I remember watching this race live. I remember at the end I jumped off my couch.

I couldn't believe you found that race! I remember seeing that live and couldn't believe my eyes. F1 should be that good. 😊

I find it funny how these guy did the chicane better in the wet then in 2021 in the dry 😂

Love your videos man! Newer to indycar and love going back in time with your videos to help me understand what has happened!

Always good to see a Mark Blundell win. Had such a great year in 97

Thanks for this video. When it started it reminded me of the race Mark Blundell won on the last lap and was going to request you did that one and to my surprise it was actually this one. I thought it was at Mid-Ohio. I remembered seeing this one live and thought it was an amazing way to win... and to only lead the race for a few inches (or did he lead the race at any other time?)

That finish was awesome. Thank you for sharing these classic races.

Let's all take a moment to remember how great this series once was.

Great video Demise. I actually attended this race (I was 2 years old at the time & spent most of the race being preoccupied with the hot chocolate & hot dog that my dad bought me instead of watching the on track action lol). This was a great recap of what I missed during the race. I also attended the 2000 race at Portland along with the 2004 & 2005 races. I haven't been back to PIR for Indycar since they returned in 2018 though I am attending this weekend's race (I have been to PIR for both the NASCAR Xfinity Series & Formula E this past year). Lastly since you have covered this race, you should also do a review in the future of the first time NASCAR went to PIR back in 1999 when the Truck Series raced there as that was a very exciting race as well.

Best IndyCar finish imo. And best exemplified by the EuroSport call of the finish imo.

Amazing presentation. Wet races are the most difficult ones for the teams...is like gambling.

the speedworld theme just hits hard

What a wild race from beginning to end Portland is unpredictable

I always thought De Ferran was out of fuel on the straigth, didn't know he was on different tyre. Great video as always man!

Fabulous video. As always !!

that finish was well worth the watch

If you're curious (and this is coming form a local), its a rainy week so this weekend's Portland GP could be a wet one at some point.

The rain start on drammatic and fantastic race

I swear the whole Eurosport version used to be up on YT but I can't, for the life of me find it, only the SPN version... Anyone got a clue where to find it? Also it makes me laugh Mark won 3/4 of the Marlboro Million program, if only he'd won Homestead he'd have taken that. Hopefully, you do the other two wins if you ain't already, I forget if you covered Toronto or Fontana 97, which was just as nuts from start to finish and Zanardi talks about in his book. Somehow I seem to remeber something about Toronto 97 on here but not 100% sure

another great video!

The main difference between F1 and IndyCar? IndyCar doesn't need rain for a great race. But when it does get wet, it just gets plain wild.

I don't think there was a single bad livery in that 97 CART field at all, was there? I mean even the backmarker teams had great paint jobs, Hogan, Ribeiro, Mier, dannr et al, they all had great paint schemes on slow cars, and then you had the front of the pack with absolutely amazing schemes

was there an interesting story in the race in detroit they were talking about where blundell nearly won? if so, that might be worth making a video about - unless you have already and I forgot.

Great race! Its on KZfaq

I’ve stated this before but I absolutely love your videos! Would LOVE if you’d check these races out & consider doing videos on them as well Detroit 97 IRL Dover (both years) IRL Texas 01 San Antonio 13 Indy 92 1989 CART Season (Mears vs Andretti)

2:15 what does that flag mean with the red plus sign on it?

Another W 🏆funny thing is my last name (married) is Blundell. Lol. No relation to Mark

Denise 90 the rewind the movie driven at the unrelistic

With such a dramatic finish I'd kinda forgotten how wild the rest of the race was 😄 But I was so happy for Blundell, as they said on commentary he'd been leading at Belle Isle only to run out of fuel -at the death- a couple of corners before the end of the last lap. [edited for @sdsmt99]