THE 500 WON FROM TWO LAPS DOWN! The Story of the 1995 Indianapolis 500
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- In the May of 1995, it was controversy after controversy. First: Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony George announces the formation of the Indy Racing League, and then TWO drivers in one race are penalised for overtaking the pace car. Although one was a bit more blatant than the other.
Then the winner of this Indy 500 goes on to Formula One and wins the title two years later before his career comes to a sudden halt in terms of success.
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Ahh yes. The good ol’ Indy505. He wasn’t just down two laps, he was penalized 2 laps. He drove two laps more than anyone else around him.
So in practice, lapped the whole field 2 times?
@@Yoshik379 yes. Exactly that. Amazing drive.
@@SmittyHalibut Pre BAR Villeneuve really was someone else lmao
If only he kept his confidence after 1999... Imagine the career.
In regard to Al Unser Jr. trying to buy a spot in the race:
The qualifying rules for the Indy 500 specify that it is the car that qualifies for the race, not the driver. So it is possible for a driver to take over a car that another driver has qualified and start from the back of the field. Mario Andretti did this a few times when he was driving full-time in F1. This also opens up the possibility of a driver stepping aside because another driver who didn't make the race ponied up a large enough sum of money. The most recent instance of this that I can recall was in 2011, when Bruno Junquiera was sidelined in favor of Ryan Hunter-Reay. Hunter-Reay was bumped from the field in his regular ride with Andretti, but he had sponsors behind him while Junquiera did not.
Jacques was, and in a lot of ways still is, his own worst enemy at times. When you look at his performances throughout his career he should be remembered better than he is. Got to see him win at Silverstone 97 which was cool.
As an aside CART in 97 was boss. Made me a Mark Blundell fan.
If he'd either stayed with Williams or gone to McLaren after 1997, he probably would have won another championship in F1. He really is his own worst enemy when it comes to his career.
All American Racers Toyota TRD Eagle ran by Dan Gurney was my favorite race team.🦅🦅😎
That Picard imitation was spot on. Thanks Aidan for being such a trooper for giving us content even though you're ill. Take it easy and get well. Happy New Year.
Blimey, I thought it was Alan Partridge lol
The CART/IRL split set open wheel racing back 20 years in America. I’d love to see the deeper dive into that.
20 years? Sorry, but it still hasn't recovered and it's doubtful that it ever will.
And the reunification also wasn't happening the best way, with teams like Forsythe, Rocketsports, Walker reaching the end due to personal conflicts between George and the team owners.
As an IndyCar and sports car race fan, the split really gives me mixed feelings. One the one side, it obviously destroyed AOWR. At the same time, it saved sports car racing across the entire world.
If not for the ALMS becoming a success in 1998, the ELMS wouldn't even have formed, neither FIA GT probably.
It turned sports car racing in the professional class we know it today instead of drivers being considered F1 rejects.
A great book on The Spilt just came out last year called "Indy Spilt: The Big Money Battle That Nearly Destroyed IndyCar Racing" by John Oreovicz. It's a very interesting book on the history of American Open Wheel Racing and puts The Spilt into that context. It's almost a 5 Star average in Amazon with 149 reviews as of right now.
Can confirm
it’s a great book
Is it actually worth buying physical? I mean, it's quite expensive to ship it to continental Europe atm. Does the book actually stand out to other stories about the split we've heard hundreds of times already? Lots of books have told the same story over and over so...
You should also do the 1994 500, Aidan - an even more heartbreaking loss for Goodyear.
Everyone in Canada wanted him to win this one, Jacques and Tracy (and if you want a controversial race, HOO BOY take a look at 2002 sometime) were the consolation prize winners for us.
I think your thinking of 92 Scott Goodyear started 33rd and finished 2nd in the closest finish in history. 94 he started 33rd again after getting bumped just like 92 replaced Mike Groff but he wasn't much of a factor on raceday in 94
Thanks for a great year! Very much like the content you are making. All the best for 2022 and see you soon i suspect! :)
This race was the start of a few year stretch that finished with JVs world championship that cemented my life long love of open wheel racing.
