Not only that, but I do HOPE Liberty Media is looking at what you guys are doing and maybe do something similar with their historic achieves. Now if only F1 can get more coverage here in the US than we can do something to start to address that problem.

This is actually NOT "their ENTIRETY" broadcast. During this 1984 broadcast there was a piece done by ABC's Ray Gandolf about his "off the track" story about the little big-wheel 500. A piece about children. I have the whole broadcast recording on VHS. Its omitted in this upload.

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@@GoldPicard You do know there is F1tv, with historic races, going back to the early 80s? $70/year.

@@roddy6924 People shouldn't have to pay another $70/year for ANOTHER streaming service to watch old F1 races. Are you an employee of theirs or something? (They'll fire you anyway when they think you are of no use to them).

I always thought the March 84C was the peak of design evolution for this era of champ cars (yes I call them "champ cars"). In fact, it would be a great design today if they could somehow eliminate the exposure of the driver's feet to injury.

Wow, that's a great story. Pretty awesome to know your life started so close to all that great America kickassery. I lean towards F1 and Drag racing as far as racing goes, but the Indy 500 is the fn Indy 500 and being a fellow midwesterner, I find your story cool 😎

And yet the only one of them to go on to win the race would be Emo.

@@tubainpol I was there and loved it. OJ in the winner's circle.

The second greatest rookie class ever. Of course the greatest was 1965 with Big Al, Mario and Gordy.

Yes and two years prior Mario Andretti was complaining about "kids" in the race but had no problem with his son being there. Nepotism reigns in motorsports!

Emo was already a 2x wdc champion by this time in his carrer

ONE of those men.......not the only one.

I was one of those 400,000. It was my first 500 at age 9.

@@vitaminsea5931 I was 9 that year too but I’ve never been to Indy. I bet it’s unbelievable to be there in person!

My dad was friends with his brother Dave (who used to run late model dirt cars out of Waterloo, Iowa) and I remember he was in the hospital for months after that, it could've been the next year I spoke to Dave and Pat was still in the hospital (I was only 14...lol)

I think he was lucky that he hit the wall rear-first (like Sneva did in 1975). The car did what it was supposed to do and left the tub intact. Terrible crash - were these cars aluminium-honeycomb or carbon-fibre based construction?

Reminds me of greg moore. How he survived that.

Man that was violently ugly. God was watching out for him.

WHAT? he SURVIVED? my goodness i thought for sure he was a goner, figured his neck had to be broken after multiple wicked snaps. thats just incredible.

I remember hearing stories on DJD with David Hobbs talking about that in some races, the commentators would go to the studio late at night, and they would call the races like it was live despite the race being taped

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No man, YOU are the greatest. Stay awesome! 👍😎👍 Rick's a pretty good driver though.

However still very rudimentary compared to what the cars are like today.

Good clean start too.

Dancing, particularly ballet, helps greatly with proprioception (the sense of where you and your limbs are in space), which can reduce errors on pit road. It's why a surprising number of football players in "skill positions" have taken ballet.

Allowing Pat Bedard to race in the Indy 500 would be like having Rosanne Barr singing "Back home again in Indiana".

If that was not the case Rick Mears would have lost his feet after Sanair. But the trackside medical care got better every year.

Racing will never safe that's part of the lure!

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"60% of the people in the camera frame are probably dead now. " Doubt. It is 1984. Great many spectator were between age 20 and 40 and most of them are probably still alive

@@urmo345 Yeah, that's steep. Probably more like 35%.

The Speedway management at the time didn't want to broadcast it live on TV because they feared it would impact attendance. It was only when ABC had new management that recognized how stodgy the delayed tape broadcasts were in an age where full coverage live broadcasts had become the norm on ESPN that they pushed for a new deal to air the race live starting in 1986.

"Lucas-the prince of darkness"

No they'd say that makes him a real man! Can't have your drivers liking men now! Hurley Haywood I'm not slamming Haywood at all. One of the greatest to sit behind the wheel. Just pointing out the hypocrisy of racing fans.

I've seen numbers in the 120 to 140 mph range on pit lane from news articles in that era. 1992 was the first attempt at a speed limit in pit lane and it was 100 mph. However, I remember reading somewhere that it could not be enforced that year because of a failure in the timing equipment. I believe that Raul Boesel was the first to be penalized with a pit road speeding violation in 1993. Al Unser Jr. and several others were penalized in 1994 race. It remained at 100 mph into the early 2000's. At some point (2004?) they built a push button operated pit lane speed limiter into the Engine Management System electronics and it dropped to 60 mph I believe.

Probably a little bit of both, but unlike a lot of the road racers that came to Indianapolis during that period, Holbert did have experience running on speedways, as he'd driven some NASCAR races for long-time campaigner James Hylton in 1978, including the Daytona 500 and had a 7th or 8th-place finish at Darlington, and Holbert was driving for the team that Pancho Carter won the 1981 Michigan 500 with, as well as have his career-best Indy finish of third with in 1982. Johnny Rutherford would later grab his final two victories driving for that same team, so that was a more than competent team Holbert was driving for. Picking him to finish as high as fourth (and he ran as high as third late) might have been a bit presumptuous in a field as stacked as that '84 Indy field was, but he did have experience on high-speed ovals and his team was a team capable of running up front under the right circumstances.

Very suspicious considering Posey did not pick who would finish 1st, 2nd, or 3rd, but could say with bold and even arrogant confidence that Holbert would finish 4th. It's like he wanted to show everyone how smart he is without spoiling who the winner was.

at 1:36 Jackie reports him out on lap 150, then he brings out the yellow at 1:45, did he pull back out??

repeat it a third time and maybe they will, smartass

Sorry. Maybe I should’ve watched your awesome viral video with 25 views called ‘random phone camcorder test’. FYI genius, phones aren’t camcorders. Smartass.

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Yeah I caught that too! I think Posey did a little tape delayed trickery there to make himself look like a great prognosticator.

At one point he said under jr. would win at indy.....Jim McKay then brought up that prediction....Sam said...well wait a minute he's running 6th or 7th....if that's the case...it was well done in all accounts

@@ynp1978 Posey must have had a lot of insecurity if he had to stoop to those kinds of shenanigans. Who in the world would pick a driver to finish 4th and do it with so much confidence? It would have been more believable if Posey had predicted that Holbert would finish in the top 10.

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what did he do!

i agree you can't even see the driver anymore it sucks i know safety is important but there taking the skill of the driver out of it!

McKay was ABC’s #1 sports correspondent so if it was a big event (Indy, Olympics, Kentucky Derby) McKay was there. Kind of like how NBC uses Mike Tirico or how CBS uses Jim Nantz at big events they cover. In 1984 networks used the top correspondent as their lead PBP, only in the last 15-20 years did networks realize “racing guys” (i.e. Leigh Diffey, NBC; Mike Joy, Fox; Paul Page, ABC) were much better and more knowledgeable. I agree, Jim McKay wasn’t good at calling racing, and I think he knew it but he was ABC Sports most recognizable personality.