Reviving Penske’s Last IndyCar Winner
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2023
- Patrick Morgan, the son of Ilmor Engineering co-founder Paul Morgan, restored and drove the last race-winning Penske IndyCar chassis, powered by his family's Ilmor-built Mercedes turbo CART engine, and made a short film about the 1997 PC26's return to action.
#penske #ilmor #indycar #cart #paultracy #pc26 #mercedes #paulmorgan #rogerpenske #penskeracing - Sport
Still the best livery of all time. It’s just perfection.
What an era
Amen
It looked better on the McLaren.
Absolutely agree!
Saw the Little AL car at the Penske race shop. Even more impressive in person. No matter what form of racing it is in, it is iconic!
@@stevengoetz6773 Without Airbox please !
My favorite era for indycars, brings back great memories.
Absolutely !!!!
Son, THIS is a race car
The greatest era of open wheel racing in the USA. CART was the absolute peak. Monsterous machines.
Смотря на нынешние машины формулы 1, эта машина просто монстр, ручная коробка, звук двигателя и трансмиссии, просто 🎉
I've been searching recently for videos of people who have CART cars from back in the day. I know people own and run them but there aren't as many videos as there are F1 cars. Growing up in the states I lived CART. It was incredible!
The car still looks and sounds impressive.
It wasn't impressive on race track. Yes Tracy won 3 striaght races, but then they fell of the cliff.
Watching Al Unser Jr, Paul Tracy and Emerson Fittapaldi run these things around Long Beach was everything to me as a kid.
You forgot Mansell. My first GP was Long Beach 92 at 9 years old. Then went again in 93 where Tracy won his first race, I think. I still go but it's not as exciting. I mainly go to see the historic cars.
Got to see it race live at Surfers Paradise as a kid. What a time. The noise, excitement and just raw fun of the race back then will never be matched. Plus it was an awesome backdrop with the white sandy beach, beautiful water, girls in bikinis and everyone in flip flops. I remember the RAAF F-111s doing dump and burn flybys through the buildings as the opener to the race then it was a couple hours of awesomeness with the sound echoing everywhere.
I was wondering what happened to this car after being restored and Patrick Morgan's youtube channel went silent. I'm glad to see and hear it still running. There was a good full article in Racecar Engineering a few years ago and a whole detailed website on the restoration, showing how they had chased down original parts from across the globe from former manufacturers and various former team members that had parts sitting around. I think the tub/chassis was repainted a few times in different liveries and being used as a towed show piece even. They had some parts done exact like the originals from the original part manufacturers like the exhaust blankets.
Absolutely awesome. Great to see an Indy Car from that era running. Miss that sound.
I love that era of Indycar. Fantastic video, thanks everyone
Cleveland vibes being back at an airport again.
My lord.. that sound.. those downshifts...
Why we can't have cars in today's era smh
Wow the sound alone made my day. It was a big part of the fascination of those Champcars. Thank you for sharing!
Listen to the Ilmor Mercedes V8 go! 🇩🇪🔧
Going to the Molson Indy Toronto, to watch these cars scream down lakeshore boulevard with my Dad are some of my greatest racing memories as a kid. I wish these rocket ships came back.
This is why I take games that feature real world racing circuits very seriously.
Beautiful car, I remember this car in CART 1994, drove by Emerson Fittipaldi and Al Unser Jr. Golden age.
Man, what a beautiful race car. The late 90s early 2000s CART indyCars were the best and FASTEST! Just like the 2003-04 F1 cars, these cars were the pinnacle of IndyCar racing. And the engine note sound was incredible! Too bad this video didnt demonstrate the way this car sounded at 245 mph.
No wonder PT called the slow plodding high downforce, low BHp IRL cars cr**wagons! IMHO IRL cars were terrible for more than a decade starting when they dumped the 96 CART formula IndyCars.
I agree that the IRL/Tony George sucked and I expected, when Roger Penske bought the IMS and the IndyCar series, that he would move to restore IndyCar to its former glory but no it remains a Dallara spec car series with 2 engine choices.
I wish Roger would create a rule book and invite all comers to participate.
Yeah from a fan perspective, CART was the best - unfortunately from a business standpoint, the formula wasnt sustainable. The Captain is of course a businessman first, so let's hope he and his team can find a profitable way to get back to some form of open formula.
@@deanhirasawa1414
What wasn’t sustainable?
Besides me not knowing what that means, my comment had more to do with getting rid of the spec car rules and make the series accessible to any and all, chassis builders and engine builders, who would like to participate
Best Indy Era
Bring back the old engines!!!
I really miss this series.
I’d love to drive one. For the first ten seconds, until I shunted it into the first turn, life would be glorious. I’m still amazed how those drivers had to take their hand off the wheel to shift. Seems crazy now, but it shows how talented those guys really were.
