1992: The Year That Changed Racing
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- 1992 was a year that saw a lot of upheaval in the motorsports world. On-track action and off-track rules changes led to various sequences of events that affected several types of motorsports for years to come.
Whether it was the demise of Group C causing a shift in the sports car landscape worldwide within 18 months, the FIA reacting to driver aids in Formula One dominating that championship, CART and USAC having their old guard retire or a unique year in NASCAR, 1992 had it all.
Kenny Bernstein broke the 300 mph barrier in NHRA drag racing and the FIA ended the World SportsCar Championship. Nigel Mansell signed with Newman/Haas Racing and Davey Allison won the first ever NASCAR All-Star race run under the lights. Richard Petty retired, Jeff Gordon started his NASCAR career, Jim Richards swore at the crowd and A.J. Foyt tested Dale Earnhardt's stock car at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
1992 was a truly historic year in racing and I try to capture it all in this video.
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7:31: Mansell's decision to leave F1 for Indy Car and his subsequent Indy Car title and his almost winning the 1993 Indy 500 may have been behind Senna's accident, the biggest racing events of the entire decade.The instant world wide attention given to Indy Car during that year was absolutely priceless.
Three world champions on the grid including the reigning one, that'll never happen again for IndyCar. Love how Nigel won the series before Formula 1 had been decided, so he was champion of both for a few weeks.
The 1992 Bathurst 1000 mentioned at the start was the last 1000 under Group A regulations. The Australian Touring Car Championship had introduced new regulations in November 1991, although they had talked about the potential for new regulations mid-way through the 1991 championship. Much like the other series mentioned in the video, the 1992 season saw firsts and lasts; Mark Skaife won the first of five ATCC championships and it was the first season to feature Eastern Creek Raceway on the calendar. In addition, it would also be the first season in which the Group 3A five litre touring cars would compete; these would debut at the 1992 Sandown endurance race with mixed success. The 1992 Bathurst 1000 saw all four of the 1993-spec touring cars compete with mixed success; the VP Commodore of Peter Brock had a tailshaft failure on the grid and the EB Falcon of Glenn Seton retired on lap 87 with fuel pump failure. Both those same cars would be crashed out of the support races for the Australian Grand Prix.
By 1992, Group A was more or less abandoned by most of the international touring car championships, the BTCC abandoned it in favour of FIA's two litre touring car specifications and eventually went onto popularise Super Touring, DTM went with the 2.5 litre regulations and became defunct in 1996 due to astronomical development costs. The Group 3A regulations introduced in November 1991 and debuted at the end of 1992 effectively banned turbocharged cars from competing and would outlive both Super Touring and DTM. It also meant that top level touring car racing in Australia was exclusively four door sedans between 1993 and 2017, when the Mustang made its debut season after the Falcon went out of production. 2017 was the introduction of Gen 2 that also saw the reintroduction of allowances for both turbocharged and six cylinder engines, though no teams or manufacturers produced and entered cars according to those specifications. Holden did experiment and did announce a commitment to running a turbocharged V6 through Project Sandman, but after a negative reception from fans, that went nowhere.
In November 1996, the Australian Vee Eight Super Car Company (AVESCO) was formed to manage the championship and adopted a new name for the championship from 1997 onwards: V8 Supercars. The cars currently competing in the Supercars championship can trace their development directly back to the Group 3A touring cars. although 2022 will be their final season, as Gen 3 is set to replace them next year.
All that knowledge is nifty and all....
But my weeb-ass seen "Group A" and immediately heard 90's eurobeat in my head.😂
1992 also had arguably the greatest race in Touring Car History; the 1992 BTCC finale in Silverstone which skyrocketed the BTCC's popularity and helped catalyze the mainstream adaptation of the Super Touring Car as the tin-top ruleset of choice for most of the world for most of the nineties.
Arguably the motorsport that changed the least in this time was Stage Rally, where Lancia continued to maintain their stranglehold over the WRC, Toyota's turbo system was still kosher, and Subaru & Mitsubishi had yet to debut their Impreza & Lancer-Evo respectively.
