The best part of this is that Page and company explain certain "side things" that people are meanwhile seeing (like Mario's position in the wider scheme with six to go), but mostly lets the action between the two leaders tell the whole story; by them keeping quieter, it becomes cinematic.
Great memories! This was the very first Indy 500 race i watched live on TV, i was 13 years old and i watched the complete race since the start until the finish, the finish was awesome, one of the best finishes i ever seen.
I was there sitting down in turn 1 that day. One of the best races I have seen over the years. A strong top 5 for sure. Paul Page is the consummate professional and the shots of the wives helped drive home the importance of this great race! I will add this race ending under yellow did nothing to diminish this race. It is a forgotten part of most who remember that incredible battle.
Two great drivers, an exciting battle, an two gentlemen also! The comment of Little Al after the crash shows his good character as a racer. About Emmo I have no words to describe. The first brazilian to win a Formula-1 Race, a Formula-1 Championship, Indy 500 and F-Indy championship! A true pioneer racer!
i remember this vividly sitting in front of my tv as a 9yr old kid....this solidified me as a race fan...i prefer nascar nowadays but still watch the 500 every year!!
@VampireYoshi It's Pro Yoshi. We are kindred spirits. Thanks for your interest in this post. To see people appreciate these events as much as i do is gratifying. This clip still gives me goosebumps.
BEST. INDY 500. EVER. While there have been other epic duels at the end, none went for broke at the end like these two did. Add in the fact the next 3 cars in line could have possibly won had both Al Unser Jrand Emmo crashed, and you have a race for the ages. I doubt we'll ever see something like this again at Indianapolis.
One of the best things about this legendary race? The fact that third place Rual Boesel was six laps behind the top two...and yet everyone was standing, hair on edge, as the battle for the lead raged on. You don't need mass roving packs of high-speed Tetris to have incredible drama, in REAL motorsports. Oh for the days; may they return someday soon.
Me and my fathers names are both paul... I grew up being called "little Paul" born in 1980 i was 9 when this was on. And needless to say I LOVED LITTLE AL. I cried when this happened. But my dad made me watch his interview and his sportsmanship made me feel better.
Note Al Unser, Sr. in the pits at 5:04, he had literally just arrived in the Galles pits on his bicycle. He said he was too nervous to watch, so he stayed in the garage area til the very last minute. he had dropped out earlier with clutch problems in his final Indy start for Penske.
Paul Page, Bobby Unser and Sam Posey. The voices of the 500 to me Bring 'em back Great finish, how many times have you seen the driver that was taken out lose it? Little Al was gracious in defeat. DK
Emmo didnt take out Little Al intentionally, he was tryin to win the dang race, and Al knew that, just hard racing for two guys who at that point had never won, and even so Little Al got one back on Emmo in 94 when Emmo was a lap up on Little Al with 15 to go and took himself out handing the win to Al in what turned out to be Fittipaldis last 500
I'm glad this video is being enjoyed and sanctioned (kinda) by Indy itself. As for the issues some people have with it I'd like to remind you of the year (1989). I'd like you to appreciate the difference between what wasn't done before but has been done a million times since. Any kids want to give me a review of Citizen Kane? I'd like you to appreciate what wasn't said. I'd like you to appreciate that a great finish doesn't have to be a photo finish. I'd like you to appreciate a gracious loser.
2.65L V8, DOHC 32v, Single turbocharger, 45 inches (Hg) of pressure absolute (about 22.1 PSI absolute). There was no "push to pass", the boost was constant.
another reason was the pure attrition that took place in this race. Of course Michael blew his engine while leading, all three Penske cars (Mears, Big Al, Sullivan) dropped out, along with fast cars like Rahal, Crawford in the Buick, and Luyendyk. Had some of these guys finished, Boesel probably would have ended up 7th or 8th, but the same amount of laps down.
