Adri GP they were N/A engines they were awful in 1997-1999. Then they changed to a different kind of N/A engine in 2000 and made the them sound like the turbos from the 80s and most of the 90s but they were not turbo at all.
Nigel Mansell: after finishing third in his very first ever oval race(this one), he then proceeded to dominate _every_ other oval race in 1993: class is real and permanent.
He didn't "Dominate" anything other than Michigan and Nazareth. And really, the Ford/Cosworth XB was putting out 40-50 more hp than the Chevy; so his win at Michigan was nothing more than the car not detonating. Milwaukee and Loudoun were hard fought battles; no dominating there. Mansell is whiner with little class - it showed in his post race interview.
Loved the "Starting Field" music they used in 1993. Truly wish the personalized starting field intros would come back rather than just showing the live intros from the track. These got you so much more story to each of the 33 brave pilots.
Fittipaldi was a great driver! If he hadn't joined his brother's F1 team, he may have won many more F1 championships. His late success in AOWR shows that.
For all of his accomplishments, I've always felt that Emmo's career is a bit underrated by most. He won those two world championships, had a mid-career decline in the late '70s with his brother's team, took a hiatus, then showed up in North America in his late thirties(!) and proceeded, over the next several years, to become one of the best oval(!) racers on the Indy Car circuit, despite having little to no oval track experience until, again, his late thirties(!). He won those two Indy 500s, but if the breaks had broken a little differently, he was in serious contention to win three...or four...or even five. Dominant in 1990 but felled by tire problems. Clutch problem in '91; without it, that late shootout between Michael and Mears would have been a three-way battle, and Fittipaldi would have had better than a puncher's chance to win it. And '94 was basically in the bag until he made that one mistake, which was exceedingly uncommon for him. So, yeah... You wouldn't expect a guy who hadn't raced on ovals until his late thirties(!) to become dominant in that arena, but he did. And he was way, WAY ahead of his time in terms of fitness and nutrition, which is probably a major reason he was competitive into his late forties.
He realistically could have been a 5 time winner at Indy. 1990 - dominates most of the day. Hot conditions lead to blistering tires on the Penske chassis. Had to make extra pit stops as a result, putting him out of contention. 1991 - gearbox/clutch issues. Entered the pits late while leading. Shredded the gearbox while leaving the pits, putting him out. 1994 - dominated all day. Crashed late trying to lap his teammate. Emmo was always tough at Indy. It’s a shame that his last attempt was a DNQ in 1995 after the team withdrew a speed that would have put him in the field.
rob mush I have to say that the last trio of Bestwick, Cheever and Goodyear was not so bad. But, in between that, they put Jason Priestley. Jesus, why?
André de Souza well he was trying to get into the sport and Driving in INDY lights or one of the smaller series. He did race professionally. However he had a bad wreck in the early 2000s and gave racing up.
Wow those pre-1996 Indy 500s were absolutely packed with world class drivers including Americans like Little Al and Sullivan along with multiple F1 World Driving Champions. IndyCar is slowly getting back to where it was back then. Young Americans Newgarden and Rossi along with global drivers Power and Dixon are fantastic and if McLaren and Alonso return full time next year with up and comers like the youngster Herta, IndyCar's future may finally be back on track.
@@sonnydelight5737 "Little Al" is Al Jr's nickname (to distinguish from his dad "Big Al"), much like Dale Earnhardt Jr being nicknamed "Little E" when he started competing alongside his dad ("Big E").
EMO was a my word absolutely brilliant driver. Winning the Formula 1 world championship in 1972 and 1974. Two Indianapolis 500's in 1989 then 1993. Plus also winning the CART Championship in 1989.
@@Spyker8921 C & P Verbatim: Paul Page Net Worth How rich is Paul Page? For this question we spent 14 hours on research (Wikipedia, RUclips, we read books in libraries, etc) to review the post. Total Net Worth at the moment 2021 year - is about $190 Million.
Paul had a BEAUTIFUL voice, and brought something special to what was already a special event. I liken him to another announcer of a sport I love. The great Tom Durkin, in horse racing.
😁😂😂😂😂😂😂 yeah the love of the sport n drivers will cause one to well up when ever there is n has been a tragedy while a race is going on....I grew up on it n love the sport...
**Update on this comment: Mansell was just interviewed June '24 with both his '92 F1 winning Williams and '93 Indy Car title winning Newman-Haas Lola sitting behind him (the IMS museum lent it during their renovation) which was just an awesome sight of a man and the cars that achieved something that will never be duplicated (and Nigel still looks like he's in his mid 50's!) He revealed a couple things about the '93 500: that he felt both the yellow for Lyn St James' dead car right at the top of the pit lane when he was leading with only 15 laps to go was ridiculous (it was) and that both Fittipaldi and Luyendyk jumped him on the restart in a very 'unsporting' way (welcome to Indy Car!) It's a great interview remembering an incredible achievement in auto racing** 2:37:15 the driving by Mansell after the restart here is some of the best you will ever see at Indy. And it was the guy's first race on an oval of any type, let alone a superspeedway. Passed cars at 200+ inside, outside, with inch-perfect precision as if for fun. Truly phenomenal. Unfortunate he got jumped at the last restart while leading at he was still a bit naive about IndyCar restarts and that jumping the the leader before green is fair game, if he'd known that he'd have won. Still one of the great 500 drives of all time. Especially when you add the injury element from his Phoenix crash which left a gaping cavity in his lower back that required surgery.
