Hard to believe watching this in 2000 how quickly in the next couple of years CART would deteriorate. What a tragedy that one of the greatest race series would die. But great memories of watching these races bleary eyed on late Sunday nights!
3:32:10 that child is Sergio Perez!! Amazing to think that even those words (and help, he was his manager) of Adrian and watching this races would end in a f1 driver
I remember this race well. I got the next day off of work so I got to come back the next day it was an awesome race. Now the indy lights race before the cart event was awesome. I think it was Dan Wheldon and Scott Dixon or Townsend Bell absolutely nose to tail the entire until the checkerted flag
Around 49:45 Oh. So *THAT* explains the reason why Rio was dropped off the CART schedule after this season. Also (sorta) explains why AOWR didn't return to Brazil for over 10 years.
500 mile races were the best. They were. Deadset test of speed, reliability, strategy, concentration and luck. Yes they were long but it only took 2 seconds for things to completely change in the race.
I seem to remember that it came very close to being at least an eight-car title battle at Fontana in 2000 which would have been epic! There were still 10 drivers in it with 2 races to go, I missed the Surfers Paradise race for some reason and the only thing I know of it is Paul Tracy's ugly incident with Oriol Servia, so I'm guessing that the others must have fallen out of contention there. Shame about Mark Blundell, he was having easily his best drive of that season - in his last CART drive.
Great amount of passes and dramas, memorable race it was...Today I am not as enthusiastic as I was those days, but this is what hi-speed oval racing means. And those were the dangerous days, they run averages around 240mph, no SAFER barrier...
To put into retrospect i know every F1, MotoGP, WRC, champion of all time as every car to ever win the LM24. Even still i wont miss an oval race at Indy, Bristol, or Fontana.
Oh, and the track record belongs to a Champcar. A 2006 Lola/Cosworth driven by Sébastien Bourdais. Lap time 1:06.886. Well below the 1:08+ that IZOD gets at their absolute fastest, even in the 2012 season with supposedly "better" cars.
Your right on the layout. oops, my bad. I searched then watched the '98 race again. It was when Montoya started his first Long Beach they made a big thing about the new layout. Should be noted, in '98, the cars were doing 50-52 seconds on the old layout. They still clocked under 1:06 on the longer layout, still far superior to the crappy IZOD Dallara jokes, and still closer to F1 overall than IZOD could ever be.
No. 1998 was the first year of the new, longer, layout. All the times I recalled were AFTER the change. Look up the "1998 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach" on Wikipedia. I remember the buzz that was made about it when I saw the race as a teenager on TV. The course has not changed since.
It's kind of funny how many guys in the IndyCar series now were in this race, Helio Castroneves in the same ride, no less... I think they need to up the HP in the current cars and you'd see fantastic racing. I don't think you'll get near 240 again because everyone is scared to allow the cars to get that fast even though they probably could easily.
Their oval culture began with real early races on Hipoddromes. But try to control one Nascar Sprint Cup, or drive an Indycar at Indy or Michigan in iRacing to know how fun it is. Plus the speed, the crashes and the many different and unexpected outcomes a race can have, that are so dramatic sometimes that some people think they're scripted. And you get it.
Blame the crappy cars in IZOD. There is no advantage over another so the field stays packed. A 1998-2002 CART car of any chassis-engine combo would destroy IZOD's entire field today. CART maintained a 3-4 second lap time gap at Laguna Seca with F1 while today's Dallaras still post 15 seconds or more slower than the '98 CART racers at Long Beach. Even in it's final years with less powerful engines, Champcars were still equaling their lap times on all street and road courses. No innovation in IZOD
Hard to believe watching this in 2000 how quickly in the next couple of years CART would deteriorate. What a tragedy that one of the greatest race series would die. But great memories of watching these races bleary eyed on late Sunday nights!
3:32:10 that child is Sergio Perez!! Amazing to think that even those words (and help, he was his manager) of Adrian and watching this races would end in a f1 driver
sad
I loved the CART series. A real shame it imploded.
Epic race. I think Montoya was never truly happy in Formula One, he always looked more comfortable, more at home racing in America
I remember this race well. I got the next day off of work so I got to come back the next day it was an awesome race. Now the indy lights race before the cart event was awesome. I think it was Dan Wheldon and Scott Dixon or Townsend Bell absolutely nose to tail the entire until the checkerted flag
@Gibbor2010 1999 Fontana will be hard for him to get, considering it contains footage of Greg Moore's fatal crash.
R.I.P. the 2-mile Auto Club Speedway. :'(
Around 49:45 Oh. So *THAT* explains the reason why Rio was dropped off the CART schedule after this season. Also (sorta) explains why AOWR didn't return to Brazil for over 10 years.
500 mile races were the best. They were. Deadset test of speed, reliability, strategy, concentration and luck. Yes they were long but it only took 2 seconds for things to completely change in the race.
Parker was correct about Montoya as when he came back to open wheel, it was with the IRL crap wagons.
