I was at the Texas Steve Kinser race. Couldn't believe what I was seeing. I've been to thousands of races of all levels (dirt and pavement) over the course of my life, to this day that was still the most exciting race I've ever seen in person.
I remember the first time Steve Kinser participated in IROC. All the other drivers were in awe of him. They asked a few guys why and Kurt Busch in particular was like "come on guys, it's Steve Kinser for petes sake!"
Would love to see something like this brought back as long as they somehow make it more competitive to allow open wheel stars a chance. This series benefitted Nascar drivers too much most of the time.
at 2:32 french commentators: "... what's up with the Americans, why they find this entertaining ?" 😐 "... damn, they are crazy, they need a large bottles of vanilla extract !" L😆L
Because it got tired and played out seeing NASCAR guys win all the time. Especially on plate tracks. Also scheduling is a bitch and you need a couple F1 guys to make it truly international
Think if IROC ran in 2020,you would have Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso from F-1,Brad Keslowski and Kevin Harvick from NASCAR,Josef Newgarden and James Hinchcliffe.
Hell The Cup Series is almost spec now so all superspeedway races seem like Iroc. It would be nice for wiggle room in the rules and AN IROC series, a goodys dash type series....asa....etc...if I have my sources correct, NASCAR Mexico had folded AND the NASCAR Euro series.....they HAVE to reconnect with the "regular" man, somehow.
bigmancan1 If I remember correctly the biggest backer for the iroc series was Dale Earnhardt. with his passing things got harder. can't remember if it kept going from their but If it did it wouldn't last much longer as after Earnhardt Jr's wreck in the corvette racing le man's car most teams kept their drivers in the premier racing leagues.
Crown Royal was the title sponsor for the series, in 2006 CR announced they would no longer fund the series after the season and the series was looking for a new sponsor. After nobody stepped up, IROC had to pull the plug and all the cars/equipment were auctioned off. Dale Jr's wreck in 2004 had nothing to do with any of it.
TOPGUNCANADA00 When did they tear out that other southern California oval? I want to say it was called Ontario (as in Canada, but not), but I could be mistaken.
Where's Tom Gloy's 1985 Daytona flip? Or the finish of that same race where the top three crash off four on the final lap and DW steals the win. Please do more research before throwing these videos together.
racingNASCAR 88 it was an independent series that invited the best racers in north american motorsports. NASCAR wasnt sanctioning it, or else It may still be here today
@@AMR_Krissy the earlier years had F1 guys like Jacki Ickx Nikki Lauda, Mark Donahue peter Revson, Emmerson Fittipaldi Mario Andretti , Dennis Hulme, Jody Schekter, Graham Hill, James Hunt, Ronnie Petersen, Alan Jones, Clay Regazzoni, But that was under the old format from 73-80
+Milo Ruffing IROC stands for International Race Of Champions, so you had champions from NASCAR, Indy car, Sprint car & maybe other racing series, & they would all race in identical cars, it was great to watch :)
Not even close to that. It's another league where 12 of what they call the "best race car drivers in the world" drive the exact same cars over 4 races. It's meant to make it more of a matter of skill and not different teams having better equipment and all that. It was mostly cup drivers that raced but there were also some Indy car drivers
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2 things I didn't know:
1. IROC used to race at Talladega, my favorite track.
2. NASCAR in French! I'm French and i love NASCAR
Wish they would bring this back :c
Ethan GGR Harrison i never watched one live before, but i would die for them to bring this back.
Ethan GGR Harrison I really want to see it back as well.
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what is IROC???
International Race of Champions
Nascars best drivers vs Indy cars best vs F1's best
we need IROC back now and probly make it world wide
Jesse Underhill and race probably Fords or Porsches
Insanely Racing or how about camaro z/28's since they can be found world wide and are fast as a 918 at VIR
Yess!
Let’s make them run little Fiats instead lol give them ridiculous horsepower and speed and watch them hit 150mph at Daytona lol
What about Lamborghini Adventadors?
I was at the Texas Steve Kinser race. Couldn't believe what I was seeing. I've been to thousands of races of all levels (dirt and pavement) over the course of my life, to this day that was still the most exciting race I've ever seen in person.
IndyCar and NASCAR had a baby in 1976, only to die in 2006, Here's to a great 30 years
Lol
1:32 the orange car look like something Danica Patric would do
I remember the first time Steve Kinser participated in IROC. All the other drivers were in awe of him. They asked a few guys why and Kurt Busch in particular was like "come on guys, it's Steve Kinser for petes sake!"
