Why Bobby Rahal Quit Racing | Letterman

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  • Опубліковано 23 тра 2024
  • The IndyCar World Series champ talks about his new team, his decision to quit racing and more.
    (From "Late Night," air date: 11/24/92)
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  • @Luke87Smith
    @Luke87Smith Місяць тому +16

    Approached Bobby as a 9yo for an autograph at Sydney airport after the race at Surfers 1991. Still have it, “All the best Luke, best wishes Bobby”. From then I was a fan. What a legend.

  • @mboykin6047
    @mboykin6047 Місяць тому +28

    Aww, the start of a beautiful relationship

  • @fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044
    @fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044 Місяць тому +28

    Bobby Rahal looks less like a championship-winning racing driver than anyone in history, but he could haul it. Can-Am, Formula 1, IndyCar...he was a beast.

  • @SuperBuzz71
    @SuperBuzz71 Місяць тому +5

    I was a mechanic in Indy Lights and met Bobby at a party. He was the reason after his 1986 win that I fell in love with IndyCar racing. I said, “Bobby you’re the whole reason I’m here in this room tonight”. He said, “Really, did I meet your mother?” I pointed at the gap in my front teeth and over-bight like his and said “Jeez, I don’t know”. He laughed his ass off and somewhere in my old toolbox I have picture of me and Bobby Rahal smiling like long lost father and sone.

  • @winexprt
    @winexprt Місяць тому +22

    Bobby Rahal looks like he'd be happy to write you a new homeowner's policy.

    • @goodwood-rc4nx
      @goodwood-rc4nx Місяць тому

      looks like someone at Pixar liked Bobby so thought will based a character who was the boss of Bob Parr Lol

  • @LetsBeHonestImAPrat
    @LetsBeHonestImAPrat Місяць тому +26

    David loves Indycar, you can tell his love in the interview

    • @Hectorson3
      @Hectorson3 Місяць тому +12

      Hence, the team name, Rahal Letterman Lanigan

    • @kmoecub
      @kmoecub Місяць тому +13

      @@Hectorson3 It was 4 years after this interview that Letterman invested in becoming a team owner.

    • @Hectorson3
      @Hectorson3 Місяць тому +3

      @kmoecub yup then Mike Lanigan joined

    • @sloppynyuszi
      @sloppynyuszi Місяць тому +3

      He likes single seater racing in general. He had F1 drivers and even the Late Murray Walker on the show, decades before DTS made F1 a thing in the US.

    • @fizalrahman9644
      @fizalrahman9644 Місяць тому

      Letterman was one of the only normal nose

  • @arthuralford
    @arthuralford Місяць тому +12

    Now, he and Rahal have won two Indy 500's as team owners

  • @timburr4453
    @timburr4453 Місяць тому +19

    Legendary stache and sweater.

  • @GardenGirlD76
    @GardenGirlD76 Місяць тому +13

    Good Luck this weekend!!!

  • @Speckled_Jim69
    @Speckled_Jim69 Місяць тому +2

    I meet Bobby at Gold Coast Australia 1998. He was just walking from one part of the pits to the othe. He stopped to talk. Even though he would have been busy as a owner/ Driver. He was the nicest person to talk too.

  • @randygravel2057
    @randygravel2057 Місяць тому +6

    I remember the commercial and the girl ❤️

  • @thefunshow2024
    @thefunshow2024 Місяць тому +1

    It's always an amazing interview when Dave actually respects the guest.

  • @Mike-fu9hu
    @Mike-fu9hu Місяць тому +9

    Word on the street is Dave likes to drive fast

    • @mrJimCharles
      @mrJimCharles Місяць тому +3

      He himself used to talk about all the speeding tickets he got

    • @Rob_Kates
      @Rob_Kates Місяць тому +3

      Just ask the Connecticut State Police.

    • @josebrown5961
      @josebrown5961 Місяць тому +2

      He used to talk about the speeding tickets he got in Connecticut. He actually has many fast cars, he just doesn’t publicize it like Leno does.

  • @jonjones3958
    @jonjones3958 Місяць тому +3

    Bobby had to be the most unassuming race car driver of all time

  • @jdubvdub
    @jdubvdub Місяць тому +1

    Bobby almost ran me over on his bicycle when we were touring the garages the day he got bumped. 🤣

  • @fluxcapacitor1621
    @fluxcapacitor1621 Місяць тому +6

    America needs a Letterman 10 year retirement reunion in 2025. National security depends on it!

  • @Hectorson3
    @Hectorson3 Місяць тому +6

    Closest I've come to see Bobby is at Texas Motor Speedway, he was hauling azz to his garage

    • @jeffreyoldham55
      @jeffreyoldham55 Місяць тому +2

      Was standing on pit road with a group of people before the start of the Daytona 24 hour race. Kyle Petty, David Donahue and Hurley Haywood were nearby, as was Christian Fittipaldi. Bobby was at the center chatting with us, and said: "Excuse me one moment". He then turned around and gave the command to start the race. A moment I'll never forget.

