I remember working this race. I watched the guy place that track level camera under the concrete block in my corner. This the first time I saw the shots from it, thanks for posting and bringing back memories.
I was the Race Director for the Moosehead Grand Prix from Year 1 in 1990 to the last one in 1995 at CFB Shearwater with the IMSA WSC cars. Bill Tempero worked hard to create the AIS and it worked well for us for our very first event! The wide range in the AIS teams was amazing! On one hand, the Unser's arrived with a full-on CART-style 18 wheeler rig and at the other end, a Ford 1/2 ton truck arrived with an Indy car sitting on an open trailer behind it!!! 😳 Roger Ward - multi-time Indy 500 winner was the AIS Chief Steward and I have many great stories from that first event. One story is that for the start of the AIS Race, Roger arrived at Race Control chuckling and shaking his head. When I asked him what was up, he said that he had passed all of the crews headed to Pit Lane and all, except for one team, were loaded down with spares and equipment. It was the team for the car that had qualified in P2 - Oncle Jacques Villeneuve. Roger asked them what was up and they replied that no one on the team figured that he would last longer than 4 laps!! They started their Pace Lap (more on that later!!) and got the Green Flag!! Robbie Unser on the pole and still in P1 at the end of the 1st lap. On the second lap, Oncle Jacques passed him to take the lead! On the third lap, Oncle Jacques pasted it into the wall and was out of the race!!! He didn't make the four laps the team had predicted!!! And the team didn't have to carry all of the heavy equipment and tires back to the paddock from the pit lane!!! Lots of great stories from the Moosehead GP! :)
Thanks for the upload! Brings back memories of being a kid. Do you have any other years besides 92 or 91? I remember the shearwater race as well with the F2 cars.
@@gregsewartracing Replacing the AIS with the British F3000 series, was what did them in, like having a national championship cross an ocean was a really bad idea, could've just put IMSA on the calendar like they did in 95'
Perhaps it was a mistake to call the series Indy too... It sounds really more like the very last incarnation of the late F 5000! Was it under SCCA umbrella?
a few years before i was born, what's this american indycar series thing? i recognize a few names from irl, Bill Tempero from cart in the 80s, and the older Jacques Villeneuve. but what's this series? older cars?
Yeah that's exactly it. The AIS utilized used CART vehicles. It also drew cars from the IRL later on. I think it was all part of the eventual splitting of open-wheel racing in America. This was Bill Tempero's series I believe.
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I remember working this race. I watched the guy place that track level camera under the concrete block in my corner. This the first time I saw the shots from it, thanks for posting and bringing back memories.
I was the Race Director for the Moosehead Grand Prix from Year 1 in 1990 to the last one in 1995 at CFB Shearwater with the IMSA WSC cars. Bill Tempero worked hard to create the AIS and it worked well for us for our very first event!
The wide range in the AIS teams was amazing! On one hand, the Unser's arrived with a full-on CART-style 18 wheeler rig and at the other end, a Ford 1/2 ton truck arrived with an Indy car sitting on an open trailer behind it!!! 😳
Roger Ward - multi-time Indy 500 winner was the AIS Chief Steward and I have many great stories from that first event.
One story is that for the start of the AIS Race, Roger arrived at Race Control chuckling and shaking his head. When I asked him what was up, he said that he had passed all of the crews headed to Pit Lane and all, except for one team, were loaded down with spares and equipment. It was the team for the car that had qualified in P2 - Oncle Jacques Villeneuve. Roger asked them what was up and they replied that no one on the team figured that he would last longer than 4 laps!! They started their Pace Lap (more on that later!!) and got the Green Flag!! Robbie Unser on the pole and still in P1 at the end of the 1st lap. On the second lap, Oncle Jacques passed him to take the lead! On the third lap, Oncle Jacques pasted it into the wall and was out of the race!!! He didn't make the four laps the team had predicted!!! And the team didn't have to carry all of the heavy equipment and tires back to the paddock from the pit lane!!!
Lots of great stories from the Moosehead GP! :)
That's amazing. Thanks for sharing :)
That is an awesome story. I never realized that Roger Ward was involved with AIS. Thanks for sharing.
Uncle Jacques! His win at Road America in '85 was a great drive!
Thanks. Saw a Pic of this race browsing online so was looking it up. Really cool you've got it on here.
Loving these Moosehead GP vids! Thanks!
4:42 race start
Thanks for the upload! Brings back memories of being a kid. Do you have any other years besides 92 or 91? I remember the shearwater race as well with the F2 cars.
I wish Halifax would do this again
Agreed. I think they gave up on it way too fast.
@@gregsewartracing Replacing the AIS with the British F3000 series, was what did them in, like having a national championship cross an ocean was a really bad idea, could've just put IMSA on the calendar like they did in 95'
This track is better than the Detroit GP track that IndyCar is currently running on, so why not bring it back. ;)
Perhaps it was a mistake to call the series Indy too... It sounds really more like the very last incarnation of the late F 5000! Was it under SCCA umbrella?
Thanks for posting the AIS races, unfortunately there are few things of the category on the internet, if you can post the juarez gp thank you
a few years before i was born, what's this american indycar series thing? i recognize a few names from irl, Bill Tempero from cart in the 80s, and the older Jacques Villeneuve. but what's this series? older cars?
Yeah that's exactly it. The AIS utilized used CART vehicles. It also drew cars from the IRL later on. I think it was all part of the eventual splitting of open-wheel racing in America. This was Bill Tempero's series I believe.