He drank orange juice as part of a commercial promo for which he had a direct interest in. The Indy milk tradition was also a commercial stunt for someone’s profit, so I see nothing at all wrong with Emmo co-opting it. Why should people hold sacred, a commercial stunt just because that particular commercial stunt has been slavishly adopted as a “tradition”?
I was at the race between turns 3 and 4. I had travelled from the UK to Toronto and travelled with some friends 'on a fishing trip'. One of our group was arrested on Saturday night and did not get out of jail until the Monday afternoon. There were some interesting stories. One guy met someone and they invited them to sleep on the sofa. He woke up with an Alsation with it's jaws around his neck. The guy had broken into the house and left the guy on the sofa.
I would LOVE to see this race entirely from Nigel Mansell’s onboard camera. The full race, uncut from the start of the formation/sighting laps to the final pull in the pit lane after the finish. Just Nigel’s end of the radio if possible, otherwise just the onboard microphone.
I was there from the UK and was a few more rows back and sitting between turns 3 and 4. We only bought the tickets that morning from a licenced tout outside the track.
This was my first 500. I was standing at the bottom of the inside grandstands (right behind Emo's pit stall) when he took the checkers. Everyone is a Hoosier on Race Day.
God I miss this. This 500 was a great example of what made the race so great. The speed, the noise and the fact that there were a lot of GREAT drivers. It was where young up and comers could challenge all time Indy greats and even former F1 champions. How many former F1 world champions were in this race? I think I count 4? Piquet, Mansell (reigning champ at that point), Andretti and Fittipaldi. I think 94 might have been the last time a former F1 champ raced at the brickyard until Alonso showed up. Piquet didn't return. Mansell, Andretti and Fittipaldi did, but Andretti would retire after 94 and Mansell would return to F1. Fittipaldi, driving for Penske, didn't even qualify for the 500 in 95 thanks to the controversial Mercedes pushrod motor that suddenly became uncompetitive thanks to rules changes. Fittipaldi would retire after a crash a day before the 96 Indy 500 at the rival Michigan 500 race run by CART... The early 90s were peak Indy 500 for speed and prestige for sure. I hope to see them claw it back.
dzelpwr man if TG didnt do his BS and mess with the greatest spectacle in racing with the 33 fastest and not 25 IRL guaranteed starting positions in 1996 things would have better than and the Indy 500 would still the biggest race in the world and nascar woundn’t have gotten all the mainstream popularity as they did in the late 90s and 2000s.
Four world champions with seven titles among them! You'll never see that in IndyCar ever again - all but Piquet were full-season runners. Amazing to have the reigning world champion in CART that year
@@StaySqueezy12 fastest whole field, yes, but that's due to how close the competition is with identical chassis and only 2 engine suppliers. But the fastest of today's cars still haven't come close to the 1996 track record... And if CART were still using their cars at the speedway through the late 90s, that record would have been broken a few more times--likely into the 240 MPH lap average speed range like they managed to accomplish at Fontana twice. Once in 97 with Gugelmin before they put the drag-creating wings on, and again in 2000 with the drag-making Handford device with Gil de Ferran.
All those fans on the inside off the track over 400,000 people the greatest sporting event in the world its now just a schell of itself so sad what ha happened to that great event!
Thank you so much for posting the full build up to the race as well as the race. So few people ever think of doing that. I am indebted to you. From Ireland.
A big THANK YOU to Indycar for posting and allowing others to post past races. F1 claims copyright almost immediately, perhaps for financial reasons but maybe they don't want people seeing how it used to look and sound.
Fittipaldi's popularity took a nose dive after he refused the milk. In the grand scheme of things he is just the latest in a list of over 30 drivers who did not drink milk in victory lane after winning the Indianapolis 500. That list includes Bobby Unser, Bill Vukovich, Sam Hanks and Mauri Rose. I also find it interesting that they no longer offer buttermilk...which is what Louis Meyer originally requested.
I don't blame him for refusing milk. If you do the police work. Retrace the evidence back. You'll realize you're suckling from another species. *SICK!*
The 2:37:28 mark - The big move that blipped everybody live! I remember watching it live saying "Mansell took the lead!" when they came out of Turn 2 and both ABC and IMS Radio thinking for a lap that Mario and Emmo were both dueling for the lead.
thanks for the time stamp I watched this live in England when it ran, that restart was crazy the man's an animal, round the outside into turn 1 three wide :)
Those 1993 Camaro Pace Cars are really nice, I've seen one myself, they have a bigger interior in them than the traditional Camaros, and They are faster #BestCamaroPaceCar!
This entire early 90's era is the pinnacle of IndyCar... The old and the new ... Andretti, Foyt, Unser, Mears, Fittipaldi, Paul Tracy ... '91 front row; Mears, Foyt, Andretti All this in modern cars essentially indistinguishable from the cars of today.
Listening to Emmo speak I couldn't help but hear a similarity to Ayrton in his voice. This is how he probably would have sounded as he got older. If only......
@@danielmoorefield4891 there exists an interview where senna expressed his interest in racing in america after formula one, he mentions NASCAR and IndyCar
He would have been sick in IndyCar. I loved IndyCar, but to me, I think the cream of the crop was and always will be F1. More than a few IndyCar superstars went to F1 and were terrible. Consequently, guys like Mansell and Cheever came to IndyCar from F1, and were REALLY good.