Mario had suffered mechanical trouble earlier, and had actually made his way back up through the slower cars. The Chevys of the day were roughly 10-15 mph faster than the Cosworths; Fittipaldi and Unser, in fact, were running laps 220 mph+ when a 210 lap had never been seen in-race before. F-1 Emmo raised the bar?
@bricksterr I guess you could consider me a "kid" (23yrs), but I won't give you what you're looking for from a "kid"....Unser's statement at the end, "when you've got 2 drivers who wanted the 500 as bad as we did...two drivers are going into the corner and only one is coming out", is raw truth!!! Only the Unser's and Andretti's have this character built into their genes!! Just watch the 2006 Post-race interview of the young Marco. "At Indy, you're either 1st or you're nothing"! Great Video!!
I believe the engines were supercharged or had a turbo or "push to pass". They were spec in that they had a certain design parameter but there multiple manufacturers, not just Chevy.
I think when they say "race coverage," they mean the announcers. The video feed could've been better if they'd spliced to smaller windows for any of the "updates on the wives'," etc. But the on-board camera on Little Al, as they went into three on 199? Nothing wrong with that choice. If they hadn't touched wheels, and Emmo had gotten back past, THAT shot would've been mind-numbingly EPIC.
On a sidenote, we'll never know if Al had enough fuel. Galles gambled on the last yellow, and didn't bring Al in for fuel. Galles knew that they had enough fuel to get to at least lap 199..so they stayed out to gain track position. Even if Al had run out of fuel on the final lap, 3rd place was so far behind, they finish second anyway...they had to go for the win.
At 4:54, a really telling example of how different things were back then. No video monitors in the pits, no video boards, no spotters so minimal info conveyed on the two-way radio. Shelly and Al Sr. and the rest of the crew really had no idea what had happened to Al Jr...hence the "where is he" she says. If you weren't in turn 3 (or watching at home), you didn't see and hardly knew what happened outside of what the P.A. was reporting. Some may have been listening to the radio, but really at the time, the crews in the pits knew less than the fans about what was going on out on most parts of the track.
In early 90-ies at first i was sceptic about Indycar racing (all this oval stuff). Later I saw short race reviews in 1995 with course layouts - I saw ovals, street courses, airport, etc. I was little bit intrigued. Since 1998 I watched CART races, and all I can say is that most amazing races were produced in ovals - Michigan is typical example. Multiple trajectories are possible. It`s natural racing. And, at last, when you look at athletes, running 5000m in stadium, where they run? In oval!
Al Jr. was running his fastest laps of the month chasing Emmo there. He had less fuel than Emmo had which helped, not to mention the draft he was also getting.
Beginning: the crowd begins to realize, as Tom Carnegie calls it on the P.A. system: Unser, Jr. has just closes one second in one lap. Shades of the past... 0:45. The tension continues to build. He has caught Emmo, but does that equate to an overtake? Bobby asks that very question, at 0:56. 1:10. Page begins the allusions; the myths and legends of the 500: Mears, closing on Johncock, 1982. Different structure to the race; but same soul? The announcers, wise enough to "fall back"...
I love how the announcers let the pictures tell the story as much as need be. I bet if that occured today, they would be yapping it up with no dead time.
This whole incident took place because Ludwig Heimrath, Jr. (The blue and grey Mackenzie car #71) got in the way of Al Unser. There was absolutely no need for him to go to the bottom of turn 2. He should have moved up the rece track for Al and Emmo when Emmo got to him. Instead it allowed Emmo to close so quick and get him alongside Al. With less than 2 laps to go, you have to look for the leaders and get out of their way.
It wasn't intentional, though. Emmo drove deep in the turn full throttle and the tires couldn't hold enough to stay low so the car drifted up. Also, check out the dark blue and gray car of Heimrath, Jr. who didn't give Little Al enough room which allowed Emmo to make a run.
brazilians like more street and road circuits but we learnt to like the ovals too and indy as well specially in the 90's. Nowadays we still prefer a lot more F1 but most of us that like racing also like to see the IRL and Indianapolis.
