Here in the States, they did re-air the race in full (sans red flags) that night at about 2am on ESPN2. Managed not to spoil the end for myself & watched it the next day! 😁 Also, fun fact; that same rain ended up shortening that day's NASCAR race at Michigan Int'l Speedway by about 40 laps.
Weirdly I remember from this race is gidley’s accident, but not the track river or massive delay. Though I do remember junquiera getting a win in his first season in circumstances helped by the timing of the final safety car, think he was nowhere before?
Oh yeah, THAT race... I remember it well. I was aghast as how they actually sterted the race with that river/lake flowing across the track at the fastest section of the circuit.
what happened during the race is scary and all, but the ultimate horror and uncanny valley is seeing Eurosport and ESPN logos at the same time on screen
It's amazing to see the track from 20 years ago and see how it's changed, and improved. That part of track where the "lake" was is at the carved out of a large hillside and water running dow the hill was a problem for a long time. Combined with the shade in that area, its still the last part of the track to dry, but hasn't been lake-ish in a while.
Honestly most racing series nowadays wouldn't have the balls to even start the race in those conditions... Really fucking sad as wet racing usually produces unpredictable moments
Ott Tänak at the Rally Mexico in 2015. Broke the front right suspension on a rock earlier in the stage and when he came up to that corner it let go completely causing him to go straight into the lake. Both he and his co-driver Martin Järveoja managed to escape the car unhurt. M-Sport (His team at that point) managed to rescue the car and rebuild it completely which meant he could re-start the rally on the next day. Edit. Actually i just remembered it wasnt Järveoja back then, it was Raigo Mölder.
Here in the States, they did re-air the race in full (sans red flags) that night at about 2am on ESPN2. Managed not to spoil the end for myself & watched it the next day! 😁 Also, fun fact; that same rain ended up shortening that day's NASCAR race at Michigan Int'l Speedway by about 40 laps.
Weirdly I remember from this race is gidley’s accident, but not the track river or massive delay. Though I do remember junquiera getting a win in his first season in circumstances helped by the timing of the final safety car, think he was nowhere before?
Oh yeah, THAT race... I remember it well. I was aghast as how they actually sterted the race with that river/lake flowing across the track at the fastest section of the circuit.
Can't believe the season CART had in 2001. Everything possible seemed to go wrong.
It really was one of those seasons where Murphy's law was in full effect.
Brazil and Texas were cancelled, Toyota and Honda announced they were leaving the series, penske left at the end of the season, Zanardi's accident 😢.
the cars are not boats thing reminds me of my local race track blocking the drains and purposely flooding it for boat races lol
what happened during the race is scary and all, but the ultimate horror and uncanny valley is seeing Eurosport and ESPN logos at the same time on screen
Could be worse, what about SKY and FOX from NASCAR
Fun Fact:
Portland International Raceway was actually built on the site of a town that was destroyed by a flood caused by a dam failure in the 1950's.
5:20 I reckon watching the track dry would've drawn more viewership
Lmao
I saw this race live on Eurosport back in 2001, the Gidley crash was frightening. But the race was overall really good.
The lake and how the race is so criminally underrated/overlooked is why we don’t talk about Bruno
It's amazing to see the track from 20 years ago and see how it's changed, and improved. That part of track where the "lake" was is at the carved out of a large hillside and water running dow the hill was a problem for a long time. Combined with the shade in that area, its still the last part of the track to dry, but hasn't been lake-ish in a while.
4:19 Shel.
"Cars are not boats"
Sherp: 👁⬛👁
Ah, Road America. My home track! Rarely fails to entertain
Honestly most racing series nowadays wouldn't have the balls to even start the race in those conditions... Really fucking sad as wet racing usually produces unpredictable moments
Oh, I remember this classic. Think I've gor the Eurosport highlights on a VHS somewhere
remember when they used to race in the rain in F1?
awesome video
Fun but not sure why I watched this... 😄
can we get a story on the deltawing
Welcome to Lake Indy. If only they built a lake in the middle of the track for he water catchment are next time it rains this bad 😅
The craziest part about this whole thing is that the race got bumped for... THE WNBA 😂
I fail to see the significance of that.
Indycar both revived and killed Nola Motorsports Park
Takagi bringing chaos energy after F1 crashing under caution
nobody with the pun yet? Indycar vs (Elkhart) Lake
“Cars are not boats”
Then what is a hellcat?
"cars are not boats" oh boy, this gonna be good
Edit: wasn't disappointed
Rain makes races some of the best or some of tge worst of racing with no real in-between.
Bro, how many brazilians where in this race ?
9. CART was somewhat popular over here.
0:10 What the hell why don't I remember seeing this crash ever? Who has crashed like this? Now I'm really curious 😂
Ott Tänak at the Rally Mexico in 2015.
Broke the front right suspension on a rock earlier in the stage and when he came up to that corner it let go completely causing him to go straight into the lake. Both he and his co-driver Martin Järveoja managed to escape the car unhurt.
M-Sport (His team at that point) managed to rescue the car and rebuild it completely which meant he could re-start the rally on the next day.
Edit. Actually i just remembered it wasnt Järveoja back then, it was Raigo Mölder.
@@JustinNator98 Thank you! Unbelievable that they even managed to rescue the car in time for Tänak to restart on the next day
And the pace notes
Apostrophe in your title is wrong
I'll put an apostrophe in your eyebrow if you don't can it
Indycars* not Indycar's
Indycars, not Indycar's.
Cars aren't boats??? Have you not seen dodge chargers?
Race started behind the pace car ... ALL Indycar races start behind the pace car lol.
This series badly needs DRS
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