Thought the thumbnail was a McLaren F1 car from the late 80s at first glance. Clicked anyway, watched the start and the last 20 laps or so (not much time), TIL Mansell did the Indy 500! Good job too seeing him perform quite well. Hopefully Alonso can do well this year!
Steve Brady i think Tony George listened to the wrong people and tried to take advantage of the USAC Indy 500 only entries. However he got nascar to the track as well but gave nascar a huge boost in popularity for national expansion to non traditional nascar markets that were Indycar ones.
44:07 race start 53:10 first yellow flag 56:52 second green flag 1:05:09 second yellow flag 1:09:10 third green flag 1:38:32 third yellow flag 1:43:13 fourth green flag 1:44:49 fourth yellow flag 1:47:41 fifth green flag 2:03:33 fifth yellow flag 2:13:47 sixth green flag 2:32:55 sixth yellow flag 2:37:19 seventh green flag 2:43:59 seventh yellow flag 2:47:20 eighth green flag 2:52:54 eighth yellow flag 2:56:24 ninth green flag 3:00:00 end of the race
Indy car hasn't been as healthy as it is today since this race, which by the way was my first and so far only Indy 500. It's easy to point fingers at Tony George or the CART team owners for the split, but that is history now and the sport is doing well
Jay J I had a crazy dream recently were I was somewhere probably in Indianapolis and saw Tony George at a restaurant. I saw him and I gave him the finger and told him what he did to Indy. He got up and We almost got into a fight. I have never to to Indy but would like to go to take of my bucket list. I’m only 23 but have loved watching the Indy 500 since I have been 6 or 7. Thank god I don’t remember the true start of the split but theses videos are sad to watch what happened to the biggest race in the world turned into the most pointless war in history. very sad and frustrating time in the 90s for Indycar.
Roberto Guerrero’s day ended after he collided with the same car (literally the same chassis) he had driven to the pole (and then crashed before the start) a year prior, which he would also end up driving again in ‘94.
1:01:15 Typical poor communication and judgment by USAC: 1) Boesel passed Mario after the blend line at pit exit. USAC assessed a penalty for passing on the pitlane 2) The proper response by race control is to communicate the proper running order, which apparently was done as Raúl dropped behind Mario before the restart; no further action needed. USAC assessed a stop and go penalty, which was overkill. However, this wouldn't be the worst call by USAC, and it wouldn't be the last bad call they made.
I’m usually one for tradition, but I honestly don’t mind that Emerson drank orange juice, mainly for three reasons: 1: In case you’re lactose-intolerant, there’s no reason to limit your options. 2: Maybe you don’t like milk. Maybe you just like oranges. 3: He already drank milk after his first victory.
he's not lactose intolerant, he did it to promote his own orange juice brand and they attach a part of the winner's purse to the drinking of the milk. everything about it was dumb.
@@gfoot9916 If you have class, you cover that before the race. You DON'T make a point of yapping in the Victory Lane interview being heard by the entire crowd and everyone watching that you're giving a middle finger to the tradition which was what ticked people off.
If I had ever raced at Indy and won you would have seem me drink the milk and throw up about 20 secnds later. I can not stand the taste of milk itjust turns my stomach. These are my favorite Indy cars and the talent driving them puts todays line up to shame. What happened to indy car was a sad sad shame and it will probably will never recover its former glory.
Steve Wismark Tony George and Andrew Craig from CART. Just look up CART IRL split here on RUclips and you will see why. I had a crazy dream recently were I was somewhere probably in Indianapolis and saw Tony George at a restaurant. I saw him and I gave him the finger and told him what he did to Indy. He got up and We almost got into a fight. I have never to to Indy but would like to go to take of my bucket list. I’m only 23 but have loved watching the Indy 500 since I have been 6 or 7. Thank god I don’t remember the true start of the split but theses videos are sad to watch what happened to the biggest race in the world turned into the most pointless war in history. very sad and frustrating time in the 90s for Indycar.
Despite not winning, Mansell drove a superb race for a rookie. Had he been a little more experienced he'd have won but this was his first time out on an oval other than his wreck at Phoenix...
Arguably the last great Indy 500, certainly the last between Ford, Chevy and Buick as we knew it. What a great 2-year battle it was between the three nameplates, though. If I recall, Chevy and Buick withdrew their factory support after the end of the ‘93 season. In the case of Chevy, there was really nothing left to prove in CART and at Indy at that point. So Ilmor was just that in ‘94 - the Ilmor Indy V8, which still gave Ford/Cosworth a run for its money. And that’s not even counting Penske’s Ilmor 500i, which Mercedes-Benz began factory support. Still, whatever form of motorsport, Ford vs Chevy will always be the best rivalry. I’d love to see Ford make a comeback in IndyCar once again and duke it out with Chevrolet.
1985-95 the golden age of Indycar Racing. The best sounding, fastest, and best looking cars. Along with Paul Page’s delta force intros talk about chills.
ABC Sports, with Paul Page calling the race, were superb. Unlike the NBC coverage for 2023, where I had to hit the 'mute' button on my TV to give my eardrums a rest from the TV announcing banter . . . the frenetic and loud pace of it could give a person a headache.
