when I could’ve been watching this generational thriller.”
Great race... wow to see McLaren leading the championship and really should have 2 wins misfortune aside. Grosjean is another one I have sympathy for he also was in the running for a win in St Pete and probably a top 5 in Texas. Josef Newgarden is the best driver in the series... Palou showing he is no fluke. Andretti despite having little to show for it is showing pace... RLL lost and confused and AJFR not doing anything as usual, Santino has his work cut out for him. Gap between first two races is really hard to understand honestly.
It was a very exciting 1/2 race to watch🤦♂🙄 ... I thank you for posting it!💝 I did click the 👍 It was a good race but I think the ending was exhilarating until Grosjean had the accident at the very end which brought out an automatic yellow and the cars coasted across the finish line! A real let down of a way to end a race! my opinion 🦂🥂
oh look, fellow F1 fan trying to watch indycar I usually look on the IndyCar subreddit since they would always post a spotters guide there, as for drivers I just pick someone at random to be my favorite lol since I have no idea about any of them; my favorite driver is Pato O'ward btw
It's not that hard to understand, it's an oval race, they refuel these cars, two tire types, limited pit crew. Other than that basically the same as F1
This race is the reason why i love Indycar. What a race this was.
Beautiful last laps between Newgarden, Pato and Palou. Pure adrenaline and incredibly CLEAN and fair racing to the absolute limit. And what a great driver Newgarden is too.
This is why i love Indycar, what a race!! UK fan here :)
Same from Germany
Same from Malaysia
Best race in the last few years.
Holy cow! Now THIS is racing! That was beautiful!
Really feel for Grosjean, he keeps coming so close to a good result, and then it gets away from him. He's really got it in him to bag a few wins this year
He's also got it in him to bag several more DNF's LOL if I was him I would simply try to not crash
It was the same story for him in 2012/13 f1
Pretty much like F1 Grosjean. Can be freakin' quick but in the end crashes it somewhere. Different class, same story.
@@LongFacedBastard Grosjean loves to rack up DNFs.
Now THAT was a RACE!!! INDYCAR 2023 is shaping up to be an amazing year!!! Now onto my favorite street circuit: The Battle at the beach, AKA The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🏁🏁🏁
The most exciting superspeedway race I've ever watched in single-seaters!
My sweet LORD, Pato was on HYPERSPEED!!!
How is it possible to lap 3rd place halfway through the race on pure pace in a spec series?!! 🤯🤯🤯
Sure Texas is a short oval but still, it is insane! Everybody else was given a 2nd wing with Rosenqvists yellow flag. But oh man we should not ignore the sheer skills of this young mexican. He definitely is the next big thing in the motorsports world.
I know right. That Mclaren of Pato putting on a Blitzkrieg. Not only that, that last 10 laps Pati was essentially somewhat able keep up his pace even with old tires.
Me and my girlfriend were basically going crazy during those last 10 laps.
@@lukmaanpratomo6866 did you & your gf jump up & down and swing fists wildly like baboons? Cuz i sure was during that last stanza. Goodness me that was a dogfight.
IndyCar is slowly becoming the purest racing series in the world. NASCAR is a circus on wheels with their endless gimmicks and even F1 thanks to Drive To Survive is becoming more and more convoluted and artificial. Look at the Australian GP.
I went to the race yesterday, drove over 4 hours from the final 4, and this event was empty (which was shocking) it was my first race and it was amazing!!! Indy needs to do more promoting because this track is amazing!!!!! For racing
@@canescatsheat3056 Went to F1 in Austin this year, absolutely packed and inconvenient logistically to get to and from. Watching this IndyCar race, looks like a very nice venue and I couldn't believe how empty it was. I will definitely try to attend next year.
Already is.
@@ryantrudell4686 definitely do it. All the action unfolds right in front of you. Now that they figured out the extra aero tweaks, this race is phenomenal
I was so pissed after the Australian GP...so many stupid red flags.
Wow awesome racing!!!
