I remember this race so well. This was my second 500. I remember Michael dominating the entire race and his car dying on the backstretch with 11 laps to go. I wore shorts to this race and that was the coldest day ever. I think I wrapped the Indianapolis Star around my legs to block the cold wind. It was much harder to follow the race in these days unless you listened to a scanner or the radio broadcast with headphones. I remember tracking Michaels car closely and even counting the seconds for his lap times and I knew something was wrong because it was taking him too long to pass in front of us on lap 188/189. I always hoped Michael would win this race. Hopefully the pandemic is over for next year and those stands are full!!
ABC screwed up the shot of the closest indy 500 finish coming to the checkered flag. Along with the cold temp and half the field leaving on a stretcher, thats what I remember most.
Yep. I assume the director pre-chose a set of cameras for the finish moments and didn't have the sense to jump in and say "forget that, stay with the cars."
@@BobGeogeo They seem to have learned their lesson; nowadays they have the infield homestretch camera track the cars all the way to the line, at which point the camera stops tracking them, adjusts the zoom a bit, and then focuses on the flag stand. Which is honestly a very good way of doing it, since it shows the race all the way to the line, and keeps the flair of showing the checkered flag being waved.
Tale of 2 families this Indy run was, great day for the Unser's, horrible day for the Andretti's... Unser Sr's 3rd place finish was the best performance at Indy for the Buick V6 engine & proved that the motor could indeed last 500 miles...
Aside from the memorable finish, this race and the whole month was a “bloodbath”. It was hard crash after hard crash with numerous injuries and sadly claimed one life (Jovy Marcelo). There were changes to this track next year such as reconfiguring the walls and replacing the low lines with the warm up lane.
@@lukmanfirdaus8497 Not to mention Piquet coming as close to death as you can before the race - the pictures of how close his head was to the wall in that crash is disturbing
I was 9, up on the 4th turn, a guy two rows in front of us drew Goodyear in their pool and he got DRUNK during the race and was LOSING HIS MIND at the end of it. My biggest memory, and a line my family quotes TO THIS DAY, is him screaming “Gooooooooo SCOTTY!!!”.
The day before this race it was hot and humid with high temperatures in the high '80's, low '90's. Then a cold front rolls in overnight, and the low temperature was under 40. There was almost a frost that day. Looking back on it, I think the race should have been delayed an hour to warm up the track. Most of the crashes we saw would not have happened that day if they have waited to start it. Air temperature gradually went up to low '60's later in the afternoon. I sat in turn 4 that day. Wished I was in 1 to see the double pass of cheaver by the andretti's on the start.
You're probably not wrong that the start should have been delayed, for the safety of the cars and their drivers. Lap 137 was where the last crash happened. The last two cautions were Buddy Lazier's blown engine and Michael Andretti's fuel pump failure. Apparently the track warmed up just enough for the last 50-60 laps that the drivers were able to cope. By the numbers, it was a massive bloodbath of a race. 13 cars crashed, 6 engine failures, 2 other mechanical failures (gearbox for Ted Prappas, fuel pump for Michael Andretti). Only 12 cars were running at the finish, and only 4 on the lead lap.
Ah yes 1992: -> The year where the temperature was so cold that two cars spun during Formation Lap. One of them is the pole sitter. -> The year that look like the Andrettis showed their most dominant display only to binned it by the end. -> Rick Mears career ending crash. -> Still to this day, the closest ever finish in Indy500 history. Scott Goodyear highest finish in his CART career, he had another chance in 1995 but got Black Flagged for ignoring penalty
Man, it's a wonder that only one life was lost in May of 92. So many awful hits. Also, if that tire from Jeff Andretti's car bounced two feet further, it could've been horrific for Gary Bettenhausen. RIP Jovy Marcelo
2:18:58 Big Al's pass on Michael Andretti. Not sure I remember anyone else passing Michael at racing speed that day, can anyone confirm that? Ended up being the lead Buick (one of only two to finish) by race's end too. RIP Big Al.
Thank goodness fire trucks cannot drive along the pit lane anymore, when you think about what happened in 1973, that was a positive change in the right direction.
