@scsmith4604 honestly as an American with a casual interest in Indycar, I didn't know it was on this weekend. I think that's a big part of their problem. You can't draw new fans if the ones you have don't even know that it's on.
@tylercady3985 honestly You didn't wanna watch this weekend, it was a rare terrible indycar race. Top 5 barely changed, no fights for the lead. Highlight was romain grosean shoving lundqvist into the tires.
Yep I love F1 for all the innovation and tech updates, but I do like some Indy (when they run road circuits) and F2 also, it's like watching college sports where they just throw their whole heart into it! Maybe they can revive Champ Car and make that a step above Indy Car as the North American constructor's series with a cost cap, would love to see tech and engine innovation through the season.
Anyone who likes Indycar but hates ads, you gotta watch the practice and qual sessions. Several hours per week of ad-free coverage, where they're willing to deep-dive into esoteric topics like camber that are "too boring" for the more general audience on the broadcast.
That's curious. Here in Brazil we have ads on the races of course and they are shown before the broadcast starts and on the race but without cutting the action off the screen, they just split in two(one showing the race and the other the ad) for like 5-10s and go back to the race on full screen
@@lucasrabelo937 I wish it was like that here in the land of advertising. They do use split screen for many of the commercial breaks, but the commercial breaks are the normal 2-3 minutes and it is definitely the advertisement that gets the large majority of screen real estate and not the race.
@@UNHchabo I have to heartily agree that watching practice and qual is a delight. I love the IndyCar qualifying format. I love F1's as well, but IndyCar could never do it because of the number of cars. We do also have to pay to get Peacock here in the US to see them.
Same like Formula 1, and that's exactly why fans want bring those things back, like car, engine sonund and many more. But defenitly stay with HALO and aeroscreen which most drivers save lives
Thanks for covering Indycar. It’s such an underrated series and I think a lot of F1 fans outside of the States still see it as a F1 reject series but it’s so much more. I find myself watching F1 and loving it but Indycar is much more exciting and unpredictable (part because it’s a spec series). I hope more people get into it in the future because some of these drivers truly do have more talent than SOME F1 drivers, they just don’t have 20 million to put down. This channel got me into indy and it convinced me to go to a race last year. Keep up the great work
Is the best driver in the world an F1 driver? Possibly. Are the 20 current F1 drivers the 20 best drivers in the world? Absolutely not. It's silly to ignore the talent of drivers like Dixon, Newgarden, and Palou.
Especially condsidering that a lot of F1 drivers (Including main bae Max Verstappen) are terrfied of ovals. I always cheer for Alonso for this reason. Even if he did not do great in the Indy 500, he qualified and sent it. Also always thankful that it is the same weekend as Monaco because that race is always such a snoozefest.@@UNHchabo
@@michaelhauser8115 Alonso's 2nd attempt (where he got knocked out from qualifying) made for the best David vs Goliath moment in IndyCar history. Juncos's car wrecked during the final practice session and had 24 hours to put the spare car together. Other teams and drivers were bringing them food as they fixed the car overnight. Had to go to bump day and the smallest team you could possibly have in IndyCar knocked out McLaren and a 2 time F1 champion.
@@UNHchabo Agreed. In my estimation, the top ~8 F1 drivers are probably the top open wheel drivers in the world, but the top 12 IndyCar drivers could easily mix it up with the bottom 12 F1 drivers.
...and at most IndyCar races you only have to drop a couple hundred $$$ to get passes for all three days including paddock access where you can literally walk around and watch the teams working on the cars and have drivers walking/biking/scooting by.
On the surface, a lot of American Motorsport seems to revolve about extremes. Dragsters as the epitome of acceleration, NASCAR/Indie Car as an embodiment of permanent max throttle, etc. Even IF oval racing was just putting the foot down and never taking it off the throttle (which it isn't), even IF Top Fuel Dragsters can't even make a single turn, they are fascinating disciplines. I've never seen a dragster live, but I've been to Tractor Pulling events. For those that haven't: Ten thousand horsepower in action is an experience you never forget. The air is shaking. The ground is shaking. YOU are shaking. And it's _stupidly_ loud. All that's really happening is an engine reving up, but the force on diplay is of a magnitude you won't find anywhere else. I find that fascinating. To be precise: The sheer brutality that is unleashed AND controlled by technology far beyond what these simple labels give those sports credit for.
Top fuel classes in drag racing are an experience to seenand feel first hand. So fast and violent it literally cannot be described, if your close enough the compression wave makes it so you cannot breath for the less than a second it takes them to pass you.
Awesome! Thank you guys so much for promoting our beloved american open wheel series I was listening with earbuds on and I knew he was talking about Tony George before. I even saw the picture
I like how Europeans, via F1, take something simple, cheap and quintessentially American, like a baseball cap, and turn it into a super high priced, high tech luxury item. Good to point out, as you do, that IndyCar is a national championship series. Fans both of IndyCar and F1 seem to forget that. It ain’t Formula One or anything like it. It’s the national open wheel championship series of the United States.
I wait and watch your race recaps before watching the official f1 recaps. I’ll be doing the same with your IndyCar vids as well. Hoping you do the full season.
I love watching IndyCar! It helps that it is at a more normal time in North America. A couple years ago I moved back home and my mom and I started watching the races together. Now I still visit home on IndyCar Sundays to watch with my mom as a tradition!
That's an amazing mother. I wish I had a mother that loves sports in general. I watch sports from cycling to tennis and racing only with my brother. My parents hate sports.