34:13 What a Finish
1:20:18 Jimmy Vasser did run NASCAR in 2003 for 1 race and that was at Daytona.
What a race! Only 6 cars have beed flagged of 26 cars.
It was a crazy day.
I can't watch the Greg Moore crash ever.
Pro trick: watch series on flixzone. Been using them for watching loads of movies during the lockdown.
@Ellis Elisha Yup, been using Flixzone for months myself :)
2:26:16 damn what an amazing sound, looks amazing as well
@cstrnutt2004 i live in tijuana .. the next day the same... we did not go to work, went back to fontana see the end of the race... jajaja good times.
I seem to remember that it came very close to being at least an eight-car title battle at Fontana in 2000 which would have been epic! There were still 10 drivers in it with 2 races to go, I missed the Surfers Paradise race for some reason and the only thing I know of it is Paul Tracy's ugly incident with Oriol Servia, so I'm guessing that the others must have fallen out of contention there. Shame about Mark Blundell, he was having easily his best drive of that season - in his last CART drive.
2:33:18 Pat Patrick’s bag of tricks was bigger than Santa’s 😂
@solaire66 wow I remember the days of good old VHS!
okay, i guess i do understand it when you explain it like that. but i tried to watch nascar but i can't seem to like it so much
Great amount of passes and dramas, memorable race it was...Today I am not as enthusiastic as I was those days, but this is what hi-speed oval racing means. And those were the dangerous days, they run averages around 240mph, no SAFER barrier...
240 average! Tracy supposedly cracked 400km/h on the stretch
To put into retrospect i know every F1, MotoGP, WRC, champion of all time as every car to ever win the LM24.
Even still i wont miss an oval race at Indy, Bristol, or Fontana.
Oh, and the track record belongs to a Champcar. A 2006 Lola/Cosworth driven by Sébastien Bourdais. Lap time 1:06.886. Well below the 1:08+ that IZOD gets at their absolute fastest, even in the 2012 season with supposedly "better" cars.
Your right on the layout. oops, my bad. I searched then watched the '98 race again. It was when Montoya started his first Long Beach they made a big thing about the new layout. Should be noted, in '98, the cars were doing 50-52 seconds on the old layout. They still clocked under 1:06 on the longer layout, still far superior to the crappy IZOD Dallara jokes, and still closer to F1 overall than IZOD could ever be.
No. 1998 was the first year of the new, longer, layout. All the times I recalled were AFTER the change. Look up the "1998 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach" on Wikipedia. I remember the buzz that was made about it when I saw the race as a teenager on TV. The course has not changed since.
Long Beach in 1998 was a much shorter course than the layout today.
Rough luck for Brack. That strategy of his looked like it might have paid off, but I guess he could have hit fuel problems later on.
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34:10 1:17:49 1:38:54 2:02:16 2:25:46 2:48:01 3:27:57
I coulda hopped on a bike and got a top 10 in this race.
2:57:28 Montoya returned to IndyCar in 2014.
It's kind of funny how many guys in the IndyCar series now were in this race, Helio Castroneves in the same ride, no less...
I think they need to up the HP in the current cars and you'd see fantastic racing. I don't think you'll get near 240 again because everyone is scared to allow the cars to get that fast even though they probably could easily.
Zanardi interview starting 43:30 approx.
Their oval culture began with real early races on Hipoddromes. But try to control one Nascar Sprint Cup, or drive an Indycar at Indy or Michigan in iRacing to know how fun it is. Plus the speed, the crashes and the many different and unexpected outcomes a race can have, that are so dramatic sometimes that some people think they're scripted. And you get it.
The crashes are bigger. :D
those engines sure have a lower tone than indycar. certainly not the beehive
if only that back straightaway was completely paved last year...........
43:28 Alex Zanardi
I think you are looking at the wrong races because each time IndyCar and NASCAR(sprint mainly) goes to an oval, the stands are jam pack.
i don't find it as exciting as normal tracks. but i guess it's a matter of taste
they don't that's why the stands are empty.
yeah. I'm only looking at the IRL races and apparently I'm the only one. Can you say 0.1 Nielsen rating
Sorry, I'm struggling to make the connection there...
Yeah, IZOD's cars sucked then and suck now. They're always bunched up. Not much in the way of competition as their field never seems to spread out.
Blame the crappy cars in IZOD. There is no advantage over another so the field stays packed. A 1998-2002 CART car of any chassis-engine combo would destroy IZOD's entire field today. CART maintained a 3-4 second lap time gap at Laguna Seca with F1 while today's Dallaras still post 15 seconds or more slower than the '98 CART racers at Long Beach. Even in it's final years with less powerful engines, Champcars were still equaling their lap times on all street and road courses. No innovation in IZOD
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The Bare Aluminum Racing League proves people love ovals. Every one of its fans dresses like an aluminum bleacher seat. Long live the visions.1
i don't seem to understand why americans love ovals so much.