1969 Indianapolis 500 | Official Race Film
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- The 53rd Running of the Indianapolis 500 was held on Friday, May 30, 1969 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Mario Andretti led 116 total laps and cruised to victory in his sole Indianapolis 500 win. The iconic race was the first for legendary car owner Andy Granatelli and was cemented with a memorable kiss in victory lane.
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The day before this race I managed to sneak in the track and ended up on pit lane during the driver ceremony. I was 18 at the time. I got to meet Mario and AJ in the pit lane. Best of all I got a picture of myself in the pace car sitting in the driver' s seat. I now at the age of 73 still have the pic mounted on my living room wall.
I was 7 years old in 1969 when Mario won the 500. He was my first hero.
Those were some of the best looking Indy Cars ever.
Agree, for me the 1984 cars take the cake for best look
Loved the cars of that era.
My father was there. I have super 8 movies of the pits and the race. The close ups of the cars and Mario Andretti in the pits are so cool.
One of the greatest pure driving talents this world has ever seen. He won in everything he drove. F1 World Champion, INDYCAR/USAC champion, Indy 500 winner, Daytona 500 winner, sprint cars...... everything.
Mario said: if you're not constantly on the verge of losing control, then you're going too slow.
The results speak for themselves.
Met him in the pits at Indianapolis in the 80's; one of the few drivers that stopped and talked to me for a minute. A legend.
Mario and AJ Foyt are the best drivers of all time. Mario would have won at least 5 Indy 500 but the turbo race car blew up all the time in the '70s. Most races ended with less than 12 cars out of 40. Most drivers burnt a piston or crashed. The Unsers were great as well and Johnny Rutherford as well as Gordon Joncock and others. These drivers were Titans and raced in aluminum bear cans full of 40 gallons of kill-your-ass fuel if you hit the wall.
@@danielvandersall6756 He always came off as a down to earth guy. You imagine sitting down for a few hours listening to all the shit hes experienced? Wow..
I would say the GOAT. And I'm British!
I was sitting in grandstand L outside of turn 3 with my family at this race, and as a 17 year old, I can still remember the buzz about Mario before and during the race. I believe that most of the fans there that day was pulling for him, especially after that horrendous crash he had just days before. Looking back now these 50 plus years later, if you'd told me in 1969 that there would be so many more Andretti's race in the 500 in the future (including Mario), but only one Andretti face would be on the Borg Warner trophy, I doubt anyone would've believed it. It just proves how hard it is to win at the Brickyard.
The first race I ever saw was this one. This and "The Lovebug" made a life long racer out of me.
Mario is a young man there.. seing him at Monza, when Peterson was injured and later died. The years of hard spells and terrible accidents are not easy to handle. Amazing life to have lived
old racing videos are too fun to watch
Mario Andretti is one of my heroes. I met him in 2017 and he was just aa wonderful in person as he was on TV.
I hope they let Michael run in F1 now with GM backing.
My favorite Indy, my favorite driver won, I graduated from high school the day before and 8 day later I went into the US Navy. 1969 was a very exciting year for me.
William Christian WELL ALMOST, I was 19 in 69 & I graduated from H.S. on SUNDAY 25 MAY 69; 5 days prior to the 53rd INDY 500 on FRIDAY 30 MAY... Then in NOVEMBER, I JOINED AIR FORCE... BUT I WAS ALSO rooting for A.J. back then... Ever since my early teens I had always dreamed of going to the GREATEST SPECTACLE in RACING instead of watching it on TV. FAST- - -FORWARD to 2012, I got a package in the mail from our little guy ( 28 @ the time ) for my birthday, where i found inside attached to some clues, a little note from "INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY " that stated that tickets he bought for me for the 96th Running " " " would be in mail soon😢... SO, come race weekend 2012 on LEGENDS DAY when we didn't get there in time that morning to stand in line with several hundred other folks to get Autographs from that years drivers, AS we were standing over across the plaza where things were wrapping up, GUESS WHO just happened to be sitting in his Golf cart just feet from me, AND ONLY a 1/2 dozen people standing around there to walk right up & get his Autograph 😁 👍❗️ As we continued to go each year since, we were there last year on the year of my 50th High School reunion, AND Mario's 50th ANNIVERSARY of his victory... AND SO, ONCE AGAIN, We have our tickets for the 104th RUNNING , BUT - - - WELL, THIS YEAR 2020 we will just have to wait & see what unfolds in our lives & country😒 🙏
My first time attending a race at Indy. I picked Mario to win and all my dads friends laughed at me.