Great story of a great win. Next to surviving that hip check from Schumacher, this was Jacques' greatest win.
A hard decision when you throw Portugal '96 in there too and also his first victory at Road America in CART. He had some brilliant drives
@@rupertpupkin9630 true indeed! CART was the most competitive open wheeled series in the world at that time, and required the broadest set of skills. I was so disappointed that his career was ruined by the BAR decision. I really thought he could have won multiple WDCs too.
@@bobmcl2406 agreed
Here's a story you would like - 1985 Awesome Bill from Dawsonville demolished the NASCAR scene. Won 11 races. Won the Winston million. Came from 2 laps down UNDER GREEN to win at Dega. That race might be something to discuss
The other 505!
And he STILL lost the championship to another driver who won only three races.
@@DinsdalePiranha67 DW psyched him out bad down the stretch
@@DinsdalePiranha67 At least the playoff didn't exist back then
I met Stan Fox at Indy. That picture of his car mid-air and his legs out is in the Indy museum.
It's a picture you won't forget! Legs fully exposed.
Been watching motorsports for about 36 years or so. Unfortunately, I have witnessed many deaths. I think Dan Wheldon's wreck hit me the hardest. Still makes me sad. The whole story is just brutal. But I think the most amazing wreck that someone walked away from was Michael Waltrip at Bristol TN, Hitting the crossover gate and ripping his car in half, and he walked away. If you've never seen it, I'm sure its uploaded on here.
@@wackyd9863 I'll never forget standing and watching as Senna was pulled from his car. The darkest weekend in a long time.
Happy New Year Aidan, looking forward to another year of your wonderful content.
Aiden if the split interests you Nascarman has a great series summarizing it, give it a watch. It's about 90 min in total over 4 parts
Just watched it from your suggestion.
I watch that race. Part of the problem was USAC used guested drivers to drive the pace car instead of people who actually knew what they were doing. Separately, Tony George was an idiot. And a great argument against inherited wealth
USAC uses an "honorary pace car driver" for the start of the race; people such as Chuck Yeager, James Garner, and retired drivers like Parnelli Jones and Emerson Fittipaldi. For the rest of the race, a professional driver is in the pace car (in this case, Johnny Rutherford). The pace car goes at the speed the race director orders them to go.
In fairness, the guest driver was only used for the first start. But USAC’s officiating in general was hot garbage. That was true even before CART broke off, but even worse by now, because they were running exactly one top-level race per year, and it looked like amateur hour as a result.
Not an argument against inherited wealth but against nepotism. TG didn't do what he did just because he had money, but because his family had put him in an unearned position that he wasn't qualified for.
We appreciate you taking through the content despite feeling like ass and being hopped up on goof-balls, an interesting video as always. Happy New Year to you
1994 was wild thanks to The Beast
1995 was wild thanks to no Penske and JV’s comeback
1996 was wild-ly hilarious thanks to The Split
In short, American Open-Wheel Racing was just straight up wild in the 90s.
Happy New Year Aidan and THAT is a fantastic shirt, cheers
Have a great 2022 and hopefully I'll see you in a livestream again. 🥳👍
I tell you what, Goodyear passed the shit outta that pace car. I seen the tape.
Happy New Year Aiden. Here in the States, we call it the Pace Car.
Hi Aidan, i have an interesting idea for a video, if formula one used the NASCAR playoffs, and why it’s a stupid idea. ( Please dont give liberty media this idea)
I heard F1 we’re considering playoffs already
@@dylanzrim3635 I thought they tried it at Abu Dhabi.
Never saw the race until recently. In the Indy area, the race was always blacked out so listened to it on the radio. We were very confused about the Goodyear penalty.
Interesting the comment from Schumacher about "never racing on an oval". Romain Grosjean and Jimmie Johnson said the same thing a year ago, but have since changed their minds. It is a different era. The Indy Cars today are very safe and I think especially with Grosjean's change of heart, the European drivers are changing their tune. Several have tested here and there is a possibility that Stoffel Vandoorne may race a partial schedule here in 2022.