It was, however, the final year for the Nissan and Mazda factory teams in the WRC, their Pulsar/Sunny GTI-R and Familia/323 GTR respectively having failed to truly take the fight to the marques you mentioned despite employing such legendary drivers as Hannu Mikkola, Stig Blomqvist and Tommi Mäkinen.
That race is so incredible.
The 1992 WRC season for Lancia was both the first without factory support and the last of their 6x championship streak
In 1992, Williams developed quite possibly the most advanced racing car of all time, and NASCAR had the greatest Championship fight of all time.
Thank y'all for the comments! I have a couple more ideas in the works for videos and I'll get them to you hopefully soon. Thanks so much for watching!
Chris, this is really well done. Very good video!
In Formula 1, the 1989-1992 period and its shift to "digital" cars is arguably the greatest paradigm change in the history of the Category alongside with the 1958-1959 shift to rear-engine ones.
1992 was also a crazy year for motorcycle racing, the Isle of Man TT's Senior TT race in 1992 is widely regarded as the greatest in the events history, with Carl Fogarty on a Yamaha OW01 going head to head with Steve Hislop on the Norton Rotary, over the course of 6 laps the 2 would stay within just a few seconds of each other, with the lead fluctuating throughout. Hislop ultimately won the race, and the two bikes are now in a museum. 1992 was also a big year for MotoGP (then known as 500cc Grand Prix), Wayne Rainey won his last title in a season long battle with Mick Doohan and Kevin Schwantz, mick was looking like the title favourite, but snapped his leg in a crash part way through, he nearly lost the leg and it was never the same again, Mick did go on to win 5 titles in a row, but the accident in 1992 would eventually lead to his retirement as he re-broke the same leg in 1999 and the damage was too severe to allow him to keep racing.
Great presentation! Very well researched as well. Voice over is good, better then a lot of other YT motorsports presenters. Overall, wonderful job! Hope to see more content. There aren’t enough of these history doc’s on youtube, it’s over saturated with the most well known and infamous events.
The initial Brickyard tire test, commonly referred to as "The Experiment" definitely changed the course in both IndyCar and NASCAR racing for their respective futures...
But a fun note is also in that A.J. Foyt famously drove Earnhardt's legendary 3 car during one of the runs.
Now, I tell that story for that the following August (1993) Richard Pretty... Came out of retirement for one day to run his own ceremonial test laps at IMS.
Oddly enough, that same day in 1993 it was when John Andretti drove the Billy Hagan Kellogg's 14 car driven all year by Terry Labonte in what was the pretty obvious clue that John was stock car bound.
Also in 1992, Ford may have dominated in Cup, but they dropped the ball hard by not signing Jeff Gordon while he was in Busch Grand National driving for Bill Davis long-term. Instead, mid-year Gordon caught Rick Hendrick and Chevrolet's eye and the rest was History.
1992 was also the final year Darrell Waltrip won in Cup. Southern 500 (rain shortened) and Bristol Night Race the week prior were his last two.
And, one other random foot note from 1992... It was the first year that the American Speed Association (ASA) did not sanction what had been a long-standing 👑 jewel event... The Winchester 400 which was replaced with NASCAR All-Pro sanction through 1998. That event... Jeff Gordon's ONLY Super Late Model start at a track he was so successful at during his USAC days.
Also, I think... 1992 was the final year for bias-ply tires in Cup (White Goodyear's) before going full radial in 1993 (Yellow Goodyear's)
I was at that tire test. You could tell something special was happening.
An interesting F1 moment in 1992 was the Belgian Grand Prix, first win for Michael Schumacher and also the last win for a traditional stick shift...the beginning of one era and the end of another all with the same driver.
This is dope! I'm working on a Project documenting the Split of Open wheel racing, and this year really made up Tony George's mind.
Awesome video man!
Nigel Mansells Gold Coast win was i believe the first rookie race win on debut (remember watching it, our nige was my hero) his championship meant he is the only rookie to win the championship, and the only person to ever hold both the Formula 1 and Indy championships in the same year.
Ive always said 92 was the absolute peak of formula 1.
Well done video!!, I enjoyed every minute and all good memories of a year of changes and tragedies. I worked as a press photographer for that year in Vancouver Canada. So many great drivers with potential to win. Remember Mansel in 93 in Indy car, a truly amazing driver in a great car. Thanks again for a great video of the good ole days.