I laughed all the way home. Great memories for sure!
Ahhh...Wide World of Sports. Sounds of my childhood.
Beautiful cars driven by lions. The golden era.
Well said.
The BEST analogy that I have ever heard was David Donohue (Mark's Son) who said: "They were Iron Men in Wooden Boats." IMO, the very best quote in the history of American Open Wheel Racing!!!
My Uncle and I watched the race on a closed circuit broadcast at a movie theater in Detroit, quite exciting.
This is unbelievable, thank you so much for uploading this. The 60's cars are so beautiful but I've never seen a full race.
The cars were still wingless but the tyre width was getting fatter and the wheel track was getting wider. A very nice aesthetic combination.
Oh, how that classic Wide World of Sports opening takes me back to many Saturday afternoons of the 1970's. The sports scenes of the opening are different than from later seasons, particularly missing the ski jumper that fell off the ramp. I was only 7 when this race aired, and I don't think I watched the Indy 500 until 1972 on the full, same-day delayed telecast. But Mario Andretti became my first hero when he won this race. Too bad he didn't win at least two more: '81 and '87.
I liked Mario too, he had some bad luck at Indy but redeemed himself everywhere else.Mark Donahue was another favorite, I believe he was a rookie here.Rip to him..
Jim McKay not only voiced the “agony of defeat” script but also gave the live play by play of the actual ski jump crash where he memorably exclaimed “whoooooa Baby”.
@@fohponomalama5065 the agony of defeat! Loved Jim McKay..
10:16 "I feel fine" looking like the joker lol. What a warrior!
"The Grantelli Jinx is Dead!"
...to be replaced by The Andretti Curse starting a year or two later.
Fantastic footage, those guys back then were modern day gladiators.
50 year anniversary! Thanks Mario!
Thank you kindly for the day's in the wide world of sports. What a great reporter he was. That was what I grew up with. 😎👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Mario "tough little guy"
I love it!
Mario has always been one of my favorites.
I wish he could have been more successful there at the Brickyard.
I am going to miss not hearing." Gentlemen Start Your Engines" This May! SHAWN
You're going to hear it on August 23rd instead. At least they are holding the race.
Probably the best 500 race of all time.
Fantastic!
Killet slo-mo outro;
Mario, McClusky, Foyt, Bobby, Gary B, Donohue, Gordo, Pollard in the STP wedge, Leonard ...
Unbelievable field that year, with one of the greatest front rows ever; AJ, Mario, Bobby Unser...
The front row official photo is one of the best images I've seen.
That ABC intro sure brought back memories
My one and only trip with my father,uncle and grandfather. Mario won his only Indy 500 ,but only because the leader's car broke. I dont remember who but it was good to see Mario get his first and only. And I was there. Go Nazareth fans
The coverage was great back then! Very real, very technical, they interview the principals..... McKay is a master, the production team deserves credit. Nowadays I feel like I'm only being sold something. The production is slick, but it feels like a long commercial.
I began interest for car races in 1970 aged 13 , then I was a fan of Al Unser. Today I have nostalgy of those names as Foyt, Gurney, Unser
Jim Clark’s Lotus in 1963 transformed the look of the Indy car from the front engined Offenhausers into the present day rear engined masterpieces.
This is the year I graduated from HS. Also the year I went into the USMC. I remember this from 1969. Mario's first win at Indy 500. Cheers from eastern TN
Great year, good racing,Mario's first Indy victory 🏁🏎 Moon shot in July ,🌚 Gas was still cheap.⛽
69 was a helluva time to b 12. We seen alot!
back when racing was FUN!!!!!!!!! cars varied greatly .... run what you brung , and may the best or smartest or best built win ...