Today's Indy cars can't compete with the one's from the late 90's. 950-1000hp with low downforce. Rocket ships!! I don't blame Michael, it wasn't worth it for him. Also you have to have a bit of luck to win the Indy 500, no matter how skilled you are and how good your car and team is. It's a hard race to win.
Drivers like Villeneuve, Mansell and Montoya were crazy. Insane. Big, big balls. Some are cut out for open wheel racing on ovals... others not so much... and CART in its heyday was insane
I was at that race sitting in turn 3. Back in the days before video boards, we had no idea how bad Stan Fox’s crash was, and no idea how Scott Goodyear was so far ahead after the restart until we watched it that night, after recording it on the VCR. 🤣
This was the performance that got Williams' attention.
Jack Vilneuff will always be a racer at heart. His IndyCar/Cart experience would be very beneficial in F1.
That spelling lmao
The ol’ Paul Page pronunciation.
@@mrterp04 ESPN asked him in 1995 before one of the CART races how to pronounce his name, and that's how he pronounced it.
and then he tried to drive in nascar.
@@wackyd9863 oh my God, yes he certainly did, thanks for the reminder. I only saw him running Road Courses, I recall Road America Race and there was a in-car aimed at at his feet/pedal area. It was great to see him work the brake pedal, I noticed that he'd tap the brakes while still on the Gas, it was to ensure he still had a pedal, many laps before they got hot, faded away and slowly failed for him. It was very entertaining, I'm a big fan of Jacques, I've followed his career closely, from early Formulas in Europe and Japan, to Formula Atlantic Champion, Indy Car Champion/ Indy 505, then F1 World Champion, but yes Nascar, oh yes indeed....he was very entertaining, he did put on a fine display, but so did all the others...thanks for Nascar
I remember watching that race ('95 Indy 500), in fact I have it on VHS... somewhere.
Happy new year, Aidan.
An alright one to you, too.
Hope you feel better soon.
Heard an interesting story once about Jacques and his father Gilles.
One day they both went up a hill to fetch a pale of water, Jacques fell down the hill and Gilles came tumbling after…
Hey Aidan, recently someone posted on the indicar subreddit the "indycar iceberg". You could get a few stories from there.
I don't know about Europe, but for big races in the U.S., buying a seat is somewhat common. In the two major series, Indycar and Nascar, TECHNICALLY, the CAR qualifies for the race. I believe, in either circumstance, if the driver is switch following qualifying, the new driver has to start from the back of the field. Otherwise, it's as you expect. If cars #1-33 qualify, cars #1-33 race, regardless of driver. This happened in the 2000 Coca Cola 600, when Darrell Waltrip missed the show on time in his final season, as well as the 1996 Indy 500, when Scott Brayton was killed in practice and replaced by Danny Ongais. Different situations obviously, but similar in terms of what happened next. Hope this helps!
Wasn't 1995 also the year that Lynn St James didn't have funding and was going around the corporate tents at the speedway on the first day of qualifying trying to get sponsorship then finally got it and qualified with her first run? Made the Penske drivers look like a bunch of idiots.
Used to watch a lot of Cart and Indy car on EuroSport during the 90s with my mam, of all people haha 😄
Aidan, when you look into the split you need to dig up Bernie's involvement in it. I have been a F1 fan all my life , at the early 90's Indy car was becoming a force in racing and with no grand prixs in America, Indy was becoming very very popular. Knowing what kind of shrewd negotiator Bernie is he got together with Mr. George who didn't care for the sport In 1998 George announced the deal with F1 and the rest is history. I lost all my respect towards Ernie at that moment.
I love how every commentator had a different pronunciation for ‘Villeneuve.’ Vell-a-noove’ ‘Vill-nuff.’ Or ‘Vill-nev.’
Jacques called his restaurant in Montreal, Newtown. Just to piss off the Quebec French language police.
