These Fast Forward videos from IndyCar are absolutely perfect! They really give you a feel for the race that you just can't get in a 5-minute highlight clip. I look forward to them every race weekend and try my best to avoid spoilers beforehand. A lot of racing series out there have been totally dropping the ball lately with really poor highlights shows (...looking at you, WRC, World RX). Meanwhile IndyCar is knocking it out of the park. And of course the great racing certainly helps. Exciting new drivers, unbeatable on-track action, and a close championship battle...I'm just loving everything about IndyCar these days!
@@gizzyguzzi yeah, I can't figure out how there is such a contrast between NBC IndyCar coverage (horrendous) and NBC NASCAR coverage (actually pretty good).
I have to say that the NBC crew did a good job at the Laguna Seca IndyCar race. They stayed focused on the actual race, rather than the usual side stories, and when they cut to the obligatory Jimmy Johnson coverage, he was actually going wheel to wheel with Grosjean.
Indycar needs more ovals like Gateway, Milwaukee, etc. I watched this race last night, and then Milwaukee 1995, and they were exelent ones, with tons of passes! Hope we see good racing like this in the rest of the races!
Also superspeedways like michigan,chicagoland,kentucky and pocono. Its a shame they ever left in the schedule in the first place, the series was built on ovals.
@@lucskywalker8441 I don't know if it was good idea, it seems every superspeedway nowdays had that PJ1 compound which if you remember texas, it was horrible to watch
I love how you can see the different driving styles of the drivers. O’Ward, Herta and Grosjean are so fun to watch. Which current or past driver do find the most fun to watch? Being new to watching INDYCAR I’d love to hear your favourites
Josef Newgarden, Alex Palou, Scott Dixon and Marcus Erikson are also good. Rinus Veekay has good raw speed but he sometimes makes silly mistakes and is not so good in qualifying.
Young generation, Herta, O'Ward, and Veekay when he is under control, older/more established generation, Helio at Indy, Sato when he is under control, and Rossi when he is angry
Look at all these great passes. This is definitely a great indy car race to go see. Putting St. Lewis on next years calendar for a race to travel to. Great action all over the track. Happy to see Iowa back on the schedule as well. Love this series. Portland next wooohooo.
It wasn't that big of a mistake. Look at the yellow car in front of Dixon. It is so much slower than the cars in front of it. Dixon checked up because that yellow car was coming down on him and Veekay had a full head of steam. He clearly tries to back out but just a tap in mind turn sends him up into Palou.
I,m becoming a big Indycar fan. So much better racing than in F1. The teams are alot more even too. Qualifying is also a better system than F1. I,m glad Scott Mcclauglin went to Indycar. His talent was being wasted driving Supercars here in Australia. Hopefully in the future they come back to Australia to race!
@@danielabazi5020 The vast majority of Indycar's races are on road/street courses. This is the last oval of the year with three races remaining. Also, you underestimate the skill involved with oval racing. You can find out yourself in iRacing how difficult it is, most people find it hard at first to even make it one lap at speed around an oval track without either hitting the wall or spinning.
@@UNHchabo No of course it takes skill it is actually challenging and indycar has a lot of road courses so there is some variabilty. But the above comment compared it to f1 which personally i think takes much more skill.
@@danielabazi5020 I'm not sure I see a different amount of skill required, just a different set of skills. There have been a number of F1 drivers that have come over to Indycar over the years, and none of them have found it easy. Grosjean, when talking with Magnussen, said that the main difference is that he tried taking the Indycar in nice clean lines like an F1 car, and he was multiple seconds off-pace. But then his crew told him to kick the backend out in the corners, and that got him up to a normal speed. What I like about Indycar over F1, and it sounds like OP feels the same, is that the *rules set* is more conducive to close, even racing. It's a spec chassis, so there's only a limited advantage to be gained by having a massive budget. The lower-downforce package introduced in 2018 means that dirty air isn't as much of a problem for passing (which the next-gen F1 car also has). And I prefer the Push-to-Pass system to DRS, because it increases the strategic complexity in the hands of the driver. They might waste it all early in the race and have none left to defend at the end, or they may be on such a fuel-saving strategy that they can't afford to use any the whole race.