Indy NXT is a really fun series i must say. The F2 of indycar, its basically 20 teens with great personalities just happy to be there driving slip and slides on wheels
Indy car also as much simpler rules in regards to passing compared to F1. Oh you're a car length behind and want to dive up the inside taking away the other driver's line? Alright, go for it. Plus it shows that yes open wheel cars can go nose to tail lap after lap or side by side. And for those confused by the size of the teams, in Indy car you can run however many drivers you want, historically two drivers was most common but there were always one driver teams and a three driver team or two. Also the battle between Ganassi and Penske has been going since the 90s.
@@darkwarrior1194 Because a indycar from conception is designed to race the indycar 500. Not road and street courses. A F1 car from conception is designed to race on road and street course.
@@randygravel2057 F1 fans will say that if the F1 car was built and set up to run on an oval it would be faster than an IndyCar, which may be true, but the changes that would have to be made to the F1 car would be so fundamental it would no longer be an F1 car.
What happens is that Indy has 17 races, which 5 are ovals, 5 street racing, and 7 tracks and some of them the worst conditions I've sen by far😮😮. For a F1 to run at Indy 500 that need to change the car in very way importantly the engine!! Indy 500 is around 3 hours racing full speed!! No F1 engine would endure that trust me with that kind of power over 1000hp they would blow their engine to pieces and we are talking a $5M engine. Lower power, longer transmission ratios for higher speed and how much will it cost to do that? And Indy is running with $300k engine!! 236mph even higher speeds for 3hours racing. Last year O'Ward reach 243mph at the curve imagine the Gs in the moment!! And F1 fans thinks Indy cars don't produce Gs forces Look for it and O'Ward was reaching 4.9Gs at 243mph!! It was just for qualifying!! 3 hours at Indy at 236mph average speed 4.8 Gs each lap if don't believe me look for the information .
I really appreciate hearing a Brit talk about American Motorsports fondly. Too often US based motorsports gets shit on internationally for whatever reason.
We're long time F1 fans in the USA (me, expat Brit, since 1963; Kate since 2007), and we just discovered your channel. This was the second video of yours that we watched, and since (a) we're feeling a bit underwhelmed by F1 right now (too many races on crap circuits), and (b) we just subscribed to PeacockTV (paying extra for ad-free service), we decide to watch the replay of today's Indycar race in Florida. We've seen a couple of Indycar races live (at Sonoma and Watkin's Glen), but we have never followed the series on TV. Our verdict? Well, the race was OK - perhaps 6/10 - mostly because it's a boring, terribly narrow street circuit with few passing opportunities. (Just like Jeddah, right? 😏) The commentary was dire - 2/10, and that's generous - with way too much "human interest" nonsense mixed in. (I really don't want to spend a full minute on the way one driver's wife is using boxing in her workout regime!) And the racing coverage was a mess, too, with replays intermixed with live action with no visual indication to indicate which was which. It was a relatively processional race, but even the few interesting moments (Newgarden's first pit stop, for instance) were not covered well. We'll definitely watch a few more races at some of the real circuits, and we're planning to see both Indycar and Formula E when they come to Portland later in the year. But the TV coverage.... well, I never expected to feel that I was missing the Sky Sports F1 madhouse, but I do.
This year I have to pick up a Sting Ray Robb shirt, because last year I didn’t at Road America and I was worried I missed my opportunity to get a shirt with the best name in racing lol
I'm jealous that you don't have to watch ads during the race. The American broadcast is a disgrace. It's clear the network doesn't care about the racing or the fans. It's just about the money.
That is the real crime here. I can't watch my home country motorsport in peace, but the assholes in the UK that don't even appreciate it get to watch it uninterrupted. Damn them and Damn NBC/Peacock
Man, there are a ton of websites that offer free live streams of any sport competition. Rojadirecta for example. Or a better one: LiveTV758. Just search it. I don't pay a penny and I enjoy all sports. So you can watch IndyCar streamed by European SkySports instead of NBC who puts so many ads.
I love your channel. Thank you very much for your coverage of Indycar. I have been telling people how great the racing is in this series for years. I look forward to your coverage of the 2024 season.
Really appreciated skysportsF1 showing the INDYCAR races. I don’t have that channel anymore but when I did and watched Indy, I was excited for the growth of the sport!
In 1979 CART split from USAC and grew into a close rival to F1 in global popularity by the mid-90s. In 1996 the IRL was created and split from CART because then owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Fuck Tony George wanted to own the series. That’s when the popularity of the sport plummeted and ended up reuniting in 2008.
Tony George has been made the scapegoat for all the ills of motor racing, but I do notice that both NASCAR and F1 have stolen his model for a racing series, both adopting and adapting the IRL’s 25/8 rule, which was the forerunner of the charter/franchise system now the rule in both F1 and NASCAR, and which Roger Penske, once the opponent of 25/8 in the IRL days, is also looking to adopt for the current IndyCar series. Tony George never gave the impression of being a great intellect, but he accidentally stumbled upon what would become the future of Major League motor sports.