One thing I like about this race is on CZcams the whole race is uploaded including the commentators banter during commercials
The banter between Paul/Bobby/Gary/Jack is always worth listening to, yes. See Sam Posey getting absolutely owned at Long Beach circa early 90s
@@jacekatalakis8316 The Bobby/Posey stuff was always fun to listen to. Posey was so sappy. I remember ABC used to use him for stuff like skiing on the Winter Olympics telecasts and he'd always drag in the typical Roone Arledge schmaltz, like every American Olympian in history had to overcome some heart-rending tragedy in order to continue their career, and Posey would come on with a "up close and personal profile" on the skier and say stuff like, "and the doctors told her after she broke her third leg that she'd never race again. But they never told it to her heart…" and we were all supposed to reaching for the handkerchiefs. Uncle Bobby would cut off that kind of stuff, but every once in a while Posey would turn out to be right, just so Uncle Bobby couldn't get too smug.
@@RRaquello And Paul would lay the verbal beatdown onSam every once in a while too, just to ensure he didn't miss out. Those three were a fun team to listen to. THe DWR podcast and the stories about Uncle Bobby are hilarious, as told by Paul, who himself got jabbed at by Bobby and Sam just as much
@@jacekatalakis8316 Very tragic circumstances, but when I watched the video, I ended up saying, "Typical Bobby Unser." If you watch the tape of the 73 Indy 500, right after the Swede Savage crash, they start talking about how bad the track had been oiled down, and maybe that was the cause of Swede's crash, and they talk to a couple of drivers, and Jerry Grant says "It's so bad you can't hardly drive out there" and they show the front end of Johnny Rutherford's (or somebody's) car and it's covered with oil and then they talk to Bobby and he says, "No, it ain't oily. No problem at all. The track's fine. I don't see any problems" and I thought, "Even back then, whatever everyone else is saying, Bobby's gonna say the opposite."
Only Indy500 I ever attended. Amazing race, amazing venue, all round great time. And the final laps...
great video
You know, the "story" of the Mazda win at Petit at the end of last year is going to age something like this. If you haven't watched it, you need to. Ignore that you know how it ends and then watch it. Even an hour from the end, I didn't believe it ended how it did. Incredible, emotional win (although I'm the kind of person who will route for the mad lads who bring a 2.0 IL4 to a 4L+ V8 "formula").
I can see that about the Petit.
Do you realise how many people you just upset with that Picard reference whilst wearing a Star Wars T-shirt.🤣
Got a better one. 1985 Winston 500 at Talladega. Elliott was leading, had an oil leak, pitted, fixed it and was 2 laps down. He made up the 2 laps UNDER GREEN and won the race. With no cautions to help. On a 2.66 mile track. Most diminating performance ever. Enjoyed the video.
I think people forget just how quick a motivated JV was.
That 3 year run was incredible to witness.
Yup, I got the Jack Newhouse reference. Played a lot of Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix games back in the day 🙂
I find myself liking every video with a star trek reference in it.
Is there gonna be a review of that time Tom Paris went racing in the runabout. I personally think this is one of motorracing greatest moments.
I always liked his skid lid design.
I just had a flashback of playing grand prix manager 2 - Stirling Moss doing the commentary on "John Newhouse" :)
I really hope that you can do a video on Niki Lauda accident at the 1976 German Grand Prix the last time F1 will race on the Nürburgring Nordschleife
Something else to remember about Jacques passing the pace car, the official in the pace car didn’t even know Jacques was the leader and kept waving him by.
Have an happy new years
Waiting for your 2001 indy 500 story hahaha crazy some people still fight over that. Happy new year btw
If you want to learn about the spilt this great book:
Indy Split : The Battle for the Indy 500: The Big Money Battle That Nearly Destroyed Indy Racing - John Oreovicz
Nascarman History has a great series as well
@@jwsmith519 I do dohh
Just imagine how many more races Villeneuve could have won if he had gone to Mclaren for 1998 and replaced DC. Jacques was a way better driver than Coulthard. He would have given Hakkinen a serious problem.