It was the first year of the big grandstand on the north chute. The “down the backstretch through turn 3” camera station hadn’t been built yet, so ABC decided to shoot everything from the infield.
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I think the cars were at the peak of their beauty in this era.
FooBar Maximus The noise as well!
I would go with the following year (introduction of the Reynard chassis)
Then Tony George killed that style with those horrible chassis and engines in 1997.
That was N/A engine or Turbo ?
Adri GP they were N/A engines they were awful in 1997-1999. Then they changed to a different kind of N/A engine in 2000 and made the them sound like the turbos from the 80s and most of the 90s but they were not turbo at all.
Nigel Mansell: after finishing third in his very first ever oval race(this one), he then proceeded to dominate _every_ other oval race in 1993: class is real and permanent.
and with 100 stitches in his back 1:18:08
He didn't "Dominate" anything other than Michigan and Nazareth. And really, the Ford/Cosworth XB was putting out 40-50 more hp than the Chevy; so his win at Michigan was nothing more than the car not detonating. Milwaukee and Loudoun were hard fought battles; no dominating there. Mansell is whiner with little class - it showed in his post race interview.
Mansell was and is total class......best ever race car driver I ever saw with Earnhardt.
@@powerwagon1897 pure racer
@@paulmorris8094
Personally, I rate Prost higher.
This generation of cars were the best
it was the built and designed cars in the day.
@@mikeb1617 Back when IndyCar was truly the american F1
Loved the "Starting Field" music they used in 1993.
Truly wish the personalized starting field intros would come back rather than just showing the live intros from the track. These got you so much more story to each of the 33 brave pilots.
It's stuck in my head! Great tune
i agree i liked 92 Diehard Grid music also
I liked it. I wonder if Emo's daughter is in racing
@@edwardlazich1140 Tatiana married Max Papis
Fittipaldi was a great driver! If he hadn't joined his brother's F1 team, he may have won many more F1 championships. His late success in AOWR shows that.
He was truly an exceptional driver.
For all of his accomplishments, I've always felt that Emmo's career is a bit underrated by most. He won those two world championships, had a mid-career decline in the late '70s with his brother's team, took a hiatus, then showed up in North America in his late thirties(!) and proceeded, over the next several years, to become one of the best oval(!) racers on the Indy Car circuit, despite having little to no oval track experience until, again, his late thirties(!). He won those two Indy 500s, but if the breaks had broken a little differently, he was in serious contention to win three...or four...or even five. Dominant in 1990 but felled by tire problems. Clutch problem in '91; without it, that late shootout between Michael and Mears would have been a three-way battle, and Fittipaldi would have had better than a puncher's chance to win it. And '94 was basically in the bag until he made that one mistake, which was exceedingly uncommon for him. So, yeah... You wouldn't expect a guy who hadn't raced on ovals until his late thirties(!) to become dominant in that arena, but he did. And he was way, WAY ahead of his time in terms of fitness and nutrition, which is probably a major reason he was competitive into his late forties.
@@poorjf have my upvote
He realistically could have been a 5 time winner at Indy.
1990 - dominates most of the day. Hot conditions lead to blistering tires on the Penske chassis. Had to make extra pit stops as a result, putting him out of contention.
1991 - gearbox/clutch issues. Entered the pits late while leading. Shredded the gearbox while leaving the pits, putting him out.
1994 - dominated all day. Crashed late trying to lap his teammate.
Emmo was always tough at Indy. It’s a shame that his last attempt was a DNQ in 1995 after the team withdrew a speed that would have put him in the field.
@@erikcorredor255 They were all scared of Mansell, they had fk all for him, nothing when it was HIS time.
I cannot believe you shared this for free on RUclips! You have no idea how thankful I am right now!
Patrick Cramer oh they do it every race.
:D
I agree. F1 absolutely denies the public races from the past because the current product SUCKS
Wonderful times!!!! What a field of drivers. Mansell, Fittpaldi, Piquet, Johansson . The mighty Penske Team!!! What a race! Thanks for uploading!!!!
When the Indy 500 had more World Champions in the field than Formula One did 😄
Now… who?
@@NotSteveCookHaha.
Man, I miss Paul Page
It will be weird to see next years Indy 500's on NBC! But the owners of ABC/ESPN screwed everything!!!
Aiden Graves got that right. This is the primo announcer lineup.
André de Souza when he and Bob Jenkins left that is when the INDY 500 broadcasts became horrible and cringe fests.
rob mush I have to say that the last trio of Bestwick, Cheever and Goodyear was not so bad. But, in between that, they put Jason Priestley. Jesus, why?
André de Souza well he was trying to get into the sport and Driving in INDY lights or one of the smaller series. He did race professionally. However he had a bad wreck in the early 2000s and gave racing up.
Wow those pre-1996 Indy 500s were absolutely packed with world class drivers including Americans like Little Al and Sullivan along with multiple F1 World Driving Champions. IndyCar is slowly getting back to where it was back then. Young Americans Newgarden and Rossi along with global drivers Power and Dixon are fantastic and if McLaren and Alonso return full time next year with up and comers like the youngster Herta, IndyCar's future may finally be back on track.
Dean Hirasawa it seems that they are finally getting away from the horrible decisions Tony George and CART had made in the mid 90s.
I only agree with the 1st part of your statement. Both F1 and Indycar suck at the moment.
What kind of idiot would name their child "Little". Wait, they wouldn't, but the idiot announcers don't know that.
