Yeah.... time is tricky... I often think about just this sort of paradox... Casablanca was released closer to Apocalypse Now than A.N. is to today's CGI addled fare.
We are closer in time to Cleopatra then Cleopatra was to the building of the Great Pyramids of giza. They were already ancient in her time. We are closer to 2050 then we are 1990.
Race 46:12 Start 50:44 Dennis Vitolo Spin 57:14 Roberto Guerrero Crash 59:20 Mario Andretti Problems 1:03:02 Mike Groff And Dominic Dobson Crash 1:04:59 Scott Goodyear Puncture 1:13:48 Michael Andretti Puncture 1:46:37 Hideshi Matsuda Crash 1:47:48 John Paul Jr Crash 1:48:10 Paul Tracy Engine trouble 1:48:39 Nigel Mansell and Dennis Vitolo Crash 2:43:31 Emerson Fittipaldi Crash 2:45:52 Arie Luyendyk Engine trouble 2:59:01 Stan Fox Crash
Five engines? I’m counting four in the race (Ilmor pushrod, Ilmor DOHC, Cosworth, Buick). Honda was DNQ as was the one-off Greenfield, which was ironically built to the same equivalency Penske and Ilmor exploited and probably was closer to what USAC had in mind when they loosened the definition of “stock block” to be “anything with pushrods.” Did I miss one?
@@Bac9IBacuJIbeB Peak Indy before IRL/CART split ruined it. At this time Indy had many chassis, engines, aero developments, tire wars. Today Indy is spec. Racing identical, cars, engines, and tires. No innovation, or technical drive
@@weaksignal8009 F1 also haven't all this things at nowadays. Bore races. Budget limitations play a dirty trick. And all this Mercedes domination frozen by FIA. Will see. Maybe in 2022 intrigue will return in races.
@Starscream_xxx They did not. Mercedes owned a share of Ilmor and branded their engines "Mercedes-Benz" and finally bought the company outright, renaming it. In all fairness, the stunning "Chevrolet" CART engine of the late 80s and early 90s was an Ilmor-one as well. It is what manufacturers do, get the best people in motorsport to help their publicity needs. As a German living close to Stuttgart, however, it hurts me to see the world made to believe in "Mercedes" engines, where they have no relation other than finance.
@@X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X Which makes me even more proud of the beautiful F1 engines that BMW produced back then... loud, beautifull, the strongest on the grid and SELFMADE....
This was such a significant date in American Auto Racing history. Mario Andretti's last Indy 500, probably the last win by a Unser at Indianapolis, John Andretti starts the Indy Charlotte Double and Jeff Gordon's first win at Charlotte happened this night too.
Yeah, well, those "IRL Marks" need to be told that it was MFTG and Mark Miles who called The Captain wanting to meet with him to discuss him buying IMS. So....
@@RandysRacingPlace633 and now that MFRP who owns the most dominate team in the series actually now OWNS the whole series, owns the speedway, owns the officiating body that called for those MF Red flags with 2 laps to go in '23 Indy 500 which ultimately benefited HIS DRIVER. DO you really think they would have called red flag with 2 laps to go if RP's driver was leading.. HELL NO. Yeah this is now a real fair series.
Yeah RP who owns the most dominate team in the series actually now OWNS the whole series, owns the speedway, owns the officiating body that called for those Red flags with 2 laps to go in 2023 Indy 500 which ultimately benefited HIS DRIVER. DO you really think they would have called red flag with 2 laps to go if RP's driver was leading.. HELL NO. Real fair racing series.
And definitely the best looking IndyCar cars even built. All liveries were stunning, but the Penske Pc23 what a car! Just watching at it you would realize it is a winning car.
@cicobee cicobee That was the highest one lap average. He's talking about a trap speed at the end of the straight. The highest trap speed at Fontana was about 255 mph.
I don't mind the safer barrier or hans device. Doesnt take anything fron the racing, just makes it safer which is a win for everyone. Either way, these Indycar guys are nuts lol
While I like the sleek looks and more mechanical technology of the cars back then much more, I absolutely support safer barriers and the HANS device. They habe absolutely no negative impact on racing but make it safer, that is how it should be!
"Best Rookie I've seen in a long ,long time". Great praise from a great champion, RIP Bobby. Jacques came full circle at the Daytona 500 this year. 220 average? They were flying in those days!
@shredderkrang I'm Irish and I was visiting my brother who lives in New York. We were in a bar and we heard these 2 young guys arguing at the bar about which one of them was more Irish. Saying things like "my great great grandfather was from Dublin" and "but I have Irish on my mother and fathers side". Me and my brother were listening laughing our asses off and after a few minutes I went up to order more drinks I was standing right next to them when I was ordering them and they didn't bat an eye. They continued until my brother was getting the next round in when he said to them "there's no a bit o Irish in either of ya cos you never even noticed the Irishmen drinking 10 feet away from ya, or the Irishman ordering drinks right beside ye. Get te fook". Word for word lol
@shredderkrang I know lol my brother says it's really common in New York for people to say they're Irish yet they know feck all to do with their history or culture. It's hilarious.
Some of you guys wondering why Americans identify with their ethnic heritage; why not? And who are you to frown on them? My family is from Minorca, a little island off Spain. Came to America in the 1700s to St. Augustine as indentured servants. Now, my family owns the land in St. Augustine they used to work. (Look up the Usina’s of St. Augustine). Was all of that a long time ago? Yes. But my family still cooks the Minorcan food that’s been passed down for generations, and still serves it to the public. I obviously see myself as an American, but I defiantly identify with the Minorcan heritage like much of my family. Minorcans have a parade in St. Augustine each year.
so happy to see IMS post these full broadcasts. It's not an Indy 500 if I don't watch an old Paul Page opening. Still can't believe Indy is not on ABC this year but all things must change I guess and ABC/ESPN had really been minimizing Indy the last few years. I hope Indy can return to its glory days like 94. Hope we get a fun, safe race!
It doesn't feel right, it should be on ABC, and unpopular opinion, but I actually liked Eddie Cheever in the booth, and I loved hearing Allen Bestwick still commentating races, loved hearing him in SRX.