That was great to see and hear back in action. As soon as you heard that short shift going down the runway followed with more power and some wheelspin. You knew you were in for a treat!
Paul tracy indycar,coolest Era of indycar 1985 to 1999😊
The best era of Indycar and car racing 😍
Legendary, so cool to see this car in HD. Definitely brings back a flood of great memories.
Thank you, Racer, for doing a fantastic job, especially with no narrator boring us to death with facts. Let the car & sounds do the talking. BRAVO!!!
That is, and will always be, one bad ass car. Thank you.
The sound 😍
What a time it was to be a race fan
Best livery of all time!!!
Tony George single-handedly destroyed open-wheel racing in North America.
It's worse then people think, in the 90s Nascar was still very regional, then fox and nbc made it the national entertainment product it is now. If the split never happened I'd argue that Indy car would be toe to toe with F1 interns of popularity and driver talent.
No, it was all good till about 2002. Both series coexisted and we had 35 races a year. Tony George did nothing. CART should have stayed and not merged with the IRL.
Nice to see the Beast out again.
Now that’s an Indycar!!
That car is beautiful
What a beauty!
Back when Indycar was cool.
Music to my ears time to put some new firestone tires on that beast !! miss those cart racing machines!! Well Done bring it back to life👍👏
If you've never seen this car up close in real life, you wouldn't believe how small the car actually is. TV doesn't translate size or speed very well. What a machine!!!
Right? I also remember sitting on inside of turn 2 at Road America, and watching them come flying towards the corner, then braking hard into the corner and banging the gears down. Then right back to full throttle at the apex and back out onto the straight. Seeing this live, up close, at eye level, blew my mind. I couldn't believe I just saw a car go through a corner that fast.@@kuckoo9036
Absolutely gorgeous car. And those 2.65 v8 turbos from that period or champ car are just magnificent. So much soul and such a unique sound, nothing else sounds like it.
I wish there was more pure sound videos so we could make sound for racing games though
Thanks for sharing, one of the best looking Indycars ever even after all these years. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
That is a work of art.
The last attractive Indy car, in my opinion. And the sound it make is obviously glorious.
There is a beast that lives in all of us.
Best car and engine Mercedes ever made being there in person this thing sounded like it wasn’t even trying when it was flying around ims
amazing to see. :thumbup: and because its Ilmor in house, probably the closest ever vintage Indycar to be damn near 100% original stock. (even looks to be a working popoff valve) Video quality was excellent, so please do this again when you get it on track and maybe an old shoe that can still wedge themselves in it. :)
Absolutely amazing!!
Beautiful!
This type of videos I really like. The only thing is they should have Pau Tracy helmet there.
The Marlboro car really smoked the competition. 😉
Simply incredible!
I hope to God this will be at Long Beach next year for the historic race.
The car is in England
2:15. The acceleration is brutal. What’s the power:weight ratio? 1:2?? It’s awesome to see this car being driven hard instead of spending its retirement in a museum.
What a machine
Awesome sounds
Unpopular opinion, this sounds so much better than the shrieking of F1 V10s.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Great Job....!
Wicked stuff.
So fast, so cool 👍
Saw this chassis win Nazareth that year. Think Tracy won 3 in a row, but then faded. Good time in INDYCAR racing.
Yes indeed, after his three wins came the string of bad luck stretching from Mid-Ohio to Auto Club Speedway.
I was going to say that has to be dawn treader because the quality of the work but then the helmet gave it away
Bad ass!!
I remember that car
Wow, loved those cars and that era!
Beauty!
Late 90s CART cars were the best looking open wheel racers of all time. Full stop.
Um dos carros mais bonitos já construídos.
As much as I long for the untamed power of the 2..65 V8 era, those days are MEVER coming back. What made this era possible was big tobacco money. Phillip Morris, Reynolds, Et al were spending ridiculous amounts of cash in IC (as well as other major racing series). Big tobacco money affected ALL aspects of racing . Among other things, teams budgets, drivers salaries, prize money, and even attendance (tobacco companies comped a lot of seats) were affected.
Al Unser Jr in the companion #31 cleaned house with that Mercedes beast. He won just about everything in ‘94
With this car the downfall of Penske started.Tracy won 3 straight races, competed for championship and then fell off. They had even more trouble in 1998. Where at Nazareth they brought this very year old car and were off the pace.
Crazy! I thought CZcams didn't allow pornography on it's platform, yet here we are.
The word Gorgeous just doesn't do this car justice...
Dear God
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I could be wrong but that was the Mercedes beast engine that dominated the 500 for a couple of years!
The beast engine was only raced a single time, the 1994 Indy 500
A Goodyear on an Indycar? Whaaa?
Which engine configuration was this? OHV or DOHC?
The same sound I heard in the 90s or when I watch the races again, I wanted to know if the original microphone was used to capture engine audio, it's not like most people who use a GoPro and have horrible audio capture.