The coldest Indianapolis 500 race produced a wreckfest. This race as of today is the closest Indy 500 finish with LittleAl vs Goodyear. Along with LittleAl's famous Indy 500 quote! Ford returns to Indycar with the killer Cosworth engine giving Michael Andretti a massive advantage against the non-Ford powered engines until with eleven laps to go. It didn't win the 1992 Indianapolis 500 and Michigan 500 or even the 1993 Indy 500. However, Ford absolutely crushed the Chevrolets at the 1993 Michigan 500 taking all of the Top 5 spots.
That race had its fair amount of crashes on the day and quite a number of injured drivers, namely Mario and Jeff Andretti, Brian Bonner, Emerson Fittipaldi and others I can’t think of right now, also that was dashed unlucky for Micheal Andretti to retire from the race with only a handful of laps to go, when will the run of bad luck at Indy ever end for the Andretti family.
pre-start crash and spin of Roberto and Gash. Left hand turns only means the right side tires heat up quicker than the left. Both drivers tried to punch it and hooked left. Sad and just an indication that this would be a very hard race.
Did anyone ever figure out what exactly was the cause of so many cars crashing out with extreme snap oversteer in turns 3 and 4 this year? There was never anything like it before, or since. Had to be a some combo weather issue: tires never warming properly for their compound, and loss of rear downforce due to the relative thinness of the air, as when a late spring cold front as powerful as this comes through dry, thin-less moisture-air sweeps down from Canada and pushes out out the thicker heavier air, a scenario which maybe was so unexpected it was never accounted for in the aero calculations. Something went badly wrong, to use one of my favorite Bobby Unser-isms 'for certain sure.' It's incredible to watch literally the same wreck caused by the same thing happen over and over and over again in an Indy 500. Very lucky nobody was killed (if Stan Fox hits Gasche a couple feet to the right differently, we likely would have. Stan's luck unfortunately went badly the other direction 4 years later...)
+Tanquecrack1 The Boss He didn't win the 500. He won the Indycar title in 1993 but got mugged on a restart at Indy and finished 3rd, and then DNF in 1994.
This race was mentioned on jeopardy last night and someone thought it was Daytona 500 reversal from what happened with a Daytona 500 from a particular year and someone got it wrong but luckily a contestant got it right and oh he did the game with over 25.000 dollars. So guys this is indy 500 not Daytona 500.
How bad was Jeff Andretti's crash? The impact was so hard that Jeff's left knee was driven upwards with sufficient force to dislocate Jeff's jaw. And this with Jeff wearing a helmet.
Loved those Texaco/ KMart cars. I know its just white and a lil black, but they looked sweet. And Mario, not finishing 20 of 27 races at Indy? As fast as he ALWAYS was at Indy, dude was as snakebitten as they come at the Brickyard. Could have EASILY won as many as Foyt, Mears, and Big Al, if not more.
Indy management should have done better after the first set of cold restarts led to chaos, and then the next one did, and the next one and they kept coming. I don't know what would have worked - all those messy restarts says don't do the same thing again.
1:06:08 Man the look of Roger Penske's face when he realize both of his Marlboro Cars wrecked like this... This isn't the first time Penske's top cars went out of 'a' race in rapid succession.
this race was a mess, in a good way, best cars indycar has ever had in my opinion and extremely tough track conditions causing guys to lose grip so easily.
These Indy cars look and sound better than the ones today!!!
They also would get guys hurt bad - so F these cars
@@jimboscwhy would you say F these cars, they are the best of their day. It's not like they made them to hurt the drivers.
@jimbosc maybe you should just stick to mens figure skating
RIP Big Al, his pass on Michael Andretti still gives me chills. The finish, 👌
This is what the Indy 500 is all about!
This quality kicks all kinds of ass! Thanks!
5 years late
But i just wanted to comment on your comment
Absolutely
Indeed
Thank you IndyCar! Please keep posting full races from the past!
I remember this race so well. This was my second 500. I remember Michael dominating the entire race and his car dying on the backstretch with 11 laps to go. I wore shorts to this race and that was the coldest day ever. I think I wrapped the Indianapolis Star around my legs to block the cold wind. It was much harder to follow the race in these days unless you listened to a scanner or the radio broadcast with headphones. I remember tracking Michaels car closely and even counting the seconds for his lap times and I knew something was wrong because it was taking him too long to pass in front of us on lap 188/189. I always hoped Michael would win this race. Hopefully the pandemic is over for next year and those stands are full!!