Also, Andretti and Foyt (as well as Scott Brayton) were all on the same lap... man, that would have been some finish if it had gone back to green! AJ Foyt was 54 at the time...
And... if I new only one person, and his name was VampireYoshi, would enjoy this clip I would have still posted it. No Boogity, Boogitiys here folks. Thank you all, both pro and con, for your comments.
Boesel had a troubled engine (they showed it earlier, when Al, Jr. was passing him at about thirteen to go) and many question if he'd have lasted seven more. If he'd dropped out, Mario would've been the leader. If Andretti Luck had happened...A.J. FOYT was next up. What might have been?
If Fittipaldi's car had been disabled as well, longtime competitor Raul Boesel would have had the lead with 7 laps to go. Wouldn't that have been a sight!
Does anyone know why all but the top two cars were so many laps down in this race? Mario is definitely slower than the leaders in that shot, but not seven laps slower & he was running 4th! The third place driver, Raul Boesel, finished six laps down. I know that cars with Chevy engines had a big advantage during that era, but Mario was running a Chevy & I'm assuming that there were others in the field as well. Why the big spread?
You have the finish, but do you have the intro to the race? Its the only Indianapolis "Delta Force Intro" not uploaded and there are several of us that want to see it.
Not only were the Chevy Ilmors better than there Cosworth counterparts but back then Chevy use to issue newer spec engines to the bigger teams so there was even a disparity between the Chevys.
The Speedway would do well to allow the innovation again. I have nothing wrong with their running things themselves: I have a problem with someone not being able to bring their own, just right from their own home garage, if they could afford such.
...to not be TALKING HEADS, while something amazing is happening. Carnegie, and those with the Radio Network in their blood, are alone worthy to "go on alone," and tell the story live, constantly, in the moment. Page calls the play-by-play for Wide World of Sports, and even then...often "merely" the periphery of the situation: 1:40; the atmosphere; Andretti, as lap traffic standing before them. 1:50; an emotional situation never seen in modern "parity" motorsports: a Duel, on Mt. Olympus.
And for the record, I have nothing at all against the IRL save for the limitations they place on innovation (ESPECIALLY in this day and age), and trying to force people into the exact same mold. Take away those stains, and with a 50/50 oval/road course balance, you basically have perfect auto racing once again.
I always cringed when he was introduced at the start of a race. I always liked Bobby Unser, though he spent a lot of time on broadcasts trying to set Posey straight.
@gazzrfc1 Ultimately, this has always been a high speed endurance race. Which car, just as much as the driver and team, is the best, after going near as fast as it can, for 500 miles. Or at least...that's what it is when they aren't WWE'ifying it. If someone runs away with it, then all the cars get better, and we go again. Leave "looking for crashes," and forcing everyone to be equal, to the NASCRAP ilk.
@bricksterr I should invite you, then, if you're not already there, to the indyca r.co m forums, then. Just be warned, complaining about what you hate about current AOWR will probably get people annoyed and thinking you're a troll. Once that aside, since you seem to have your mental stuff together...you'd likely be very welcome there.
This is EXACTLY why i've never liked ABC/ESPN broadcasts. They only care about irrelevant, petty "stories" to attract general interest (money). There is a fantastic race going on and all they repeatedly show are the drivers' wives. I understand if you show them maybe once or twice, but not half the damn broadcast. I mean for the average person, yes it can add drama, interest, etc. But this is a race broadcast. What if i want to actually see the entirety of the laps, to actually see the driver's lines, how they approach the corners, the way they handle lap traffic, or where they are gaining or losing time? (you know the racing bit). I mean is it too much to ask for a race broadcast to show the race??