I love how in the Mercedes-Benz segment at 2:17:42 how whoever wrote the script flat-out ignored the 1955 Le Mans disaster as if it never happened. LOLZ!
Broke my heart when Emmo lost it. Brazil needed something good to happen. Didnt know at the time it would be his last 500. Little Al was deserving though. Reppin the 505.
I finally made it to my first Indy 500 in 1994 ..after watching the Indy 500 since 1962, mostly because my dads old flat track buddy Joe Leonard who was 1954, 1956 and 1957 AMA Grand National champion ..finally got his shot at the Indy 500. Joe finishing 9th in 1966, 3rd place in 1967 ..and qualified on the pole in 1968 in the #60 Andy Granatelli STP turbine car, while his team mate Mario Andretti qualified 4th, Joe led the first 7 laps but struggled with a fuel pump issue and finished 12th, Joe finished 6th in 1969.
Love the chuck Yeager fly over where the PA announcer mentions him shooting down German pilots. At the same time big wigs from Mercedes are out there as VIPs with Penske.
Not unknown. There is a classic Trans Am race held at Indy on the road course somewhere here on the Tube. They got St. James, Al Unser Jr, Willy T. Ribbs, and several other grandpas and turned em loose in Cameros, Stangs, Javelins, and Cudas. She drove her butt off like always. She was better than Danica. She could drive mean.
R.I.P. John Andretti he raced against F1 drivers Uncle Mario, Cousin Michael, Jacques Villeneuve Teo Fabi Eddie Cheever Maurício Gugelmin Robby Rahal Stefan Johansson Emerson Fittipaldi Raul Boesel Nigel Mansell and Roberto Guerrero.
Going into the 1994 Indy 500, three former F1 champions were at this race: Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi, and the man of the hour Mario Andretti, other F1 drivers involved in this race included Roberto Moreno, who had the misfortune of driving for the infamous Andrea Moda team, Stefan Johansson drove for Scuderia Ferrari replaced the late Gilles Villeneuve, whose son Jacques was also in this race and won the following year’s race before winning the F1 drivers championship two years later, in the mid 1980s, Mario’s son Michael spent half of the previous year’s F1 season with McLaren partnered by 3-time F1 Champion Ayrton Senna, who was ironically killed in Imola just 4 weeks prior. Speaking of Nigel Mansell, despite his pre-race interview, rejoined F1 at the behest of Frank Williams to finish the turbulent 1994 season in which the tragedy of Imola overshadowed the the team, replacing David Coulthard, who joined the McLaren team due to contractual issues, only to have the court reversed in favor of Williams, Mansell joined McLaren instead, only to announce his retirement due to dispute with Ron Dennis, Coulthard replaced him in 1996.
At best, Dennis Vitolo was a journeyman driver. He had two starts in the Indianapolis 500, in 1994 and 1997. His signature moment came in the 1994 Indianapolis 500. Vitolo and his wife had mortgaged everything for him to be able to run in the Indy 500. It all seemed for naught, as Vitolo spun early in the race coming out of turn four. Luck appeared to be on his side as he spun completely around without hitting anything. As fate would have it, Vitolo was just being saved to provide the comic relief for later. On lap 92, the field had been slowed under a caution period for several laps. Nigel Mansell, the 1992 World Champion and the defending CART Champion, had pulled his Newman-Haas Lola onto the pit entrance road in turn three. Inexplicably, the next thing Mansell knew was that his car had been knocked askew and the car of Dennis Vitolo was on top of his. Apparently, Vitolo decided to follow Mansell onto the pit-lane. Vitolo misjudged his speed (hard to do while running under the yellow), punted Mansell and his car somehow landed directly on top of Mansell’s. Nigel Mansell would never return to the Speedway and Dennis Vitolo would be remembered for nothing other than this episode forever, and now have to endure the added insult of topping this list.
This is the lost tape that a fan shot of the Vitolo incident. ua-cam.com/video/wpsobpH2QeA/v-deo.html The guy was a total screwup. Look at the speed he hits the bypass late at. He never should have been allowed to race again in the Indy 500, yet they let him come back in 1997.
Agreed. ABC Sports was a staple of my childhood, even in the early 2000's. You name it, they just about covered it. Even if they were showing something I didn't usually watch or wasn't my thing, I still watched because the coverage was great. It sucks that Disney merged them with ESPN. Although NBC is now becoming what ABC used to be.
Essential Indy 500 knowledge, bring or buy beer on Saturday. And the snake-pit non existent these days. Anyone member' the couch fires in turn 4 around lap 170?
I've read most of the below comments. Some good, some bad, people with no clue to what racing is all about. I was 13 years old when my father first brought me out there. That was 1872. Since then, I started bringing my son, my uncles, my father's brothers brought my cousins, then we had to start bringing our fathers when they got too old. This will be year 49 for me. Haven't missed one since I started in '72. WHAT A GREAT EVENT. The electricity in the air, the excitement, the race. Everyone we've ever brought out there gets hooked, gets their own tickets, and it becomes an annual event. Nothing else like it. It becomes a family tradition. How great is that. EVERYONE out there are also instant friends. Wealth, economics, race, religion, Nothing Matters. Everyone is there for the same thing. Everyone is your friend. Everyone helps one another, and has no problem having conversations with strangers, who become friends. It truly is, The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
Some comments are hard to read for sure lol, i agree. A lot of racing fans don't seem to understand what they are seeing. Anyway, thanks for the story and sharing. Cheers dude
A really enjoyable race that survives some uneven coverage. Glad for being able to FF where necessary. Bobby Unser + Danny Sullivan > Sam Posey >> Paul Page. I wonder if there were some backroom staffers at ABC who kept generating numerology drivel like "car XX hasn't won Indy since..." and fed it to the booth to see if any of the on-air people would go for it.
I always thought Uncle Bobby was underrated. He wasn't the most polished speaker - and obviously had no respect for Sam Posey - but he knew his stuff and could make his points clearly.