@@sonnydelight5737 "Little Al" is Al Jr's nickname (to distinguish from his dad "Big Al"), much like Dale Earnhardt Jr being nicknamed "Little E" when he started competing alongside his dad ("Big E").
@@robminmonaca just Tony George.
I miss those old 1993 IndyCars. Amazing body designs.
Gorgeous. So sleek.
One of the few starting lineup themes we don't have yet.
How about dat Handbag House music at 23:50?
David Land lmao it’s nice to see you here😂
Do you have the 80s one in the clear?
Hey D-Land!!
EMO was a my word absolutely brilliant driver. Winning the Formula 1 world championship in 1972 and 1974. Two Indianapolis 500's in 1989 then 1993. Plus also winning the CART Championship in 1989.
Pretty sick.
I am in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on a ship right now and CAN. NOT. WAIT. for Sunday. #youjustdontknowwhatindymeans
Mark Bujas Im going!
I’m going to my 12th or 13th Indy 500 this weekend. So unbelievably pumped.
Half 80’s until 90’s, the most beautiful and powerful cars of Indy era
Paul Page will always be the voice of the Indy 500 for me.
Average announcer at best. Net worth $191M. Page never did anything worth 1 Million. Much less 191.
@@raymond3803 Wut
@@Spyker8921 C & P Verbatim: Paul Page Net Worth
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Paul had a BEAUTIFUL voice, and brought something special to what was already a special event.
I liken him to another announcer of a sport I love. The great Tom Durkin, in horse racing.
Thank You IndyCar.... Thank You Thank You Thank You 🏁🏁🏁
This was it, the peak. Even had Burnie and the f1 boys scared
Emmo and Mansell 💙
My God the sound
It's music, for me 🏎
RIP Bobby and Al.
i didn't know Bobby Unser died!
Seems like everybodys dead who I grew up watching.
Formation laps start: 37:15
Race start: 44:00
Sharpe 3 thank you!!
DJ Sarge because I'm a pleb ;)
Thanks
Thank you
I watched all of what happened before too)))
Best looking cars. I miss that Cosworth engine.
That XB was quite the motor; at least 35hp advantage over the Ilmore. Of course, that's what makes this win by Emmo so impressive.
Best sounding Indy cars for sure. I was on turn 4. Thanks for the upload.
Co-worker: "What are you watching? Why are you crying?"
Me: "I'm not crying...I'm cleaning my eyes with my tears..."
😁😂😂😂😂😂😂 yeah the love of the sport n drivers will cause one to well up when ever there is n has been a tragedy while a race is going on....I grew up on it n love the sport...
I was 8 years old and yet I still remember the orange juice.
That's funny. I just turned 10 years old and I remember that too.
milk is one of the worst things you can put in your body unless its RAW!
Wow, I'm uncomfortable with how long ago the 90s where. Haha. Thanks for uploading. Fun to watch.
Craig R. I’m uncomfortable that the 1996 Tony George IRL Indy 500 25/8 rule and CART split is still hurting the Indy 500 to this day.
**Update on this comment: Mansell was just interviewed June '24 with both his '92 F1 winning Williams and '93 Indy Car title winning Newman-Haas Lola sitting behind him (the IMS museum lent it during their renovation) which was just an awesome sight of a man and the cars that achieved something that will never be duplicated (and Nigel still looks like he's in his mid 50's!) He revealed a couple things about the '93 500: that he felt both the yellow for Lyn St James' dead car right at the top of the pit lane when he was leading with only 15 laps to go was ridiculous (it was) and that both Fittipaldi and Luyendyk jumped him on the restart in a very 'unsporting' way (welcome to Indy Car!) It's a great interview remembering an incredible achievement in auto racing** 2:37:15 the driving by Mansell after the restart here is some of the best you will ever see at Indy. And it was the guy's first race on an oval of any type, let alone a superspeedway. Passed cars at 200+ inside, outside, with inch-perfect precision as if for fun. Truly phenomenal. Unfortunate he got jumped at the last restart while leading at he was still a bit naive about IndyCar restarts and that jumping the the leader before green is fair game, if he'd known that he'd have won. Still one of the great 500 drives of all time. Especially when you add the injury element from his Phoenix crash which left a gaping cavity in his lower back that required surgery.
He was a beast. For him to be in his first oval race, it be the Indy 500, and almost win it, was incredible, and shows how amazing of a driver he was.
The Orange Juice Victory
people are still angry about that decades later lol
Anthony Kernich especially Tony George.
FooBar Maximus I wonder if that was the time that Tony George decided to form the IRL the next year. I’m sure he was pissed off the most.
He drank orange juice as part of a commercial promo for which he had a direct interest in. The Indy milk tradition was also a commercial stunt for someone’s profit, so I see nothing at all wrong with Emmo co-opting it. Why should people hold sacred, a commercial stunt just because that particular commercial stunt has been slavishly adopted as a “tradition”?
I dont blame him, i hate drinking regular milk
Great racing, great drivers. 53 years old Mario Andretti and 54 years old Al Unser leading the race...incredibile.
With Young Al Unser Jr !
I was at the race between turns 3 and 4. I had travelled from the UK to Toronto and travelled with some friends 'on a fishing trip'. One of our group was arrested on Saturday night and did not get out of jail until the Monday afternoon. There were some interesting stories. One guy met someone and they invited them to sleep on the sofa. He woke up with an Alsation with it's jaws around his neck. The guy had broken into the house and left the guy on the sofa.
