It was a great day for Colombian racing indeed. I wish Muñoz had a longer crack at Indycar than he did, for me he had great talent but didn't get the chance to fully shine.
@@tydyeracinggaming4742Carlos Muñoz is truly a “streets will never forget” driver. Close to winning the 500 twice, and being a very good driver that didn’t get enough time
when you mentioned the larger fuel tank and rear wing infringement my heart dropped, but to see they only got fined and kept the win kept the joy of this scenario
I'm glad they kept the win. It must've been fairly small infringements because they were only fined $5,000 dollars, which in top level racing terms, is hardly anything.
Do I remember right that Wilson’s oval win in a coyne was also in an illegal car that they only got a financial penalty for? Think that happened to one of the other teams too, though they didn’t quite win in the end
Never heard about this guy before. Love the variety of series covered in this channel. Indycar history, for example, doesn't get enough coverage, there are so many different eras I know very little of
I just love racing. Whether it's F1, NASCAR, Rallying, Indycar, Rallycross, Sportscar's or Citroen C1 racing, if it moves and cars are being pushed to the limit, it makes me interested. I'm glad that your liking the variety that I'm trying to do with this channel.
In terms of underdog championships, I have two favourites. One from NASCAR and one from F1. In the Spring of 1991, owner driver, Alan Kulwicki, picked up a one race sponsorship from Hooters Restaurants. After that one race, Hooters, happy with the exposure his team had given them, signed a new sponsorship contract, full time for the rest of 1991 and the whole of 1992. Because of this, Alan decided that he could make a run at the championship in 1992. Although it looks inevitable now, at the time he would have been laughed at, with good reason. Although his team had been gradually improving, from when he purchased Bill Terry's team in 1986, he had been barely around the top 15 in the end of season standings, with 1990 his best up to then being 8th, they didn't seem capable of competing for a championship. However, by winning races where he could and keeping himself within arm's reach when he didn't win races, he entered the Finale of the 1992 Nascar Winston Cup Championship 30 points behind the leader with 185 available (175 for winning the race, 5 bonus points for leading a lap and 5 more for leading the most laps). In a thrilling final round, featuring flat out racing from beginning to end, with Alan and his closest rival, Bill Elliott, trying to get every point they could, in the end, despite finishing second to Bill in the race, leading 103 laps to Bill's 102 was enough to give Alan the championship by just 10 points. In doing so, not only did he become the first champion in NASCAR to have been born North of the Mason/Dixon line, but he was the first owner driver champion since 1979. As for the F1 example, if someone had told Jenson Button, fresh from Honda abruptly pulling out at the end of 2008, that he would be world champion the following year, he would have probably laughed. Even though Ross Brawn, the previous Team Principal of Honda, had led a management buyout of the team, there was no guarantee that they'd be granted a last minute entry for the 2009 season. Obviously, the team couldn't use the Honda engine the chassis had been built around, so the team shopped around for a replacement. They not only gained a supply of Mercedes engines, the best on the grid, but McLaren supplied them with gearboxes as well. Despite the rest of the field having tested for 2 months, the newly branded Brawn GP found themselves having set the pace in the final preseason test by a second over the field. This, despite funds getting tight as the season went on, led to Button and the team clinching both titles with a race to spare, despite having fallen behind on development to Red Bull and McLaren (after winning 6 of the first 7 races, Button only finished on the podium 2 more times, at Monza and Abu Dhabi)
Both of these stories are awesome in their own right. The Brawn one was particularly amazing in my opinion, because they won by looking outside the box with the double defuser design. Considering the budget they had, that (along with the wins and podiums they got afterwards) was amazing to see.
@TyDye RacingGaming when Alan Kulwicki was introduced at the year end banquet in 1992, the Frank Sinatra song "I did it my way," was played. Befitting as he had turned down opportunities to race for other teams and came out on top. It gave a whole new meaning of course when Kulwicki was tragically killed in a plane crash in Tennessee in April 1993
@@tydyeracinggaming4742 iirc the double diffuser was mainly developed by Toyota before they left and gave all their resources to brawn. They must've been kicking themselves when they saw how well brawn did.