Exactly! Thanks BC1961 for pointing this out (were you a member of YFDS?). The CART seiries was THRIVING in the 90s, but Fuck Tony George, the owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, CART's biggest race, wanted control of the series. When that didn't happen, FTG formed the IRL, and basically told the CART teams that if they didn't become part of the IRL, the 1996 indy 500 would have 25 guaranteed spots for the IRL on the starting grid, no matter if CART's drivers were faster than the IRL drivers. CART said "fuk dat", boycotted the race, and FTG had to fill the field of 33 drivers for the biggest race in the US with dentists and also-rans. The Indy 500 hardcores (it's kind of a cult... and I used to be part of it til that year), decided to follow the IRL, cuz INDY, and the rest of the fans followed CART. Not enough peeps to support two major open wheel series in the US, so one series needed to die off. Indycar (Cart) in the 90's had three or four chassis manufacturers, 3 motor manufacturers, and a couple tire manufacturers to choose from, plus they could develop their own aero bits and pieces. Hell... Senna even tested a Penske Indycar in '93 (mostly to get McLaren to give him a better contract, I'm sure). IRL had a stock vehicle to run, with mandated wing angle ranges and such, and did everything they could to manufacture close racing. Indycar nowadays is much better than it was in the 90s-2000s, but it's still a shell of what open wheel racing was in the early 90s. So yeah... FTG!
The indy 500 is truly my favorite day of the year and everyone needs to experience it once. It’s like the Woodstock of cars with 500,000+ people across the city heading to the track, and the racing on tv doesn’t come close to in person at all. Have gone every year since 2012 and won’t stop anytime soon
One reason I don’t like Indy car is a weird reason it’s takes place to close to my time zone the thing I’ve liked about f1 (when it’s good) is the fact I wake up at 6 and the race is done by 8 so I still have the full day to go out and do stuff with in day car holding the race mid day at 2pm I can’t go or do anything really and still make the race
ok the 1 e.t.2:35 mark car dirt is the jewel box! It was built by Ted Horn the driver by hand. every single piece of that car is hand built. The beautiful thing being, it still around in a personal collection near Findley Ohio. I believe it took close to 50 years to track down the original steering wheel.
I am a Brit and I would much rather watch Indycar than F1! I don't watch motorsport for the technological prowess of the engineers, I watch it for racing. I couldn't give a crap that it is almost a spec series so long as the racing is good!
Love it, best opening titles of any youtube channel for the Indycar Comedy review Loved the last few seasons of indycar, remember CART / Champcar at it's height, awesome series
Agree with pretty much everything you say. Came to Indycar mainly after ScottyMac moved from Supercars where I'd followed him, from the UK, for a couple of seasons. Was very pleasantly surprised at how varied and unpredictable, and therefore exciting, Indycars was. Last season was far more gripping generally than F1 was, and is frankly one of the few reasons I've kept my SkySports subscription (that and the hope of seeing McLaren go well in F1). I especially enjoyed seeing Grosjean f it up and so many 'mericans not getting why most F1 fans who'd come across to Indy found his performances so amusing... PS I even like Gaymour's commentary!
The racing is fantastic in IndyCar, it's pretty accessible, and the personalities in the series are mostly very cool and friendly. My only request for the series would be to please develop a new chassis before it's eligible for Historic plates. As a footnote, the current aero concept of F1 is basically a highly advanced version of what IndyCar debuted in 2012. They were the first major open wheel series to realize that generating the majority of downforce from the underfloor and using the wings for trim would dramatically decrease the effects of turbulent air on a following car.
Nothing makes me appreciate f1 coverage even stroll-esk interrupting than when someone beaches themselves in the flower pots at long beach during the full screen ad break. Or not being able to watch the Indy 500 even on replay in Indianapolis!
I love seeing F1 channels introducing other fans to the wonders of Indycar Btw what it the background music that plays at 4:16? I’ve been looking for it forever 😭
I experienced IndyCar last season at Road America. It was amazing. Plus it costs significantly less to go to then any US F1 event and driver and team access is easier as well. Can't wait for this season and hopefully more eyes on the series. I'd love to see the series grow to bring in more cash and more engine manufacturers. This season was supposed to make a jump from the 2.2l engines to a 2.4l engine, then after that was scrapped they were going to change the hybrid system but that's been pushed back until after the Indy 500. The cars should be lighter this season so we should see faster times even without the new engine and hybrid system.
I was at Sebring yesterday and it appears that INDYCAR had 6 lorries stashed waiting for St Pete next weekend. INDYCAR does quite a bit of testing at Sebring, but they run a short course bypassing turn 17, the bumpiest turn (and fun) in all of motorsports.
I started following Indycar during Palou's first championship campaign (you know, Spanish bias) and since then I've never missed a race. It's the best single seaters racing out there by far and frankly this year if an Indycar race and an F1 race were to be celebrated at the same time, I'd rather watch Indycar and miss F1. Once you get to know all the drivers and become familiar with it there's no going back
Thank you for making this video. I tried watching and following F1 for a few years (since 21) and found this last season very boring because Verstappen kept winning everything. Ugh! Way to kill the sport. I wanted to watch it here in Pittsburgh because I enjoy the F1 video game by EA Sports. But if the same guy wins all the time.. it just doesn't hold my interest. I think that Americans are just used to civic teams to root for. If there was a racing league that had like garages in different American cities and their cars showed more of a civic pride to them instead of sponsors - oh and the drivers were from this end of the globe.... we'd probably watch it more. So, I renewed my interest in IRL since 2001 and couldn't quite find a reason to root for anybody specific. Like I said.. we associate sports with civic pride and identity rather than root for millionaire teams. I've adopted Scott Dixon because of his PNC Bank car (I bank with them) and Josef Newgarden's PPG Paints car. See the connection? I guess I'll like them for the foreseeable future because those two companies are HQ'd in my city. I'm familiar with them.
Motorsports will never be. They arent relatable enough. Everybody has played basketball or football with thier friends, and if they dont their school has a team. It helps a sports popularity when people participate, but by its nature motorsport cant have many people participating.
You already won me over to watch indy car with your 23 review. Got my Peacock all signed up, just need to find a calendar to import so I can remember to watch.
