Indycar, I can’t thank you enough for posting these old races. It’s a real treat to see a snapshot of the past like this and experience a bygone era of motorsport.
Thank you 2022 IndyCar for the 2005 CART Champcars! If you need a basis to style the 2024 IndyCar chassis.... Well there you go! They should also sound like this as well!
It was more than just rumours. Dover Motorsports was selling the "track" to Champ Car for an agreed price until Tony George made a counter-offer to get the race. Kalkhoven & Co. didn't put ink on the paper until June, very close to the deadline.
@@osrn2 yep, but also champ car was buying tv time in order to show races on network tv and after the 2004 long beach race (where more people watched the race in the stands then on tv cause it aired on speed channel for free), they decided to do it for long beach going forward at least.
That is because in the 60’s they used film. Film is super high resolution, like something near 4k. This was recorded to video tape 480i. It sucks that essentially for most of 1980-2010 most things were recorded to super low resolution tape.
I know! I was watching The Price is Right from 1982 the other day and it looked great. And then I wachted from 1983 and it looked terrible, the change over from film to live TV and VHS.
@@JoshLanners The thing is, racing series/broadcasters do have pretty good quality copies of 80's-90s races, there are a few of them over here, probably from the master tapes. But at some point in the 2000's, with the consolidation of on-screen graphics, they flat-out gave up and started to archive races in low-res, standard TV format. The 2004-2006 Indy 500's original archives (and pretty much every other race from that era) are a pain to watch for that same reason. It wasn't until 2008 (2007 for the 500) that 16:9 HD resolution came to "our" rescue.
Indycar, I can’t thank you enough for posting these old races. It’s a real treat to see a snapshot of the past like this and experience a bygone era of motorsport.
Man those cosworth turbos were just so glorious! no other race car sounded like em
Thank you 2022 IndyCar for the 2005 CART Champcars!
If you need a basis to style the 2024 IndyCar chassis.... Well there you go! They should also sound like this as well!
Fantastic commentation at @5:25. Thanks Derek, you made me laugh
Thanks Indycar for the upload.
Miss you ChampCar.
How do you start your coverage three laps into the race? Wow NBC.
Broadcasting schedule issues that day
@@MarkMeadows90 Okay, I thought it was strange, but that makes sense!
this was also in the era where champ car needed to BUY TV TIME to get on network tv and put their races on speed channel for free.
@@xSoccerxCorex yeah this was when champ car was headed downhill
At that point, there were rumors that the race could switch to the IRL for 2006.
It was more than just rumours. Dover Motorsports was selling the "track" to Champ Car for an agreed price until Tony George made a counter-offer to get the race. Kalkhoven & Co. didn't put ink on the paper until June, very close to the deadline.
Champcar > IRL
This is really fun to see. I think this was supposed to be in the 4:3 format common of the time . . . everything looks wide.
Thanks for making this free... without a Champ Car Race Director...
I always thought those visor cams were so cool back then. Way before GoPro became a thing.
el mejor circuito de la categoría .
In the 80s f1 has been Long Beach for the 🇺🇸 GP of the West
@@andreasgrothe9940 I did not know and it is true a historic race with historic drivers is better to keep running in the indy
Can we get the 1996 and 1997 Indy 500s uploaded on here ? I know it was from a very dark time in the sport but just for historical purposes.
No, you may not have those. Access denied.
Too bad the start was not aired live
Hello 👋
wait is it just me or they skipped the start?
It's not you, the start was missed for of all things, Arena Football. A lot was missed during those few minutes.
@@osrn2 yep, but also champ car was buying tv time in order to show races on network tv and after the 2004 long beach race (where more people watched the race in the stands then on tv cause it aired on speed channel for free), they decided to do it for long beach going forward at least.
On lap 1 they discovered a blue l)ildo on the racing line at turn 3, so they had to delay the start to Lap 3 (which you see in this video).
@@osrn2 it was for good reason, as per my answer above.
@@jonnies lmao what?
Pretty ladies at the start of the video lol
Feel like they skip a lot of the race
I've seen race footage from the 60's that's clearer than this...
That is because in the 60’s they used film. Film is super high resolution, like something near 4k. This was recorded to video tape 480i. It sucks that essentially for most of 1980-2010 most things were recorded to super low resolution tape.
@@JoshLanners Bummer
I know! I was watching The Price is Right from 1982 the other day and it looked great. And then I wachted from 1983 and it looked terrible, the change over from film to live TV and VHS.
@@JoshLanners The thing is, racing series/broadcasters do have pretty good quality copies of 80's-90s races, there are a few of them over here, probably from the master tapes. But at some point in the 2000's, with the consolidation of on-screen graphics, they flat-out gave up and started to archive races in low-res, standard TV format. The 2004-2006 Indy 500's original archives (and pretty much every other race from that era) are a pain to watch for that same reason. It wasn't until 2008 (2007 for the 500) that 16:9 HD resolution came to "our" rescue.