This was a fantastic race. The only series today that says the race is over when it's supposed to be over. No green white checkered mess. No manufactured red flags to force everyone back together just to have everyone wreck. The "you get what you get" while it's a brave approach it's the most pure
Just coming back to this race. Incredible racing
One of the best races we'll see in all of motorsport this year, that was fantastic!
What an incredible race!!!! Thats why i love IndyCar!!
Was following this from the radio bc here in Spain Indycar is paying TV, but I felt at the edge of my seat the full 2 hours, what a thiller!
I don't get why the stands aren't fully packed for indycar oval races I'd kill to be able to attend one
Hopefully it is twice as full next year after people watch this race. I was at the track, and it was such a thrilling race!!
Texas was a total dud two years ago and a good race last year. This race the way they got two and three lanes working made for an awesome race I hope they sell tickets for the next one.
The weather was sketchy with a high chance of thunderstorms and possible tornadic activity. This year has been a bit odd.
Indycar was on a decline with fans for a while. Doesn't help that the cars sound worse than f1.
But the racing is a lot closer and overall entertaining, and they still do refueling.
Great race! We need to bring back the 500 mile triple crown!
Yes!
Came here to comment on how awesome this race was... glad everyone else came to do the same ❤
Super entertaining. Proper racing.
What a race!!! I love Indycar!
I was there for the race. It's one of best races I've attended. When Devlin and Graham crashed I overheard a fan yell, "DAMMIT DEVLIN!" in the crowd
Vamos 🇦🇷Canapino🇦🇷; Vamos
🇦🇷JuncosRacing🇦🇷!!!. Desde Córdoba, Argentina les hacemos el aguante!!!.
From Germany: love this stuff
As an F1 fan I have to say it's been a long time an F1 race was as exciting as this one! Those oval drivers are animals, wow!
What a great race!! Congrats Joseph....what a run frm Pato....feel bad for Graham. The yellows played a big part in this one. Excellent close racing, Thank you NTT Indycar!! 👍👍
Incredible those tri-oval or oval courses is true Newgarden territory Unlucky Grosjean spins out right on the penultimate lap after an all great pace this weekend I feel that he can win a indycar race finally this season ❤️
Great racing! Nice and tight driving super exciting Texas oval racing!
Best Texas race since 2016-2017
Incredible speeds. The Indy 500 is the great one.
What a race! Congrats Josef!
What a race! Amazing show and keep doing these fast forwards, they are very nice to review the race. Greetings from Spain!
Another nail biting last few laps. Wow!!
What. A. Race!
Entertaining, love the indycars. Longbeach 🌴 can't wait, come on pato, 3rd time lucky.
Fantastic race.
Why should anyone bother watching that clown show that F1 has become when you can get some serious, real, balls-to-the-wall driving here. This is not just sport, it's art, I love it!
You can gas up indycar without shitting on f1. F1 is cool in its own way. Its more about engineering rather than straight up racing.
@@kalebdegroot7825 F1 would be cool in its own way if they wouldn't be all about milking the DTS fake drama crowd at the expense of the sporting aspect nowadays. I've been an F1 fan primarily since my earliest memories as a kid but they're making it more and more difficult to stick with them
@@TheFantomsLair That’s fair.
@Kaleb DeGroot
Only thing cool left about f1 are some of the classic tracks.
Way too much inconsistency with penalties,no tire wars,no refueling and terrible sounding engines.
Excelente Canapino , saludos de Cordoba Argentina
I can't imagine if this F1 race like this so wild 😂😂😂
F1 can't race this close
Well australia was the short answer, but yeah overall Texas was more packed and less carnage
@@Nagato_TruePain Because its more of an engineering sport. Its all about who can build the best car.
@@kalebdegroot7825 I'm a fan of F1 too. I appreciate the different philosophies each motorsports provides.
Would never happened until they have equal cars
AWESOME AWESOME RACE! I did not want to even blink. My eyes were all around confused which car to look. I cant wait for next oval race already..
Indy 500 is the next Oval
@@BengtsonJ no? Indy 500 is always in May
@@exiles299 I had a Typo. The next Oval is Indy but Typed week for some stupid reason.
Grande el TITAN, que crack que sos hermano. Vamos a más, con la categoria de siempre.