1:54 Now that is a camera angle!
Would love to see something like this brought back as long as they somehow make it more competitive to allow open wheel stars a chance. This series benefitted Nascar drivers too much most of the time.
They raced at the glenn, every body was there
Maybe they could do better. You sound like these participation trophy cry babies.
Srx?
OHH
4:30 Hell of a save by the yellow car.
Damn that 11 finds itself on it's roof a lot
That wreck at Riverside was the scariest and most brutal. I hope everyone was okay after all of these.
5:37 looks like buschers Talladega flip
3:18 The camera's freaking out!
4:25 no, I'd put that in the karma department
Miss the IROC SERIES
at 2:32
french commentators:
"... what's up with the Americans, why they find this entertaining ?" 😐
"... damn, they are crazy, they need a large bottles of vanilla extract !"
L😆L
I swear Steve Kinser has been on his lid more in his few starts in a stock car than he has in his five decades in sprint cars.
Other than the 500 I think the daytona iroc race was my favorite part of speedweeks in the early 2000's. Great memories, that series was fucking sick!
jrfan07 earnhardt had the greatest save at the 2001 iroc daytona race
Paul Page has been broadcasting forever.
Do you know what car these actually were? As in make, that is.
Joel Miles they varied by season. but most iterations used firebird/trans-am or Camaros
Dakota Harris dont forget the early and mid 90s were the avengers
They were Pontiac transAms and camaros at one point then dodge Shelby Daytona's
Please bring back iroc racing!
Hell yeah, Iroc is back!
Awesome stuff bring back IROC
Man I remember watching some of these as a kid. Always wondered what they were and why I never saw them again.
IROC must come back on 2019?
Mike Joy saying "Bourdais" and "Castroneves" sounds surreal
i miss these cars alot should have never ended this series
Wasn't that Derek Bell crash the one where he ripped everybody for driving recklessly after?
Yes, at 3:20, Bell have the white car.
Holy crap! The worst IROC crash I’ve ever seen 6:08
why did iroc have to end never got to see a race but wanted to
Because it got tired and played out seeing NASCAR guys win all the time. Especially on plate tracks. Also scheduling is a bitch and you need a couple F1 guys to make it truly international
The first clip aged well… “walked away with ONLY A CONCUSSION”
Cars crashing & tires squealing
RUclips captions : "o what lovely music"
watched this all the time. was so awesome
IROC ran on the Daytona road course? Didn't know that!
yeah the last year, Tony won by like half a lap.
I have a piece of the car from the Luyendyk, Kendall crash.
Think if IROC ran in 2020,you would have Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso from F-1,Brad Keslowski and Kevin Harvick from NASCAR,Josef Newgarden and James Hinchcliffe.
More like Dixon or Rossi
Big wrecks considering these were just 12 car fields and such talented drivers.
Damm I miss these races barely got to watch any, wish someone would of stepped up every clip showing the seats they had plenty of asses in the seats.
How many times do you hear,
"and Pruitt hard into the wall"? LoL
Hell The Cup Series is almost spec now so all superspeedway races seem like Iroc. It would be nice for wiggle room in the rules and AN IROC series, a goodys dash type series....asa....etc...if I have my sources correct, NASCAR Mexico had folded AND the NASCAR Euro series.....they HAVE to reconnect with the "regular" man, somehow.
IT’S COMING BACK OH MY GOSH YES YES YES!!
The SRX cars look nothing like the IROC cars + SRX is too cocky
@@user-rl7cw9eg8e yes ik that now
I used to love watching this :)
I miss iroc so much
How about some old CART crashes compilation? :D
We’re back 😎
6:06 is there a reason that wall is there?
So in the later years instead of Camaro's did they use Trans Am's because that's what they look like
They used Dodge Avengers and then ended with Trans Ams
We need a new IROC series
Poor kinser flipped 2 races in a row
What ever happened to the IROC series?
bigmancan1 If I remember correctly the biggest backer for the iroc series was Dale Earnhardt. with his passing things got harder. can't remember if it kept going from their but If it did it wouldn't last much longer as after Earnhardt Jr's wreck in the corvette racing le man's car most teams kept their drivers in the premier racing leagues.
Crown Royal was the title sponsor for the series, in 2006 CR announced they would no longer fund the series after the season and the series was looking for a new sponsor. After nobody stepped up, IROC had to pull the plug and all the cars/equipment were auctioned off. Dale Jr's wreck in 2004 had nothing to do with any of it.