@@neblolthecarnerd Ah yes, thanks for reminding me. I imagine you mean Honda rather than Toyota, as Toyota competed in 2009 against Brawn and Honda was bought out by Brawn.
Ah yes, IndyCar in Houston. We were due a shock winner there from Day 1, we actually almost got that the year before with Simona de Silvestro (2nd & catching up on Scott Dixon before a late caution ended the race), but yeah, Huertas' win was quite the WTF moment. And yes, because of Rahal getting penalized for the incident with Kanaan, we did have an all-Colombian podium.
Oh that is amazing. These kinds of videos are great for a relatively new Indycar fan. Ofc I've known about Indy 500 for many years already but actively started following from 2021 summer because of Grosjean
That makes me very happy to hear. Any way I can contribute in helping someone get more invested in motorsport or a specific racing series then that's a huge bonus for me.
That "ear infection" during the lead up to the 2015 500 was never confirmed but likely a non payment by his sponsor, ironically creating a ridiculous situation that could be a video on its own. James Davidson was due to race in the 500 but was racing in Pirelli World Challenge at the time meaning he couldn't qualify. No worries. At Indy, it is the car that qualifies, not the driver, so Tristan Vautier qualified for James but with Huertas getting the ear infection between quali and the race left the 18 car without a driver. Vautier stepped in and for the first and so far only time in history, a driver raced against the car he qualified. Also all 3 Coyne cars hit each other during the race... under yellow, in the pitlane...
I was there that day! I was only about 11-12 at the time but man that was cool. My dad who was a Rahal fan absolutely hated finishing like that under yellow, but I always root for the underdogs whenever I can so it was cool to see a car with basically no sponsorship win the race!
One amazing underdog win for me is the 1999 BTCC round at Donington Park... At the time, BTCC was an incredibly unfair series, as it allowed direct competition between independent and factory teams, but the independent teams not only had way smaller budgets, they weren't even allowed the same equipment like tires as the factory teams were! So at that race, an independent team had never won a round of the series, as even the worst factory teams were often almost a second per lap faster than the top independent team. But for this event, they were allowed to use the same tires which narrowed the gap slightly, but still had major disadvantages everywhere else, so when the Nissan Primera of Matt Neal managed to win, despite nearly retireing after stalling in the pits (which was a near instant retirement for the Nissans, as they were notoriously hard to restart), the series found itself with an unbelieveable victor, as the big teams fell by the wayside with various issues... The story goes that even the factory teams kinda routed for Matt to get the win!
Hey i've just discovered the channel and after seeing a few videos it's promising, keep up the good work👌🏼 for the next street track failures video you could do the Valencia f1 track. I'm from there and it was a huge scandal
I'm glad your liking the content. The plan is for more content like this and for the quality to aim higher for next year, with hopefully more real life videos as well. Valencia seems to be getting requested more and more. The plan is for a video on that track to feature in the series.
FL means he had the fastest lap. As to why he's listed for two numbers, I can only imagine that's an issue graphic wise. He drove in car 21 the whole season of the 2013 Formula Renault 3.5 Championship.
Dude basically won because he runs longer than the other drivers and later it found out that he used larger fuel tank. He got penalized but his win stood, possibly because it'll make a great story like this.
I'm only guessing here, however I think because the fines were only $5,000 each, I don't think the infringements were massively beyond what was allowed.
I forgot about this for a while as well. It just popped into my head a week or so before I did this video. That then made me think that this would make for an interesting video. Hopefully, said video is indeed a good one.
@@tydyeracinggaming4742 Yes she did enjoy it. I was afraid she wouldn't because of the rain. We were on the front stretch grandstand right at start finish. So we got to see that wild start in all its glory. I miss Indycar in my hometown for sure.