I went down the list of comments a ways and noticed no one comment on the big story from this race. The Merc engine was sort of a ringer. They found some FUBAR in the rules allowing them to use more boost. The rule was there to encourage cheaper stock block pushrod motors. Somehow for reasons I don't know the "stock" part had a work around. Merc found it and built a 2 valve pushrod motor with lots more boost than the Cosworth and Chevy. It was classic Penski.
The loophole in the rules was well-known for years before Penske decided to really do something about it. Pushrod 2-valve engines got 44 more cubic inch displacement and 10 more inches Mercury manifold pressure. Buick and Chevrolet V6's had been successful at the Speedway under that rules package since 1980. Then Penske came along with a purpose-built pushrod racing engine and killed everybody. Bravo!
They removed the “stock block” clause. So Penske was able to build a custom block with optimized valvetrain geometry. Check out the story in the book called Beast by Jade Gurss.
What a shame for Emmo! Here in Brazil we felt like Senna hitting the wall at Monte Carlo in 1988...Both of them were in other dimensions...nobody couldn't touch Emmo that day....
My first 500 sitting on the turn 2 mound. I’ll never forget Emerson’s tires squealing coming out of the turn every lap. Also, never seen so many sunburns. 🤣
"These Eyes" reminds me how tedious pre-race broadcasts used to be back then before they learned how to edit later in the '90s. Now we almost have the opposite problem; there's almost no framing of the event to speak of
That’s because he would fail to qualify for the Indy 500 one year later and he wouldn’t return to the Indy 500 until 2000 with his old team Galles Racing. I’m with you that IMS should upload the Indy 500 runnings from 1972 and 1976!
@@sweetness34km Emmo was the only one to have his time pulled. Al just didnt make it. Ironically it was this mercedes engine that inadvertently set them back. That damn thing was so powerful that team penske didnt realize their chassis were not suited well for indy causing them to be very slow thru the corners. When Emmo first got in Rahals chassis he was fast enough to make the field but the team adjusted the handling and downforce to make it more like their own cars and made it slower. It was just an odd balance/downforce thing that they couldnt get their heads around.
I was there, standing on my usual 1990s seats in the top row of the section at the pit-entrance end of Tower Terrace. I remember getting great telephoto pics of Emo into the wall and then coasting to a stop wingless. On actual 35mm film back when an SLR was not a DSLR. The Penske cars obviously were impressive, but Villeneuve caught my attention. The following March, I tacked a weekend onto a business trip in Miami, and saw Villenueve win the pretty unique 1995 Grand Prix of Miami. It was a great venue for race photography. Then when the race ended, I somehow ended up walking back to the Team Green garage, walking 3 feet behind Villenueve's car as his crew pushed it by hand. The crew assumed I was a pro photographer, and security assumed I was with the crew. So I got to hang around his garage with maybe 100 people for an hour or so as they all celebrated. Villenueve and his girlfriend each seemed to notice me a couple of times like "Do you know that guy?" so I switched to a small lens, took fewer photos, and never pointed a camera right at them. In August 1993, I had watched Mansell win and Andretti crash in NH, my nearest track to home. It was Mansell's birthday, and I got pics of Andretti crashing and getting into an ambulance. Amazingly, before the 1994 Indy race, when I was walking around between the garages and the pits, behind Tower Terrace, Andretti spotted me, waved, and said hi as if I were an old friend. He must have recognized me as the guy in the NH stands taking pics of his crash and getting into the ambulance the prior year! It's surprising what drivers can see, especially on a slow track or even pulling into the pits at Indy. Mears and Fittipaldi have also said hi to me out of the blue, apparently recognizing me as the guy standing on his seat photographing them during races. Or Mears remembered me from a 15-second conversation at a 1985 trade show, in the early 90s. These guys don't miss seeing or remembering anything. The only other group of people like that who I've run across, are astronauts. They never seem to forget a face, even years later.
@ 1:02:44 , Bobby Unser was talking about the tire not really bouncing and the camera was mounted on the wing and it is vibrating. Uh...look again at the side pod as it's not shaking like the tire and suspension is.
And Tony took his race track and locked the door on innovation, it has never been the same (500), NASCAR with no fenders. I got to hear the roar during time trials and testing. To Roger, the 500, wasn't racing, it was nuclear combat. Get the book, "The Beast" by Jade Gurss. The time and money, brain power, running in the snow during testing, flying parts from England on the Concord, it hasn't happened since and never will. Thanks Roger, 1994 was a hell of a year for CART and your teams.
@@penskepc2374 WTF are you talking about? AGAIN, there's nothing innovative about being allowed to run a larger engine with more boost. If you apply the same rules to the OHC engines, they absolutely destroy the pushrod engines. The Buick engines were garbage anyway, they just constantly exploded.
@@penskepc2374 Yeah, I really don't know what you're talking about, when did Buick win the 500? During one year, a Buick engine ran a qualifying lap that was faster than everyone else, but it was a day late, so it didn't actually qualify. One lap is a far cry from 200. Offenhauser, Cosworth and Honda engines powered the cars with the most wins at Indy.
The incredible emergence of Jaques Villenuve with a 2nd place finish against a foregone Penske Mercedes 1-2 win in his rookie season he proved his winning talents by winning the IndyCar Championship as well as the legendary Indy 500 the following year then jumping to Formula 1 runner up in his rookie season followed up the next season winning the 97 F1 world Championship. Legendary rookie driver unsurpassed unfortunately never rewarded with a top drive would have been fun to have seen him teamed with Schumacher his arch rival at Ferrari knowing Enzo's love of Gilles Villenuve Jaques dad at Zolder but toiled with a startup race team that saw nothing but grief and wasted talent. It was hard to watch a driver with his talent struggle with junk when he was unbeatable given a top car. Being Canadian I couldnt be more proud of the name Villenuve Jaques was able to live a dream he shared with his father World Champ. Something that can never be taken from them !
Fun Fact: While most people believe that "flopping" is a soccer and basketball thing in reality, however, flopping was invented by Nigel Mansell in single seater racing. Not only did he invent the art he achieved a level of swooning only dreamt of by later day floppers.