Desde Argentina felicitaciones por tan emocionante carrera y muy bien el equipo Argentino JUNCOS y nuestro debutante Agustin Canapino que es la primera vez que en un indy corre en un Ovalo .
Great race, congratulations all you guys!!🎉🎉🎉
Best race here in years
Incredible race. We need more people in the stands!
I don't think the cameras fully captured how many people were in the upper deck shady area. Most definitely could use more attendance though
Fantastic race!
Awesome side by sides all race, masterclass from Newgarden,after he lapped almost everyone except one i feel bad for O'ward, like he was robbed of the chance to win. Gutted for Grosjean ,but he still has a long way to go before that win
Great race!! Fantastic race!!
Better than F1 Australian GP.
By a wide margin.
Huge gap in the market for Indycar to pounce on. So many old school motorsport fans sick of the current state of F1. Indy could really fill the void in the proper motor racing.
Canapino sos un genio !!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Great oval race. As much as I hate to say it, it might be Taku's last season. I hope he can improve the rest of the season, but man...
Pretty cool race
if the races are always this tight then I may just drop F1 races from my motorsport watching schedule lol, the development war is still undoubtedly interesting but I'd rather watch this rather than the trainwreck that was the Aus GP
So gutted for Grosjean 😮💨
7:01 Someone explain why Hinch and Townsend would think that it was Kirkwood's fault for Rossi being released unsafely (other than Hinch and Rossi being best buds).
Their explanation - which I agree with btw - was Kirkwood was in the third lane rather than second. Normally that’d be cars that had received service and were outbound from the pits. Heck you can see it was likely to cause Kirkwood problems if you watch his on-board, the angle he’s having to come in at is very steep. Now you can also say that whoever’s responsible for the release should have those around them memorised but not sure that’s practical at the speed things happen in the pits and with some very similar paint jobs. On balance both could have done better but a penalty for Rossi after he’d already lost 6 laps as a result felt.. umm, let’s go with strange.
Good race.
If you pause at 24:56 and squint, you would swear it's 2004 again lol
Great race.
Can some American explain me why NASCAR has full crowd stadiums and indycar barely fills the grand stand? Indycar is so much more exciting and the quality of drivers is much higher than in NASCAR. Being a simple European, i just don't get it.
(Canadian here) NASCAR for the last 35 years has marketed its drivers 1000% better than IndyCar, which for half of that time was too busy with infighting to do anything about NASCAR's rise. Like how in Europe, F1 drivers have almost cult-like status amongst highly loyal fans, in America, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Dale Jarrett, Terry and Bobby Labonte, Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth, Kurt and Kyle Busch are all household names that people either love, or love to hate. IndyCar to this day still lags behind in marketing.
It had to do with broadcasting deals. Unlike F1 and NASCAR who now control their own TV deals, the current IndyCar TV deals basically making the current holder (NBC) had control on when the race could be started. Now as a national broadcaster, never expect a motorracing showed on prime time i.e 6pm because really nobody wants it. As a result, some of the race were started not in such an ideal time that it not warrant enough people to came(A problem that was obvious on track like Texas and Gateway at recent time, and pretty much the reason why we don't see any single night race even in street circuit).
In the past, this problem was solved by having races aired on cable network which was why we've still got night races. But that channel died couple of years ago so we've got this. If anything, the only choices they got is to broadcasted it on streaming services which unless you're F1 TV, it never going to work.
@@steveo_80 you've got a good point there , Sir Maple Tree. I've never followed NASCAR and still I know all those names you mentioned. When i started to follow indycar, i didn't knew any of the drivers.
Look up "The Indycar Split" video series by nascarman. From 1996-2008 Indycar was split into two series, CART and the IRL, and in the process killed viewership of both series. Fifteen years later the series still feels the effects of that period.
I was watching Newgarden's stream during the race. About a lap an a half before Rosenqvist's crash, Tim Cendric said, "we just need a yellow."
