It was thoughtful and considerate for the producer of this film to put up screen credits, especially so with showing the narrator being Sid Collins, the legendary radio voice for the Indy 500 for decades.
The narrator of this film, Sid Collins, was the longtime radio play-by-play voice of the Indianapolis "500". It was a Memorial Day weekend tradition in millions of homes (including mine; my parents, brother, and I would tune in; my brother and I were small children then) to listen to Sid's radio broadcast of the race. Back then (1964-70) the only live TV coverage was shown in theatres on a closed-circuit basis. But an edited videotape of the race would be shown about a week later on ABC's "Wide World Of Sports". Watching that tape was also a tradition in our home as a child. In the 1970's, my family would still listen to Sid Collins' live radio broadcast during the day, and then watch an edited videotape of the race on ABC-TV that evening. Sadly, Sid didn't live long enough to have called A.J. Foyt's then unprecedented fourth career Indianapolis victory in 1977. He would have loved it. R.I.P. Sid, and thanks for being the soundtrack of Memorial Day weekend for millions of Americans for so many years.
I recall when Paul Page succeeded Collins with the radio broadcast of the Indy 500; where I was puzzled at what happened to Collins; as Page, at the end of the broadcast, was somewhat cryptic of Collins's fate. Info sources were very limited back then in the pre-internet era; where having info access about Collins would only come from TV, radio, and print. Myself living in California at the time, motorsport reporting was scant. It was years later when I found out about Collins's fate. Sad, indeed!
@@sherryhannah9262 I recall the 1979 Indy 500 when TV personality Peter Marshall sang "Back Home Again In Indiana." My response to that was a dumbfounded "Huh!!?"
Aside from Mario Andretti's skills at the wheel, it was revealed in an issue of Vintage Motorsports magazine that the body shape of the Brawner built car he drove provided an unintended ground-effects that gave the car a slight downforce on the racing surface; an 'inverted aircraft wing' effect, that instead of lift, created a downforce with the chassis. It was an advantage lacking with many of the other body designs in that era. According to that same magazine article, the entire team was clueless about such an aerodynamic effect at the time, as it was discovered many years later.
I have many recollections of this era of auto racing. Notice the brief look of AJ Foyt @9:45 that obscures part of his driving uniform, not showing the _Goodyear_ tires brand to the audience. The year 1966 was a poor one for AJ Foyt; not winning the Indy 500 and finishing 13th in the season driver's standing that year. As it was with superstitions in that era, Foyt had his Champ Car labeled with the #14 for the 1967 season. The '67 season for Foyt was a great comeback. Winning the Indy 500 and the USAC Champ Car crown in dramatic fashion that year.
Roger Ward thought he had no chance and quit. That car was running fine. He was upset because Stewart and Hill got Fords in their Lola chassis and He was forced to make do with a supercharged offy Ford said they didn't have any more motors for him. Roger quit the next day at the awards banquet.
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It was thoughtful and considerate for the producer of this film to put up screen credits, especially so with showing the narrator being Sid Collins, the legendary radio voice for the Indy 500 for decades.
😊 Thanks for the 167 mile a hour ride with Mario...awesome job 👍 👏 🙌 👌 😀
The narrator of this film, Sid Collins, was the longtime radio play-by-play voice of the Indianapolis "500".
It was a Memorial Day weekend tradition in millions of homes (including mine; my parents, brother, and I would tune in; my brother and I were small children then) to listen to Sid's radio broadcast of the race.
Back then (1964-70) the only live TV coverage was shown in theatres on a closed-circuit basis.
But an edited videotape of the race would be shown about a week later on ABC's "Wide World Of Sports". Watching that tape was also a tradition in our home as a child.
In the 1970's, my family would still listen to Sid Collins' live radio broadcast during the day, and then watch an edited videotape of the race on ABC-TV that evening.
Sadly, Sid didn't live long enough to have called A.J. Foyt's then unprecedented fourth career Indianapolis victory in 1977. He would have loved it.
R.I.P. Sid, and thanks for being the soundtrack of Memorial Day weekend for millions of Americans for so many years.
alt factor if you remember Jim Nabors sang the national anthem before the Indianapolis 500
I recall when Paul Page succeeded Collins with the radio broadcast of the Indy 500; where I was puzzled at what happened to Collins; as Page, at the end of the broadcast, was somewhat cryptic of Collins's fate.
Info sources were very limited back then in the pre-internet era; where having info access about Collins would only come from TV, radio, and print. Myself living in California at the time, motorsport reporting was scant.
It was years later when I found out about Collins's fate. Sad, indeed!
@@sherryhannah9262 I recall the 1979 Indy 500 when TV personality Peter Marshall sang "Back Home Again In Indiana." My response to that was a dumbfounded "Huh!!?"
Never expected to see racing here!
Thank YOU for sharing!
You should search their channel then. They've got a great motor racing playlist on here!
@@piatpotatopeon8305 thank y'all.
I was really using this channel for history, watching vids on atom bomb recently, then saw this about 3 hours ago.
Aside from Mario Andretti's skills at the wheel, it was revealed in an issue of Vintage Motorsports magazine that the body shape of the Brawner built car he drove provided an unintended ground-effects that gave the car a slight downforce on the racing surface; an 'inverted aircraft wing' effect, that instead of lift, created a downforce with the chassis. It was an advantage lacking with many of the other body designs in that era.
According to that same magazine article, the entire team was clueless about such an aerodynamic effect at the time, as it was discovered many years later.
I have many recollections of this era of auto racing.
Notice the brief look of AJ Foyt @9:45 that obscures part of his driving uniform, not showing the _Goodyear_ tires brand to the audience.
The year 1966 was a poor one for AJ Foyt; not winning the Indy 500 and finishing 13th in the season driver's standing that year. As it was with superstitions in that era, Foyt had his Champ Car labeled with the #14 for the 1967 season.
The '67 season for Foyt was a great comeback. Winning the Indy 500 and the USAC Champ Car crown in dramatic fashion that year.
History
Those were the days- they were pushing over 500hp from the Ford 161 inch V8's and the Offenhauser 168 inch 4 cyls.
The 161 inch was for supercharged engines, normally aspirated engines were 255 inch.
Roger Ward thought he had no chance and quit. That car was running fine. He was upset because Stewart and Hill got Fords in their Lola chassis and He was forced to make do with a supercharged offy Ford said they didn't have any more motors for him. Roger quit the next day at the awards banquet.
body shape of the future? hahahahaha
Remember seeing AJ Foyt race there, maybe 79 or 80, as a kid.