That engine was only legal for 1994 Indy 500 and was an one off top secret project in both Ilmor in England (engine) and back in Penske's shop (they use a warehouse in the afterhour to do integration, and they have to put the warehouse back to the previous state before the morning shift comes in). It works, but immediately banned.
1:45:00 is the beginning of the chain reaction of incidents that leads to the infamous “you go talk to him” interview. That interview is at about 1:59:00.
Now that Ilmor Engineering becomes Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrain, I can't help but think that Mercedes-AMG can easily go back to Indy 500 anytime soon.
I believe it was after this race that Tony George decided to create the IRL. Back then Indycar was run by CART. The Indy 500 was a USAC event. Penski, along with Mercedes, and Ilmor developed and engine just for the 500 based on USAC rules while the rest of the field were using engines based on CART rules. Tony George who was owner of IMS I think started the IRL to see this will never happen again.
The '94 500 is closer to Andretti's '69 Win than it is to today... I literally can't comprehend that
Yeah.... time is tricky... I often think about just this sort of paradox... Casablanca was released closer to Apocalypse Now than A.N. is to today's CGI addled fare.
The year innovation died in Indycar.
@@gulfmclarenf1296 Think of it as the year NASCAR arrived at Indy, if that doesn't compound your pain.
We are closer in time to Cleopatra then Cleopatra was to the building of the Great Pyramids of giza. They were already ancient in her time. We are closer to 2050 then we are 1990.
Please guys stop it... you´re giving us depression and a premature midlife crisis!
Race
46:12 Start
50:44 Dennis Vitolo Spin
57:14 Roberto Guerrero Crash
59:20 Mario Andretti Problems
1:03:02 Mike Groff And Dominic Dobson Crash
1:04:59 Scott Goodyear Puncture
1:13:48 Michael Andretti Puncture
1:46:37 Hideshi Matsuda Crash
1:47:48 John Paul Jr Crash
1:48:10 Paul Tracy Engine trouble
1:48:39 Nigel Mansell and Dennis Vitolo Crash
2:43:31 Emerson Fittipaldi Crash
2:45:52 Arie Luyendyk Engine trouble
2:59:01 Stan Fox Crash
I like this race just because of the engine sounds:
"Bee-yaaaa" - Multi-cam Cosworth and Ilmor
"Bee-yo" - Buick V6
"Zoing" - Ilmor Mercedes 500i
That'a surprisingly spot on.
Completely agree - how unstressed does the Mercedes sound? Beast of an engine! Clearly holding back from the outset!
Yeah.May Day! May Day!
Very accurate lol
I can’t stop hearing this.
Those cars looked so much better than the 2021 cars.
Absolutely, but the late 60s and early 70s cars were even more awesome.
YESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's 2023 now and I said the exact same thing those cars from the 90s was tough looking to me..They looked way better then now days too me
Or 2023.
Absolutely
Five different engines, three makes of chassis of various years !
As it still SHOULD BE.
Five engines? I’m counting four in the race (Ilmor pushrod, Ilmor DOHC, Cosworth, Buick). Honda was DNQ as was the one-off Greenfield, which was ironically built to the same equivalency Penske and Ilmor exploited and probably was closer to what USAC had in mind when they loosened the definition of “stock block” to be “anything with pushrods.” Did I miss one?
@@de-fault_de-fault I probably counted the Honda for at least trying to get into the show
Thanks Anton for ruining this!
The Penske Malboro Mercedes, beautiful car.
Yup
@@jonathan_tong93 beautiful team!!
All cars of that era looks better than now
@@Bac9IBacuJIbeB
Peak Indy before IRL/CART split ruined it. At this time Indy had many chassis, engines, aero developments, tire wars. Today Indy is spec. Racing identical, cars, engines, and tires. No innovation, or technical drive
@@weaksignal8009 F1 also haven't all this things at nowadays. Bore races. Budget limitations play a dirty trick. And all this Mercedes domination frozen by FIA. Will see. Maybe in 2022 intrigue will return in races.
Emmo was knocking on 250mph on the backstretch. I was there that day. No one could touch the Mercede's all day...
@Starscream_xxx
And just as "Mercedes" in F1, it is an Ilmor engine. It was branded Mercedes only the month before the race.
@Starscream_xxx
Exactly. Mercedes may bring the money but the engines are built by (ex-) Ilmor, not Mercedes
@Starscream_xxx
They did not. Mercedes owned a share of Ilmor and branded their engines "Mercedes-Benz" and finally bought the company outright, renaming it.
In all fairness, the stunning "Chevrolet" CART engine of the late 80s and early 90s was an Ilmor-one as well.
It is what manufacturers do, get the best people in motorsport to help their publicity needs.
As a German living close to Stuttgart, however, it hurts me to see the world made to believe in "Mercedes" engines, where they have no relation other than finance.
@@X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X Which makes me even more proud of the beautiful F1 engines that BMW produced back then... loud, beautifull, the strongest on the grid and SELFMADE....
Underbird Mmp
Paul Page constantly calling Jacques Villeneuve "Jock Vell Nev" is permanently burned in my memory.
Page was the best. Just the right level of excitement & knowledge. Sure miss him on the call.
Jock Vell Nev was so much better than Jacques
Seems like Jacques didn't like the "Veal-noeuve" pronunciation
@@xiaofengxiaofengxiaofengxi4651 Helps that Jacques's uncle, also named Jacques, raced here in 1986, but showed nothing.
3:14:14 Hero Ma-Shuush-Ta
Hell yah! The early 90s were so rad. That theme song too!! My 10 yr old self was happy up in turn 4.
@LordGoomba back before Tony George nearly killed IndyCar too.
tubular 🤙 I was 16.
I was 9 and also in turn 4
This was such a significant date in American Auto Racing history. Mario Andretti's last Indy 500, probably the last win by a Unser at Indianapolis, John Andretti starts the Indy Charlotte Double and Jeff Gordon's first win at Charlotte happened this night too.
Flash Gordon.😇
And to think, 25 years later Roger would not just figuratively but literally own Indy!
Walter Shattenkirk watch the very few IRL marks boycott the race.
