Indycar (USAC) - 1970 Phoenix 150 (highlights)
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Full movie coverage of the Bobby Ball 150, filmed @ Phoenix International Raceway November 21st 1970.
An awesome old-school Indycar race at one of the old traditional short ovals !
Phoenix is my favorite track. A fast mile you can see well from any seat a nice drive from California and you just try counting the different states the cars come from in parking lot..race fan heaven
Then and now? Things changed. I loved Phoenix cause it used to get some wild entries i didnt get to see at my home track…the Milwaukee Mile
I was here in 93 when Mario won his last race .
Man, this is awesome. Don't recall this due to being 18 days old..😀
I wonder if ABC still has copies of all of the other wide world of sports shows and all of races at places like Trenton,etc.?
4:27 Notice the mention of one front-engined car still in the field in 1970. #89 Maxson Roadster I believe. One of the very few front-engined cars still in Champ car racing by then. The other one still around in ‘70-72 being the #56 Hurtubise Mallard, which was not in this race.
Truly amazing stuff.
LOL at Economacki. He went to refer to Mom Unser as "A Great Old GAL," and caught himself before he could do it...referring to her instead as a "Fine Lady"...Chris was a crotchety old rascal, but was so good for motorsports and was always my favorite..."Jim, She's a Great Ole GAL, and not stuck up at all, and she makes damn fine chili, by Godfrey the stuff burns ya at both ends..."
Ugh. You're not much for window browsing of your motorsports journalists are you? Listening to him talk makes me want to set kittens on fire.
@gary24fan He was good for motorsports because of National Speed Sport News in so much as he published all results from the smaller tracks. I never said he was a smooth announcer, I just got a kick out him because he was Grandfatherly and ornery, and I thought that aspect was funny. If you didn’t that’s cool, all of this is subjective.
One of a kind. God i loved him so both on tv and in print.
Watching just before the 2023 Nascar Cup championship race.
My first indy race , I was12 .
Mine was 70’ Milwaukee Mile races. A great time to start
2 things. first off this is awesone and it's great that they're coming back to this track. to the guy bitching about lack of ovals in the series, the series has as many ovals as they did in 1993
This track doesn't exist anymore.
@@LeoA2600 doesn't exist any more? They better tell the NASCAR guys before they go back for their second race of the season there in November
lol
I of course was referring to the renovations. The track itself was razed and completely redesigned 10 years ago or so. It doesn't even follow the exact path of the old track, and of course the width, transitions, and especially the banking are completely different.
And just within the past 2 or 3 years or so, the last vestiges of the old track outside of the racing surface that was familiar to IndyCar fans thanks to many years of excellent races was demolished and replaced thanks to wear & tear and the positive move to improve the fan amenities.
That leaves what's at the site now as a completely new track. Even the old name is now gone thanks to a sponsorship agreement like SMI likes to do, exchanging money in place of their historic and familiar track names. All that's left of what was there during IndyCar's first era at Phoenix is Monument Hill just outside of turns 3 and 4.
That all said, I'm glad motorsports still happens at the site. But the oval that often ended up the highlight of the season through many years of IndyCar racing simply doesn't exist anymore. A new track better suited for putting on entertaining NASCAR races was built in its place.
It's just not the same. :(
In 1966, USA television networks ABC, NBC, and CBS began broadcasting nearly all TV programs in color. By the time of this Phoenix 150 USAC Indy Car race, almost half of all USA homes had color TV sets.
Color TV was slow to catch on in other countries like Brazil. I bet the old Soviet Union didn't have color TV sets until the late '70's, or even the '80's.
In the mid-80s an arrangement was made for a few Soviet officers to be invited to observe an American infantry quarters in our (Warner) barracks located in Bamberg W. Germany. They were stunned by how well American troops were paid to afford such large TV's and stereos, initially thinking those items could only possibly belong to officers not enlisted men.
the Sport NEEDS to get back to the ovals they were at in the 1970s 1980s 1990s.
38:58-39:08 Funny exactly how the tables would turn in reverse just over a decade later on that one, no? ;-)
The infield's got craters like the surface of the Moon.
Holy crap! Where the heck did you find this? Amazing stuff.... Thanks for posting!
35 cars brought to Phoenix with only 27 making the race. dnqs included Roger McCluskey (crash), Billy Vukovich in the Agajanian #98, Johnny Rutherford in Pat Patricks #36. 8 of those who did start….it was the only one they ever did lol. Which might explain events here
actually, there were regularly scheduled color TV broadcasts in the US as early as the mid 50's. Mostly on NBC because NBC was then a part of RCA, and RCA were trying to sell their new color TV models, which were extremely expensive. No color TV broadcasts, no reason to buy color TV. The color broadcasts were usually "specials" or "spectaculars" featuring big stars like Bob Hope and were every month or so. Most people watched them in B&W, but they were broadcast in color.
Beautiful Ford Convertible pacing the field
Running order at finish since its not on here….1. Al Unser 2. Bobby Unser 3. Lloyd Ruby, 1 lap behind. 4. AJ Foyt 1 lap behind 5. Mike Mosley 2 laps behind. 6. Jim McElreath 6 laps behind 7. George Snider 10 laps behind 8. Steve Krisiloff 10 laps behind 9. Karl Busson 13 laps behind. Those are only cars that finished.
McCay talks about Andretti and Al Unser having wives. My girlfriend and her best friend were whisked of by aforementioned in Milwaukee in 72’. They refused advances and bailed out of car in downtown Milwaukee
What in the world kind of car is the #73 car, Karl Busson piloting? Whoever he is. CRAZY looking racer with a Hallbrand chassis (who and whatever THAT was and a chevy engine.
yeah true , but I started following the IRL in the mid 90s because of that.
ABC mentions Al Unser was in a brand new car - that is not correct. The chassis was a Lola T150 built in 1968 and converted to the "Colt" specification by VPJ. It was the first race for the Colt but not for that specific modified chassis.
Big Al never got the credit he deserved for being a great open wheel driver!
Color TV in 1970 on USA? Here on Brazil only in 1974
Hello,
Can anyone tell me where all the video collections of a particular indycar season have gone which could be watched on youtube approximately a year ago. for example "Indycar season 19xx" can´t find them anymore. They contained full races!!
Thx
Oooooo GOD i hope someone has the answer. There are still ALOT of USAC and NASCAR races that were televised but not on you tube….yet. Trenton races for example
March 28, 1970.
Hey!!! How about showing us the WHOLE race and not have it cut off with a dozen laps left???!!!
late in race McKay and Economacki pointed out that drivers…specifically Al Unser and Mario Andretti….were married and live family lives. That didnt stop Mr. Andretti and Mr. Unser from offering to take my sweet redheaded legs for daze ex girlfriend and her friend out to dinner. They jumped in car with them and they drove to hotel instead in Milwaukee during Rex Mays weekend in Milwaukee. Both fled from them after they parked and started grabbing them and trying to rip clothes off of them. They have pics of being in car with them.
are you serious? Color TV programming started in 1965 or soon thereafter in the USA. the USA was/ is the innovation in TV Broadcasting technology. other countries were slower to adopt it for whatever reasons.
Who one
Al Unser.
Who two?
So who the F won??