1969 Milwaukee Indy Car Highlights with Original Narration
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- Filmed by Milwaukee Mile movie photographer Bill Zautke, this film details highlights of the 1969 Rex Mays 150 & Tony Bettenhausen 200 at the 'Mile.
Includes footage of the 14-car pile up on the first lap of the June race in which Gary Bettenhausen flips. A.J. Foyt also drives his dirt car in August Bettenhausen 200 as he did in '65. Contains Al Unser in victory lane after winning the State Fair August 200-miler. Narrated by Cy Nelson who was a local radio legend and P.A. announcer at the track.
Dad's a killer commentator !!!!
Although I don't remember much of this race,my dad and brothers and I were there
Back when racing wasn't boring! Different concepts, car builders, and power plants made things interesting with teams and/or drivers you could actually root for.
That's for sure!
What a great collection of stills and video. Thank you! I remember all of these racers well having grown up near Trenton Speedway 1959-75. Only comment in the technical sense is that Foyt was driving a dirt car not a roadster
As you say, Foyt's car wasn't a roadster, and I agree that it is the style that was run primarily on dirt at the time, but rather than call it a "dirt car", it's more commonly known as an upright-FE car since this style was also run on pavement before the roadsters, albeit, other than Indy, there weren't many (or any?) pavement tracks for Championship cars prior to the introduction of the roadster in 1952.
@@boilerbonz Correct..."upright-FE"... Foyt used an Offy "upright" in another earlier Milwaukee race and a number of drivers preferred them at Langhorne when it was first paved (1965)... both tracks given their low banking. You are probably well aware of the number if dirt car that ran at Pocono when the CART/USAC split happened. That was a low point in Indy car. You have great content and stories
@@theophilhist6455 Langhorne, 1966: Don Branson in an Upright FE takes #2 qualifying spot next to Mario. Also, Herk running very strong in a normally-aspirated offy roadster that he built with his brother. The shorter flat tracks really equalized the technology! th-cam.com/video/DP9CkTl99og/w-d-xo.html
I remember Indy cars racing on the road course at Mosport in the mid-60s, the week after the Indy 500. with offset suspensions an indy gearboxes it was fun watching them coming out of the slow right turn corners.
1969...one of my all-time favorite years in Indianapolis Champ Car racing. The "missing driver" of great talent was the great Dan Gurney, who placed 2nd in the Indy 500 on May 30.
I am presuming that this was the Milwaukee Indy Car race that was in June (after the "500") or the August event.
So, Al Unser won the race. He was beginning his climb up to claim at the end of 1969's racing season in 2nd place U.S.A.C. point standings. The following year, Al won ten of the U.S.A.C. races. That record matched A.J.'s ten wins of 1964.
The Unser family was fantastic in Champ Car racing without a doubt!
Nice "homestyle filming" with narration and background music. I'd like to see more, if there's some.
Real race cars, real bad ass drivers, innovation at it's peak, still mostly American hardware
and drivers, much more attention to safety and safety innovation. I saw this for many years at PIR
in Phoenix.
Was at the 68' Rex Mays, saw the STP turbine cars, don't remember if they had anyone racing a USAC Champ Car
I believe the "other roadster" shown here at 13:50 is the Chenowth Special, a Chevy stock-block that attempted to qualify at Indy in the early '60s and many years later was restored and shown and driven in vintage Indy events. th-cam.com/video/YwdqK6kjOVg/w-d-xo.html
What is the name of the song at the beginning of the video? I'm trying to find the whole song online.
I found it.
"British invasion"
Artist- Billy Ziogas
@@dns1235 Thank you. It's a catchy little tune.
The announcer keeps calling A.J.'s car a roadster.
"That's quite true..." as the famous Anthony Joseph Foyt, Jr. said a lot of times in interviews over his racing years. The "roadster" is A.J.'s U.S.A.C. (United States Auto Club) Champ-Dirt Car design used in the dirt tracks.
He switched to a front engine roadster for the race because his rear engine car was not handling well during practice.
The recording is from 1969, Cy was not a 'hard core' racing guy, he was the Milwaukee Mile P.A. announcer (1966-1971) but was a full-time news director at a local radio station. He among others called them dirt cars, roadsters and big cars. It was more fluid of a term back then.