Welcome to America - where corporate greed supersedes everything from worker's rights to national security by pimping out the politicians. Notice that this sort of shoddy coverage increased after the race was televised live since 1986. Tony George was the final nail in the coffin with his IRL scheme. RIP race fans.
+Brandon Ryan They did it to try to show 'the INCREDIBLE tension', as Page himself states on the backstretch with six to go. And frankly, scenes like this do indeed show what it was like, back in the days when a two-man duel wasn't automatically guaranteed by socialist clone car racing forcing no one to stand out much from each other, and these kinds of face-offs truly WERE the absolute pinnacle of the sport. ...But anyway: they show the drivers' wives for the emotions ripping everyone apart. Insofar as that, I approve; even while agreeing with you that yes, if the battle is so close that they're touching hubcaps, they BETTER be showing the Race that's causing all the emotion to begin with.
2:00. FENDER-rubbing? Try hubcap-rubbing of uncovered wheels at 210 mph, in a turn, and not crashing. Eat your hearts out, junkfood-racing fans. 2:04. I THINK that's Derek Daly, close to ****ing himself as the two leaders pass him on the inside, -at the same time-. 2:08. An ATTEMPT!! UNSUCCESSFUL! Mario is next to be passed by two cars simultaneously! 2:27. He's got a HUGE run, EVERYONE can see it or hear about it, and the cameraman CANNOT HOLD THE CAMERA STEADY, the crowd is SO loud.
@gazzrfc1, @SmeurkeDeKat, and @VampireYoshi......Yes, F1 is the best motorsport in the world (despite it's recent "castrating"). It has the best drivers, best cars, best technology, etc. However, the Indy 500 is BY FAR the best race the planet has ever known!! Sport-to-Sport, League-to-League, F1 is better...Hands down, not even worthy of an argument. Race-to-Race, the 500 is the be-all-end-all, and yes it is better than Monaco! Anyone who says differently has never actually been to the 500
@gazzrfc1 Oh yea, watching a fast car go by one at a time in a race where nothing happens.. I used to like F1, but they cut off its balls in the past decade or so. F1 nowadays is boring as hell (and the cars look like shit too). I don't necessarily wanna see the fastest racing, I wanna see PROPER racing, like this for example
The best part of this is that Page and company explain certain "side things" that people are meanwhile seeing (like Mario's position in the wider scheme with six to go), but mostly lets the action between the two leaders tell the whole story; by them keeping quieter, it becomes cinematic.
Great memories! This was the very first Indy 500 race i watched live on TV, i was 13 years old and i watched the complete race since the start until the finish, the finish was awesome, one of the best finishes i ever seen.
I was there sitting down in turn 1 that day. One of the best races I have seen over the years. A strong top 5 for sure. Paul Page is the consummate professional and the shots of the wives helped drive home the importance of this great race! I will add this race ending under yellow did nothing to diminish this race. It is a forgotten part of most who remember that incredible battle.
Two great drivers, an exciting battle, an two gentlemen also! The comment of Little Al after the crash shows his good character as a racer. About Emmo I have no words to describe. The first brazilian to win a Formula-1 Race, a Formula-1 Championship, Indy 500 and F-Indy championship! A true pioneer racer!
This is awesome. Al was very classy in his post race interview. But wow, what a battle on the race track between those two
i remember this vividly sitting in front of my tv as a 9yr old kid....this solidified me as a race fan...i prefer nascar nowadays but still watch the 500 every year!!
@VampireYoshi
It's Pro Yoshi. We are kindred spirits. Thanks for your interest in this post.
To see people appreciate these events as much as i do is gratifying. This clip still gives me goosebumps.
Great turbo sounds! I don't stop seeing this video.
Awesome video. Thank you for posting. The sportsmanship is heartfelt!
BEST. INDY 500. EVER.
While there have been other epic duels at the end, none went for broke at the end like these two did. Add in the fact the next 3 cars in line could have possibly won had both Al Unser Jrand Emmo crashed, and you have a race for the ages.
