You just dont know how much you made indycar fans happy right now. This is the first time footage from this weekend has ever been posted for the public to see.
He probably felt the need to say something publicly as one of the more experienced drivers in the field. The rest of them had been voicing concerns privately since the test day.
As callous as it sounds, I'm glad that a class of car fast enough to force this scenario was brought into existence. _I'm also, obviously, glad this race was canceled before something horrible happened_ (italicized for emphasis before some jerk accuses me of wanting to see death), but with the benefit of emotional, physical, and temporal distance from the consequences (it all literally took place before I even existed)? Honestly, this was peak. I wish Texas World Speedway was still in shape to host speedway races in 2001, because it would've been a far more suitable arena to properly let these bottle rockets off the leash. I don't want injuries or fatalities, but something about capping things at half the horsepower of a CART car just doesn't sit right with me either...
Thanks for posting this video on RUclips! I've said it elsewhere, but man this would've been a real death race if it had gone through. Michael Andretti was definitely not wanting to go through with it, and I don't blame him one bit. In the end they made the right call to cancel the race, but it spelled the end for CART.
To bad they didn’t find a comprise in the mid 90s and maybe they didn’t have have to do this kind of race. They should have made an effort to fix up Pocono because it actually is built to be compatible to Indycars and then they should have made a new Crown Jewel outside of Indy due to the still peak of the ongoing spilt with IRL/IMS Hulman George family. Im just thinking of this now and why nobody wanted to go back to Pocono during the whole spilt is just mind blowing and could have brought back a lot of interest to the IRL or CART if one or the other put an serious effort to try to make a big race outside of the Indy 500.
The series should never have tried to run there. The moment that Paul Tracy ran that incredible 236 mph lap should have been the moment the race was cancelled.
@@robertmusgrave9236 There's nothing they could have done - they were running the Hanford Device and the engines couldn't be detuned without risking a failure. It was an event that should never have happened.
CART would have survived this if everything else hadn’t gone to shit that year, too. Only the racing and the cars were amazing. Everything else rotted.
@@BlueSkyCrystals well maybe the official unification should have taken place around that time which it did technically the year before with a handful Of CART teams entering the IRL sanctioned INDY 500 with completely different IRL equipment but still were willing to get back to Indy due to its still high prestige. Running the US 500 years before should have been stopped and rather the teams just sat out running on Memorial Day weekend in 1996 and put together something for 1997. Penske should have not try to support Andrew Craig and rather say I’m leaving CART if we do this race to try to upstage Indy which was so tension filled and weird due to everyone in sprint still waiting to be at Indy. Things could have easily been comprised if they truly cared about AOWR and not trying to be F1 or some other international series.
Insane… One wrong move and you’re a goner. A mechanical failure and you could endure the same fate. Would have been nuts to have watched the race if it went forth.
If they tried to race, something similar to Vegas 2011 would have happened. CART may have literally saved lives with their decision not to race. That was a good call in hindsight.
Open wheel racing was never my cup of tea but reading that no one got footage of Qualifying due to the G-Force makes it a high value in watching this sport
I was watching this thinking, what were they whining about the cars look fine. from the off board cameras, then they showed Minassian’s on board, and that was a little scary, those white lines rushing by and hearing the bumps hit the rpm and the steering. Brown trousers time
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You just dont know how much you made indycar fans happy right now. This is the first time footage from this weekend has ever been posted for the public to see.
I have the postponement ESPN coverage from the next day as well
Thank you for your service
@chrispaff1972 did you happen to get the indy lights race that happened? That would be a gem!!!
holy smokes this is like finding Wilts 100 point game footage
In before a million views! lol
Best comment than the "first" comments
A Billion views, a billion. 😁
The greatest travesty in sports, is that these cars never lapped Indianapolis Motor Speedway 😔
This won’t have a million views until 2050, lol
Holy crap its a DLand sighting. hell yea brother.
This is like the Zapruder film for CART
Seeing the Fernandez onboard shot again is just mesmerizing, the dashed lines may as well have been solid.
38:00 Michael Andretti was the first to give indication something was wrong
He probably felt the need to say something publicly as one of the more experienced drivers in the field. The rest of them had been voicing concerns privately since the test day.
there were issues before that but because of the sandbagging in testing months earlier, there was no hope to solve them on the fly
Great find! Truly a session for the history books.
As callous as it sounds, I'm glad that a class of car fast enough to force this scenario was brought into existence.
_I'm also, obviously, glad this race was canceled before something horrible happened_ (italicized for emphasis before some jerk accuses me of wanting to see death), but with the benefit of emotional, physical, and temporal distance from the consequences (it all literally took place before I even existed)?