Yeah, well, those "IRL Marks" need to be told that it was MFTG and Mark Miles who called The Captain wanting to meet with him to discuss him buying IMS. So....
@@RandysRacingPlace633 and now that MFRP who owns the most dominate team in the series actually now OWNS the whole series, owns the speedway, owns the officiating body that called for those MF Red flags with 2 laps to go in '23 Indy 500 which ultimately benefited HIS DRIVER. DO you really think they would have called red flag with 2 laps to go if RP's driver was leading.. HELL NO. Yeah this is now a real fair series.
Yeah RP who owns the most dominate team in the series actually now OWNS the whole series, owns the speedway, owns the officiating body that called for those Red flags with 2 laps to go in 2023 Indy 500 which ultimately benefited HIS DRIVER. DO you really think they would have called red flag with 2 laps to go if RP's driver was leading.. HELL NO. Real fair racing series.
SPOILER ALERT: Commentator says: 'These Eyes' 1438 times
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BRUH
Amazing! This was the greatest American racing era
And definitely the best looking IndyCar cars even built. All liveries were stunning, but the Penske Pc23 what a car! Just watching at it you would realize it is a winning car.
This is definitely the golden era, those cars are just beautiful and sound beautiful
244 mph into turn 3. No SAFER walls. No HANS device. No Fear.
Happymars they did have a different type of head protection.
@cicobee cicobee That was the highest one lap average. He's talking about a trap speed at the end of the straight. The highest trap speed at Fontana was about 255 mph.
I don't mind the safer barrier or hans device. Doesnt take anything fron the racing, just makes it safer which is a win for everyone. Either way, these Indycar guys are nuts lol
Imagine what it was like in CART at Michigan and California
While I like the sleek looks and more mechanical technology of the cars back then much more, I absolutely support safer barriers and the HANS device.
They habe absolutely no negative impact on racing but make it safer, that is how it should be!
"Best Rookie I've seen in a long ,long time". Great praise from a great champion, RIP Bobby. Jacques came full circle at the Daytona 500 this year. 220 average? They were flying in those days!
The quality is so good, it's as if I'm watching it live in 1994!
Man I love these old races a awesome look into the 90s with full speed racing at the Indy 500
The Delta Force theme playing in the beginning makes this even more bad ass.
These eyes will watch this video. Mario Andretti italian pride!😍
@shredderkrang I'm Irish and I was visiting my brother who lives in New York. We were in a bar and we heard these 2 young guys arguing at the bar about which one of them was more Irish. Saying things like "my great great grandfather was from Dublin" and "but I have Irish on my mother and fathers side".
Me and my brother were listening laughing our asses off and after a few minutes I went up to order more drinks I was standing right next to them when I was ordering them and they didn't bat an eye. They continued until my brother was getting the next round in when he said to them "there's no a bit o Irish in either of ya cos you never even noticed the Irishmen drinking 10 feet away from ya, or the Irishman ordering drinks right beside ye. Get te fook".
Word for word lol
@shredderkrang I know lol my brother says it's really common in New York for people to say they're Irish yet they know feck all to do with their history or culture. It's hilarious.
1)Andretti was born at Montona in Italy, and he lived at Lucca in Tuscany until 1955...
2)I'm italian, not american. :)
@shredderkrang
shredderkrang So your comment is irrelevant. The original comment was obviously aimed at Mario
Some of you guys wondering why Americans identify with their ethnic heritage; why not? And who are you to frown on them? My family is from Minorca, a little island off Spain. Came to America in the 1700s to St. Augustine as indentured servants. Now, my family owns the land in St. Augustine they used to work. (Look up the Usina’s of St. Augustine). Was all of that a long time ago? Yes. But my family still cooks the Minorcan food that’s been passed down for generations, and still serves it to the public. I obviously see myself as an American, but I defiantly identify with the Minorcan heritage like much of my family. Minorcans have a parade in St. Augustine each year.
so happy to see IMS post these full broadcasts. It's not an Indy 500 if I don't watch an old Paul Page opening. Still can't believe Indy is not on ABC this year but all things must change I guess and ABC/ESPN had really been minimizing Indy the last few years. I hope Indy can return to its glory days like 94. Hope we get a fun, safe race!
It doesn't feel right, it should be on ABC, and unpopular opinion, but I actually liked Eddie Cheever in the booth, and I loved hearing Allen Bestwick still commentating races, loved hearing him in SRX.
I love how in the Mercedes-Benz segment at 2:17:42 how whoever wrote the script flat-out ignored the 1955 Le Mans disaster as if it never happened. LOLZ!
wow thats shocking
Unbelievable video quality, thanks for share
Broke my heart when Emmo lost it. Brazil needed something good to happen. Didnt know at the time it would be his last 500. Little Al was deserving though. Reppin the 505.
I agree! I live in the 505! I was always an Al Jr. fan...at least a fan of his Indycar driving, not the other aspects of his life.
Emmo will be forever the truly winner of this Indy500. It was his race.
Me too! A Shame!
When Emmo hit the wall it was one of those moments with everyone one their feet like when Danica took the lead 2005 and Helio won his 4th 2021.
Maybe if Emmo drank milk in '93 🤷♂️ #NoOJ
Race starts at 45:00
Thank you
You’re a hero.
This was a great Indy 500 with some unbelievable camera shots
I finally made it to my first Indy 500 in 1994 ..after watching the Indy 500 since 1962, mostly because my dads old flat track buddy Joe Leonard who was 1954, 1956 and 1957 AMA Grand National champion ..finally got his shot at the Indy 500. Joe finishing 9th in 1966, 3rd place in 1967 ..and qualified on the pole in 1968 in the #60 Andy Granatelli STP turbine car, while his team mate Mario Andretti qualified 4th, Joe led the first 7 laps but struggled with a fuel pump issue and finished 12th, Joe finished 6th in 1969.
Love the chuck Yeager fly over where the PA announcer mentions him shooting down German pilots. At the same time big wigs from Mercedes are out there as VIPs with Penske.
That's a great point! haha! Starts around ua-cam.com/video/4rmc8cUohTE/v-deo.html
The Merry Month of May when all the Fast and Furious Fellas come out to play. Open wheels with Open hearts, can not wait till the indy 500 starts!