Racing is still fun. IndyCar is still awesome
I was 10 years old in 1969, and this was the first Indy 500 I ever watched or probably was even aware of. This is the same telecast I watched on Wide World of Sports, which I think showed the 500 on a one-week tape delay back then. This is the first time I've seen this race since the day it was broadcast in '69. After seeing this race I was hooked on watching the Indy 500 each year for decades until my interest waned during the IRL - CART split when some of the best CART drivers and teams weren't at the 500. I also got to attend about a half-dozen 500s in person as an adult.
Mario Andretti A Legend
9:49 "running to the wall with only minor burns" crazy how it's said so casually, definitely a different mentality back then.
So phantastic!!! Greets from Switzerland from a Swiss Enthusiast to this INDY500. Especially the slomotion sections are outstanding and you can see, that they all drifted the whole turn. So really, my highest hope goes to Marco for a win this 103rd edition. They even painted the car the similar colour like Marios winning car. This is a good omen in my view and luck shall be with the Andrettis this year. Cannot wait to the start ... There is nothing on the planet so exiting and historic like the INDY500 in the present time ... well maby the comeback of Tiger in Golf ... Long life this event!
Yay Mario & Andy!
It's interesting that Jim McKay's closing narration quoted the then-current O.C. Smith hit song "Little Green Apples".
This is so cool to watch. I'm glad IMS is uploading videos such as these...
Just realized. Mario led 116 laps to win.
Simon Pagenaud led 116 laps to win 50 years later.
Quirky but cool trivia.. awesome research or curious knowledge👍
Great year but missed it .Freedom Flights @ 11yrs old & now in Miami , it was December. Cell's got plently charge & I will watch it today . The names & faces eventually became familiar on these fantastic races. These guys look so young & forever will be in Automotive Racing History. TY , for esplendid views.
Pure gold!
Renato Stavis It is the 50th anniversary, so gold is the perfect description.
Man these cars are beautiful! Always been a dream to at least be able to sit in one
Wow....I've waited years to see this....glad to see! Wow!
The Granatelli's and Mario Andretti in 1969 were Italian Americans who knew what it took to go fast and win at Indy!
If I had a time machine...if I had a time machine.
Agreed Joe
What a memory though,jeez!
‘Two negatives… they make a plus.’ I laughed when Andy Granatelli said that.
Andretti once said, ‘There are days when it’s better to stay in bed than to win Indy and be kissed on the mouth by Andy.’
Love these old races.
📻🙂
The truth was that Mario nursed the car home as the gearbox was way overheated and most of the oil in it was burned. The car driven by Joe Leonard (44) was crewed by Smokey Yunick and he had told Joe just to stay on Mario's tail and that they would push him near the end. Well Leonard hit a hose clamp that the cleanup crew missed after an accident and ruined that plan. Smokey had the hose clamp made into a wall display and as a memento of the race that got away. They changed the radiator and finished sixth.
Another heart breaker was the Lloyd Ruby pit incident. The car was a Mongoose car personally built by Chief Mechanic, Dave Laycock and it was truly about the last time a small, low budget team built their own car and had a chance to win. Laycock was so excited at the way they were running that he took the blame for signaling Lloyd to leave the pits too soon and after the accidental damage to the car he was so overwrought the he had to be constrained as he had started throwing his tools around the pit area.
Colin Chapman was very restrained in his exit TV interview. He never came back. One quote had him saying 'my new cars are all junk and I am going back to my shop and take them apart with a hacksaw'. Mario was the only one to do any serious practice in one and they knew the wheel hubs were weak and were taking them apart and having them inspected each time the car was run, but they still broke. This was very similar to the Lotus Turbine cars of 1968. Graham Hill had a hub break in the 68 race and many more broke in other USAC races later that year. The 1969 Indy Lotus Ford was both more powerful and heavier than the Turbine cars were and it appears Chapman just didn't make them strong enough.