I got VIP race passes with parking, pit lane access, meet and greet with 2 indycar drivers and team owners, and a behind the scenes tour of an indycar home shop for under $1000 usd. F1 is a joke...
I remember when the Indy 500 actually counted for the F1 championship, and when F1 drivers would fly over from Monaco to race Indy, well into the 1970s, as Indy actually took place on the real Memorial Day instead of the same Sunday as Monaco.
Time for a fun fact and a "fun" fact: "Fun" fact: The AAA gave up sanctioning auto racing explicitly due to the 1955 Le Mans Disaster. Fun fact: Modern versions of the old front-engine Indy dirt cars still race today - Its known as USAC Silver Crown. They race on paved oval as well these days.
Actually quite excited for Indy this year as we might actually get a championship fight unlike in f1. Also would point out that if you attend races it is quite affordable to get a paddock pass and get up close with the drivers and cars.
I tried to get into NASCAR and Indycar last year, but couldn't 100% because of the times and not knowing that much So thank you for covering indycar! Literally Palou is Spanish and here people don't even know who he is
Indycar's youtube channel has 30 minute highlight videos for every race, published the next day. I'm almost certain they're available to watch worldwide. Then they've been publishing the full VOD on their channel about two years after the race as well. So right now you can watch every race of his rookie season, and of his first championship season for free.
If you have Parmount Plus I recomend watching 100 Days to Indy. That is the Indycar version of F1 Drive to Survive. The best way to truly understand the drivers besides following them on social media. They are doing a second season of 100 Days to Indy.
Indycar is 100000% better than F1. Got great seats for two for total with tax, parking at the Indy grand Prix AND mid ohio for under $400... for all 4! Under $100 each to clarify. F1 can suck it.
They need to make Indycar a constructor's series again but use a cost cap like F1 started doing (thank goodness Bernie/Mosley are gone!) and let Indy Lights stay as the spec feeder series. Either that or keep Indycar the way it is and create another constructor's category above it and resurrect the Champ Car name (which in all honesty would probably be the least disruptive plan). It's the reason I love F1 and FIA Endurance series, just following the tech of the different cars and how the engineers continue to make them better.
British people are doing wonders for indycars popularity
Right. They like it more than people in the US do.
Too many Kiwis racing in Indy Cars. .@@scsmith4604
Starting with Jim Clark and Graham Hill when I was a kid.
@scsmith4604 honestly as an American with a casual interest in Indycar, I didn't know it was on this weekend. I think that's a big part of their problem. You can't draw new fans if the ones you have don't even know that it's on.
@tylercady3985 honestly You didn't wanna watch this weekend, it was a rare terrible indycar race. Top 5 barely changed, no fights for the lead. Highlight was romain grosean shoving lundqvist into the tires.
Here is for the Sting Ray Robb diecast fund
Hahaha thanks so much man!
The man with the best name in motorsports since Scott Speed.
I discovered him last year and I thought its his nickname but no... it is his name.. ICONIC 🤌
Jesus car diecast this year
@@EricBurns1Ty Gibbs in shambles
i was a indycar sceptic and decided to watch a race in 21’ watched the whole season last year and became a fan.
Wich Race did you watch
Yep I love F1 for all the innovation and tech updates, but I do like some Indy (when they run road circuits) and F2 also, it's like watching college sports where they just throw their whole heart into it! Maybe they can revive Champ Car and make that a step above Indy Car as the North American constructor's series with a cost cap, would love to see tech and engine innovation through the season.
@@robertomorais187 i think it was the 2021 music city gp. it was wild compared to f1
@@anydaynow01You gotta appreciate the ovals too. Running street courses road courses and ovals all with the same drivers is fun to watch.
Thanks for covering IndyCar! Lifelong fan of both IndyCar and F1. Remember: NBC="Nothing But Commercials"
Indycar won't get nbc in 2025
Anyone who likes Indycar but hates ads, you gotta watch the practice and qual sessions. Several hours per week of ad-free coverage, where they're willing to deep-dive into esoteric topics like camber that are "too boring" for the more general audience on the broadcast.
That's curious. Here in Brazil we have ads on the races of course and they are shown before the broadcast starts and on the race but without cutting the action off the screen, they just split in two(one showing the race and the other the ad) for like 5-10s and go back to the race on full screen
@@lucasrabelo937 I wish it was like that here in the land of advertising. They do use split screen for many of the commercial breaks, but the commercial breaks are the normal 2-3 minutes and it is definitely the advertisement that gets the large majority of screen real estate and not the race.
@@UNHchabo I have to heartily agree that watching practice and qual is a delight. I love the IndyCar qualifying format. I love F1's as well, but IndyCar could never do it because of the number of cars. We do also have to pay to get Peacock here in the US to see them.
Cart back in the 90s was insane.
Zanardi and Moore were special
And Tony George killed it
Same like Formula 1, and that's exactly why fans want bring those things back, like car, engine sonund and many more. But defenitly stay with HALO and aeroscreen which most drivers save lives
CART was amazing!!! I own several diecast models from that era, a few team pit crew shirts and a couple of flags, miss those days.
CART was among the greatest racing series of all time. Thanks SO much, Tony George.
Thanks for covering Indycar. It’s such an underrated series and I think a lot of F1 fans outside of the States still see it as a F1 reject series but it’s so much more. I find myself watching F1 and loving it but Indycar is much more exciting and unpredictable (part because it’s a spec series). I hope more people get into it in the future because some of these drivers truly do have more talent than SOME F1 drivers, they just don’t have 20 million to put down. This channel got me into indy and it convinced me to go to a race last year. Keep up the great work
Is the best driver in the world an F1 driver? Possibly. Are the 20 current F1 drivers the 20 best drivers in the world? Absolutely not. It's silly to ignore the talent of drivers like Dixon, Newgarden, and Palou.