Great video. Brings back memories. Racing took a hit for me 1993 and 1994 with the death of Senna Davey Allison and Alan Kulwicki. ,
Hey Chris!!!!!!! How awesome is to watch your videos! Cheers! Keep the good work at track and here!
YT gold. You my friend will grow
Amazing vid. Keep on these as a series
Couple things about 92 Nascar season, Davey Allison claimed he died for a while in that crash at end of Winston. Said he was floating over his body in emergency room. Here's an FYI, that 1992 Pocono flipping crash Davey had was caused by DW who later won same race
Found your clip via Discord, keep up the good work!
Excellent video with a very creative approach to American Auto Racing in general. New subscriber and I "Dinged" the bell! Looking forward to watching many more of the offerings from your channel. PS: IndyCar Racing is my favorite. Cheers, Tim
Thank you UA-cam for giving me this gem of a channel.
Killer video, you covered all the bases in this one including most of the storylines, awesome job. We all miss those days of less regulations and more innovations, not coming back
Very well done. I would watch these for any year that you cover.
As a European sometimes hearing Americans talk with their loud and crass attitudes can be very grating on the ears! But you sir do not fall into that category, I very much enjoyed this video and please do more like it! 😊❤️
You’ve got my like 👍😘
Really enjoyed this!
1992 was a pivotal year for me for racing. It was the first year I went to the Indy 500, I also went to the NASCAR tire test in 1992, and it was my first NASCAR Winston Cup race in Michigan in August when Harry Gant won his last race as the oldest winner in history
Fantastic video. That 92 NASCAR season was wild and then you add in the Bathurst, F1, Indycar. Definitely set the stage for what was to come as far as speed and safety
Wow what a high quality video for such a small channel!!
0:43 - “MY FAVORITE YEAR OF MOTORSPORT EVER”!!!!!
Colour me impressed! I came across this video by accident, assuming I had come across a 50k or 100k subscriber channel that I had never heard of. Imagine my surprise when I saw that's 8,3k views and 148 subscribers, actually!
Literally the only bit of criticism I could offer is to a) look at your sound, reduce the "pop" as much as possible, while b) you should look into sounding a bit less like you're reading off a script ;)
Other than that: You're on a great path, keep it up! You might just go far!
The early 90's was a good time in auto racing.
2022 has also been a significant year at least in terms of regulation changes. F1 reintroduced ground effect, WRC moved to Rally1 space frame cars and NASCAR debuted the Next Gen specifications. Meanwhile WEC is transitioning to LMH/LMDh.
Yes. The 1992 Indianapolis 500 is well etched in my memory as the one where everyone went to the hospital
Great Video, learnt a Lot about this era of racing!
Thanks 👍
Nice work!
An interesting little factoid about my life…..I was an Alan kulwicki fan growing up….It was announced that he was gonna be doing a signing at a hooters in 1993….That turned out to be his last public appearance as he died coming back to Bristol from that signing…..Fast Forward some 10 years later I move to within a mile of that Hooters and still eat there to this very day…..Weird how things work out like that
dude to think i have around a 4th of your subscribers but i have a 1/16th of the quality, you deserve 2,000 subs atleast.
1992 was such a wild year for motorsports.
7:00 and that was the last time "Williams" and "Constructor's champions" were said in the same sentence.
Awesome video.👍🏿👍🏿
Amazing video, Christopher!
Really wish I was alive in 92 to witness this
I was 6 ...went to my first race at Daytona...I name every driver on the track and the guy next to me bought me a soda and hotdog
Hello friend. Good to see you again.
A fun trip back!
Group C is something we won’t see again, such ridiculous raw monsters of vehicles. Glad I can still enjoy the cars on a sim ❤
Hey Christopher, great video! Greetings from Forzaminardi from the F1weekly familia
(I think I remember your name from that podcast - nearly 15 years ago)
Whoa, that’s a blast from the past! I haven’t been able to listen recently but I look forward to the next time there’s a meet up.