Honestly, this was peak. I wish Texas World Speedway was still in shape to host speedway races in 2001, because it would've been a far more suitable arena to properly let these bottle rockets off the leash. I don't want injuries or fatalities, but something about capping things at half the horsepower of a CART car just doesn't sit right with me either...
From that first run by Zanardi, it literally looks like it’s a video at 1.5x speed. It’s insane how fast they were going.
Another fantastic piece of lost media found! You are a hero, sir
Yeah bud. This is like finding one of those 1970's races intact.
Cheesy 90's rock soundtrack plays as Paul Page casually mentions multiple injuries in Friday practice. COWABUNGA BOYS
Wow! Thanks for uploading this. What an insane moment in racing history!
No problem!
Whoa, never thought I'd see this!
Thank you so much for posting this very rare footage.
"We're supposed to be the best drivers out there, so we'll see tomorrow how true that is." - Brack
ironic Texas ended his career.... just not in THESE cars
I've been dying to see this for a long time and I'm so glad it's on here. Thank you for posting this for us all.
Wowwww. Nice upload my brother thank you.
Your welcome
Thank you for uploading this! Fantastic to get proper footage from this cursed weekend
Wowwww incredible find! Thank you so much!!
Thanks for posting this video on RUclips! I've said it elsewhere, but man this would've been a real death race if it had gone through. Michael Andretti was definitely not wanting to go through with it, and I don't blame him one bit. In the end they made the right call to cancel the race, but it spelled the end for CART.
To bad they didn’t find a comprise in the mid 90s and maybe they didn’t have have to do this kind of race. They should have made an effort to fix up Pocono because it actually is built to be compatible to Indycars and then they should have made a new Crown Jewel outside of Indy due to the still peak of the ongoing spilt with IRL/IMS Hulman George family. Im just thinking of this now and why nobody wanted to go back to Pocono during the whole spilt is just mind blowing and could have brought back a lot of interest to the IRL or CART if one or the other put an serious effort to try to make a big race outside of the Indy 500.
The series should never have tried to run there. The moment that Paul Tracy ran that incredible 236 mph lap should have been the moment the race was cancelled.
@@robertmusgrave9236 There's nothing they could have done - they were running the Hanford Device and the engines couldn't be detuned without risking a failure. It was an event that should never have happened.
CART would have survived this if everything else hadn’t gone to shit that year, too. Only the racing and the cars were amazing. Everything else rotted.
@@BlueSkyCrystals well maybe the official unification should have taken place around that time which it did technically the year before with a handful
Of CART teams entering the IRL sanctioned INDY 500 with completely different IRL equipment but still were willing to get back to Indy due to its still high prestige. Running the US 500 years before should have been stopped and rather the teams just sat out running on Memorial Day weekend in 1996 and put together something for 1997. Penske should have not try to support Andrew Craig and rather say I’m leaving CART if we do this race to try to upstage Indy which was so tension filled and weird due to everyone in sprint still waiting to be at Indy. Things could have easily been comprised if they truly cared about AOWR and not trying to be F1 or some other international series.
Mega upload!
Thank you for uploading this!
This is pretty close to the Zapruder film of CART
Thanks for the upload! Great to see this.
WOW to see those speeds. David land was right feels like it is on 1.5 speed
Insane… One wrong move and you’re a goner. A mechanical failure and you could endure the same fate. Would have been nuts to have watched the race if it went forth.
You were more likely to pass out from G-Lock if the race went on. They calculated the drivers were pulling 6.5 Gs for 90% of the lap.
If they tried to race, something similar to Vegas 2011 would have happened. CART may have literally saved lives with their decision not to race. That was a good call in hindsight.
@@MMAALL it wouldn't have been a pack race but there would have been nowhere to go when a car crashed
Muiito rapido. até os cameras tem dificuldade de enquadrar de forma centralizada a imagem
Here in the first 10 hours
David and S1ap sent me
Oh wow where did you find this footage?!
Had it for 10 years or more.. didnt know it had this interest
Open wheel racing was never my cup of tea but reading that no one got footage of Qualifying due to the G-Force makes it a high value in watching this sport
This qualifying session took place just three days after Michele Alboreto's fatal accident at Lausitz.
You can tell during the driver interviews they know something isn't quite right. Michael Andretti wants to say it, but can't.
Wow thats cool!
The wreck from Driven would have happened here, somehow a car would have found a body of water to land upside down in. It was inevitable
I was watching this thinking, what were they whining about the cars look fine. from the off board cameras, then they showed Minassian’s on board, and that was a little scary, those white lines rushing by and hearing the bumps hit the rpm and the steering. Brown trousers time
There lucky nobody from CART went into the catchfence for qualifying due to the g forces of the high speeds
This thumbnail is creepy as all fuck