Especially condsidering that a lot of F1 drivers (Including main bae Max Verstappen) are terrfied of ovals. I always cheer for Alonso for this reason. Even if he did not do great in the Indy 500, he qualified and sent it. Also always thankful that it is the same weekend as Monaco because that race is always such a snoozefest.@@UNHchabo
@@michaelhauser8115 Alonso's 2nd attempt (where he got knocked out from qualifying) made for the best David vs Goliath moment in IndyCar history. Juncos's car wrecked during the final practice session and had 24 hours to put the spare car together. Other teams and drivers were bringing them food as they fixed the car overnight. Had to go to bump day and the smallest team you could possibly have in IndyCar knocked out McLaren and a 2 time F1 champion.
@@UNHchabo Agreed. In my estimation, the top ~8 F1 drivers are probably the top open wheel drivers in the world, but the top 12 IndyCar drivers could easily mix it up with the bottom 12 F1 drivers.
@@UNHchabo university of new hampshire?
Thanks!
Wow! Thanks so much man!
@@FP1Will love your Indycar content!
I love how they say on the American commentary ‘catch all of the action right here live’ as they cut to a commercial break without a hint of irony
...and at most IndyCar races you only have to drop a couple hundred $$$ to get passes for all three days including paddock access where you can literally walk around and watch the teams working on the cars and have drivers walking/biking/scooting by.
Couple hundred for Indy yes, anywhere else you’re overpaying friend. Gateway Pits are $25
On the surface, a lot of American Motorsport seems to revolve about extremes. Dragsters as the epitome of acceleration, NASCAR/Indie Car as an embodiment of permanent max throttle, etc.
Even IF oval racing was just putting the foot down and never taking it off the throttle (which it isn't), even IF Top Fuel Dragsters can't even make a single turn, they are fascinating disciplines.
I've never seen a dragster live, but I've been to Tractor Pulling events.
For those that haven't: Ten thousand horsepower in action is an experience you never forget. The air is shaking. The ground is shaking. YOU are shaking. And it's _stupidly_ loud. All that's really happening is an engine reving up, but the force on diplay is of a magnitude you won't find anywhere else. I find that fascinating. To be precise: The sheer brutality that is unleashed AND controlled by technology far beyond what these simple labels give those sports credit for.
Top fuel classes in drag racing are an experience to seenand feel first hand. So fast and violent it literally cannot be described, if your close enough the compression wave makes it so you cannot breath for the less than a second it takes them to pass you.
F1 got me into Indycar now it’s the clear favorite of the two for me, so fun
Same for me. Far more competitive and more head-to-head action.
same
After the Bahrain GP, I know why I spent 50$ on Indycar Live...
Awesome! Thank you guys so much for promoting our beloved american open wheel series I was listening with earbuds on and I knew he was talking about Tony George before. I even saw the picture
You are that kind of guy who gets me to watch indycar. keep up the good work myman.
The only thing not true in this video is that every team is looking for loop holes to win every race in a season.
I like how Europeans, via F1, take something simple, cheap and quintessentially American, like a baseball cap, and turn it into a super high priced, high tech luxury item. Good to point out, as you do, that IndyCar is a national championship series. Fans both of IndyCar and F1 seem to forget that. It ain’t Formula One or anything like it. It’s the national open wheel championship series of the United States.
I wait and watch your race recaps before watching the official f1 recaps.
I’ll be doing the same with your IndyCar vids as well. Hoping you do the full season.
As someone who started f1 with dts years ago I learned to love racing and Indycar is the most competitive
As an American who recently got into open-wheeled racing in general, I'm looking forward to my first season of watching IndyCar!
Glad you're on it mate 👍more entertaining than F1
I love watching IndyCar! It helps that it is at a more normal time in North America. A couple years ago I moved back home and my mom and I started watching the races together. Now I still visit home on IndyCar Sundays to watch with my mom as a tradition!
That's an amazing mother. I wish I had a mother that loves sports in general. I watch sports from cycling to tennis and racing only with my brother. My parents hate sports.
Waiting for the commentary team meme again- decided to give Will a day of from being nagged to run round monaco
😂😂
Indy NXT is a really fun series i must say. The F2 of indycar, its basically 20 teens with great personalities just happy to be there driving slip and slides on wheels
Indy car also as much simpler rules in regards to passing compared to F1. Oh you're a car length behind and want to dive up the inside taking away the other driver's line? Alright, go for it. Plus it shows that yes open wheel cars can go nose to tail lap after lap or side by side. And for those confused by the size of the teams, in Indy car you can run however many drivers you want, historically two drivers was most common but there were always one driver teams and a three driver team or two. Also the battle between Ganassi and Penske has been going since the 90s.
I think Lawless Alan in the NASCAR CTS is also pretty good when it comes to driver names
3:59 FTG!
(That's "Fuck Tony George" for all you newcomers)
In qualifying for Indy 500 the cars go faster in the turns then a F1 car has EVER gone.
Indycars are faster than an F1 when in Oval configuration, but F1 still wins on regular tracks
@@darkwarrior1194 Because a indycar from conception is designed to race the indycar 500. Not road and street courses. A F1 car from conception is designed to race on road and street course.
@@randygravel2057 F1 fans will say that if the F1 car was built and set up to run on an oval it would be faster than an IndyCar, which may be true, but the changes that would have to be made to the F1 car would be so fundamental it would no longer be an F1 car.