I’m not a Kirkwood fan. I’m am a fan of Rossi fan. 100% fault of Rossi’s crew chief. Rossi should have not be released. Kirkwood was in the third lane so as to allow cars to leave their pit box cleanly. That’s why Kirkwood came in at that time trek angle. Incoming car or car already in the driving lane always has right of way over car leaving pit. Indy, F1, IMSA all have this rule. Kirkwood would have collected another racer if he had slowed too much. Also no way Kirkwood would have seen Rossi. No way Rossi would have seen Kirkwood. That’s while the release is on the crew chief. The penalty was on the team.
Yep, they need to know who's coming into pit and who's left. They didn't, and that's what happened.
AGUSTÍN CANAPINO, 💪🇦🇷😍🏆🏆🏆🏆
This is the year of the duck 🦆🇲🇽 Vamos Pato!!!
I watched the NASCAR race on the exact same day as this. An odd veteran in Kyle Larson wound up getting the win. And the very next day, I see the highlight video for this race, and I think, “Wow. I was watching the disappointing result of the NASCAR race when I could’ve been watching this generational thriller.”
Nascar couldn't run this close and not crash f1 never this close for lead
As a nascar fan Indy car needs more ovals! At least 6-8 on the schedule
More Ovals!
Thank you Indycar. What a race! Oval racing at its finest. GO PATO GO
Great race... wow to see McLaren leading the championship and really should have 2 wins misfortune aside. Grosjean is another one I have sympathy for he also was in the running for a win in St Pete and probably a top 5 in Texas. Josef Newgarden is the best driver in the series... Palou showing he is no fluke. Andretti despite having little to show for it is showing pace... RLL lost and confused and AJFR not doing anything as usual, Santino has his work cut out for him. Gap between first two races is really hard to understand honestly.
Wowww what a great race. Greetings from Poland. Please Indycar come to PL
Beaultiful race. Beaultiful!!
We need more ovals. ASAP.
It was a very exciting 1/2 race to watch🤦♂🙄 ... I thank you for posting it!💝 I did click the 👍
It was a good race but I think the ending was exhilarating until Grosjean had the accident at the very end which brought out an automatic yellow and the cars coasted across the finish line! A real let down of a way to end a race!
my opinion 🦂🥂
Share this video with your race fan friends and If they don't like It they are not REALLY Race fans.
what a beast Pato is!!!
PPG Baby!!!
CANAPINO GO GO GO!
Aguante Canapino 💪😎🇦🇷
Could we have 10 of more Winners this Season!
Can someone explain to me why all the commentators disagree with the unsafe release penalty??
So much better than the 500 this year
Boa corrida. Pena que Helionho não foi melhor.
Kiwi's can fly.
Is it about the car about the tire management or just thes car wins
tire management is one part of the equation, as is refueling (and obviously driving)
Lets go Pato!
TY
I love IndyCar racing more than the always bored n overrated f1....
Shaz from Malaysia here...
Stands so empty! Why? 😢
They really shafted Rossi
Wow... shame for oward.. he lapped the entire field only to lose it because some drivers couldn't keep it off the wall....
Once again Indycar makes F1 look like a shitshow by comparison.
18:57
Of course Grosjean crashed. How does this guy keep getting drives?
Am taking McLaughlin to win.....not complete sure ...but that's my ...pic
Was three foot distance from him today in the pits
Seems like Romain Grosjean never got a good results at this rate if he keeps on wrecking.
Grosjean being Grosjean once again
Almost nobody there - Indycar is dying
Nobody has ever been at Texas Motor Speedway since the 90s. The track is dying. NASCAR has had empty stands at the track for decades
this looks amazing but I don't understand nothing I'm F1 fan trying 2 watch it but I just can get anything
oh look, fellow F1 fan trying to watch indycar
I usually look on the IndyCar subreddit since they would always post a spotters guide there, as for drivers I just pick someone at random to be my favorite lol since I have no idea about any of them; my favorite driver is Pato O'ward btw
It's not that hard to understand, it's an oval race, they refuel these cars, two tire types, limited pit crew. Other than that basically the same as F1
IndyCar puts f1 to shame .......
🤠💯👌
lol...Grosjean..doing Grosjean things...
He gets an A for his speed and trying but needs to stay clean and finish the race to get results.