WWoS was broadcast on Saturdays when I saw this in 1969. I was 9 and became an Indy 500 fanatic ever since!
Awesome to see Mario win, again, in this video.Brings it all back...and also another hero for me later in life, Smokey Yunick fixing the car he prepped, Joe Leonard's Gurney Eagle. $2.00 hose clamp from another car damaged the rad., cost him the possible win. Those were the days...cars were dangerous and sex was safe!
The Andretti family should have more than one win. I've watched so many indy 500s that an Andretti dominated then something went wrong.
You got that right,almost similar to Earnhardt @ Daytona..
awesome looking machines!!!!!!!!!
I started watching Indy in 1972.
I was 8.
I love watching this old stuff and marvel at how young they looks.
Sweet bunch of kids having American Fun.
"Little Mario" ? , "Little AJ" Came in at about 5 foot 5.
But nobody ever talked about it.
Rumer was He sat on a phone book to drive his first midget.he 😳
That race track has sure changed through the years.
The cars too
Crazy to think that Kannan was only a few years from racing against Mario and is still competitive today
I recall when this was originally broadcast on ABC-TV Wide World of Sports on the following Saturday of this race. Back then there was no such thing as "live" TV race coverage for the Indy 500. In 1970, ABC started a "same-day" coverage that was broadcast in primetime.
What made this particular ABC WWoS telecast memorable for me was the amount of airtime given for this race; as back then, the WWoS generally produced three sports segments in its 90 minute telecast. Prior to this Indy 500, the WWoS segment for a 500 mile race would be between 25 to 30 minutes.
It was 1971 was the first year they did same day telecast of the indy 500
@Randy Lovering . . . Ah! Thanks for that correction.
I did a bit of YT research that did confirm for me that the 1970 race was the first that ABC did in video, and not film. That's probably a reason my year was off.
I also recall that I didn't watch much of the 1970 race, in video, since Al Unser completely dominated; as per the radio broadcast anchored by the Sid Collins . . . and I wasn't an Unser fan back then.
With Unser dominating the 1970 race, one wonders if the production people with the Indy 500 radio broadcast were hard-pressed to keep coming up with spoken material to keep the broadcast compelling to listen to; as there was little in the way of the racers battling for the lead. Maybe that was the year that Collins dug into his briefcase, or attaché case, for incidental material to work with during the broadcast. I recall many years ago in an article about Collins that he supposedly carried with him a brief/attaché case of printed materials to dip into in case there were lulls in his Indy 500 broadcasts.
I recall watching this the night of the race, although I think it was on WTTV Channel 4 from Idianapolis, then an independent which had hours and hours of coverage every May.
Before they started doing live coverage my family had a tradition of listening to the race live on the radio via loudspeakers while visiting a friend's farm and picking strawberries.
@@TuberOnTheLoose That was back in the days of Sid Collins calling the race? Or his successor, Paul Page?
Page was marvelous as Collins's successor, but Collins was a superb announcer for the "500;" and being a local radio talent in Indianapolis made it doubly nice.
The 1969 Indianapolis 500 was the origin of Andy Granatelli's notorious kiss to the then-29 year old Mario Andretti whose curse began in 1970. The official film of the 1969 Indy 500 was aired on New Vision 9 on May 26, 1991 and was hosted by the late Harry Gasser from the New Vision 9 NewsWatch right before the live Telecast of the 1991 Indianapolis 500, which was jointly produced by SilverStar Communications, Inc. and Focal Media Arts, Inc.
4:21 idk why but I love that shot of the birds nest
I know how Mario won, he had something I've never seen him with before or since. Marco you need to grow a moustache by Sunday.
Great post, thanks.
hughcdavies It was actually a burn from his crash in practice. His brother Aldo stood in for him in some of the official photos.
Mario never had a mustache.
A milkstache after this race maybe..
I was 9 yrs. old then and I remember my 4th grade elementary teacher had asked us all to write a letter to a celebrity or ‘hero’ who we looked up to and admired. Most of the other boys in my class wrote to football or baseball players - my letter was to Mario. He mailed back an autographed pic of himself sitting on his car at the famous yard-of-bricks from this race. A true gentleman, legend and racing icon.