  • @RebelTXWrestling
    @RebelTXWrestling Місяць тому +6

    Phoenix International Speedway in its original form before ISC ruined the track

  • @nicholasjohnson6724
    @nicholasjohnson6724 Місяць тому

    I always liked Bobby Rahal. Very humble and unassuming.
    He looks like an accountant, such a kool look in my view ! 🇦🇺

  • @johnschlaefflin2100
    @johnschlaefflin2100 Місяць тому +4

    Just think about that ladies and gentlemen, 235 mph, in traffic. Just going balls out. If that’s not a fantasy, unlike that commercial, I don’t know what is?

    • @twoblacklabs904
      @twoblacklabs904 Місяць тому +1

      John Force’s daughter, Brittany set the NHRA Top Fuel Dragster top speed of 338.48mph in the quarter mile, October 2, 2022.

  • @RonGerstein-tf5tp
    @RonGerstein-tf5tp Місяць тому +10

    As of May 25, 2024, Bobby Rahal is STILL ALIVE.

    • @022171
      @022171 Місяць тому +3

      Sooo, you're from the future?

    • @fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044
      @fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044 Місяць тому +2

      @@022171 He probably replaced the horrid Graham at Indy and had a crash from which he survived? 🤷‍♂

  • @fiatfan83
    @fiatfan83 Місяць тому +2

    The beginning of a beautiful friendship? Business partnership? Anyway, cool video. If RLL can win tomorrow it'll be Sato, but they just haven't had good speed other than him.

  • @charleshulsey3103
    @charleshulsey3103 Місяць тому

    That Miller ad, "MURICA!!!" 😅

  • @dalemihocik4732
    @dalemihocik4732 Місяць тому

    The absolute King of Mid- Ohio. Was at his first Indy Car victory when he won the inaugural Cleveland Grand Prix. Sadly, Cleveland decided not to be on the Indy schedule as it was such a bother to rake in such large profits for the second poorest large city in America.

  • @user-hi4sm3ig5j
    @user-hi4sm3ig5j Місяць тому +1

    My brain never put 2 and 2 together that it's the same Letterman in Rahal Letterman Lannigan.

    • @twoblacklabs904
      @twoblacklabs904 Місяць тому

      Some brains don’t function well…

    • @user-hi4sm3ig5j
      @user-hi4sm3ig5j Місяць тому +3

      @@twoblacklabs904 Some brains belong to people from other countries than the US who don't regularly think about American talk show hosts, strangely enough.

  • @JonathanSterlingUSA
    @JonathanSterlingUSA Місяць тому +1

    The best monologue ever! Frank Sinatra's ALLEGED mob ties. February 7, 1994? Please help me find it!

  • @nonyabiznezzzzz
    @nonyabiznezzzzz Місяць тому

    One of the best to ever do it 🏎️

  • @SuperBuzz71
    @SuperBuzz71 Місяць тому

    People forget how great he was in Peter Paul and Mary

  • @DJDouglasWarden
    @DJDouglasWarden Місяць тому

    I'm guessing after they taped the show.Those guys shook hands.Dave joined the team as a part owner

  • @badgumby9544
    @badgumby9544 Місяць тому +3

    click bait title

  • @douglasjohnson4382
    @douglasjohnson4382 Місяць тому +2

    I remember that ad. I remember the Saab Drakken more than the woman.

    • @fiatfan83
      @fiatfan83 Місяць тому

      They had it parked in the infield in 1992, per a segment they ran during one of the multitudes of cautious that year.

  • @RonGerstein-tf5tp
    @RonGerstein-tf5tp Місяць тому +1

    I been to the Speedway

  • @AR-ed3xw
    @AR-ed3xw Місяць тому +2

    Where is silent gamer? RIP

  • @jamallnu1365
    @jamallnu1365 Місяць тому

    I stole three bottles of water from his BMW dealership in Pittsburgh.

  • @413TomaccoRoad
    @413TomaccoRoad Місяць тому

    Why Graham Rahal went to Top Fuel.

  • @cshubs
    @cshubs Місяць тому

    Where's his wife, Cher? 🙂

  • @danlowe8684
    @danlowe8684 Місяць тому

    Dr. Katz

  • @user-eq2dx2jp6v
    @user-eq2dx2jp6v Місяць тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ hiiiiiii

  • @robinblackmoor8732
    @robinblackmoor8732 Місяць тому +1

    Rahal died? Wow, I did not see them speak about that on race coverage for the Indy 500. You would think they would have mentioned it.

  • @mrJimCharles
    @mrJimCharles Місяць тому

    Bobby Rahal did NOT pass, this was posted by Worldwide Pants (or whoever runs this channel) because it's Indy 500 time!!

  • @zugunruhebirdingtours329
    @zugunruhebirdingtours329 Місяць тому +1

    RIP Bobby Rahal

    • @mrJimCharles
      @mrJimCharles Місяць тому +6

      He's not dead!!!

    • @Chatta-Ortega
      @Chatta-Ortega Місяць тому +4

      Not funny

    • @mrJimCharles
      @mrJimCharles Місяць тому

      Bobby Rahal did NOT pass, this was posted by Worldwide Pants (or whoever runs this channel) because it's Indy 500 time!!