My Gramps attended the Indy 500 for 40+ years he said that '92 race was the coldest one ever for him
Easily the coldest race. We‘ve been attending since the early 1960s.
1992. My favourite Indianapolis 500 of all time apart from many others.
Gotta be kidding. It was 50° man. What were you wearing a parka?
That turn one by Michael... holy hell.
I wore the VHS tape out on this one. Great to see it without the tracking glitches.
Right off the master quality! The deiniterlacing is fantastic.
Mario crashes and still he's able to put it in reverse and get out of the way. Used to have this one on VHS . Thank you.
ABC screwed up the shot of the closest indy 500 finish coming to the checkered flag. Along with the cold temp and half the field leaving on a stretcher, thats what I remember most.
Yep. I assume the director pre-chose a set of cameras for the finish moments and didn't have the sense to jump in and say "forget that, stay with the cars."
They were good at that, watch the last two laps of 1982 they were obsessed with the wives.
@@BobGeogeo They seem to have learned their lesson; nowadays they have the infield homestretch camera track the cars all the way to the line, at which point the camera stops tracking them, adjusts the zoom a bit, and then focuses on the flag stand. Which is honestly a very good way of doing it, since it shows the race all the way to the line, and keeps the flair of showing the checkered flag being waved.
Tale of 2 families this Indy run was, great day for the Unser's, horrible day for the Andretti's... Unser Sr's 3rd place finish was the best performance at Indy for the Buick V6 engine & proved that the motor could indeed last 500 miles...
At this point the shivers run up and down my spine, what more can I say. RockinRonny
Best indy 500 race ever
Aside from the memorable finish, this race and the whole month was a “bloodbath”. It was hard crash after hard crash with numerous injuries and sadly claimed one life (Jovy Marcelo). There were changes to this track next year such as reconfiguring the walls and replacing the low lines with the warm up lane.
RIP Scott Brayton, killed in practice leading up to the996 Indy 500, his 14th... Brayton speaks here during the '92 race after crashing - 1:28:56...
Great to see crystal clear classic races! Thank you Indycar!
I was 14 Still one of my favorites!!!
Most destructive Indy race ever. The amount of broken bones was incredible.
onethumbks This is demolition derby but Indy version
@@lukmanfirdaus8497 Not to mention Piquet coming as close to death as you can before the race - the pictures of how close his head was to the wall in that crash is disturbing
I was 9, up on the 4th turn, a guy two rows in front of us drew Goodyear in their pool and he got DRUNK during the race and was LOSING HIS MIND at the end of it. My biggest memory, and a line my family quotes TO THIS DAY, is him screaming “Gooooooooo SCOTTY!!!”.
The day before this race it was hot and humid with high temperatures in the high '80's, low '90's. Then a cold front rolls in overnight, and the low temperature was under 40. There was almost a frost that day. Looking back on it, I think the race should have been delayed an hour to warm up the track. Most of the crashes we saw would not have happened that day if they have waited to start it. Air temperature gradually went up to low '60's later in the afternoon. I sat in turn 4 that day. Wished I was in 1 to see the double pass of cheaver by the andretti's on the start.
You're probably not wrong that the start should have been delayed, for the safety of the cars and their drivers. Lap 137 was where the last crash happened. The last two cautions were Buddy Lazier's blown engine and Michael Andretti's fuel pump failure. Apparently the track warmed up just enough for the last 50-60 laps that the drivers were able to cope.
By the numbers, it was a massive bloodbath of a race. 13 cars crashed, 6 engine failures, 2 other mechanical failures (gearbox for Ted Prappas, fuel pump for Michael Andretti). Only 12 cars were running at the finish, and only 4 on the lead lap.
The ‘92 race was the best! Engine failures, unexpected accidents, sheer bad luck, and a close finish.
The coldest Indy 500 in history to date
greatest race ever! i heard lynn st james finished in last place which was 11th or 12th place because thats how many cars finished
Oh my! I wasn't even born. I hv no excuses to don't watch. Oh yes!
12:41 - First lap and corner. What a double overtake!
My first Indy. Sitting in turn 2. Best seats in the house. Remember the shock when Roberto crashed.
same thing Adrian said............. thank you for this..............