Ah you're a poet. Noice
My first Indy 500 in tv in Italy,top race!👍
everyone knows Danica Patrick but Lyn St. James remains unknown, a shame
Not unknown. There is a classic Trans Am race held at Indy on the road course somewhere here on the Tube. They got St. James, Al Unser Jr, Willy T. Ribbs, and several other grandpas and turned em loose in Cameros, Stangs, Javelins, and Cudas. She drove her butt off like always. She was better than Danica. She could drive mean.
Danica was just a marketing tool, these days is about profit first and everything else second.
Danica suuucks
Lyn drove a real car too, not the turd buckets that Danica was driving.
Sarah Fisher was better then both St. James and Danica.
R.I.P. John Andretti he raced against F1 drivers Uncle Mario, Cousin Michael, Jacques Villeneuve Teo Fabi Eddie Cheever Maurício Gugelmin Robby Rahal Stefan Johansson Emerson Fittipaldi Raul Boesel Nigel Mansell and Roberto Guerrero.
Going into the 1994 Indy 500, three former F1 champions were at this race: Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi, and the man of the hour Mario Andretti, other F1 drivers involved in this race included Roberto Moreno, who had the misfortune of driving for the infamous Andrea Moda team, Stefan Johansson drove for Scuderia Ferrari replaced the late Gilles Villeneuve, whose son Jacques was also in this race and won the following year’s race before winning the F1 drivers championship two years later, in the mid 1980s, Mario’s son Michael spent half of the previous year’s F1 season with McLaren partnered by 3-time F1 Champion Ayrton Senna, who was ironically killed in Imola just 4 weeks prior.
Speaking of Nigel Mansell, despite his pre-race interview, rejoined F1 at the behest of Frank Williams to finish the turbulent 1994 season in which the tragedy of Imola overshadowed the the team, replacing David Coulthard, who joined the McLaren team due to contractual issues, only to have the court reversed in favor of Williams, Mansell joined McLaren instead, only to announce his retirement due to dispute with Ron Dennis, Coulthard replaced him in 1996.
At best, Dennis Vitolo was a journeyman driver. He had two starts in the Indianapolis 500, in 1994 and 1997. His signature moment came in the 1994 Indianapolis 500.
Vitolo and his wife had mortgaged everything for him to be able to run in the Indy 500. It all seemed for naught, as Vitolo spun early in the race coming out of turn four. Luck appeared to be on his side as he spun completely around without hitting anything. As fate would have it, Vitolo was just being saved to provide the comic relief for later.
On lap 92, the field had been slowed under a caution period for several laps. Nigel Mansell, the 1992 World Champion and the defending CART Champion, had pulled his Newman-Haas Lola onto the pit entrance road in turn three. Inexplicably, the next thing Mansell knew was that his car had been knocked askew and the car of Dennis Vitolo was on top of his. Apparently, Vitolo decided to follow Mansell onto the pit-lane. Vitolo misjudged his speed (hard to do while running under the yellow), punted Mansell and his car somehow landed directly on top of Mansell’s. Nigel Mansell would never return to the Speedway and Dennis Vitolo would be remembered for nothing other than this episode forever, and now have to endure the added insult of topping this list.
This is the lost tape that a fan shot of the Vitolo incident. ua-cam.com/video/wpsobpH2QeA/v-deo.html The guy was a total screwup. Look at the speed he hits the bypass late at. He never should have been allowed to race again in the Indy 500, yet they let him come back in 1997.
ABC was the best sports network back in the day. They knew how to cover sports..
Agreed. ABC Sports was a staple of my childhood, even in the early 2000's. You name it, they just about covered it. Even if they were showing something I didn't usually watch or wasn't my thing, I still watched because the coverage was great. It sucks that Disney merged them with ESPN. Although NBC is now becoming what ABC used to be.
My second year attending the 500. This time I knew that there were no Sunday sales, unlike when I ran out of beer in 1993!
Essential Indy 500 knowledge, bring or buy beer on Saturday. And the snake-pit non existent these days. Anyone member' the couch fires in turn 4 around lap 170?
this is the first champcar race that I had ever watched, and I have been a champcar partisan ever since.
I'm going to have Paul Page saying these eyes stuck in my head for at least two weeks
😂
1:22:13 - you’re welcome. Absolutely incredible filming setup
I've read most of the below comments. Some good, some bad, people with no clue to what racing is all about. I was 13 years old when my father first brought me out there. That was 1872. Since then, I started bringing my son, my uncles, my father's brothers brought my cousins, then we had to start bringing our fathers when they got too old. This will be year 49 for me. Haven't missed one since I started in '72. WHAT A GREAT EVENT. The electricity in the air, the excitement, the race. Everyone we've ever brought out there gets hooked, gets their own tickets, and it becomes an annual event. Nothing else like it. It becomes a family tradition. How great is that. EVERYONE out there are also instant friends. Wealth, economics, race, religion, Nothing Matters. Everyone is there for the same thing. Everyone is your friend. Everyone helps one another, and has no problem having conversations with strangers, who become friends. It truly is, The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
Some comments are hard to read for sure lol, i agree. A lot of racing fans don't seem to understand what they are seeing. Anyway, thanks for the story and sharing. Cheers dude
Thanks for this video. Is there a chance for 2002 Indy 500 race video.
A really enjoyable race that survives some uneven coverage. Glad for being able to FF where necessary. Bobby Unser + Danny Sullivan > Sam Posey >> Paul Page. I wonder if there were some backroom staffers at ABC who kept generating numerology drivel like "car XX hasn't won Indy since..." and fed it to the booth to see if any of the on-air people would go for it.
I always thought Uncle Bobby was underrated. He wasn't the most polished speaker - and obviously had no respect for Sam Posey - but he knew his stuff and could make his points clearly.
His career earnings is what drivers now make in one race. These guys were just insane.