I'm glad you enjoy the videos. I can't guarantee that the music will go completely because when I watch the videos without music, it sounds a bit awkward from my perspective. However, I can definitely turn the music volume down a bit more.
you seem to be interested in Indycar quite a lot despite calling it a "minor national series", since you are such a common sight on almost every video related to it
Ah yes, the greatest day of Colombia's Motorsports history. When Huertas, Montoya and Muñoz swept the podium...
It was a great day for Colombian racing indeed. I wish Muñoz had a longer crack at Indycar than he did, for me he had great talent but didn't get the chance to fully shine.
@@tydyeracinggaming4742Carlos Muñoz is truly a “streets will never forget” driver. Close to winning the 500 twice, and being a very good driver that didn’t get enough time
@@DL-nn1ws That's pretty much what I remember him as.
Columbia also advanced from the round of 16 in the world cup that year and that day.
@@bendtfender2894 That (I believe) was mentioned during the broadcast.
when you mentioned the larger fuel tank and rear wing infringement my heart dropped, but to see they only got fined and kept the win kept the joy of this scenario
I'm glad they kept the win. It must've been fairly small infringements because they were only fined $5,000 dollars, which in top level racing terms, is hardly anything.
@@tydyeracinggaming4742 The fuel tank was "within human error" so the fine was all that was necessary
@@madc2004 Ah ok, that explains it.
Do I remember right that Wilson’s oval win in a coyne was also in an illegal car that they only got a financial penalty for? Think that happened to one of the other teams too, though they didn’t quite win in the end
Never heard about this guy before. Love the variety of series covered in this channel. Indycar history, for example, doesn't get enough coverage, there are so many different eras I know very little of
I just love racing. Whether it's F1, NASCAR, Rallying, Indycar, Rallycross, Sportscar's or Citroen C1 racing, if it moves and cars are being pushed to the limit, it makes me interested. I'm glad that your liking the variety that I'm trying to do with this channel.
Thank you buddy for this video. Clearly remember that magic day for us Colombian racing fans.
"how the drivers could see and in turn race as close as they where is beyond me"
Indy drivers always race hard.
That's very true, those drivers have enormous guts and bravery.
In terms of underdog championships, I have two favourites. One from NASCAR and one from F1. In the Spring of 1991, owner driver, Alan Kulwicki, picked up a one race sponsorship from Hooters Restaurants. After that one race, Hooters, happy with the exposure his team had given them, signed a new sponsorship contract, full time for the rest of 1991 and the whole of 1992. Because of this, Alan decided that he could make a run at the championship in 1992. Although it looks inevitable now, at the time he would have been laughed at, with good reason. Although his team had been gradually improving, from when he purchased Bill Terry's team in 1986, he had been barely around the top 15 in the end of season standings, with 1990 his best up to then being 8th, they didn't seem capable of competing for a championship. However, by winning races where he could and keeping himself within arm's reach when he didn't win races, he entered the Finale of the 1992 Nascar Winston Cup Championship 30 points behind the leader with 185 available (175 for winning the race, 5 bonus points for leading a lap and 5 more for leading the most laps). In a thrilling final round, featuring flat out racing from beginning to end, with Alan and his closest rival, Bill Elliott, trying to get every point they could, in the end, despite finishing second to Bill in the race, leading 103 laps to Bill's 102 was enough to give Alan the championship by just 10 points. In doing so, not only did he become the first champion in NASCAR to have been born North of the Mason/Dixon line, but he was the first owner driver champion since 1979.
As for the F1 example, if someone had told Jenson Button, fresh from Honda abruptly pulling out at the end of 2008, that he would be world champion the following year, he would have probably laughed. Even though Ross Brawn, the previous Team Principal of Honda, had led a management buyout of the team, there was no guarantee that they'd be granted a last minute entry for the 2009 season. Obviously, the team couldn't use the Honda engine the chassis had been built around, so the team shopped around for a replacement. They not only gained a supply of Mercedes engines, the best on the grid, but McLaren supplied them with gearboxes as well. Despite the rest of the field having tested for 2 months, the newly branded Brawn GP found themselves having set the pace in the final preseason test by a second over the field. This, despite funds getting tight as the season went on, led to Button and the team clinching both titles with a race to spare, despite having fallen behind on development to Red Bull and McLaren (after winning 6 of the first 7 races, Button only finished on the podium 2 more times, at Monza and Abu Dhabi)
Both of these stories are awesome in their own right. The Brawn one was particularly amazing in my opinion, because they won by looking outside the box with the double defuser design. Considering the budget they had, that (along with the wins and podiums they got afterwards) was amazing to see.