I can remember my dad yelling at the TV during this clusterfuck of a race. 😂
Get off my lawn!!
Awesome! Odd seeing the finish without Bob Jenkins IMS Radio call!
Great upload. Thanks Indycar.
Galmer/Chevrolet
According to Wikipedia this was Mario's "worst day of his life".
Ah yes 1992:
-> The year where the temperature was so cold that two cars spun during Formation Lap. One of them is the pole sitter.
-> The year that look like the Andrettis showed their most dominant display only to binned it by the end.
-> Rick Mears career ending crash.
-> Still to this day, the closest ever finish in Indy500 history. Scott Goodyear highest finish in his CART career, he had another chance in 1995 but got Black Flagged for ignoring penalty
Man, it's a wonder that only one life was lost in May of 92. So many awful hits. Also, if that tire from Jeff Andretti's car bounced two feet further, it could've been horrific for Gary Bettenhausen.
RIP Jovy Marcelo
“You don’t know what Indy Means!”
2:18:58 Big Al's pass on Michael Andretti. Not sure I remember anyone else passing Michael at racing speed that day, can anyone confirm that? Ended up being the lead Buick (one of only two to finish) by race's end too. RIP Big Al.
AFAIK, Al Unser Sr was indeed the only driver to pass Michael (whether to unlap himself for for position) all day.
Thank goodness fire trucks cannot drive along the pit lane anymore, when you think about what happened in 1973, that was a positive change in the right direction.
i was there in 1973 and it happened right in front of me how stupid for the fire truck going the wrong way up pit lane!
God I miss that apron
The coldest Indianapolis 500 race produced a wreckfest. This race as of today is the closest Indy 500 finish with LittleAl vs Goodyear. Along with LittleAl's famous Indy 500 quote!
Ford returns to Indycar with the killer Cosworth engine giving Michael Andretti a massive advantage against the non-Ford powered engines until with eleven laps to go. It didn't win the 1992 Indianapolis 500 and Michigan 500 or even the 1993 Indy 500. However, Ford absolutely crushed the Chevrolets at the 1993 Michigan 500 taking all of the Top 5 spots.
Thank you, indycar!
12:33 That Andretti's stake is on top fo 20th century racing to me!
That race had its fair amount of crashes on the day and quite a number of injured drivers, namely Mario and Jeff Andretti, Brian Bonner, Emerson Fittipaldi and others I can’t think of right now, also that was dashed unlucky for Micheal Andretti to retire from the race with only a handful of laps to go, when will the run of bad luck at Indy ever end for the Andretti family.
8:08 ポールポジションのゲレーロがパレードラップでスピンしてリタイア
RIP Ted Prappas 🙏
“You just don’t know what indy means”
❤
Dr. Henry Bock was a busy man that day. No medical director wants to be the busiest guy at the track on any race day.
Great run by Al Sr. with the Lola-Buick.
Great stuff, all the cars that crashed out made it like a smash up derby,
25th anniversary of Little Al's win!
pre-start crash and spin of Roberto and Gash. Left hand turns only means the right side tires heat up quicker than the left. Both drivers tried to punch it and hooked left. Sad and just an indication that this would be a very hard race.
It's "Gache", actually. He never raced at Indy/the USA again. Had a couple of 24 hours of Lemans/Paris-Dakar rallys, though.
When Indy cars were great
Katie Guerrero, whoa...
I miss Jim Nabors. RIP Gomer.
I wonder if we'll see that side onboard view again..?
Arnold Triyudho well now they have it on halo of the engines on the cars behind driver
Did anyone ever figure out what exactly was the cause of so many cars crashing out with extreme snap oversteer in turns 3 and 4 this year? There was never anything like it before, or since. Had to be a some combo weather issue: tires never warming properly for their compound, and loss of rear downforce due to the relative thinness of the air, as when a late spring cold front as powerful as this comes through dry, thin-less moisture-air sweeps down from Canada and pushes out out the thicker heavier air, a scenario which maybe was so unexpected it was never accounted for in the aero calculations. Something went badly wrong, to use one of my favorite Bobby Unser-isms 'for certain sure.' It's incredible to watch literally the same wreck caused by the same thing happen over and over and over again in an Indy 500. Very lucky nobody was killed (if Stan Fox hits Gasche a couple feet to the right differently, we likely would have. Stan's luck unfortunately went badly the other direction 4 years later...)