Wasn't this a CART car, not an Indy Car?
All CART Champ Cars retroactively became IndyCars with the 2008 merger. Before the 1996 split, they were IndyCars.
Wasn't this before CART even came into being?
@IndyF1FanMarquis that doesn't make any sense.
Call it what you want, but it was and is a CART series race car, not an Indy Car series race car.
This is Paul Tracy's 1997 CART car. CART was from '79-'03.
Champ Car was '04-'07.
IRL was '96-'08.
IRL came out of CART.
@@peterscandlyn CART formed in 1979 to take over sanctioning of IndyCars from USAC. The cars have been known by many names over the years; speedway cars, big cars, championship cars etc. But the unofficial official name was always IndyCar because they raced at Indy.
@@ChaosLordBrandon You have to know the history to understand. It's complicated and goes back well over 100 years.
Innovative and interesting cars don’t add any fan interest and add nothing to the racing or the spectacle. Oh wait…
Thanks Tony George for making Indycar great again😂
Champ car ruled.
Fittibg it was tested on a runway. Looks like a fighter jet
Back in the good ol days when it was ok to advertise cigarets
Because cigarettes are a vice that deserves better press? LOL!
@@codymoe4986 That was back when the government didnt make decisions for you
@@JohnDoe-xu2vx
I have laws?
Why?
Bring back Tobacco sponsors.
Was that the engine they called "the beast"?
No! The beast is the 207 inch 2 cam per cylinder stock block used to win the 1994 Indy 500. Was used in three cars fir Indy only AND NEVER RACED AGAIN
Bring back cart, dump Indy car. This was video brings back memories?
Who was driving? Paul Tracy?
No, Paul Morgan, the guy who restored it. I seriously doubt PT fits in this car today.😂
I think PT is in better shape now. Hoping he starts doing some Vintage stuff.@@paulo9504
@paulo9504 he is actually in really good shape right now, dropped a lot of weight.
Os carros de hoje são feios demais perto desses eu gostaria de ver esses mesmo que com aero scream
я так и не понял как они всех обманули с єтим движком на литр больше чем у всех , какие то стандартние блоки , почему другие єто не сделали 3,6 L turbo
When Penske was basically a F1 team competing against Indycar teams.
And they were the worst years for Penske 1997-1999. They own chassis sucked.
Today’s Indy Cars look like giant steaming piles of shit when compared to 90’s Indy cars.
same with F1 bro, look like a school bus compared to 90-00's era, especially the sound.
Agreed
That pile of shit gives way WAAAAAAAY! much better show that "The Pinnacle", with a fraction of budget. And sounds better than the snobb-ish club racing that everybody is hype. It's true that the cars of the past looks and sound better, but that were different times.
One reason why in the 2020s I only follow sportscar racing now. I have no interest in other forms of racing anymore. I loved NASCAR Winston Cup until about 2003. My interest in Indycar ended at some point in the early 2010s. Same for F1.
Please start making new cars again, running the same car for a decade is tired. Formula 1 finding all these U.S. dollars ... why can't Indycar?
Because F1 is the current flavor of the week in the US...based mostly on a well produced docu-series....no more, no less...
Very very expensive and Indycar doesn’t have the financial resources currently to do it.
Most Indycar teams run in multiple in disciplines which require them to buy new equipment at least every other year. I'm not saying every year, but maybe every 3 years. Can't run same every year for 12 years. It's not just drivers it's the equipment. U.S. dollars are in F1 ex. Red Bull Oracle, Williams owned by US company, Haas, Alpha Tauri about to announce major U. S sponsor, Alpine U. S. Investment recently, Andretti runs in everything and has dollars to join F1 and build new headquarters..etc etc Indycar is run like glorified club racing, that's why sponsors and manufacturers treat them as such.
The Mclareen Mp4/7 has been driven on that track!
Isn't the last Penske Indycar winner the Dallara DW12 as driven by Josef Newgarden?
Penske winner with a Penske chassis
Last Penske BUILT car.
Yes it is!
I love these cars. Today’s cars have no soul. The current cars are neutered, generic piles. LET THE ENGINEERS AND DESIGNERS LOOSE TO MAKE UNIQUE CARS AGAIN. THE CURRENT FORMAT SUCKS!!!!!!!
Oh yah, today’s cars also sound sick (as in ill, not cool).
Agreed, two engines and what, one or two chassis?
It's a spec racer series now.
The unfortunate reality is that it will turn into a three team IRL fest again if that's the case.
You mean like the ENGINEERS and DESIGNERS at Dallara, the current chassis manufacturers?
P.S. By "let loose", do you mean increasing the speeds and the danger and the risk of on track fatalities?
Damn that thing is beautiful.
The last indycar, everything after this time period isn’t an indycar.
Based
Beautiful!