@TyDye RacingGaming when Alan Kulwicki was introduced at the year end banquet in 1992, the Frank Sinatra song "I did it my way," was played. Befitting as he had turned down opportunities to race for other teams and came out on top. It gave a whole new meaning of course when Kulwicki was tragically killed in a plane crash in Tennessee in April 1993
@@tydyeracinggaming4742 iirc the double diffuser was mainly developed by Toyota before they left and gave all their resources to brawn. They must've been kicking themselves when they saw how well brawn did.
@@neblolthecarnerd Ah yes, thanks for reminding me. I imagine you mean Honda rather than Toyota, as Toyota competed in 2009 against Brawn and Honda was bought out by Brawn.
@@tydyeracinggaming4742 oh yea my mistake sorry
Ah yes, IndyCar in Houston. We were due a shock winner there from Day 1, we actually almost got that the year before with Simona de Silvestro (2nd & catching up on Scott Dixon before a late caution ended the race), but yeah, Huertas' win was quite the WTF moment.
And yes, because of Rahal getting penalized for the incident with Kanaan, we did have an all-Colombian podium.
I forgot about that race. I'll probably have to look that one up again.
Another weird thing about this is that, despite not racing since 2015, Huertas is only 31 years old! He stopped racing so early.
He could if he wanted to, restart his racing career at a pretty high level.
Oh that is amazing. These kinds of videos are great for a relatively new Indycar fan. Ofc I've known about Indy 500 for many years already but actively started following from 2021 summer because of Grosjean
That makes me very happy to hear. Any way I can contribute in helping someone get more invested in motorsport or a specific racing series then that's a huge bonus for me.
That "ear infection" during the lead up to the 2015 500 was never confirmed but likely a non payment by his sponsor, ironically creating a ridiculous situation that could be a video on its own. James Davidson was due to race in the 500 but was racing in Pirelli World Challenge at the time meaning he couldn't qualify. No worries. At Indy, it is the car that qualifies, not the driver, so Tristan Vautier qualified for James but with Huertas getting the ear infection between quali and the race left the 18 car without a driver. Vautier stepped in and for the first and so far only time in history, a driver raced against the car he qualified. Also all 3 Coyne cars hit each other during the race... under yellow, in the pitlane...
That was a very interesting year for Coyne if I remember rightly.
The all Colombian podium as well.
Indeed. Was definitely quite the day to be a racing fan in Colombia.
I was there that day! I was only about 11-12 at the time but man that was cool. My dad who was a Rahal fan absolutely hated finishing like that under yellow, but I always root for the underdogs whenever I can so it was cool to see a car with basically no sponsorship win the race!
Really great video, super fun and informative, you've got a new subscriber 🙌
Thank you for subscribing, it's massively appreciated. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Hopefully, more videos like that will be on the way.
One amazing underdog win for me is the 1999 BTCC round at Donington Park...
At the time, BTCC was an incredibly unfair series, as it allowed direct competition between independent and factory teams, but the independent teams not only had way smaller budgets, they weren't even allowed the same equipment like tires as the factory teams were! So at that race, an independent team had never won a round of the series, as even the worst factory teams were often almost a second per lap faster than the top independent team.
But for this event, they were allowed to use the same tires which narrowed the gap slightly, but still had major disadvantages everywhere else, so when the Nissan Primera of Matt Neal managed to win, despite nearly retireing after stalling in the pits (which was a near instant retirement for the Nissans, as they were notoriously hard to restart), the series found itself with an unbelieveable victor, as the big teams fell by the wayside with various issues... The story goes that even the factory teams kinda routed for Matt to get the win!