Can we talk about the aero screen? I'm glad was there. I know people were not for it at first. But I hope it will continue to protect drivers. I hated the halo in F1 at first now I'm glad it exist. Same in Indycar
I totally agree with you. I was not a big fan of it at 1st but now hardly even notice or think about it. The F1 is atrocious though ugliest thing I have ever seen.. Indy car did it right and although I prefer an open air cockpit it doesn't hinder the racing quality.
afaik its to wash off any excess fuel yeah, indy uses 85% ethanol fuel which goes up even easier than standard race fuel so its basicaly just to stop cars bursting into flames mid-stint
Watch the 2018 Indy 500, Zach Veach's refueler spills some onto the engine deck, and it causes a pretty scary fire. And then it happened to Rosenqvist at the 2019 Indy GP too.
i think we should call grosjean the Phoenix because I remember him 10 years ago in F1 he was terrebill then came the fire last year and know hes driving like a veteran
@@gizzyguzzi Top indy driver? Not even top rookie and in this race was second last among those that finished, beating only Hinchcliffe who had mechanical issues all race and finished the race in the pits.
@@stupidas9466 who passed more cars than he did last night? If he hadn't lost that lap, somehow, he'd have finished 5th. And he was second in his last race.
can someone tell me exactly how Grojean lost that lap? He pitted before the leaders and went off the lead lap with the pit stop where Herta broke his half shaft but the leaders must have pitted after he did putting him back on the lead lap. A caution coming out while you are a lap down can trap you but I didn't see one. I was hoping to see it on this extended version of the highlights but still don't understand it.
Idk they didn’t really explain what happened there I think it was just that ill timed yellow flag that caught him out hence him being a lapped down this is just my beet guess though 🤷♀️
@@hannahbarley61 That is what I heard them say late in the race but i went back and rewatched the whole race I saw in the leader board and still could figure out how he lost that lap. Getting trapped in the pits is when you pit before others pit, putting you a lap down, and a caution comes out trapping you a lap down. If that happened, I can't find it. Does anybody know where to find timing and scoring that might show lap by lap?
@@K7L3-93 He didn't go off the lead lap when that happened. He did not get passed by the leaders. I read a racing website recapping the race that he pitted before the leaders, which he'd been doing all race, putting him a lap down and a caution came out. The article said he missed a go-around. That's how they said it and said no more. What the means to me is that he was the first car a lap down and they told him he could go around and get on the tail end of the lead lap and for some unthinkable reason he didn't do it. I haven't been able to find another source for it.
Don't be too harsh on Veekay for that crash. He was going for a line that Dixon also decided to go for at the same time. Dixon may have gotten there first but he also came down three car widths to do it, causing Veekay to have to check up going into a corner. Not blaming Dixon either, more a case of bad luck and timing than any true "fault" on either's part.
@@stupidas9466 exactly. Look at the yellow car in front of Dixon and how the cars in front of it are running away from it. Dixon had a slow car in front of him.
haha bottas has a driving academy, for what? How to learn the skills to be a wingman? Or the skills to silence critics by winning every 30th race and swearing about it on the radio? Or how to drive like an amateur in the wet?
Everyone is blaming Veekay for that accident but Scott Dixon literally jumped lanes at the last second and no way Rinus could check up enough and Alex Palou got caught up in something he had nothing to do with. I would call it a racing incident but Dixon is easily as much to blame as Veekay was.
Nobody in Indy racing has more good karma than Pagenaud. His struggles are the result of (1) Penske's struggles with the car this year, and (2) being teammates with 2 guys who are bad teammates.
@@captainjosue I disagree. Although he’s fallen off in performance recently, he has always been a fast driver. Unfortunately, most of the time circumstances work against him during the race and do not allow him to receive the finishes he’s capable of
LETS GO ROMAIN GROSJEAN!!!! LOVING watching Grosjean warming up and blitzing his rookie year in Indycar. Allez les bleu!!
These Fast Forward videos from IndyCar are absolutely perfect! They really give you a feel for the race that you just can't get in a 5-minute highlight clip. I look forward to them every race weekend and try my best to avoid spoilers beforehand.