What happens is that Indy has 17 races, which 5 are ovals, 5 street racing, and 7 tracks and some of them the worst conditions I've sen by far😮😮. For a F1 to run at Indy 500 that need to change the car in very way importantly the engine!! Indy 500 is around 3 hours racing full speed!! No F1 engine would endure that trust me with that kind of power over 1000hp they would blow their engine to pieces and we are talking a $5M engine. Lower power, longer transmission ratios for higher speed and how much will it cost to do that? And Indy is running with $300k engine!! 236mph even higher speeds for 3hours racing. Last year O'Ward reach 243mph at the curve imagine the Gs in the moment!! And F1 fans thinks Indy cars don't produce Gs forces Look for it and O'Ward was reaching 4.9Gs at 243mph!! It was just for qualifying!! 3 hours at Indy at 236mph average speed 4.8 Gs each lap if don't believe me look for the information .
Great to see you and Dylan doing vids on Indycar together, it's always fun to watch a series where every weekend I wont know who'll be fast
Yessir, the legend Dylan James and fp1will. Great day to be an indycar fan.
last year I took interest in indi car racing through your videos. think I'll watch live this season 👍
Thank you for your coverage!
I hope Rogers' entertainment director ups the ante and hypes the hell out of raising the profile of the best open-wheel series.
I really appreciate hearing a Brit talk about American Motorsports fondly. Too often US based motorsports gets shit on internationally for whatever reason.
Couldn’t agree more, looking forward to attending another great Indy season in St Pete, thanks for the coverage!
IndyCar has more action in one race than F1 will have all season.😂
Grosjean bringing the DNF action 🤌
Welp
We're long time F1 fans in the USA (me, expat Brit, since 1963; Kate since 2007), and we just discovered your channel. This was the second video of yours that we watched, and since (a) we're feeling a bit underwhelmed by F1 right now (too many races on crap circuits), and (b) we just subscribed to PeacockTV (paying extra for ad-free service), we decide to watch the replay of today's Indycar race in Florida. We've seen a couple of Indycar races live (at Sonoma and Watkin's Glen), but we have never followed the series on TV.
Our verdict? Well, the race was OK - perhaps 6/10 - mostly because it's a boring, terribly narrow street circuit with few passing opportunities. (Just like Jeddah, right? 😏) The commentary was dire - 2/10, and that's generous - with way too much "human interest" nonsense mixed in. (I really don't want to spend a full minute on the way one driver's wife is using boxing in her workout regime!) And the racing coverage was a mess, too, with replays intermixed with live action with no visual indication to indicate which was which. It was a relatively processional race, but even the few interesting moments (Newgarden's first pit stop, for instance) were not covered well.
We'll definitely watch a few more races at some of the real circuits, and we're planning to see both Indycar and Formula E when they come to Portland later in the year. But the TV coverage.... well, I never expected to feel that I was missing the Sky Sports F1 madhouse, but I do.
This year I have to pick up a Sting Ray Robb shirt, because last year I didn’t at Road America and I was worried I missed my opportunity to get a shirt with the best name in racing lol
I'm jealous that you don't have to watch ads during the race. The American broadcast is a disgrace. It's clear the network doesn't care about the racing or the fans. It's just about the money.
That is the real crime here. I can't watch my home country motorsport in peace, but the assholes in the UK that don't even appreciate it get to watch it uninterrupted. Damn them and Damn NBC/Peacock
Man, there are a ton of websites that offer free live streams of any sport competition. Rojadirecta for example. Or a better one: LiveTV758. Just search it. I don't pay a penny and I enjoy all sports. So you can watch IndyCar streamed by European SkySports instead of NBC who puts so many ads.
I love your channel. Thank you very much for your coverage of Indycar. I have been telling people how great the racing is in this series for years. I look forward to your coverage of the 2024 season.
I have started looking into Indycars as it is more competitive and has more exciting pit stops.
Really appreciated skysportsF1 showing the INDYCAR races. I don’t have that channel anymore but when I did and watched Indy, I was excited for the growth of the sport!
In 1979 CART split from USAC and grew into a close rival to F1 in global popularity by the mid-90s. In 1996 the IRL was created and split from CART because then owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Fuck Tony George wanted to own the series. That’s when the popularity of the sport plummeted and ended up reuniting in 2008.
Thanks, I was really confused with what was said in the video.
Tony George has been made the scapegoat for all the ills of motor racing, but I do notice that both NASCAR and F1 have stolen his model for a racing series, both adopting and adapting the IRL’s 25/8 rule, which was the forerunner of the charter/franchise system now the rule in both F1 and NASCAR, and which Roger Penske, once the opponent of 25/8 in the IRL days, is also looking to adopt for the current IndyCar series. Tony George never gave the impression of being a great intellect, but he accidentally stumbled upon what would become the future of Major League motor sports.
Exactly! Thanks BC1961 for pointing this out (were you a member of YFDS?). The CART seiries was THRIVING in the 90s, but Fuck Tony George, the owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, CART's biggest race, wanted control of the series. When that didn't happen, FTG formed the IRL, and basically told the CART teams that if they didn't become part of the IRL, the 1996 indy 500 would have 25 guaranteed spots for the IRL on the starting grid, no matter if CART's drivers were faster than the IRL drivers. CART said "fuk dat", boycotted the race, and FTG had to fill the field of 33 drivers for the biggest race in the US with dentists and also-rans. The Indy 500 hardcores (it's kind of a cult... and I used to be part of it til that year), decided to follow the IRL, cuz INDY, and the rest of the fans followed CART. Not enough peeps to support two major open wheel series in the US, so one series needed to die off. Indycar (Cart) in the 90's had three or four chassis manufacturers, 3 motor manufacturers, and a couple tire manufacturers to choose from, plus they could develop their own aero bits and pieces. Hell... Senna even tested a Penske Indycar in '93 (mostly to get McLaren to give him a better contract, I'm sure). IRL had a stock vehicle to run, with mandated wing angle ranges and such, and did everything they could to manufacture close racing. Indycar nowadays is much better than it was in the 90s-2000s, but it's still a shell of what open wheel racing was in the early 90s. So yeah... FTG!