I went down the list of comments a ways and noticed no one comment on the big story from this race. The Merc engine was sort of a ringer. They found some FUBAR in the rules allowing them to use more boost. The rule was there to encourage cheaper stock block pushrod motors. Somehow for reasons I don't know the "stock" part had a work around. Merc found it and built a 2 valve pushrod motor with lots more boost than the Cosworth and Chevy. It was classic Penski.
It was covered in the pre-race portion of this recording, might be why no one who watched it bothered to mention it?
Actually Penske and Ilmor found it, and Mercedes funded/put their name in the engine.
The loophole in the rules was well-known for years before Penske decided to really do something about it. Pushrod 2-valve engines got 44 more cubic inch displacement and 10 more inches Mercury manifold pressure. Buick and Chevrolet V6's had been successful at the Speedway under that rules package since 1980. Then Penske came along with a purpose-built pushrod racing engine and killed everybody. Bravo!
They removed the “stock block” clause. So Penske was able to build a custom block with optimized valvetrain geometry. Check out the story in the book called Beast by Jade Gurss.
@@Henry-fx4yk I have that book. It's a great story. Also little-known from that time was the Brayton V8.
What a shame for Emmo! Here in Brazil we felt like Senna hitting the wall at Monte Carlo in 1988...Both of them were in other dimensions...nobody couldn't touch Emmo that day....
"One of the pre race favorites, Michael Andretti"
Words that were never heard in 1993 (F1)
My first 500 sitting on the turn 2 mound. I’ll never forget Emerson’s tires squealing coming out of the turn every lap. Also, never seen so many sunburns. 🤣
It was hott. Team special events great memories. It's all i have left. Love lil Al such a nice guy
Excellent quality, Excellent race.
The best Indy 500 intro ever!
No one had a chance against that Ilmor/Mercedes 500i engine. But, Penske paid for it the next year when all his cars failed to qualify for the race.
Ya Mostly Because Firestone Had Superior Tires
@@Brooks22n Actually, the Penske chassis was the problem. The Mercedes power masked the chassis issues in 1994, and they came to light in 1995.
@@joefair3391 I agree to a ( small ) certain extent, but I worked for Goodyear, believe me Firestone had a superior tire
“And go Pacers”, the crowd goes wild.
I watched this race in high school....it was a complete ass kicking!
"These Eyes" reminds me how tedious pre-race broadcasts used to be back then before they learned how to edit later in the '90s. Now we almost have the opposite problem; there's almost no framing of the event to speak of
Jesse Mullen nascar does a two hour prerace. Do we still need driver introductions after the 20th race of the year.
45:42 What a Helmet design
“These eyes”
1:20:00 Build-up to the classic Boesel v Gordon side-by-side shot begins here.
Fun fact: This was the only Indianapolis 500 Al Jr. drove for Roger Penske. Great race nonetheless. Hoping IMS posts the 1972 and 1976 500's!
That’s because he would fail to qualify for the Indy 500 one year later and he wouldn’t return to the Indy 500 until 2000 with his old team Galles Racing. I’m with you that IMS should upload the Indy 500 runnings from 1972 and 1976!
I hope IMS uploads the 1983 and 1984 500's
Matthew he did qualify Rodger pulled his time and he ran slower knocking him out in 95.
@@sweetness34km Emmo was the only one to have his time pulled. Al just didnt make it. Ironically it was this mercedes engine that inadvertently set them back. That damn thing was so powerful that team penske didnt realize their chassis were not suited well for indy causing them to be very slow thru the corners. When Emmo first got in Rahals chassis he was fast enough to make the field but the team adjusted the handling and downforce to make it more like their own cars and made it slower. It was just an odd balance/downforce thing that they couldnt get their heads around.
Little Al and emmo were sandbaging until the flag dropped and they ran away
I was there, standing on my usual 1990s seats in the top row of the section at the pit-entrance end of Tower Terrace. I remember getting great telephoto pics of Emo into the wall and then coasting to a stop wingless. On actual 35mm film back when an SLR was not a DSLR. The Penske cars obviously were impressive, but Villeneuve caught my attention.
The following March, I tacked a weekend onto a business trip in Miami, and saw Villenueve win the pretty unique 1995 Grand Prix of Miami. It was a great venue for race photography. Then when the race ended, I somehow ended up walking back to the Team Green garage, walking 3 feet behind Villenueve's car as his crew pushed it by hand. The crew assumed I was a pro photographer, and security assumed I was with the crew. So I got to hang around his garage with maybe 100 people for an hour or so as they all celebrated. Villenueve and his girlfriend each seemed to notice me a couple of times like "Do you know that guy?" so I switched to a small lens, took fewer photos, and never pointed a camera right at them.
In August 1993, I had watched Mansell win and Andretti crash in NH, my nearest track to home. It was Mansell's birthday, and I got pics of Andretti crashing and getting into an ambulance. Amazingly, before the 1994 Indy race, when I was walking around between the garages and the pits, behind Tower Terrace, Andretti spotted me, waved, and said hi as if I were an old friend. He must have recognized me as the guy in the NH stands taking pics of his crash and getting into the ambulance the prior year! It's surprising what drivers can see, especially on a slow track or even pulling into the pits at Indy. Mears and Fittipaldi have also said hi to me out of the blue, apparently recognizing me as the guy standing on his seat photographing them during races. Or Mears remembered me from a 15-second conversation at a 1985 trade show, in the early 90s. These guys don't miss seeing or remembering anything. The only other group of people like that who I've run across, are astronauts. They never seem to forget a face, even years later.
@ 1:02:44 , Bobby Unser was talking about the tire not really bouncing and the camera was mounted on the wing and it is vibrating. Uh...look again at the side pod as it's not shaking like the tire and suspension is.
Senna died 27 days before this.
@shredderkrang Nobody cares, homie.
@@ThePaulz80 well, I'm sure al gore cared
@@ThePaulz80 And nobody cares about you either
@@ihatetwitter9044 Too much salt, buddy ?
@@InvertedFreeSolo I don't care mate. This is racing comment section....I guess some of political cunts stirring up too much for no particular reason.
I used to watch this every year with my dad when i was a kid.
These eyes, are cryin
These eyes have seen a lot of love,
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with yooouuuu
1994. My favourite Indianapolis 500 of all time apart from many others.
This stands as one of the most dominant engineering feats in the history of motor racing.