Jacques wouldn’t have been a good fit at McLaren. He was too much of a rebel to suit Ron Dennis’ vision of what McLaren should be.
Unfair comment on Coulthard. He was a great driver back in the day, sure he was no Mika but to his credit when he was having a good day he was unbeatable and he knew how to be a team player. He deserved his place at McLaren.
@@tristandoran601 DC was a good driver, an ideal #2, a team player as you say, but I can't recall any moment when I felt he was unbeatable (watched F1 religiously between 93 & 06). Something which I can't say for D.Hill whom I underestimated a lot. DC was a sort of a Bottas with a sense of humour.
As for Villeneuve, one could've commented the exact same about Williams, yet that's where he landed at, and thrived. It's true the one team I would've seen the guy better off with would've been Jordan! Which would've prevented us from witnessing Frentzen's great 99' swan song, so there's that!
@@tristandoran601 Ron Dennis is the same man who hired Senna and Montoya and they weren't exactly saints. DC was quality on his day but Villeneuve was a superior driver. Even if you exclude DC's 1996, 1997 and 2004 seasons you can't tell me that Jacques wouldn't have won more than DC's 12 wins if he was in DC's seat. Coulthard was the Bottas of the era. A very good driver but when it came down to the crunch he was nowhere to be seen.
@@avflashback8913 you got me. I reckon my glasses were tinted a strong shade of rose and may have exaggerated his abilities. He was a good No. 2 though.
As to the hiring of Senna and Montoya yeah they were quick and pulled off some audacious moves on the track along with a few choice words for their colleagues, that was more aimed at Montoya, but when I say rebel I mean Villenueve just did things his own way, management or anyone else be damned. He was quick but he wouldn’t have fit in at McLaren with that level of attitude.
It would all depend on if he put in the effort it phoned it in and acted like a massive twatwaffle.
Doesn’t villeneuve means “new city” or “new town”?
I come for the racing content, and stay for the Star Trek references.
More Indycar stories please. I love hearing non-americans take on Indycar stories
I’d love to hear one on the bizarreness of the 1996 “IRL” 500-while he’s covered The Split in general, I’d love to see him tackle the field of nobodies that ran that race.
@@mrterp04 I'd watch slandering the IRL. They made American open wheel stay more unique and its own serie. Instead of making it F1 part 2 American Boogaloo
@@jackfoster3652 yeah CART was F1-lite but IRL was pretty much an Open Wheel Nascar
@@jackfoster3652 And had to turn into CART lite because Tony George destroyed the sport and oval racing is dying because no one goes to see them.
I was at that race in 95 and Stan Fox's accident happened right in front of us. I remember seeing him get loose then lost sight of him and heard a loud bang. All my dad said was they guys on the scanner were it's bad really bad. I also remember thinking that Villeneuve was done for when he got the penalty. It was definitely one of the more interesting races of the 8 previous 500s I had attended at that point.
Any chance of you covering the 1995 RAC rally or the 1995 Bathurst 1,000??
The 1995 Indy 500 is the only time since 1969 that no Penske Racing car was in the field. The PC-24 was an evolution of the previous year's car, which had more horsepower (beyond The Beast at Indy) which masked handling deficiencies. In '95, the car was terrible to the point of being undriveable by either Al Unser, Jr or Emerson Fittipaldi. Penske made the decision to purchase a Reynard, which at the time were the car to have. But he only purchased one, and with a coin toss Unser won-and stayed with the Penske.
Penske ignored Reynard's suggestions on set-up and ended up with a car nearly as bad as their own. Rodger Penske then approached Bobby Rahal, who had two spare Lola-Mercedes chassis available. The previous year, Penske had loaned Rahal two of his own cars when Rahal's weren't fast enough to get into the field (Rahal would finish third).