The indy 500 is truly my favorite day of the year and everyone needs to experience it once. It’s like the Woodstock of cars with 500,000+ people across the city heading to the track, and the racing on tv doesn’t come close to in person at all. Have gone every year since 2012 and won’t stop anytime soon
THANK YOU FOR DOING A VIDEO ON INDYCAR!!! I love F1 and I enjoy NASCAR but Indycar has my heart ❤️. Truly the best open wheel series at the moment!!
One reason I don’t like Indy car is a weird reason it’s takes place to close to my time zone the thing I’ve liked about f1 (when it’s good) is the fact I wake up at 6 and the race is done by 8 so I still have the full day to go out and do stuff with in day car holding the race mid day at 2pm I can’t go or do anything really and still make the race
DVR is your friend 👍🏼
Ad breaks after 5 minutes of racing is so frustrating, Nascar does it too💀
ok the 1 e.t.2:35 mark car dirt is the jewel box! It was built by Ted Horn the driver by hand. every single piece of that car is hand built. The beautiful thing being, it still around in a personal collection near Findley Ohio. I believe it took close to 50 years to track down the original steering wheel.
Love the video! I live in Indianapolis and if you ever get to visit here visit in May and see an Indy 500 race in person. You won’t regret it.
It’s on the bucket list!
Nice work…and great to see IndyCar get the recognition it deserves. Thanks, from the States.
I am a Brit and I would much rather watch Indycar than F1! I don't watch motorsport for the technological prowess of the engineers, I watch it for racing. I couldn't give a crap that it is almost a spec series so long as the racing is good!
just want to add that the best oval series in the u.s. still is USAC. single seater 940 hp on dirt.
Thank you for the coverage of a great american motor sport. I hope these eyes help Indycar thrive!
I absolutely love IndyCar and am very appreciative of yours and a few others coverage, thanks
Love it, best opening titles of any youtube channel for the Indycar Comedy review
Loved the last few seasons of indycar, remember CART / Champcar at it's height, awesome series
Went to my first race in Nashville last year. Had an absolute blast in the blistering heat w a subpar track. Well worth the time/money
Agree with pretty much everything you say. Came to Indycar mainly after ScottyMac moved from Supercars where I'd followed him, from the UK, for a couple of seasons. Was very pleasantly surprised at how varied and unpredictable, and therefore exciting, Indycars was. Last season was far more gripping generally than F1 was, and is frankly one of the few reasons I've kept my SkySports subscription (that and the hope of seeing McLaren go well in F1). I especially enjoyed seeing Grosjean f it up and so many 'mericans not getting why most F1 fans who'd come across to Indy found his performances so amusing... PS I even like Gaymour's commentary!
Support from the US. Good work
The racing is fantastic in IndyCar, it's pretty accessible, and the personalities in the series are mostly very cool and friendly. My only request for the series would be to please develop a new chassis before it's eligible for Historic plates. As a footnote, the current aero concept of F1 is basically a highly advanced version of what IndyCar debuted in 2012. They were the first major open wheel series to realize that generating the majority of downforce from the underfloor and using the wings for trim would dramatically decrease the effects of turbulent air on a following car.
good stuff will, i'll be in st pete sunday. maybe i'll streak on the track to add some spice to your recap
Nothing makes me appreciate f1 coverage even stroll-esk interrupting than when someone beaches themselves in the flower pots at long beach during the full screen ad break.
Or not being able to watch the Indy 500 even on replay in Indianapolis!
I love seeing F1 channels introducing other fans to the wonders of Indycar
Btw what it the background music that plays at 4:16? I’ve been looking for it forever 😭
I experienced IndyCar last season at Road America. It was amazing. Plus it costs significantly less to go to then any US F1 event and driver and team access is easier as well. Can't wait for this season and hopefully more eyes on the series. I'd love to see the series grow to bring in more cash and more engine manufacturers. This season was supposed to make a jump from the 2.2l engines to a 2.4l engine, then after that was scrapped they were going to change the hybrid system but that's been pushed back until after the Indy 500. The cars should be lighter this season so we should see faster times even without the new engine and hybrid system.
watched every indycar race so far this season, really fun honestly
Woah, Portland was the first race? I live in Portland! Thanks for this vid, will.
I was at Sebring yesterday and it appears that INDYCAR had 6 lorries stashed waiting for St Pete next weekend. INDYCAR does quite a bit of testing at Sebring, but they run a short course bypassing turn 17, the bumpiest turn (and fun) in all of motorsports.
Sebring is where IndyCar runs testing for street circuits since it's the bumpiest place on Earth that can be closed off.
Me being Dutch I just hope Rinus Veekay does not cuck up the indy 500
What’s better F1 or Indycar? Just see where Zak Brown is gonna be May 26th
I started following Indycar during Palou's first championship campaign (you know, Spanish bias) and since then I've never missed a race. It's the best single seaters racing out there by far and frankly this year if an Indycar race and an F1 race were to be celebrated at the same time, I'd rather watch Indycar and miss F1. Once you get to know all the drivers and become familiar with it there's no going back
6:08-6:30 God, 20 years ago you could have said the same for NASCAR. Gen4 was the best stock car racing.