I doubt we'll ever see something like this again at Indianapolis.
One of the best things about this legendary race? The fact that third place Rual Boesel was six laps behind the top two...and yet everyone was standing, hair on edge, as the battle for the lead raged on. You don't need mass roving packs of high-speed Tetris to have incredible drama, in REAL motorsports. Oh for the days; may they return someday soon.
love the sound of the cars
Me and my fathers names are both paul... I grew up being called "little Paul" born in 1980 i was 9 when this was on. And needless to say I LOVED LITTLE AL. I cried when this happened. But my dad made me watch his interview and his sportsmanship made me feel better.
Note Al Unser, Sr. in the pits at 5:04, he had literally just arrived in the Galles pits on his bicycle. He said he was too nervous to watch, so he stayed in the garage area til the very last minute. he had dropped out earlier with clutch problems in his final Indy start for Penske.
Everytime I watch this I remember why i love Indy Car Racing so much. Al Unser Jr showed so much class.
Paul Page, Bobby Unser and Sam Posey. The voices of the 500 to me
Bring 'em back
Great finish, how many times have you seen the driver that was taken out lose it? Little Al was gracious in defeat.
DK
Great video. I was there. Al Junior was/is so classy in spite of his personal problems.
i remember watching this on tv when i was 9....awesome racing!!!
Emmo didnt take out Little Al intentionally, he was tryin to win the dang race, and Al knew that, just hard racing for two guys who at that point had never won, and even so Little Al got one back on Emmo in 94 when Emmo was a lap up on Little Al with 15 to go and took himself out handing the win to Al in what turned out to be Fittipaldis last 500
I'm glad this video is being enjoyed and sanctioned (kinda) by Indy itself. As for the issues some people have with it I'd like to remind you of the year (1989). I'd like you to appreciate the difference between what wasn't done before but has been done a million times since. Any kids want to give me a review of Citizen Kane? I'd like you to appreciate what wasn't said. I'd like you to appreciate that a great finish doesn't have to be a photo finish. I'd like you to appreciate a gracious loser.
i love the way those turbos sounded in the 80's, they sound like gocarts on tv now
Al is a total sportsman in this interview!
2.65L V8, DOHC 32v, Single turbocharger, 45 inches (Hg) of pressure absolute (about 22.1 PSI absolute). There was no "push to pass", the boost was constant.
another reason was the pure attrition that took place in this race. Of course Michael blew his engine while leading, all three Penske cars (Mears, Big Al, Sullivan) dropped out, along with fast cars like Rahal, Crawford in the Buick, and Luyendyk. Had some of these guys finished, Boesel probably would have ended up 7th or 8th, but the same amount of laps down.
I love F1 and Indy car racing. Im from Indy and it just doesn't get muchbetter than this.......
Mario had suffered mechanical trouble earlier, and had actually made his way back up through the slower cars. The Chevys of the day were roughly 10-15 mph faster than the Cosworths; Fittipaldi and Unser, in fact, were running laps 220 mph+ when a 210 lap had never been seen in-race before. F-1 Emmo raised the bar?
@bricksterr I guess you could consider me a "kid" (23yrs), but I won't give you what you're looking for from a "kid"....Unser's statement at the end, "when you've got 2 drivers who wanted the 500 as bad as we did...two drivers are going into the corner and only one is coming out", is raw truth!!! Only the Unser's and Andretti's have this character built into their genes!! Just watch the 2006 Post-race interview of the young Marco. "At Indy, you're either 1st or you're nothing"! Great Video!!
Check out 6:18 through 6:28 - Emerson was diagonal for the rest of the way through the turn. Its a miracle he didn't crash too.
Paul is doing Indy 500 Radio this year
I believe the engines were supercharged or had a turbo or "push to pass". They were spec in that they had a certain design parameter but there multiple manufacturers, not just Chevy.