A lot of racing series out there have been totally dropping the ball lately with really poor highlights shows (...looking at you, WRC, World RX). Meanwhile IndyCar is knocking it out of the park. And of course the great racing certainly helps. Exciting new drivers, unbeatable on-track action, and a close championship battle...I'm just loving everything about IndyCar these days!
too bad NBC is such a huge SUCK! They can't even figure out how to stream a replay of a race. Complete SUCK!
@@gizzyguzzi yeah, I can't figure out how there is such a contrast between NBC IndyCar coverage (horrendous) and NBC NASCAR coverage (actually pretty good).
Amen brother Joel. They are great aren't they :) easy to find and gives you a feel for the race. This was awesome.
100% Agree
I have to say that the NBC crew did a good job at the Laguna Seca IndyCar race. They stayed focused on the actual race, rather than the usual side stories, and when they cut to the obligatory Jimmy Johnson coverage, he was actually going wheel to wheel with Grosjean.
Indycar needs more ovals like Gateway, Milwaukee, etc. I watched this race last night, and then Milwaukee 1995, and they were exelent ones, with tons of passes! Hope we see good racing like this in the rest of the races!
Also superspeedways like michigan,chicagoland,kentucky and pocono. Its a shame they ever left in the schedule in the first place, the series was built on ovals.
I hope the bring back nazareth speedway
@@lucskywalker8441 No. They stopped going to superspeedways for a good reason.
@@travishopkins6539 and why is that
@@lucskywalker8441 I don't know if it was good idea, it seems every superspeedway nowdays had that PJ1 compound which if you remember texas, it was horrible to watch
Grossjean raced as if he had been doing it for 12 years! Good result for el Pato. Thanks for uploading.
I love how you can see the different driving styles of the drivers. O’Ward, Herta and Grosjean are so fun to watch.
Which current or past driver do find the most fun to watch?
Being new to watching INDYCAR I’d love to hear your favourites
Josef Newgarden, Alex Palou, Scott Dixon and Marcus Erikson are also good. Rinus Veekay has good raw speed but he sometimes makes silly mistakes and is not so good in qualifying.
Pato
Young generation, Herta, O'Ward, and Veekay when he is under control, older/more established generation, Helio at Indy, Sato when he is under control, and Rossi when he is angry
Vintage Alex Zanardi
Power for the memes.
I love how all the driver photos look so serious, and you get Romain Grosjean with the biggest grin
Catching up on these last races and oh my what a move from Romain 12:25 Just brilliant
This is the best highlights format of all motorsport series! Thank you!
Scotty up there in 4th
Indycar hasn’t seen the best of him yet !
Look at all these great passes. This is definitely a great indy car race to go see. Putting St. Lewis on next years calendar for a race to travel to. Great action all over the track. Happy to see Iowa back on the schedule as well. Love this series. Portland next wooohooo.
Nice racing. This car fits well on this track
That was an awesome race!!!!
Rinus VeeKay just blew the title chase wide open. I wonder if Chip Ganassi is gonna send Ed Carpenter the repair bills for Dixon's and Palou's cars.
It wasn't that big of a mistake. Look at the yellow car in front of Dixon. It is so much slower than the cars in front of it. Dixon checked up because that yellow car was coming down on him and Veekay had a full head of steam. He clearly tries to back out but just a tap in mind turn sends him up into Palou.
Vamos Pato!!
Proud of Ericsson doing so well in the series after such a long time in F1 coming 2nd best to teammates.
What a race!
I,m becoming a big Indycar fan. So much better racing than in F1. The teams are alot more even too. Qualifying is also a better system than F1. I,m glad Scott Mcclauglin went to Indycar. His talent was being wasted driving Supercars here in Australia. Hopefully in the future they come back to Australia to race!
Seriously, so you like turning left more than actual racing?
@@danielabazi5020 The vast majority of Indycar's races are on road/street courses. This is the last oval of the year with three races remaining.
Also, you underestimate the skill involved with oval racing. You can find out yourself in iRacing how difficult it is, most people find it hard at first to even make it one lap at speed around an oval track without either hitting the wall or spinning.