Gen 7 is better, what you mean?
Thank you for making this video.
I tried watching and following F1 for a few years (since 21) and found this last season very boring because Verstappen kept winning everything. Ugh! Way to kill the sport. I wanted to watch it here in Pittsburgh because I enjoy the F1 video game by EA Sports. But if the same guy wins all the time.. it just doesn't hold my interest.
I think that Americans are just used to civic teams to root for. If there was a racing league that had like garages in different American cities and their cars showed more of a civic pride to them instead of sponsors - oh and the drivers were from this end of the globe.... we'd probably watch it more.
So, I renewed my interest in IRL since 2001 and couldn't quite find a reason to root for anybody specific. Like I said.. we associate sports with civic pride and identity rather than root for millionaire teams. I've adopted Scott Dixon because of his PNC Bank car (I bank with them) and Josef Newgarden's PPG Paints car. See the connection? I guess I'll like them for the foreseeable future because those two companies are HQ'd in my city. I'm familiar with them.
I wish indycar and nascar could be as popular as sports like football soccer and basketball
Motorsports will never be. They arent relatable enough. Everybody has played basketball or football with thier friends, and if they dont their school has a team. It helps a sports popularity when people participate, but by its nature motorsport cant have many people participating.
Thank you for this!
Nice with some Indy Car coverage!
As an Aussie i first explored it when scott mclaughlin moved over. And i was Hooked it was all i wanted in racing! so much more competitive.
You already won me over to watch indy car with your 23 review. Got my Peacock all signed up, just need to find a calendar to import so I can remember to watch.
One does exist! I imported it last year. Can’t remember where from exactly though…
So Americans thought of taking the passenger seat out. And the Brits thought of putting the engine in the back.
Well done, Will! F1 and IndyCar truly complement each other as a racing series. There's no reason you can't love both. And then there's Sting Ray!
I got VIP race passes with parking, pit lane access, meet and greet with 2 indycar drivers and team owners, and a behind the scenes tour of an indycar home shop for under $1000 usd. F1 is a joke...
I think you got the two splits wrong ...
That 7th oval race was a late addition. Nashville Superspeedway replaced the street circuit
As a fan of both, IndyCar is comfortably the more exciting and interesting.
A big like for this video from an F1 and Indycar fan! 💪💪💪
I remember when the Indy 500 actually counted for the F1 championship, and when F1 drivers would fly over from Monaco to race Indy, well into the 1970s, as Indy actually took place on the real Memorial Day instead of the same Sunday as Monaco.
Time for a fun fact and a "fun" fact:
"Fun" fact: The AAA gave up sanctioning auto racing explicitly due to the 1955 Le Mans Disaster.
Fun fact: Modern versions of the old front-engine Indy dirt cars still race today - Its known as USAC Silver Crown. They race on paved oval as well these days.
Actually quite excited for Indy this year as we might actually get a championship fight unlike in f1. Also would point out that if you attend races it is quite affordable to get a paddock pass and get up close with the drivers and cars.
I tried to get into NASCAR and Indycar last year, but couldn't 100% because of the times and not knowing that much
So thank you for covering indycar!
Literally Palou is Spanish and here people don't even know who he is
Indycar's youtube channel has 30 minute highlight videos for every race, published the next day. I'm almost certain they're available to watch worldwide. Then they've been publishing the full VOD on their channel about two years after the race as well. So right now you can watch every race of his rookie season, and of his first championship season for free.
@@UNHchabo oh nice, thanks!
If you have Parmount Plus I recomend watching 100 Days to Indy. That is the Indycar version of F1 Drive to Survive. The best way to truly understand the drivers besides following them on social media. They are doing a second season of 100 Days to Indy.
Great video BTW... thanks!
Ilott is getting the mclaren seat, indycar posted about it
Im eager to see Lundqvist race, I remember when he completely dominated BRDC F3 a few years back
People who say oval racing is simple and just turning left, are stupider than LH's fanbase
Indycar is 100000% better than F1. Got great seats for two for total with tax, parking at the Indy grand Prix AND mid ohio for under $400... for all 4! Under $100 each to clarify. F1 can suck it.
Wish they would come back to Gold Coast Qld Aus. It's so well missed.
Indycar and imsa have to be the two most underrated racing sports of all time
Yep, I find myself watching Indycar online with Sky sports instead of watching on network TV. Crazy amount of commercials!
People should watch the docuseries, 100 days to Indy. Its amazing and will make you love the sport
I have been to every Indianapolis 500 since 1982. My Dad has been to every one since 1964. You need to go at least once.
They need to make Indycar a constructor's series again but use a cost cap like F1 started doing (thank goodness Bernie/Mosley are gone!) and let Indy Lights stay as the spec feeder series. Either that or keep Indycar the way it is and create another constructor's category above it and resurrect the Champ Car name (which in all honesty would probably be the least disruptive plan). It's the reason I love F1 and FIA Endurance series, just following the tech of the different cars and how the engineers continue to make them better.
Itd be more fun and allow it to say somewhat spec if you had multiple chassis manufacturers competing in a "chassis championship"
Cus the racing is fantastic, thats why
I’m the odd American who grew up on F1 and “settled” for my local Indycar, only to fall in love with the series.
Best racing on tv, in my opinion.
SVG in NASCAR can go get effed, the two Kiwi Scotts are so underrated.