Those cars 😍
I would LOVE to see this race entirely from Nigel Mansell’s onboard camera.
The full race, uncut from the start of the formation/sighting laps to the final pull in the pit lane after the finish.
Just Nigel’s end of the radio if possible, otherwise just the onboard microphone.
Rick Mears: no regrets at all
AJ Foyt: it's like a nightmare.
😂
retirement?
Just found this, thanks for posting it! I was there! Two rows off the track at turn four. Amazing time! Great memories, gorgeous cars.
I was there from the UK and was a few more rows back and sitting between turns 3 and 4. We only bought the tickets that morning from a licenced tout outside the track.
@@simonkevnorris Awesome! I also missed my prom to go to this lol.
Personally I think we made the right choice! ;)
cool. thanks for having this available to us!
Luyendyk really nailed that rockstar look :D
Hairy Lunatic
This was my first 500. I was standing at the bottom of the inside grandstands (right behind Emo's pit stall) when he took the checkers. Everyone is a Hoosier on Race Day.
God I miss this. This 500 was a great example of what made the race so great. The speed, the noise and the fact that there were a lot of GREAT drivers. It was where young up and comers could challenge all time Indy greats and even former F1 champions.
How many former F1 world champions were in this race? I think I count 4? Piquet, Mansell (reigning champ at that point), Andretti and Fittipaldi.
I think 94 might have been the last time a former F1 champ raced at the brickyard until Alonso showed up. Piquet didn't return. Mansell, Andretti and Fittipaldi did, but Andretti would retire after 94 and Mansell would return to F1. Fittipaldi, driving for Penske, didn't even qualify for the 500 in 95 thanks to the controversial Mercedes pushrod motor that suddenly became uncompetitive thanks to rules changes. Fittipaldi would retire after a crash a day before the 96 Indy 500 at the rival Michigan 500 race run by CART...
The early 90s were peak Indy 500 for speed and prestige for sure. I hope to see them claw it back.
dzelpwr man if TG didnt do his BS and mess with the greatest spectacle in racing with the 33 fastest and not 25 IRL guaranteed starting positions in 1996 things would have better than and the Indy 500 would still the biggest race in the world and nascar woundn’t have gotten all the mainstream popularity as they did in the late 90s and 2000s.
Four world champions with seven titles among them! You'll never see that in IndyCar ever again - all but Piquet were full-season runners. Amazing to have the reigning world champion in CART that year
Peak for prestige but today's cars have these easily beat on speed. This year was the fastest average quali speed in history.
@@StaySqueezy12 fastest whole field, yes, but that's due to how close the competition is with identical chassis and only 2 engine suppliers.
But the fastest of today's cars still haven't come close to the 1996 track record...
And if CART were still using their cars at the speedway through the late 90s, that record would have been broken a few more times--likely into the 240 MPH lap average speed range like they managed to accomplish at Fontana twice. Once in 97 with Gugelmin before they put the drag-creating wings on, and again in 2000 with the drag-making Handford device with Gil de Ferran.
All those fans on the inside off the track over 400,000 people the greatest sporting event in the world its now just a schell of itself so sad what ha happened to that great event!
lovely to watch the motor speedway thanks for sharing i went there for the museum all nice cars
Man I miss these cars, they looked and sounded the best out of any generation in my opinion.
Man I love that Delta Force theme song, ha!
Thank you so much for posting the full build up to the race as well as the race. So few people ever think of doing that. I am indebted to you. From Ireland.
A big THANK YOU to Indycar for posting and allowing others to post past races. F1 claims copyright almost immediately, perhaps for financial reasons but maybe they don't want people seeing how it used to look and sound.
I think it's because F1 has them behind a paywall on F1TV
I sat in that z28 Pace car at work today. It only has 22,000 miles on it and is still mint. 👍🏼
Fittipaldi's popularity took a nose dive after he refused the milk. In the grand scheme of things he is just the latest in a list of over 30 drivers who did not drink milk in victory lane after winning the Indianapolis 500. That list includes Bobby Unser, Bill Vukovich, Sam Hanks and Mauri Rose. I also find it interesting that they no longer offer buttermilk...which is what Louis Meyer originally requested.
I don't blame him for refusing milk. If you do the police work. Retrace the evidence back. You'll realize you're suckling from another species. *SICK!*
Overated marketing ploy.
you are so dumb in america it's absolutely laughable.
@@jiboo6850 "Dumb all over, Yes we are! Dumb all over, Near and far. Dumb all over, Left and right. People we is Not That Bright!" -Frank Zappa
@@raymond3803 Just because u don't like it doesn't mean we don't. Go give your vegan thoughts somewhere else lol
That Delta Force intro just so Epic!
The 2:37:28 mark - The big move that blipped everybody live! I remember watching it live saying "Mansell took the lead!" when they came out of Turn 2 and both ABC and IMS Radio thinking for a lap that Mario and Emmo were both dueling for the lead.
thanks for the time stamp I watched this live in England when it ran, that restart was crazy the man's an animal, round the outside into turn 1 three wide :)
When Indy was really INDY. The machines were beautiful and powerful. (and unique). Pity now its slowed down and the race is a 220mph parade lap
Those 1993 Camaro Pace Cars are really nice, I've seen one myself, they have a bigger interior in them than the traditional Camaros, and They are faster #BestCamaroPaceCar!