Incredibly classy of Al Jr., his response satisfied the Indy gods who would reward him later. Twice. Hopefully there will be passing this year.
I think when they say "race coverage," they mean the announcers. The video feed could've been better if they'd spliced to smaller windows for any of the "updates on the wives'," etc. But the on-board camera on Little Al, as they went into three on 199? Nothing wrong with that choice. If they hadn't touched wheels, and Emmo had gotten back past, THAT shot would've been mind-numbingly EPIC.
On a sidenote, we'll never know if Al had enough fuel. Galles gambled on the last yellow, and didn't bring Al in for fuel. Galles knew that they had enough fuel to get to at least lap 199..so they stayed out to gain track position. Even if Al had run out of fuel on the final lap, 3rd place was so far behind, they finish second anyway...they had to go for the win.
At 4:54, a really telling example of how different things were back then. No video monitors in the pits, no video boards, no spotters so minimal info conveyed on the two-way radio. Shelly and Al Sr. and the rest of the crew really had no idea what had happened to Al Jr...hence the "where is he" she says. If you weren't in turn 3 (or watching at home), you didn't see and hardly knew what happened outside of what the P.A. was reporting. Some may have been listening to the radio, but really at the time, the crews in the pits knew less than the fans about what was going on out on most parts of the track.
In early 90-ies at first i was sceptic about Indycar racing (all this oval stuff). Later I saw short race reviews in 1995 with course layouts - I saw ovals, street courses, airport, etc. I was little bit intrigued. Since 1998 I watched CART races, and all I can say is that most amazing races were produced in ovals - Michigan is typical example. Multiple trajectories are possible. It`s natural racing.
And, at last, when you look at athletes, running 5000m in stadium, where they run? In oval!
Al Jr. was running his fastest laps of the month chasing Emmo there. He had less fuel than Emmo had which helped, not to mention the draft he was also getting.
man, this final is epic
Great victory for Fittipaldi, outstading performance!
Beginning: the crowd begins to realize, as Tom Carnegie calls it on the P.A. system: Unser, Jr. has just closes one second in one lap. Shades of the past...
0:45. The tension continues to build. He has caught Emmo, but does that equate to an overtake? Bobby asks that very question, at 0:56.
1:10. Page begins the allusions; the myths and legends of the 500: Mears, closing on Johncock, 1982. Different structure to the race; but same soul? The announcers, wise enough to "fall back"...
yeah but what was the spec on those engines? how much boost did they have back then. sounds like a TON
I love how the announcers let the pictures tell the story as much as need be. I bet if that occured today, they would be yapping it up with no dead time.
Little Al won that race. First in sportsmanship and class!
Great to hear a true racer talk like that. Its idiotic to blame Emmo. They raced to win and that meant not lifting at that moment.
@bricksterr
Aha. Excellent. I can sometimes creep some people out with the...fervor...I have, for the Mt. Olympus of motorsports.
Ironically the Buick V6'es during the time period trumped both of those engines.
This whole incident took place because Ludwig Heimrath, Jr. (The blue and grey Mackenzie car #71) got in the way of Al Unser. There was absolutely no need for him to go to the bottom of turn 2. He should have moved up the rece track for Al and Emmo when Emmo got to him. Instead it allowed Emmo to close so quick and get him alongside Al. With less than 2 laps to go, you have to look for the leaders and get out of their way.
It wasn't intentional, though. Emmo drove deep in the turn full throttle and the tires couldn't hold enough to stay low so the car drifted up. Also, check out the dark blue and gray car of Heimrath, Jr. who didn't give Little Al enough room which allowed Emmo to make a run.
John Menard had that problem for years. It had awesome power, but never lived.
brazilians like more street and road circuits but we learnt to like the ovals too and indy as well specially in the 90's. Nowadays we still prefer a lot more F1 but most of us that like racing also like to see the IRL and Indianapolis.