For qualifying, Unser's engine blew the "pop-off" valve (which regulates boost) on the turbo, slowing the car enough that it didn't have enough speed to make the field. Then, Emmo tried qualifying, with a speed fast enough to make the field-and Penske waved off the attempt, thinking the car could go faster. On the last day of qualifying, Fittipaldi barely made the field, but was bumped by Stefan Johansson 12 minutes before the end. Thus the sight of Penske's transporters pulling out of Gasoline Alley that evening, a reminder that no one is guaranteed anything in racing.
…until the following year, when 25 teams were guaranteed a starting spot
@@mrterp04 I'm with Robin Miller and wonder why one of the Top CART teams didn't run the IRL schedule, get in the guaranteed 25 spots and humiliate the IRL like Juan "Montermany" did in 2000 (according to A.J. Foyt).
The sad thing is in Al Unser Jr's biography that came out, Paul Tracy did a test in a 1995 Penske with a 1994 undertray and pulled a 231 lap that would have made the field. During all the stress, no one thought to run a softer front suspension to keep the car jumping from under to oversteer.
@@danielhenderson8316 The book confirms what Nigel Beresford posted on the Autosport forum years ago, that Emerson had liked a stiff front bar at Phoenix in 1995, so they applied it to the cars for Indy, and never thought to replace it until it was too late.
@@danielhenderson8316 The Penske team being a part of the CART board of directors, a possible situation Roger wanted to avoid was to lend legitimacy to the upstart IRL by entering his team in the inaugural year of the IRL. CART could have been hoping the IRL would go away after a couple of years; whereas for any of the CART teams to go to IRL in the early years, that could have hindered the hoped-for demise of the IRL.
John Newhouse what a driver
I was actually a fan of jacques when this happened. I was 10 gimme a break lol
Shit I was 25! LOL
@@layoutman69 damn thats painful lol i wish he didnt turn into such a dbag lol right?
Villeneuve was just 20 years early at Mercedes AMG 🤣
Have you done a review on you're SIM rig set up? Been looking for a vid in case I've missed it in the past year or so but can't see anything. - Doing as much watching and research as possible before dropping a metric shit ton of ££ on my first wheel set up
Just a suggestion, but seeing as it is the Dakar in a few days, is there maybe the possibility for a story relating to the Dakar rally?
For a second there I was thinking this was about pod-racing before remembering the vid title
The is also a very credible chance JV is going to try to run the Daytona 500 this year too lol. What kind of year is 2022 going to be? Happy New Years
Tony George. "If we are not going to do everything my way, I am taking my ball and going home." Remember that kid? Yeah, great guy. At least he lost his family half a billion dollars. Hell awaits.
Controversy and Jacques Villeneuve wins? Hand in hand
That was the last time I watched the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing". OMG is the cliche. I quit watching it for 2 reasons: Stan Fox's crash & Tony George completely screwing things up with the IRL. Just imagine if Ferrari started their own series? To quote Homer Simpson, "BORING!".
Stan Fox was an absolute standout in Midgets & Sprint Cars over here. Seeing his career end this way was horrifying. He would be a contender in just about any race he would enter, much like the late Rich Vogler. At that time, USAC Midget & Sprint Cars were on TV on Friday & Saturday nights making these guys stars. And for those of you on that side of the Atlantic who may not know, two of the stars that came out of these series were Jeff Gordon & Tony Stewart.
I get what Tony George was trying to say with his complaints of CART. He was upset about the fact CART was becoming so expensive and being dominated by only 3 or 4 teams. also the rising prices were the main contributor to why fewer and fewer USAC drivers were getting a chance as teams were passing them up for foreign drives with more money backing. I agree with Tony's intent to get more American drivers rides, I just don't agree with his method
That era of CART was better than F1, there I said it! I also say it as a massive Mika fan.