2:16:30 Big Al Show starts!
thanks
I have been to Indianapolis motor speedway for the nascar cup series races but never been to a Indy 500
you couldn't pay me to go to the nascar race!
At around 1h57m Mansell talking about the 500 without knowing he'd be in the race a year later...
mansel has won the 500 indy and the f1 title .great driver
mansel has won the 500 indy and the f1 title .great driver
+Tanquecrack1 The Boss He didn't win the 500. He won the Indycar title in 1993 but got mugged on a restart at Indy and finished 3rd, and then DNF in 1994.
+Tanquecrack1 The Boss
He finished 3rd in the 1993 Indy 500. He however won the 1993 Michigan 500 and eventually the 1993 championship at Nazareth.
+indyfan2 I know sorry
The Antarctica 500
You ever noticed that Paul Page is ALWAYS! talking over his broadcast partners?
1:16:30
“Mario has crashed so many times here, he’s an expert at crashing without getting hurt”
This race was mentioned on jeopardy last night and someone thought it was Daytona 500 reversal from what happened with a Daytona 500 from a particular year and someone got it wrong but luckily a contestant got it right and oh he did the game with over 25.000 dollars. So guys this is indy 500 not Daytona 500.
funny hearing such quiet onboards.
every year great crowds all those bleechers in the infield all gone after 1995 split!
400,000 people going bonkers the entire last lap!!
I was in turn 4!
“You just don’t know what Indy means”
How bad was Jeff Andretti's crash? The impact was so hard that Jeff's left knee was driven upwards with sufficient force to dislocate Jeff's jaw. And this with Jeff wearing a helmet.
Loved those Texaco/ KMart cars. I know its just white and a lil black, but they looked sweet.
And Mario, not finishing 20 of 27 races at Indy? As fast as he ALWAYS was at Indy, dude was as snakebitten as they come at the Brickyard.
Could have EASILY won as many as Foyt, Mears, and Big Al, if not more.
1:47:13 - Poor Gary, just over a minute later..
A lot of drivers got hurt at this race in 1992
Indy management should have done better after the first set of cold restarts led to chaos, and then the next one did, and the next one and they kept coming. I don't know what would have worked - all those messy restarts says don't do the same thing again.
This was a USAC officiated race instead of CART. Even Tony George realized how terrible they were and replaced them a couple into the IRL.
1:06:08 Man the look of Roger Penske's face when he realize both of his Marlboro Cars wrecked like this...
This isn't the first time Penske's top cars went out of 'a' race in rapid succession.
1:11:41 mysterious lift
Guerrero takes himself out pacelap
That was the funniest indy500, that i've ever seen. The best part from 8:10 :D From polesitter.
1:57:27 RIP Ayrton Senna
Buick V6 Turbo!😍😍😍😍😍
1:18:38 - Wonder if Rahal got his Indy winner's Rolex back.
2:37 the big tailpipe lol
1:11:12 where and when that crash happen?
1986 Indy 500 practice. Denis Firestone was driving that car.
2:46:42 - Bobby Unser is corrected by Sam Posey & actually acknowledges that he'd been wrong. Anyone else see pigs flying? 😂😂
35:30 ……I’m sorry, he does WHAT to Bettenhausen?
this race was a mess, in a good way, best cars indycar has ever had in my opinion and extremely tough track conditions causing guys to lose grip so easily.
Ahh the infamous crashfest.
well it was basically Antarctica that day - Jim Nabors is probably wearing 3 jumpers
Looked like Junior was blocking on the final straight 2:59:40
But whatever. Lucky there were no fatalities. Could have bee a sad day.
1:16:20 surprised someone as experienced Mario didn't let go of the wheel as that can badly break your wrist.
Bobby's snowmobiling comment at 2:35:31 didn't age well.
Not Paul Page's finest call.
2:34:58 - that man has alot of money.
Terrible camera work at the finish!!!
Here at 53,604 views.
Best indy cars not like today's ugly cars
1:51:34
Great...
It would be amazing if they used AI and remastered these
2 crashes on the parade laps,including the pole sitter. If I were a driver I'd a been shitting my pantaloons in fear...lol..not a good sign.
This is insanity
2:47:18