Starting at 4:09 it's not often somebody retaliate accidentally by backing up into the same person, what a bizarre phenomenon, Lol!
What course is that about 4:00 in? Daytona?
Nathaniel Heimerl That's the Daytona infield course the Rolex Sports car series race on.
Dorsey Schrader rolled at Talladega 1991
1:33. what kind of Nascar is that?
Bring it back
FIREBIRD HEAVEN!!!!!
Bring back IROC
What Track is at 2:12... is it old Atlanta config? looks kinda small to be that, but if anyone knows please let me know.
TOPGUNCANADA00 I want to say darlington? Not for sure tho
TOPGUNCANADA00 When did they tear out that other southern California oval? I want to say it was called Ontario (as in Canada, but not), but I could be mistaken.
Taylor Smith Ontario was like indy. I'd say that is Atlanta.
TOPGUNCANADA00 its Atlanta. Ontario was an Indy knockoff
I think it's Bristol
Why was robby Gordon ever in iroc?
Spec racing done right
Spec racing is lame
Hornish jr got instant karma
Iroc car shoud be the next gen car ..
Nice vid
I've got a 86 IROC
I need IROC back
Racing in his day was a roll of the dice, if he had hit on the drivers side he wouldn't have survived.
My favorite driver is al unser jr
Well, it says that Tony Stewart is bringing IROC in 2021!
That srx
I wish they would bring back the IROC series. It was some awesome racing.
dwayne "theroc" johnson
4:16 K A R M A
SRX is next gen iroc
Auto racing with French commentary is like seeing a beautiful woman, only to find out she's related...
#BringBackIROC
"walked away with only a concussion"
When men were men
The closest thing to stock cars we had.
Gen 6.and 7 is real?
It says IROC which stands for "International Race Of Champions", so why does it look like the tracks are only in America? ._.
Because they are uneducated and have delusions of grandeur...... World Series another example.....
@@noneck8166 actually if you had a brain, you would figure out that the international part of the name refers to the drivers from different countries.
We should really have IROC back right now... use the corvette or the Ford GT
Even Nascar now is straying away from majority oval tracks, make some IROC oval and road races...
6:23 pls what year ??
PERFECT DRIFT 2005
Where's Tom Gloy's 1985 Daytona flip? Or the finish of that same race where the top three crash off four on the final lap and DW steals the win. Please do more research before throwing these videos together.
if they ever bring IROC back, what would the cars be like?
auto c5 corvettes. there everywhere haha
Probably Nissan jukes
I miss iroc.great racers from all forms of motorsports in identical cars,Beats the hell out of I racing
is IROC some what part of NASCAR, I mean a lot of NASCAR drivers in it.
racingNASCAR 88 it was an independent series that invited the best racers in north american motorsports. NASCAR wasnt sanctioning it, or else It may still be here today
@@AMR_Krissy the earlier years had F1 guys like Jacki Ickx Nikki Lauda, Mark Donahue peter Revson, Emmerson Fittipaldi Mario Andretti , Dennis Hulme, Jody Schekter, Graham Hill, James Hunt, Ronnie Petersen, Alan Jones, Clay Regazzoni, But that was under the old format from 73-80
Best Xfinity crashes??????
It’s all firebirds? *always has been*
Ever heard of a Camaro IROC? They used Porsche in the beginning and finished using Dodge Stealths.
Wow never knew they used dodge stealth’s
Sorry. Dodge Avenger, not Stealth.
@@jeffpeterson1331
Still cool
HARDEST NASCAR crashes?
If u already did that I didn't see it yet so. :p
What even is IROC? Is there something worse than ARCA?
+Milo Ruffing
IROC stands for International Race Of Champions, so you had champions from NASCAR, Indy car, Sprint car & maybe other racing series, & they would all race in identical cars, it was great to watch :)
Not even close to that. It's another league where 12 of what they call the "best race car drivers in the world" drive the exact same cars over 4 races. It's meant to make it more of a matter of skill and not different teams having better equipment and all that. It was mostly cup drivers that raced but there were also some Indy car drivers
The title of this video is ridiculous...
worst*
Thank you...
This was before all your kids got eaten by communist china and their smart devices.
What is this?
Dank Hank IROC. It is in the title.
Greg Rowland / StewartFan14Forever Its Short For International Race Of Champions