It was. F1 was actually a bit afraid of CART in the late 90's and early 00's. Then CART screwed up big time.
late 80's to yearly 00's CART was superiors to F1
Gil de Ferran is from here, Brazil, call him Jil, not Guil.
it's very simple, Goodyear had many years experience and knew the drill, the pace car is supposed to to go 70-75 mph during pace laps, when the field is informed the next time around will be green, the field will maintain that speed until the leader enters turn 3, on entering turn 3 the pace car begins accelerating to 150 so that it enters turn 4 at 150, when the leader exits turn 3 and observes the pace car entering turn 4 at 150, the leader knows they can start accelerating because it will be impossible to catch the pace car before it enters pit lane. when Goodyear came out of turn 3 he started accelerating, the pace car slowed to 75 entering turn 4 and it was impossible for Goodyear to fix at this point the whole field was right behind , they had to carry on. the idiot officials should have got out their replay screens and not taken away Goodyear's victory because the pace car driver couldn't do a simple job of getting out of the way. go back and watch the video and listen to the men in the booth. I've been watching this race since the cars looked like upside down bathtubs and watched each race umpteen times, that was the only race played out this way
I covered every Indy 500 from 1972 through 1995, first as a sports writer, then as a photographer. I recorded all of that massive crash at the start of this race and got one photo which showed why Fox suffered the head injury as he hit the outside wall. Goodyear did nothing wrong on that last restart, as you described, the pace car driver messed up, and so did race officials. I still believe Luyendyk was running in front of Jacques when the checkered flag was displayed.
Ahh yes, the legend himself John Newhouse
As a fellow btcc fan, what do you think of ash sutton going to motorbase to form the napa "super team" with cammish?
That time that 2 Canadians were in contention to win Indy! I admit that I didn;t even watch it that year, I boldly said " Jacques is going to win, I don't need to watch it" AND 90's CART ruled
Shame Moore couldn’t have a crack.
@@AidanMillward So true!
The 2002 Indy 500 would be a good one to talk about.
The John Newhouse reference I think I get as JV never had his name used in f1 racing games because it was copyrighted. So this was the name used instead. Do I get a cookie :-)
I'd like to see a history of the (non)career of Kevin Cogan.
COOGIN
@@FlyinBlaney beat me to it
Ahh, Bill Neve. I never heard his name pop up anywhere after this year, and can't find any info on him anywhere else.
Wonder what happened to that guy. He had a career in motorsport.
Maybe he went into music or something.
Did it good Aidan. Thanks.
New book called Indy Split is really good if you haven’t read it.
8:30 hi to my family at home
2:30 . . . some would say the Super League / NRL sporting war was bigger at that time !
Stan Fox was a nice guy! He used to stay with my neighbors during the month of May. I think the 95 Indy 500 was one of the coldest ever.
That would be 1992 as the coldest ever. I think it barely made it to 50 degrees that day. 1995 was pleasant.
FYI, its generally called a "Pace car" not "Safety car" over here...
After the last two years I'll take an alright 2022
Williams Number 1!
It's a win for the Canadian!
That was the reason I was a fan of Jacques but the fact that Indy car drives got a chance to go to F1 and it seems like they must not be good enough or is it F1 thinks it's a private racing series
I always really liked Scott Goodyear. I think he deserved an Indy win. That being said , he screwed up. I was in turn 4 that year. I thought he was going to clip the pace car. It could have been a disaster. There was an audible “woh” from the crowd when it happened.
Golf Crammond is proud of you... ;-p
Ahh, John Newhouse, the legendary racing driver from Grand Prix 3 right?
And Grand Prix Manager 2
At the time I lived in Indianapolis and was in turn 3 for the race, and it was the last one I'd go to due to the split. Tony George wanted the money that CART was generating, and lied about just about everything he was trying to do when he created the IRL to get it. Open wheel sponsorship in the US dropped from around $500M in 1995 to $150M in 1997 as a result. As for the race itself, I believe that Stan Fox' car actually broke a half-shaft going in turn one on lap one, as his tire/wheel stopped turning at that point. And sitting in turn 3, I was watching for the restart at the end, and was thus looking at the backstretch when Goodyear hit the gas and I thought "he's the first one to get a restart right all day", since a lot of leaders were overtaken on the front stretch that day on restarts. Then I looked to turn 4 and realized that he was going to pass the pace car at that speed, and was surprised when he didn't slow down, and not surprised when I heard on the scanner that he was penalized.