They are nice, but being a former 3rd gen Camaro owner, I'm still partial to the 82' Pace Car Z28.
This entire early 90's era is the pinnacle of IndyCar...
The old and the new ... Andretti, Foyt, Unser, Mears, Fittipaldi, Paul Tracy ...
'91 front row;
Mears, Foyt, Andretti
All this in modern cars essentially indistinguishable from the cars of today.
Bring back the Delta Force theme for the intro for 2022! And Paul Page.
When Indy cars sounded like Indy Cars!!!
That SOUND!!!!
@23:49 Nice segment on changes to the track including the 'rumble strips'.
The only time a driver won the Indy 500 after starting ninth.
33:36 Back Home Again in Indiana 🎶
Jim Nabors(1930~2017)
Listening to Emmo speak I couldn't help but hear a similarity to Ayrton in his voice. This is how he probably would have sounded as he got older. If only......
Would he have moved to IndyCar after accomplishing all he wanted to accomplish in F1?
@@danielmoorefield4891 there exists an interview where senna expressed his interest in racing in america after formula one, he mentions NASCAR and IndyCar
Didn't Senna test the Penske in 93 or 94?
@@mr8I7He did
He would have been sick in IndyCar. I loved IndyCar, but to me, I think the cream of the crop was and always will be F1. More than a few IndyCar superstars went to F1 and were terrible. Consequently, guys like Mansell and Cheever came to IndyCar from F1, and were REALLY good.
Thought the thumbnail was a McLaren F1 car from the late 80s at first glance. Clicked anyway, watched the start and the last 20 laps or so (not much time), TIL Mansell did the Indy 500! Good job too seeing him perform quite well. Hopefully Alonso can do well this year!
The couple years leading up to the CART / IRL disaster were awesome!! Mercedes and the “Pop-Off” valve.
Steve Brady i think Tony George listened to the wrong people and tried to take advantage of the USAC Indy 500 only entries. However he got nascar to the track as well but gave nascar a huge boost in popularity for national expansion to non traditional nascar markets that were Indycar ones.
44:07 race start
53:10 first yellow flag
56:52 second green flag
1:05:09 second yellow flag
1:09:10 third green flag
1:38:32 third yellow flag
1:43:13 fourth green flag
1:44:49 fourth yellow flag
1:47:41 fifth green flag
2:03:33 fifth yellow flag
2:13:47 sixth green flag
2:32:55 sixth yellow flag
2:37:19 seventh green flag
2:43:59 seventh yellow flag
2:47:20 eighth green flag
2:52:54 eighth yellow flag
2:56:24 ninth green flag
3:00:00 end of the race
Thank you IndyCar❤
I was there in '93.
I was drunk but I was there. Lol Had a blast! 🏎🏁
1993. My favourite Indianapolis 500 of all time apart from many others.
An All Legendary Cast!
Few years later CART and IRL battle were start and times had never being the same again
MaiN tESt blame Tony George and AJ Foyt for the split.
someday people are just going to have to get over it...
Indy car hasn't been as healthy as it is today since this race, which by the way was my first and so far only Indy 500.
It's easy to point fingers at Tony George or the CART team owners for the split, but that is history now and the sport is doing well
Jay J I had a crazy dream recently were I was somewhere probably in Indianapolis and saw Tony George at a restaurant. I saw him and I gave him the finger and told him what he did to Indy. He got up and We almost got into a fight.
I have never to to Indy but would like to go to take of my bucket list. I’m only 23 but have loved watching the Indy 500 since I have been 6 or 7. Thank god I don’t remember the true start of the split but theses videos are sad to watch what happened to the biggest race in the world turned into the most pointless war in history. very sad and frustrating time in the 90s for Indycar.
@@robminmonaca it's just FTG's fault. His alone.
My favorite indycar season!!
1911 - 2020: INDY? ALL BEAUTIES! Thanks, Roger Penske...Keeping Hulman's Rickenbacker's...George's! OUR DREAMS! ALIVE! ;-)
Roberto Guerrero’s day ended after he collided with the same car (literally the same chassis) he had driven to the pole (and then crashed before the start) a year prior, which he would also end up driving again in ‘94.
1:01:15 Typical poor communication and judgment by USAC:
1) Boesel passed Mario after the blend line at pit exit. USAC assessed a penalty for passing on the pitlane
2) The proper response by race control is to communicate the proper running order, which apparently was done as Raúl dropped behind Mario before the restart; no further action needed. USAC assessed a stop and go penalty, which was overkill.
However, this wouldn't be the worst call by USAC, and it wouldn't be the last bad call they made.
They sure don't make race intro's like this anymore.
1989: drinks milk
1993: drinks orange juice
Unfathomable
that camera shots at 35:40 are like a film. Bring back this on starts
The cameras weren't as steady as todays, but it looks so much faster this way.
Wow, Nelson Piquet was devastated. I don't remember his interview being so gut-wrenching. 1h 15m
This was the series at its zenith.
I’m usually one for tradition, but I honestly don’t mind that Emerson drank orange juice, mainly for three reasons:
1: In case you’re lactose-intolerant, there’s no reason to limit your options.
2: Maybe you don’t like milk. Maybe you just like oranges.
