Closest Indy 500 Finish with Al Unser Jr. and Scott Goodyear in 1992
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- The closest finish in Indianapolis 500 history, between Al Unser Jr. and Scott Goodyear in 1992, almost didn’t happen for a reason often forgotten - Goodyear didn’t qualify for the race.
Unser led by three-tenths of a second with four laps remaining, parrying Goodyear through the final lap.
Goodyear continued to draft Unser on the final lap, staying within two car lengths. But Unser’s Galles Racing Galmer/Chevrolet got slightly loose in Turn 4 on the final lap, and Goodyear pounced.
He pulled up to Unser’s gearbox on the front straight, with the checkered flag in the air. Goodyear darted out of the draft and to the inside but fell just a few feet short of Unser at the Yard of Bricks start-finish line.
The official margin of victory was .043 of a second - almost exactly half of the time span that bumped Scott Goodyear from the field just a week earlier - in the closest finish in Indianapolis 500 history.
So what happened to Larry Henry's audio there?
Michael Andretti lead most of the race until the engine gave up on him.
This was probably the greatest Indy 500 ever.
allstarchris1 The previous (1991) Indy is very great.
The finish maybe, but there was like a million caution flags from crashes or blown engines. Poor Roberto Guerrero crashed on the warm-up lap after sitting on the pole. It had it's moments like the Andretti family splitting Eddie Cheever on the start, Big Al passing Michael late in the race, and Michael just totally dominating the race all the way until his engine quit. Greatest ever? Nah, I can't do that.
Drag race for the 500! Was there in M, so loud you couldn't hear the cars!
Bob Jenkins and that other guy called this finish perfectly. This was even better than Paul Page's call of this finish
My first race ever, thanks for sharing the great content IMS!
The time I saw this, we were teenagers racing in our homemade go cart with a Briggs& Stratton motor dreaming of being Little Al. Good memories.🏎️🏁❤️
Amazing how little draft there was back then
This was when CART was awesome. Now it's boring as hell.
32 years later and this radio call still gives me goosebumps! The power of the Indianapolis 500!
0:38 The crowd is very shenanigans
What if I said I kinda wanted them to wreck each other out so Al Unser Sr in the Menards Buick vacated by Nelson Piquet (destroyed legs in practice crash) would win his 5th Indy...
There were a ton of wrecks that year- for some reason nobody got through turn 4 unscathed.
scott was one of Indy's hard luck drivers. later, he lost to Villaneuve the similiar way with a black flag for a yellow flag pass
32 years ago today! What a finish!
I still feel sorry for pole sitter Guerrero. It might have been his one chance to win the race...
Umm, no, his buick would have grenaded by lap 20.
We saw him continue that left turn out of 2! On the outside of backstretch there were 100 pull into spots. Couldn’t believe it was the pole sitter!
I wonder how different this race would have been without the apron that was put in the next year.
rob mush probably wouldn't have mattered since they're in the middle of the track just sayin
Great race. My first Indy 500, where i started to like the CART.
Al, Jr. should have won Indy in 1989 and then wins Indy in 1992 and 94. He then doesn't qualify in 1995 as they can't give him a good enough car. No wonder drinking drove him down the drain.
Al's little move to the left to block knowing Goodyear was going to try to draft him and pass him on that side won Little Al the race. Going 235 down the backstretch looking in his rearview to see what Scott was doing was pure Al Unser Jr. awesome.
The camera angles on this video were much better than what ABC chose for the live broadcast to capture the final lap
ABC kept showing both wives and missed the finish. The director totally screwed up.
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Better than ABC's presentation that was so obsessed showing the wives, they missed the finish.
AL UNSER JR ....LEARNED BY HIS OLD MAN ..AL SR. BUT SCOTT GOODYEAR NEVER GOT BETTER THAN 2ND ...MAYBE 7TH ONCE ,
dank
Correction: It was actually in 2002 at Chicagoland Speedway. Hornish Jr. and Unser Jr. finished by 0.0024 of a second.
What are we correcting?
And what does the race at Chicagoland have to do with this video?