The late, great BObby Unser and the fantastic Paul Page's shock at it is absolutely amazing...and to be fair the pace car was slow wasn't it, or at least that's the impression I got from the ABC crew on the satellite feed (which is/was on CZcams)
Not mentioned, but JV several great sets of tires though too
@@jacekatalakis8316 Aiden said the pace car entered the pits at 117, so I'm pretty sure that Goodyear just jumped about 5 seconds before he would have been clear.
@@warrengoesle8235 Right and I've heard down the years that the pace car didn't pick it up when told to, or there was some confusion about when the pace car was supposed to go, this was coming from various mechanics/team members and not from anyone in race control however so get the salt barrel ready. Either way, Bobby Unser on the ABC broadcast did point out the pace car flat out didn't go, when Goodyear absolutely went for it. JR was a fantastic pace car driver but not immune to mistakes....even if stacking it at Long Beach wasn't totally his fault...so I get where the idea that he didn't go when told to comes from
@@jacekatalakis8316 In looking at a few of the earlier restarts, the leader would pick up the pace coming out of turn 3. On the last restart Goodyear picked it up well before turn 3. So that's about 5 seconds the pace car didn't have to get to pit lane.
I'm working from 25 year old memories here, but I remember deeply discussing this on Prodigy in the day.
The rules for car construction had changed that year, mandating a reinforced structure in the nose of the car to, in theory, better protect the driver's legs in a crash. Jack Trammel (an orthopedic surgeon whose name was as familiar to most fans as the drivers') had been working overtime the past few years pinning feet and ankles together and needed a vacation.
Fox was driving an older model car that had that reinforced structure retrofitted to it. in the crash, the bulkhead where the new and old structure were joined failed, and the reinforced nose came off entirely, leaving his legs exposed.
IndyCar and F1 don't use the same lights to indicate starts and restarts. So "THERE AREN'T 4 LIGHTS." Also, the split is a lot more complicated. The most important thing to know is that the team owners were the collective voice of the CART series and Tony George was the owner of Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In those days the series and team owners did not own tracks. George knew he (IMS) had the most important part of the series and tried to manipulate the owners by threatening the existence of IMS on the CART calender. No one budged. The split happened. The talented teams and drivers stayed in Cart and IMS and IRL saw hot garbage. In the end IMS proved too strong and Cart eventually crumbled. All the teams consolidated and reunification had arrived. This is what happens when your sport has one particular event that is overly dominant. It could never happen again in IndyCar now because Roger Penske owns both the IMS and the IndyCar series(formerly IRL).
I never said indycar and f1 used the same system though. I’m poking fun at the fact Goodyear saw something that didn’t exist.
@@AidanMillward sorry mate. Misunderstood ya.
i think there is doubt about the penalty. i remember the race and the announcer said they revokded the penalty. the penalty was not lining up behind the pace car fast enough.
Is turn 1 at Indianapolis a left turn? Asking from Aus where there is a fair mix of left and right hand turns in the races.
It’s be upside down for you.
Best thing to happen when the powers out is an Aidan video
Happy New Year Aidan. I found it interesting that Schumacher wouldn't race in Indycar yet he would go skiing on black runs in the Alps.
Why take risks for a somthing you dont actually care about.
By the time he would do it, it would be in the crapwagon Dallara IR02 that loved to fly through the air.
Ah, the Indy 505
Stan Fox was Indy's worst accident
Something to remember is that the thin margin between Villeneuve and Goodyear was such that had the two launched at the same time without the safety car issue Villeneuve would have won anyway given by the end of the race he'd managed to bring it to a drag race to the end despite Goodyear's launch gap.
Way to start off the new year then to talk about the greatest comeback in Indy 500 history and one of the greatest triumphs in Canadian sport.
More Jack Newcity... But I got the joke ;P