3: He already drank milk after his first victory.
he's not lactose intolerant, he did it to promote his own orange juice brand and they attach a part of the winner's purse to the drinking of the milk. everything about it was dumb.
CMartin6688 it’s kind of bullshit that you would have to drink milk as part of the purse. I mean what if you have an allergy to milk or are a vegan?
@@gfoot9916 If you have class, you cover that before the race. You DON'T make a point of yapping in the Victory Lane interview being heard by the entire crowd and everyone watching that you're giving a middle finger to the tradition which was what ticked people off.
i don't take dairy products very bad for your health been a strict vegan for 36 years i would also drink orange juice!
Dan Wheldon was Lactose Intolerant, yet he drank milk twice. Granted he took just a sip and then dumped it on his head, but he still drank the milk
4 f1 world champions in this one. Mario, Emerson, Nelson and Nigel
Prá mim , são os carros com melhor visual de carros de corrida .
Também acho parça 🇧🇷🇧🇷
One of the best races of XX century
thank you
I wad born 2 months before this 🤨 idk it’s weird to think my whole life hadn’t really happened at this point in time. Kinda a cool thought 💭
RUclips. The only place you can see real racing anymore. Except maybe the 24 Hourres du Monde.
13:36 the 77th INDY 500's Fastest rookie
1:12:10 Emerson Fittipaldi commenting he would like to see the 'cockpit fully enclosed with a big plastic bubble'. Almost. 17 years later...
Actually 27 years later, the aeroscreen officially implemented in 2020
@ Indycar...will you be posting the 1988 cart season races like you did with the 1987 season? please !!!
That Was Funny!
(Watching The Winner Of This 1993 Indy 500, Emmo, Pushing The Milk Bottle Away!)🤔🙄😂🤓😎
3:02:00 there was a very sad cow in Indianapolis.
Paul Page, Sam Posey, Bobby Unser. Best booth ever.
Back when Ayrton Senna was alive.. :(
Yea..
He almost came to Indycar and even a had test with Penske. He was seriously considering coming to indycar and was upset at the direction of F1.
@@robminmonaca he should have followed red 5 across the pond. :(
If I had ever raced at Indy and won you would have seem me drink the milk and throw up about 20 secnds later. I can not stand the taste of milk itjust turns my stomach.
These are my favorite Indy cars and the talent driving them puts todays line up to shame.
What happened to indy car was a sad sad shame and it will probably will never recover its former glory.
Steve Wismark Tony George and Andrew Craig from CART. Just look up CART IRL split here on RUclips and you will see why.
I had a crazy dream recently were I was somewhere probably in Indianapolis and saw Tony George at a restaurant. I saw him and I gave him the finger and told him what he did to Indy. He got up and We almost got into a fight.
I have never to to Indy but would like to go to take of my bucket list. I’m only 23 but have loved watching the Indy 500 since I have been 6 or 7. Thank god I don’t remember the true start of the split but theses videos are sad to watch what happened to the biggest race in the world turned into the most pointless war in history. very sad and frustrating time in the 90s for Indycar.
@@robminmonaca Yeah, that' a crazy dream all right that can only be dreamed by a crazy person.
How Arie did NOT hit Nigel on the final restart into Turn 1 is NUTS!
Sunday is gonna be a stormer.
I think Marco will finally win the 500 this year or a Honda will win it for sure
Marco hasn't won any race since 2011 has he? I almost bet that he will never win the Indy 500. It would be cool if he did.
Ha.
1:12:17 It only took 25 years for Emmo to get his wish with the Aeroscreen...
Despite not winning, Mansell drove a superb race for a rookie. Had he been a little more experienced he'd have won but this was his first time out on an oval other than his wreck at Phoenix...
"He'd have won" bs 😂😂
Emmo.. What a driver, my all time favorite
Arguably the last great Indy 500, certainly the last between Ford, Chevy and Buick as we knew it. What a great 2-year battle it was between the three nameplates, though.
If I recall, Chevy and Buick withdrew their factory support after the end of the ‘93 season. In the case of Chevy, there was really nothing left to prove in CART and at Indy at that point. So Ilmor was just that in ‘94 - the Ilmor Indy V8, which still gave Ford/Cosworth a run for its money. And that’s not even counting Penske’s Ilmor 500i, which Mercedes-Benz began factory support.
Still, whatever form of motorsport, Ford vs Chevy will always be the best rivalry. I’d love to see Ford make a comeback in IndyCar once again and duke it out with Chevrolet.
1985-95 the golden age of Indycar Racing. The best sounding, fastest, and best looking cars. Along with Paul Page’s delta force intros talk about chills.
ABC Sports, with Paul Page calling the race, were superb.
Unlike the NBC coverage for 2023, where I had to hit the 'mute' button on my TV to give my eardrums a rest from the TV announcing banter . . . the frenetic and loud pace of it could give a person a headache.
The camera angles were weird in 1993 - I assume it had to do with the tracks reconfiguration but they were back to normal by the next year.
It was the first year of the big grandstand on the north chute. The “down the backstretch through turn 3” camera station hadn’t been built yet, so ABC decided to shoot everything from the infield.
The Chevrolet Camaro Pace Car found its way to Germany. Its getting sold for roughly $20000 with about 40000miles on it
mansell.piquet.tracy.andretti.luyendyk.fittipaldi.unser. what a field.