Zanardi was phenomenal between 97 and 98.

I loved CART in the late 90s.. it was a better, simpler time.

Was at both 97 an 98 LBGP and have yet to experience the excitement that Zanardi brought to the fans! Thank you Alex! God bless you!

Brings back some good childhood memories. These cars would straight up destroy the IRL cars of today.

Zanardi...the king of the late breakers!!

The Zanardi years were so exciting

AZ!! I was there. Remember he did this coming from a lap down with a bent push rod. He was unreal in these cars. Robin Hill bent the steering rod back and sent him out. Castroneves had one of his best drives to date but put it in the tires trying to get by Gil for the lead. A great race! Also, RIP Greg Moore, he'd be kicking ass right now in the IRL days.

CART IndyCar of the 1990s was glorious! The split of course destroyed everything and here we are in 2021 and IndyCar is FINALLY starting to get back to where it used to be.

Great pass by Zanardi! Must be CART's best driver ever. Seems like Herta couldn't hold his own down into turn 2.

The Pass - part two

Fantástico Zanardi

watching Formel 1 these days i really miss Alex Zanardi in the late 90s It was just fun to watch!

poor herta. bring back the good old days. todays indycar is horrible.

Zanardi foi um grande piloto

I wonder how good it feels to win like that

@dario272 He DID write some. He won touring car world championship races and noe he is a winner at the New York Marathon. I wouldn't be surprised seeing him winning a gold medal at the paralympics in 2012... A great champion!

Chip jumping on the crew is epic

9:50 - Bryan Herta is a good racer. If Zanardi would've tried that move on Tracy or Michael, they both would've crashed.

Zanardi made up for Senna never living to come to America to drive Champ Car. A lot of passes Zanardi made looked like ones Senna would have made.

Once he is past Herta, Alex sure looks far quicker through the hairpin.

best finish

@Treetop64 Very true =)

Zanardi was the man @long beach

@Treetop64 that's why Dario's a 3-time champ lol

@cpthornman So would the drivers! :)

"When the American driver meets the European driver, you said the American driver is a dead man" Clint Eastwood.... maybe. ;-)

@romero2k alex was superior to a lot of drivers he was really in a very good carrer moment... too bad about 2001, he was finding the pace and slowly was getting up to speed when we all know what happened, he could've written many more moments

Zanardi owned Herta