Also, Andretti and Foyt (as well as Scott Brayton) were all on the same lap... man, that would have been some finish if it had gone back to green! AJ Foyt was 54 at the time...
And... if I new only one person, and his name was VampireYoshi, would enjoy this clip I would have still posted it. No Boogity, Boogitiys here folks.
Thank you all, both pro and con, for your comments.
Back in the days when I cared about Indy. Hated how Emo caused the accident. A few years later when he hit the wall trying to lap Jr. felt like karma.
This video was made on the day i was born
by '94 They were running close to 45 PSI fully spooled.
I'm sure glad Tony George fixed the racing at Indy, thank's Tony.
Boesel had a troubled engine (they showed it earlier, when Al, Jr. was passing him at about thirteen to go) and many question if he'd have lasted seven more. If he'd dropped out, Mario would've been the leader. If Andretti Luck had happened...A.J. FOYT was next up.
What might have been?
what kind of engines did they run in 89? they sound like tie fighters from star wars lol
If Fittipaldi's car had been disabled as well, longtime competitor Raul Boesel would have had the lead with 7 laps to go. Wouldn't that have been a sight!
Does anyone know why all but the top two cars were so many laps down in this race? Mario is definitely slower than the leaders in that shot, but not seven laps slower & he was running 4th! The third place driver, Raul Boesel, finished six laps down. I know that cars with Chevy engines had a big advantage during that era, but Mario was running a Chevy & I'm assuming that there were others in the field as well. Why the big spread?
You have the finish, but do you have the intro to the race? Its the only Indianapolis "Delta Force Intro" not uploaded and there are several of us that want to see it.
Not only were the Chevy Ilmors better than there Cosworth counterparts but back then Chevy use to issue newer spec engines to the bigger teams so there was even a disparity between the Chevys.
The Speedway would do well to allow the innovation again. I have nothing wrong with their running things themselves: I have a problem with someone not being able to bring their own, just right from their own home garage, if they could afford such.
...to not be TALKING HEADS, while something amazing is happening. Carnegie, and those with the Radio Network in their blood, are alone worthy to "go on alone," and tell the story live, constantly, in the moment. Page calls the play-by-play for Wide World of Sports, and even then...often "merely" the periphery of the situation: 1:40; the atmosphere; Andretti, as lap traffic standing before them. 1:50; an emotional situation never seen in modern "parity" motorsports: a Duel, on Mt. Olympus.
And for the record, I have nothing at all against the IRL save for the limitations they place on innovation (ESPECIALLY in this day and age), and trying to force people into the exact same mold. Take away those stains, and with a 50/50 oval/road course balance, you basically have perfect auto racing once again.
True, brother. Unfortunately they only trumped them until they blowed up.
Fittipaldi and Unser both had Chevy engines.
I always cringed when he was introduced at the start of a race. I always liked Bobby Unser, though he spent a lot of time on broadcasts trying to set Posey straight.
Right at 4:26, Al gets blocked... otherwise, he was faster then Emmo, and he would have had it for sure...
@gazzrfc1 Ultimately, this has always been a high speed endurance race. Which car, just as much as the driver and team, is the best, after going near as fast as it can, for 500 miles. Or at least...that's what it is when they aren't WWE'ifying it. If someone runs away with it, then all the cars get better, and we go again. Leave "looking for crashes," and forcing everyone to be equal, to the NASCRAP ilk.
I wonder what would have happened it little al hadn't crashed?
F1 nowadays doesn't even come close to this.
I don't think that was intentional. Emmo is just as hungry as LittleAl trying to win the biggest race in the world.
@coby1873 The indy is return for your honor place. In the out U.S. , the great series is the Indy. NASCAR not have fame in the world.
@bricksterr
I should invite you, then, if you're not already there, to the indyca r.co m forums, then. Just be warned, complaining about what you hate about current AOWR will probably get people annoyed and thinking you're a troll. Once that aside, since you seem to have your mental stuff together...you'd likely be very welcome there.
