This race was and is the greatest race of all time with a man made machine. There could never ever be an Indy car driver like Sam Hornish Jr. It was such a pleasure watching his races on TV.
I was at Indy when Emmo touch wheels with Al Jr,,, I watch Emmo come out of Turn 2 scooting towards the Wall,,I thought don't crash,,,he brush the wall,, mag's lite wall on fire,, concrete dust.. He Won..
This and Kurt Busch/Ricky Craven at Darlington are my favorite finishes.... It's a shame that this has become a rarity in both IRL and NASCAR. I remember just a couple years ago every IRL race ended up like this. Now it's pretty much just pick a winner out of about 6 competitive cars.(Ganassi/Penske/2 of the Andretti-Green cars)
CART in the late 90's and Early 2000s were sooo much faster with the turbo's...230mph+ at Michigan and Califorina, and they were too fast for Texas in '01.
@@DoctorAustin It went out of business but it’s a far better quality product than the watered down BS of today. The cars looked and sounded nicer and produced faster and better racing.
Yes it was.... At the time, to speech about a race finishing with a gap of 1/1000 of a second was crazy and "impossible", and then that happen and everybody say "what the hell? How can this happen? Wow!".
Well, you are right for that... 1998 cart was great. But, indycar could go to a similar level in less 10 years... And, with a 16 race schedule, It still have place for those track in indycar series but they talk a lots about Mexico City, Road America, Laguna Seca, and a double race at Cleveland (an oval configuration of the airport and the classic track).
Yeah, there's a reason I've saved this video for so long. Even if someone isn't a racing fan and never will be, this will at least let them understand what all the fuss is about.
@0143932823 NASCAR was founded in 1947... Indy (the track) was opened in 1909, but the series that would become the National Championship (and now the IndyCar Series) began somewhere between 1902 and 1905...they didn't crown season champions for the first several years, and then did it retro-actively.
I think it would be more like 260+ for the top speed at a track like Daytona oval... Or, maybe we should look at the old IMSA GTP for an idea... That why I recommend the motorcycle track and the longest bus stop: it cut some of the stretch a little bit and so the car lose a bit of speed ;)
Because of politics. Montréal try to get formula one and Nascar sprint... But, because of the winter and some "configuration work" to do(Mostly the pit lane extension use/not use, and some tire wall), their is little place for a third race week-end... It is still possible to bring 2 race there (I would say indycar and a 24 hours ALMS), but all politician would ask if it worth it ;) The other problem is that you are in a park "downtown" so... Noise and other touristic aspects ;)
hi u.s fellas ... when cart and tony george broke up , in early 90s was a terrible mistake for u.s open wheel .... now its going to take a litle bit of time to new bright days shining for you there , the competition lost a lot of the pastdays glamour....as we could see past year ... i think you agree with me ... was a boring year in IRL ...teams and drivers that came from cart was not a shit prepared to the competition , including my country brothers from brazil, simply sucked
For this one it is not Bernie, but rather the municipality itself. Daytona: no schedule trouble... And they talk about it, after it would repaired because it is bumpy even for nascar now. If I was a driver, I would ask for the road course use by the superbike with the longer bus stop, not the one use by the prototype for pure safety question: have you see the speed these cars could get?
@vsa2o From the beginning to 1955 Championship Car racing (the traditional name of indy car) was sanctioned by AAA (Yes...that "triple A") After the 1955 Le Mans Desaster AAA pulled out of auto racing and Tony Hulman formed USAC but by the end of the 1970's the owners were fed up with USAC's backward ways and formed CART in 1979, then after that it gets complicated ;)
Side by side racing, we've never seen that before...the IRL is a friggin bore, I'll neve go to a race unless they get their cars up to spec of what CART was, othewise see ya!.......
tire, i'm a big fan of both series, but the racing in this video is nothing i've ever seen on a 1.5 track in nascar, side by side and 3 wide all the way around for the entire race. that's done 4 times a year in nascar and that's only because no one has any proper solution to not having a bobby allison 1987 super crash. the answer to your question is money and health of the sport, nascar didn't split in two peices and stay that way for 12 years
Does american motorsport want to go down the f1 route and take all the fun and passing out of that just to make it safe? I'm not going to answer that. Go Dan Wheldon!