It is a miracle that he only won 1 time!!!
So awesome! Every fan loves to see this history! Thank you!
Thank you for posting this. I was a junior in high school when this race ran. I remember thinking Foyt had this race won and then he's out. Was happy for Mario as he'd been the car to beat every year from when he sat on the pole as a rookie in '65(best looking sixties era car ever)and Dan Gurney's second place in a stock block 320 c.i. FORD. Lloyd Ruby was another absolute heartbreaker. The greatest driver to never win the 500.
And after this race, the next week, I got to see FORD win it's 4th straight 24hrs. du Le Mans in the closest finish in Le Mans history. Man what a great time to be an American and a Ford Fan.
With regards to Mario's fantastic run he had in USAC Champ cars in his earlier days: This past year Vintage Motorsport magazine did a pictorial spread of Mario's original Brawner/Hawk, which was based off of a Brabham chassis. It turns out that the bodywork of that early version created a crude ground-effects aspect to it, which gave the car a better road-holding feature than the other built chassis of that era. Clint Brawner and Jim McGee were clueless about ground-effects back then, it was just the luck of the designed bodywork that created a bit more downforce, on Mario's race car, than what his competitors had with their race cars.
@@bloqk16 well back then they had a saying, if it looked right it probably was right and that car just looked sleek and fast. Which was saying a lot considering who the 'other' chassis builders were.
Miatacrosser Yep, I was 19 in 69 & graduating from HIGH SCHOOL , and finally, after 43 years Got to go to my very first INDY 500 Thanks to our son who bought me tickets for my birthday... And having gone over to the plaza on Saturday Legends day to try to get driver Autographs, we were too late for any of them, BUT QUITE BY CHANCE, who should be sitting Not 10 feet from me in his golf cart messing with his Cell phone, BUT MY FIRST EVER AUTOGRAPH from of ALL PEOPLE, the guy who won in 69 the year I graduated, MARIO😃❗️
And yes, we were there this year 50 years later for his Amniversary😊
“Look at the crowd of 300,000”
Smh unbelievable… shoutout to the grandstand builders, amazing how much weight it’s holding up
Good times. Fun race. The technology was advancing so rapidly, it was interesting. Andretti seemed like a good man, and his wife was gorgeous. Cool he won with their lesser car, too.
Historically the Ultimate 🏁
“Three time winner AJ Foyt. No man has ever won it four times.” AJ - Hold my beer.
Al Unser after Foyt hold my beer
SHINOBI ! Yep...and then Rick Mears? Castroneves came damn close.
@@BoilerBloodline Spiderman is going for 5
the pit stops though. Bring a chair and a glass of ice tea and we'll get some fuel in the car while we chat for a bit.
F1 now: "uh oh 3.2 seconds there must have been a problem!"
You should see early 60s pit stops.
Fireball Roberts gets out of the pits in a swift 44 seconds! He’s in the running!
When we were looking through things my grandpa had we found a ticket to the Indy 500 in 1969.
18:32 🎶back Home again in Indiana 🎶
19:59 Tony hulman says...
"GENTLEMEN START YOUR EN inGINES"
I was three years old when this took place, and probably either riding my pedal tractor or tricycle at race time, or was on a family farm in Vermont for the Memorial Day weekend. One or the other, guaranteed!
Hey, I was only three, my parents wouldn't let me go to Indy, alright? I was pretty much at the mercy of going wherever they took me! But, that's okay, because they dragged me along everywhere with them, and never left me with any weirdos! God rest them, they were wonderful people.
Wow! The first row.
In fact, the three drivers on the front row for that race won the USAC championship every year but one in the 1960s, and the other driver to win the national championship that decade was the color analyst for that race, Rodger Ward.
I was there with two buddies of mine. Drove all night in a VW Bug. Exhausted.