Sam Posey, sadly, isn't in a condition to commentate a whole race.
5:57 BEUTIFUL GIRL
That was his wife. Unfortunately, she passed.
Emmo rules!!
Ask Al...I guess he disagrees.
the most famous words ever uttered in victory lane at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.....you just don't know what Indy means.....
Heimrath screwed up the race by not getting out of the way imo
whoi needs nascar .. the real stars are in fast car....
Junior was robbed. Emmo flat ran out of room and put Unser into wall.
This is EXACTLY why i've never liked ABC/ESPN broadcasts. They only care about irrelevant, petty "stories" to attract general interest (money). There is a fantastic race going on and all they repeatedly show are the drivers' wives. I understand if you show them maybe once or twice, but not half the damn broadcast. I mean for the average person, yes it can add drama, interest, etc. But this is a race broadcast. What if i want to actually see the entirety of the laps, to actually see the driver's lines, how they approach the corners, the way they handle lap traffic, or where they are gaining or losing time? (you know the racing bit). I mean is it too much to ask for a race broadcast to show the race??
Welcome to America - where corporate greed supersedes everything from worker's rights to national security by pimping out the politicians.
Notice that this sort of shoddy coverage increased after the race was televised live since 1986.
Tony George was the final nail in the coffin with his IRL scheme.
RIP race fans.
+Brandon Ryan They did it to try to show 'the INCREDIBLE tension', as Page himself states on the backstretch with six to go. And frankly, scenes like this do indeed show what it was like, back in the days when a two-man duel wasn't automatically guaranteed by socialist clone car racing forcing no one to stand out much from each other, and these kinds of face-offs truly WERE the absolute pinnacle of the sport.
...But anyway: they show the drivers' wives for the emotions ripping everyone apart. Insofar as that, I approve; even while agreeing with you that yes, if the battle is so close that they're touching hubcaps, they BETTER be showing the Race that's causing all the emotion to begin with.
7:03 eu pedi a corrida, eu sou feio pra karai e minha mulher super linda kkkkk
It was clearly Emmo's fault.
@nuldebotn ridiculous statement.
Too bad TG ruined everything!!
2:00. FENDER-rubbing? Try hubcap-rubbing of uncovered wheels at 210 mph, in a turn, and not crashing. Eat your hearts out, junkfood-racing fans.
2:04. I THINK that's Derek Daly, close to ****ing himself as the two leaders pass him on the inside, -at the same time-.
2:08. An ATTEMPT!! UNSUCCESSFUL! Mario is next to be passed by two cars simultaneously!
2:27. He's got a HUGE run, EVERYONE can see it or hear about it, and the cameraman CANNOT HOLD THE CAMERA STEADY, the crowd is SO loud.
@gazzrfc1, @SmeurkeDeKat, and @VampireYoshi......Yes, F1 is the best motorsport in the world (despite it's recent "castrating"). It has the best drivers, best cars, best technology, etc. However, the Indy 500 is BY FAR the best race the planet has ever known!! Sport-to-Sport, League-to-League, F1 is better...Hands down, not even worthy of an argument. Race-to-Race, the 500 is the be-all-end-all, and yes it is better than Monaco! Anyone who says differently has never actually been to the 500
Watch the you tube video of senna doing a lap at monaco. Just a slight bit more difficult than left turns all day
Umm...did I offend you somehow? Not sure if that comment is pro or con, itself. Here's hoping for the former.
@Souroush and neither of them have shit on Formula 1. real racing on actual race tracks not a fucking oval
@gazzrfc1 Oh yea, watching a fast car go by one at a time in a race where nothing happens.. I used to like F1, but they cut off its balls in the past decade or so. F1 nowadays is boring as hell (and the cars look like shit too). I don't necessarily wanna see the fastest racing, I wanna see PROPER racing, like this for example
I seriously can[t stand the flash to the wives....