Formula 1 has the toughest venues in the world, but I disagree on Formula 1 drivers being the best and most skilled because their hands never have to leave the steering wheel,they have traction control, and the car almost drives itself. The most advanced racing machines doesn't make the drivers the best and most skilled. If the F1 field drove the COT of NASCAR around Monaco and did all their shifting on the floor, then I would give them second behind the world rally drivers.
A lot of blabbin', and all that happened was the two remained side-by-side the entire time. This type of racing sucked. It's not fun to watch no one pass. Indycar realized this and is beginning to recover. Nascar is still going with crap style and they are still dying.
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This race was and is the greatest race of all time with a man made machine. There could never ever be an Indy car driver like Sam Hornish Jr. It was such a pleasure watching his races on TV.
Hornish had a thing for side-drafting running up high. Look at all of his wins at Texas, Chicagoland, and beating Lazier at California.
Sam Hornish, what a legend, what a race driver. I miss those days
July 19, 2024. I am here to watch my favorite driver and race again. Thank you legend Sam Hornish…
Think that went on for 20 laps. i remember this cool race. i was rooting for Unser Jr. though :(
this is the best racing i have ever seen =)
If you don't like oval racing, don't bash us and go watch golf.
...especially if you like the donald
I was at Indy when Emmo touch wheels with Al Jr,,, I watch Emmo come out of Turn 2 scooting towards the Wall,,I thought don't crash,,,he brush the wall,, mag's lite wall on fire,, concrete dust.. He Won..
Time to to I feel the need to watch this race again and again. What a race.
This and Kurt Busch/Ricky Craven at Darlington are my favorite finishes....
It's a shame that this has become a rarity in both IRL and NASCAR. I remember just a couple years ago every IRL race ended up like this. Now it's pretty much just pick a winner out of about 6 competitive cars.(Ganassi/Penske/2 of the Andretti-Green cars)
Best race ever. I miss that yellow car with Sam Hornish in it. Sam Hornish was and is the best Indy Car race driver.
Damn. Watched again. Races can never be the same year 2000 s. That was totally different feelings then.
Great side by side racing. Bo
Hornish had a way of a winning insanely close races
CART in the late 90's and Early 2000s were sooo much faster with the turbo's...230mph+ at Michigan and Califorina, and they were too fast for Texas in '01.
How fast did cart go this year?
@@DoctorAustin Cart was still faster when it existed vs todays Indycar series.
@@taylorsmith9629 So fast they couldn't stay out of bankruptcy court. Great to see the butthurt has not subsided.
@@taylorsmith9629 Who cares? What did "faster" get cart except two terms in bankruptcy court?
@@DoctorAustin It went out of business but it’s a far better quality product than the watered down BS of today. The cars looked and sounded nicer and produced faster and better racing.
Yes, they did. IIRC, that might be the closest closed-circuit race in history. (There have been closer drag races.)
Yes it was.... At the time, to speech about a race finishing with a gap of 1/1000 of a second was crazy and "impossible", and then that happen and everybody say "what the hell? How can this happen? Wow!".
I was going for Jr.
Great racing packed stands looked sold out
Well, you are right for that... 1998 cart was great. But, indycar could go to a similar level in less 10 years... And, with a 16 race schedule, It still have place for those track in indycar series but they talk a lots about Mexico City, Road America, Laguna Seca, and a double race at Cleveland (an oval configuration of the airport and the classic track).
I wanted to go to the race last year but couldn't make it. I heard the racing was tremendous.
Yeah, there's a reason I've saved this video for so long. Even if someone isn't a racing fan and never will be, this will at least let them understand what all the fuss is about.
It was the closest known closed-circuit finish at the time.
Great finish, did they say 0.0024 of a second the gap between 1st and 2nd ?
they've accomplished all they have set out to do in open-wheeled racing and are trying something new.
@rbb9753
The closest race as far as I know was the Indy Lights race at Chicago in 2007...the margi of victory if I remember right was .0005 seconds.
@0143932823
NASCAR was founded in 1947... Indy (the track) was opened in 1909, but the series that would become the National Championship (and now the IndyCar Series) began somewhere between 1902 and 1905...they didn't crown season champions for the first several years, and then did it retro-actively.
24/10000 of a second!!! HOLY SHIT!
I think it would be more like 260+ for the top speed at a track like Daytona oval... Or, maybe we should look at the old IMSA GTP for an idea... That why I recommend the motorcycle track and the longest bus stop: it cut some of the stretch a little bit and so the car lose a bit of speed ;)
Hornish was and is the best on Indy cars ever
GPS: Turn left, Turn left, Turn left, Turn left, Turn left....