This wasn't the "Official Race Film", but actually the edited videotaped broadcast that ABC's "Wide World Of Sports" produced for telecast about a week later.
which makes it the official race film since the actual race broadcast (the closed circuit one MCA did that year) is long gone
Granatelli Looks like he could have been in the Sopranos!!! lmao
Thank you IMS !!!
Great upload.
Mario andretti aka A super Mario of racing
How about that pace car, what a beauty.
Foyt had Number 4 in the bag in 1969 but the split manifold was the red card.The race was very competitive for the first 250 miles and then a rout for Mario in the final 250 miles as everyone just dropped out.This was Roger McCluskey's best "500" as he ran a strong 2nd for a good portion of the first half of the race.Wally Dallenbach also had a good run.
It was certainly McCluskey's best chance to win the Indianapolis 500, despite the fact that he was running third near the end of the 1963 race (the only year he ever led a lap at Indy) and finished third in 1973, when he won the championship, and fifth in 1975. In fact, it wouldn't be until 1971 that he would actually be running at the finish of an Indianapolis 500.
And while Foyt always made it so he'd have the best car in his team back then, it wasn't that other drivers in his cars were uncompetitive. Jim McElreath scored the biggest win of his career in the first California 500, the same year that both he and Donnie Allison finished in the top five at Indy (Allison shared a ride with A.J. in NASCAR in both 1970 and '71). (Incidentally, McCluskey would also win the California 500 in 1972.)
This is awesome. The '69 Indy 500 was the first one I remember watching. Wide World of Sports was a custom for our house.
very healthy race no fatalities the only injuries are minor ones
This is such a time capsule!
Jigger Sirois after being waved off by his car owner with one lap to win the pole: "What in the wide world of sports is a goin' on here!!"
The cars were the best ever. Nice, powerful, diverse, fast and of course, furious. Pilots were Alpha ones. It was better then than today.
Flagman standing on the 2 ft inside wall, crew members with tshirts and cowboy hats...lol. what a wild time.
Thanks for uploading this.
Great Mario
You had to have balls of steel to drive those cars and Mario’s fiery accident didn’t flinch him a bit
One of the most courageous drivers I ever watched
He also had a very bad crash at the 1966 Le Mans. The Ford GT40's breaks failed at the end of the Mulsanne straight,Mario hit the sandwall head on.
Amazing the difference in technology and also safety equipment vs current racing. Seeing even the pit crews with nothing more than street clothes is interesting.
With NO Pit Lane speed limits either. Not to mention the "Rough and Bumpy" concrete surface which often saw 160 MPH entry speeds. Yow!
Considering my first love is sports car racing on road circuits I still have a fascination for the Indy 500s of this era. Still a time of great evolution and variety amongst the cars. I’d love to know what those 4WD Lotuses would have been capable of.
With stronger suspension pieces (No concern about a little added weight) Colin Chapman's brilliant creations would have, most likely, laid the rest of the field to waste. They were as far ahead of technology as Jim Hall's "Yellow Submarine" Ground Effects Racing Car was, with "Lone Star JR" at the wheel in 1980. (It was entered with Al Sr. in 1979 and JR in 1981 but in 1980 the Chaparral Team had the field covered.)
Swimmin at Dolphin club that day. Steve Fleetwood mentioned that he heard Mario Andretti won while we were swimmin. Another Great memory in my life.
Mario’s car was gorgeous. I never knew til now that he won in his backup car. I also didn’t know he had burnt his face. Wrecking the Lotus was his ticket.
As someone in Indy it's interesting to see how much monument circle has changed. Not seeing it surrounded by sky scrapers is weird.
Thank you.. this is so great to watch.. My Car was only 1 years old.. how awesome
The Willy Mays Of auto racing..The Best.
God bless Mary Ellen Andy Granatelli great people
Racing was very dangerous in this Era, much respect.
Look how close the front row spectators are to the catch fence! 😮
And how about the flag man right down on the track.
@@EphSBGGSO The "Fearless & Flamboyant" Pat Vidan, the greatest Flagman in ALL of Motorsports! #2, Doug Clark. The Flagman who has been "The Man" at The Knoxville Speedway for the WoO Nationals and every weekend for many, many years as well!