And Tony took his race track and locked the door on innovation, it has never been the same (500), NASCAR with no fenders. I got to hear the roar during time trials and testing. To Roger, the 500, wasn't racing, it was nuclear combat. Get the book, "The Beast" by Jade Gurss. The time and money, brain power, running in the snow during testing, flying parts from England on the Concord, it hasn't happened since and never will. Thanks Roger, 1994 was a hell of a year for CART and your teams.
@@Mike44460 There's nothing innovative about running a bigger engine with more boost than everyone else.
@@PistonAvatarGuyI know just ask Buick about all their 500 wins...
@@penskepc2374 WTF are you talking about? AGAIN, there's nothing innovative about being allowed to run a larger engine with more boost. If you apply the same rules to the OHC engines, they absolutely destroy the pushrod engines. The Buick engines were garbage anyway, they just constantly exploded.
@@penskepc2374 Yeah, I really don't know what you're talking about, when did Buick win the 500? During one year, a Buick engine ran a qualifying lap that was faster than everyone else, but it was a day late, so it didn't actually qualify. One lap is a far cry from 200. Offenhauser, Cosworth and Honda engines powered the cars with the most wins at Indy.
The incredible emergence of Jaques Villenuve with a 2nd place finish against a foregone Penske Mercedes 1-2 win in his rookie season he proved his winning talents by winning the IndyCar Championship as well as the legendary Indy 500 the following year then jumping to Formula 1 runner up in his rookie season followed up the next season winning the 97 F1 world Championship. Legendary rookie driver unsurpassed unfortunately never rewarded with a top drive would have been fun to have seen him teamed with Schumacher his arch rival at Ferrari knowing Enzo's love of Gilles Villenuve Jaques dad at Zolder but toiled with a startup race team that saw nothing but grief and wasted talent. It was hard to watch a driver with his talent struggle with junk when he was unbeatable given a top car. Being Canadian I couldnt be more proud of the name Villenuve Jaques was able to live a dream he shared with his father World Champ. Something that can never be taken from them !
Fun Fact: While most people believe that "flopping" is a soccer and basketball thing in reality, however, flopping was invented by Nigel Mansell in single seater racing. Not only did he invent the art he achieved a level of swooning only dreamt of by later day floppers.
I fully agree but 1992 was the day that maimed people
Vitolo never should have been allowed back in another Indy 500, yet they let him back in 1997. Unbelievable. Totally unprofessional driving.
This race gave me the motivation to become an engineer.
The racing engine equivalent of a Saturn V in that Penske! Awesome!
That engine was only legal for 1994 Indy 500 and was an one off top secret project in both Ilmor in England (engine) and back in Penske's shop (they use a warehouse in the afterhour to do integration, and they have to put the warehouse back to the previous state before the morning shift comes in). It works, but immediately banned.
1:45:00 is the beginning of the chain reaction of incidents that leads to the infamous “you go talk to him” interview. That interview is at about 1:59:00.
Hey now let's not dwell on things said to reporters while suffering from an imaginary shoulder concussion.
Look how packed it was. Seats all around on the infield mound. Had to of been 400,000 plus there that day
look at all those people in the infield!
Now that Ilmor Engineering becomes Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrain, I can't help but think that Mercedes-AMG can easily go back to Indy 500 anytime soon.
This is a very underrated Indianapolis 500 race. 😊
"The beast" was awesome that year. The Mercedes were to perfect engine for Indianapolis!
You don;t know if they are going to release section results for this race so we can see each car's lap-for-lap times?
I always thought it was Speedway karma striking back at Emmo for drinking orange juice instead of milk in Victory Circle in '93
he won 2 times so not much of a karma there.
It was!
20:04 The highlight of the pre-race coverage; Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Tim Allen. 🙂😁😁😁😁
Man this WAS/IS the Pinnacle of Indycar. A shame it's gone forever. The ABC intro was amazing!
Paul Page should be the permanent voice of the INDY 500 on IMS Radio
It's crazy seeing IMS without SAFER barriers. The wrecks were so violent on plain concrete.
I just bought the book "Beast". Can't wait to read the ibside story about how Penske built a dominating engine/car for this race.
Thanks for posting this!!! I was there as a kiddo!!!
I believe it was after this race that Tony George decided to create the IRL. Back then Indycar was run by CART. The Indy 500 was a USAC event. Penski, along with Mercedes, and Ilmor developed and engine just for the 500 based on USAC rules while the rest of the field were using engines based on CART rules. Tony George who was owner of IMS I think started the IRL to see this will never happen again.
When American Open Wheel was great.
It will be again in 2021, there's finally some horsepower on the way
@@geert574 with V6 Hybrid ? Idk man
@@geert574 fastest field and closest in history. 230+.
Lol I watched this live on tv! Those Penske cars played with the competition that year, an absolute massacre!
I love this Penske's colors.
46:05 This is the shot i remember most as a kid im so glad they still have it.
First Indy 500 race after Ayrton Senna died in F1 race if he surrived he would race with Penske or Newman Haas in 1995 Indy 500.
And to this day, Jacques is still a rookie. ;)
We in Europe got Formula 1, And in the USA we have this phenomenom, holy shit.
F1 was still decent in 1994, but miles away from IndyCar show in those years.
Now indy is boring and F1 is fun.
Today's Indy cars though better than the USAC/Billy Boat era by a lot, are just. a spec. series with minor sponsors now. This was the real-deal here.
This was on my second birthday! Never realized that.
Al Usner jr: No more Oranges Juices Mr Emerson Fittipaldi
2:19:53 The traffic jam in the front straight that yielded Paul Page's best "WHOA" ever!
Anyone knows the music played for the starting grid? It's awesome!
Theme from The Delta Force
14:34 I don't know what he said but it sure as heck wasn't "Villeneuve"
1:59:30 Pure, distilled Nigel being Nigel, straight from the source.
His a fast idiot.
great that you put the winner in the description lol.
Always liked Bousel's Duracell car.
Danny Sullivan did a fine job as an analyst.