You know, that's getting old. Very old.
@AJ1964 The Button who scored more points than Hamilton in the same car 2011?
but it still was an intense race for some viewers and specially for the drivers
@JoeytheHDK It was only pedal to the metal. That's not racing in any means!
sounds like the guys on radio
The closest was the 2008 Chicagoland 300 between Helio Castroneves and Scott Dixon.
Because of politics. Montréal try to get formula one and Nascar sprint... But, because of the winter and some "configuration work" to do(Mostly the pit lane extension use/not use, and some tire wall), their is little place for a third race week-end... It is still possible to bring 2 race there (I would say indycar and a 24 hours ALMS), but all politician would ask if it worth it ;)
The other problem is that you are in a park "downtown" so... Noise and other touristic aspects ;)
@406590 I just put the information there for the curious, that all.
The 08 chicago finish was 1/1000. This was much closer.
This is exactly why Champcar racing is less popular.
hi u.s fellas ... when cart and tony george broke up , in early 90s was a terrible mistake for u.s open wheel .... now its going to take a litle bit of time to new bright days shining for you there , the competition lost a lot of the pastdays glamour....as we could see past year ... i think you agree with me ... was a boring year in IRL ...teams and drivers that came from cart was not a shit prepared to the competition , including my country brothers from brazil, simply sucked
For this one it is not Bernie, but rather the municipality itself.
Daytona: no schedule trouble... And they talk about it, after it would repaired because it is bumpy even for nascar now. If I was a driver, I would ask for the road course use by the superbike with the longer bus stop, not the one use by the prototype for pure safety question: have you see the speed these cars could get?
@vsa2o From the beginning to 1955 Championship Car racing (the traditional name of indy car) was sanctioned by AAA (Yes...that "triple A") After the 1955 Le Mans Desaster AAA pulled out of auto racing and Tony Hulman formed USAC but by the end of the 1970's the owners were fed up with USAC's backward ways and formed CART in 1979, then after that it gets complicated ;)
@therrydicule this was posted before that
NASCAR is older than Indy? They had NASCAR in 1910?
Fans loved it packed stands drivers not so much hard to pass wide open
Side by side racing, we've never seen that before...the IRL is a friggin bore, I'll neve go to a race unless they get their cars up to spec of what CART was, othewise see ya!.......
Shut up ya tit
it's chicagoland :)
You could just loop one random lap over and over angain 200 times, and noone would notice...
Helio beat Dixon from the last slot in 2008! ....but by a much wider margin; one one thousandth of a second....
oau! minhas armas.
Big Chevy Engine pushes it over the line.
You,ve never been to a race.
tire, i'm a big fan of both series, but the racing in this video is nothing i've ever seen on a 1.5 track in nascar, side by side and 3 wide all the way around for the entire race. that's done 4 times a year in nascar and that's only because no one has any proper solution to not having a bobby allison 1987 super crash. the answer to your question is money and health of the sport, nascar didn't split in two peices and stay that way for 12 years
Does american motorsport want to go down the f1 route and take all the fun and passing out of that just to make it safe? I'm not going to answer that.
Go Dan Wheldon!
IMS, MRN of indy
Dial warrior
What do you call the greatest spectacle in racing. The indy 500. /it is two differnt types of cars. Thats all
Giaffone is the best
out of turn number twoooooooooo... xD
but NASCAR has more of all of it...
f1 doesn't have tc
This is not the closet finish... The closet finish is the Chicagoland 100 in indylight in 2007 with 0.0005... That 5/10000 of a second.
Formula 1 has the toughest venues in the world, but I disagree on Formula 1 drivers being the best and most skilled because their hands never have to leave the steering wheel,they have traction control, and the car almost drives itself. The most advanced racing machines doesn't make the drivers the best and most skilled. If the F1 field drove the COT of NASCAR around Monaco and did all their shifting on the floor, then I would give them second behind the world rally drivers.
No wonder the IRL was popular with the NASCAR crowd...looks like the same crap that takes place at Talladega.
I've been to plenty of real racing with real race cars. Not like these tubs of crap...wagons.
A lot of blabbin', and all that happened was the two remained side-by-side the entire time. This type of racing sucked. It's not fun to watch no one pass. Indycar realized this and is beginning to recover. Nascar is still going with crap style and they are still dying.