@@CDeHarde I haven't unfortunately listened lately, either. Have a great Sunday, looking forward to your next video :)
This is really cool! Kinda reminds me of a retro year end review from a sports news network
Good educational topic that covers all bases
honestly very interesting video, i knew about the bathurst 1000 entry but i learned a lot in this video, its so interesting to hear about the history of motorsport
Great documentary and i enjoy this video, keep em racing
Love it. Thank you for putting this together. Could you do this for all years? So well put together. So hard to find info on evety series like this
Yes, I'm old enuf to remember all those things except the Indy 500 & the 600 were run concurrently, so somebody at the Charlotte track told me about Indy & I was also at Charlotte for One Hot night, probably the best all star race of all time!
It was actually 1994 was the year that got me back into motorsports after losing interest in 1988...that year was pretty crazy too.
Magical year.
9:22 well done syncing your voice over to the video 😂 “Indy V8”
Hah! Didn't even realize I had done that!
Superb video, well articulated. Shame you can't use certain footage due to copyright. Viva Il Leone
John Force, the greatest drag racer of all time, won every Funny Car championship from 1990 to 2004, except one.... 1992.
Great video!
Say! (in a tone of exclamation) What about the year 1968, when wings/spoilers came into Formula 1 Grand Prix racing; which forever changed the design of open-wheel racers to the present day.
Even in the road car in 1992 saw big changes in design and style
4:45: This is a factual error. In 1994, IMSA created a new class, WSC ( World Sports Cars), open cockpit prototypes, to replace the closed cockpit GTPs. The American LeMans Series was a totally different series formed by Dan Panoz in 1999 to race different cars raced in the spirit of the rules for the 24 Hours of LeMans. From 1999 through 2013 IMSA and ALMS ran totally separate series. In 2014, they merged in what was essentially a takeover of the ALMS by IMSA as car counts in ALMS had dropped substantially and the series was no longer economically viable for Panoz to continue operating.
13:28 Do I even need to point this out? A.J. Foyt getting out of Dale Earnhardt's car.
1992 was Michael Schumacher’s first full f1 season
You forgot to mention that Davey Allison won that years Daytona 500.
While this was a great video I feel like leaving the WRC out was a bit of a disservice. You had Toyota and Subarus dominance throughout the season. Not to mention Mitsubishi debuting the Lan Evo that year.
EVERYTHING WAS BETTER BACK THEN!!!!!
11:58 - I know this chassis “SUCKED ASS” but “IT IS MY FAVORITE “CART INDY CAR CHASSIS EVER BUILT”
“WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CAR”!!!!!!!
thats a nice 1992 season review and thx a lot for the effort but lets not be so dramatic. 1992 wasnt the year that changed racing. racing only changes through top tier championships and not from fe Bathurst even if that triggerd a change but thats happening all the time. to sum it up racing changed though f1 and wrc and from older races like le mans when le mans meant more than today! Even big championships like dtm in early 90s didnt change much or even touge races only changed lifestyle not the racing itself!
It's bad you haven't mentioned Michael Schumacher's first win.
It didn't change racing not for a few years anyway
You missed the Senna Indycar test!
What about the NASCAR Gen 4 car? Do you think it debuted in 1992?
I’ve always wondered about the date of the Gen 4 car. I thought that NASCAR should’ve shifted the year of that to 1995 since that’s when a new Chevrolet replaced the Lumina and changed how future stock cars were designed. I think Pontiac had a new nose design for 1996 with Ford coming out with a new nose I think the same year.
@@CDeHarde Are there any aerodynamic differences between 1992 and 1993
I can't believe you glossed over/didn't mention Roberto Guerrero crashing on the parade lap after a record setting pole time/speed...make your free throws bud lol
A year before we lost aryton senna
1992 oddity = Andrea Moda
Smash that LIKE button like I did! Thanks for the Videos, Chris!
dude what the fuck did you do with your mic man, i can hear you bumping into it right next to me
i knew my birth was a big deal but wow.
As a Chevy racing fan, 1992 was awful because they got their butt kicked in almost every series they raced in that year
On the bright side Jeff Gordon debuted that year and Chevy/Pontiac went on to be a force in the Gen 4 era so I guess we can call it even
No MotoGP? ok
Trrrruuueee
Pop filter
Nope.
Not listening to yanks talk about OUR sport.