Not sure why I don't recall this
Hey i've just discovered the channel and after seeing a few videos it's promising, keep up the good work👌🏼 for the next street track failures video you could do the Valencia f1 track. I'm from there and it was a huge scandal
I'm glad your liking the content. The plan is for more content like this and for the quality to aim higher for next year, with hopefully more real life videos as well. Valencia seems to be getting requested more and more. The plan is for a video on that track to feature in the series.
yo gotta say, love your vieos. Espeally the diversity of race series. From Formula E, to indy and f1 and all in between.
I love racing of all kinds. If it's got four wheels and it gets pushed to it's limits, I'll do my best to watch it. Glad your enjoying the videos.
I love this sort of stuff - Petite Le Mans 2015 is my favourite
4:18 Why is Will Stevens listed twice, car #21 & #55 ? What does "FL" mean?
FL means he had the fastest lap. As to why he's listed for two numbers, I can only imagine that's an issue graphic wise. He drove in car 21 the whole season of the 2013 Formula Renault 3.5 Championship.
Dude basically won because he runs longer than the other drivers and later it found out that he used larger fuel tank. He got penalized but his win stood, possibly because it'll make a great story like this.
I'm only guessing here, however I think because the fines were only $5,000 each, I don't think the infringements were massively beyond what was allowed.
Great production mate! Keep up the great work. And yes of course I subed.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. The subscription is greatly appreciated, thank you.
So basically, Huertas is Indycars Montoya
Meanwhile, Pascal Wehlrein got DSQ in Puebla just because Porsche forgot to tick the tyres.
Fair point in that respect. I think the team should've been fined rather than disqualify the driver.
There’s no apostrophe in ‘upsets’.🙄🤦♂️
"Better a lion for a day than a lamb for a lifetime" as I heard it said.
I keep forgetting this even happened
I forgot about this for a while as well. It just popped into my head a week or so before I did this video. That then made me think that this would make for an interesting video. Hopefully, said video is indeed a good one.
2014-2015 was a cursed year for open wheel racing
What about Panis 1996?
Panis did score some pretty good results later on (i think he finished second in another race)
Viva Colombia, mi encanto!
1:35 to quote the great James Hunt: "Big balls"
That's certainly one way of describing it.
Seeing his website...apparently his now a math teacher!
If that's true, then this is one massive career change that's for sure. I hope he's doing well.
Shame that this guy was only a one hit wonder
It was a shame. I think he had more talent than his results showed across his career.
how do have illegal parts and still win?
I believe the transgressions were not that big, so Indycar decided the fines were appropriate.
I was at this race with my fiance. It was her first race.
That's a great story. What a race it turned out to be. Hope you both enjoyed it.
@@tydyeracinggaming4742
Yes she did enjoy it. I was afraid she wouldn't because of the rain. We were on the front stretch grandstand right at start finish. So we got to see that wild start in all its glory. I miss Indycar in my hometown for sure.
@@luckystrike33t Glad to hear you both enjoyed it. I'm surprised you saw any of the start given how much spray went up in the air.
I enjoy your videos and all the original stories. But in the future I hope you ditch the background music while you're talking.
I'm glad you enjoy the videos. I can't guarantee that the music will go completely because when I watch the videos without music, it sounds a bit awkward from my perspective. However, I can definitely turn the music volume down a bit more.
I'll say something the markers were horrible
Wait, HUERTAS WON A RACE!?!?!?!
He did yes. I couldn't believe it watching this race live.
I was there!!
Oh awesome! Hope you enjoyed it.
AWESOME INDYCAR RACE
"upset's"
Maldonado spain come on
That is one of motorsport's most well known upsets. I did a video on this one because I feel it's regularly overlooked.
LOL, some minor national series event is not "Motorsports biggest upset". Passing that off as something major is rather upsetting!
you seem to be interested in Indycar quite a lot despite calling it a "minor national series", since you are such a common sight on almost every video related to it
"upset's"