@@UNHchabo No of course it takes skill it is actually challenging and indycar has a lot of road courses so there is some variabilty. But the above comment compared it to f1 which personally i think takes much more skill.
@@danielabazi5020 I'm not sure I see a different amount of skill required, just a different set of skills. There have been a number of F1 drivers that have come over to Indycar over the years, and none of them have found it easy. Grosjean, when talking with Magnussen, said that the main difference is that he tried taking the Indycar in nice clean lines like an F1 car, and he was multiple seconds off-pace. But then his crew told him to kick the backend out in the corners, and that got him up to a normal speed.
What I like about Indycar over F1, and it sounds like OP feels the same, is that the *rules set* is more conducive to close, even racing. It's a spec chassis, so there's only a limited advantage to be gained by having a massive budget. The lower-downforce package introduced in 2018 means that dirty air isn't as much of a problem for passing (which the next-gen F1 car also has). And I prefer the Push-to-Pass system to DRS, because it increases the strategic complexity in the hands of the driver. They might waste it all early in the race and have none left to defend at the end, or they may be on such a fuel-saving strategy that they can't afford to use any the whole race.
@@danielabazi5020 That's not what I said at all . I said the racing is closer and better. I never mentioned anything about skill level.
Thank you so much indycar for the great race and excellent video edit!!!
LOVED WATCHING U IN F1 AND I THINK UR ETTER HERE IN INDYCAR
Love these long highlight reels!!!
Another great drive for Scott Mclaughlin, 4th place. Getting comfrotable now.
Can we talk about the aero screen? I'm glad was there. I know people were not for it at first. But I hope it will continue to protect drivers. I hated the halo in F1 at first now I'm glad it exist. Same in Indycar
I totally agree with you. I was not a big fan of it at 1st but now hardly even notice or think about it. The F1 is atrocious though ugliest thing I have ever seen.. Indy car did it right and although I prefer an open air cockpit it doesn't hinder the racing quality.
Don't have to FF through the taped race now LOL
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Hurts to see Rosenqvist struggle so much :(
Agree 100%.
20:50 " you have to break every lap" you can never go wrong using this sentence for any circuit
This track was right on the edge between good passes and disaster, great to watch. How did Grojean get out of sync on his pit stops?
More oval races please, Indycar!
Bien joué Romain
why do they hose the car down at the end of a pit stop, to dilute any fuel that spills?
Yes
afaik its to wash off any excess fuel yeah, indy uses 85% ethanol fuel which goes up even easier than standard race fuel so its basicaly just to stop cars bursting into flames mid-stint
Watch the 2018 Indy 500, Zach Veach's refueler spills some onto the engine deck, and it causes a pretty scary fire. And then it happened to Rosenqvist at the 2019 Indy GP too.
I don't know who's going to win the championship now
I can’t believe how wild that racing is, seems to no rules
Are the cars in their road spec?
10:37 when Grosjean started the show.
As a F1 fan I can confirm this is how Grosjean is aggressive in a Lotus.
i think we should call grosjean the Phoenix because I remember him 10 years ago in F1 he was terrebill then came the fire last year and know hes driving like a veteran
funny how a mediocre F1 driver is a top Indy driver immediately.
Grosjean always had pace, he just wasn't consistent and was mistake prone, his seasons with lotus were pretty good
@@gizzyguzzi Top indy driver? Not even top rookie and in this race was second last among those that finished, beating only Hinchcliffe who had mechanical issues all race and finished the race in the pits.
@@gizzyguzzi He was not a mediocre driver. He got the most out of mediocre cars. I always knew he could hustle a race car, no matter what it is.
@@stupidas9466 who passed more cars than he did last night? If he hadn't lost that lap, somehow, he'd have finished 5th. And he was second in his last race.
“And right now this is a cummer”-Townsend Bell
One very fast track.
can someone tell me exactly how Grojean lost that lap? He pitted before the leaders and went off the lead lap with the pit stop where Herta broke his half shaft but the leaders must have pitted after he did putting him back on the lead lap. A caution coming out while you are a lap down can trap you but I didn't see one. I was hoping to see it on this extended version of the highlights but still don't understand it.
Idk they didn’t really explain what happened there I think it was just that ill timed yellow flag that caught him out hence him being a lapped down this is just my beet guess though 🤷♀️
@@hannahbarley61 That is what I heard them say late in the race but i went back and rewatched the whole race I saw in the leader board and still could figure out how he lost that lap. Getting trapped in the pits is when you pit before others pit, putting you a lap down, and a caution comes out trapping you a lap down. If that happened, I can't find it. Does anybody know where to find timing and scoring that might show lap by lap?
Did you miss the part where he almost hit a wall after driving in the marbles? :P
@@K7L3-93 He didn't go off the lead lap when that happened. He did not get passed by the leaders. I read a racing website recapping the race that he pitted before the leaders, which he'd been doing all race, putting him a lap down and a caution came out. The article said he missed a go-around. That's how they said it and said no more. What the means to me is that he was the first car a lap down and they told him he could go around and get on the tail end of the lead lap and for some unthinkable reason he didn't do it. I haven't been able to find another source for it.
Just an observation, you guys haven't mentioned sato is a ex f1 driver.
Did Veekay learn his racecraft from Valtteri Bottas driving academy??
Bottas is an awesome driver so STFU. I can't watch the replay because NBC sucks so bad. I want to see the whole race, not highlights.
Don't be too harsh on Veekay for that crash. He was going for a line that Dixon also decided to go for at the same time. Dixon may have gotten there first but he also came down three car widths to do it, causing Veekay to have to check up going into a corner. Not blaming Dixon either, more a case of bad luck and timing than any true "fault" on either's part.
i think you posted something like this on another replay vid. the situations were nowhere at all similar. Dixon checked up.
@@stupidas9466 exactly. Look at the yellow car in front of Dixon and how the cars in front of it are running away from it. Dixon had a slow car in front of him.
haha bottas has a driving academy, for what? How to learn the skills to be a wingman? Or the skills to silence critics by winning every 30th race and swearing about it on the radio? Or how to drive like an amateur in the wet?
grande grojean.
Newgarden is so cool
Let's go racin!
Everyone is blaming Veekay for that accident but Scott Dixon literally jumped lanes at the last second and no way Rinus could check up enough and Alex Palou got caught up in something he had nothing to do with. I would call it a racing incident but Dixon is easily as much to blame as Veekay was.
Agreed, more a racing incident than anything else…two guys going to the same spot at the same time.
Noo Rossi 😭
Lucky Newgarden
All part of racing. Herta fucked up & goes to the shower. Not a fan.
Yea... maybe you can call it luck when you crash your own teammate into last place.
@@kuckoo9036 Yep! He saw the opportunity to crash his teammate out of the race for the 2nd time in 3 races, and he took it! Nice luck!
If there's anyone that was lucky that night, it was O'ward
GO ROMAIN
Anyone else think pagenaud is still working off the bad karma of taking lando out in the online race?
Nobody in Indy racing has more good karma than Pagenaud. His struggles are the result of (1) Penske's struggles with the car this year, and (2) being teammates with 2 guys who are bad teammates.
No. That was over a year ago in a just for fun virtual race with nothing at stake.
@@tommythetreat000 Yea... that was a pretty ridiculous theory.
well seeing how he won a race going from last to first last year, no. no one cares about Lando or the video game race.
no one cares about lando
Ed Carpenter sucks at racing for his whole career. It amazes me that they keep giving him a car.
That’s his own car
Well he literally owns that car
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT Yep. I dont think hes gonna fire himself anytime soon.
Seriously. He needs to give up that seat to a much better driver and he should focus on being an owner.
@@captainjosue I disagree. Although he’s fallen off in performance recently, he has always been a fast driver. Unfortunately, most of the time circumstances work against him during the race and do not allow him to receive the finishes he’s capable of
Man Inydcar have the most cringe commentary team in all of motorsport.. honestly so bad
These cars are so ugly
We need a fast car
Beauty is not our priority tho
They were more than fine before the halo/aeroscreen/cockpit/deathtrap. Yeah, they need to integrate it better in the next-gen.