Yea he was a really bad ass driver back then

Ingrid michealson

Dalejr88rox then Nascar came along.

As.

scott dixon too

Now anybody would in 2020

that's only the indy 500 right? not all the races

@@lightningmcdweeb the million dollars was for winning the championship.

80% of that goes to the team, sponsor, etc

+Zachary DeCiancio And Kentucky, Michigan, Auto Club and Kansas

+2016 NASCAR Crashes & Finish's They still do autoclub speedway.

+David Siddons They did last year but I don't think they're doing it this year. Its a shame because that Indycar Auto Club race I watched last year was one of the best races I have ever seen. That's counting NASCAR too

+2016 NASCAR Crashes & Finish's I agree, that is sad and that was a great race even though they finished on yellow.

+David Siddons Yeah, but there was a flip so it evens out lol

what about this year's freedom 100 then? it was pretty amazing

No this is about the closest not the coolest. Coolest is based on opinions, but closest is based on facts.

@@gummy_6437 the 4 wide finish he mentioned was .0026 seconds, thereby placing it in second on this list.

I wish open wheeled racing would come back to Michigan!

@@twan313 We all do, my friend.

@MetalMastodon IndyCar hasn''t done a very good job of marketing themselves on TV over the past few years so casual fans actually know well ahead of time when the races are. I'm not a hardcore IndyCar fan so I usually don't know they're even having a race until a couple days prior. When you watch a NASCAR race, they're already promoting races 2 and 3 months ahead on the schedule throughout the entire race. IndyCar doesn't do that. It may get mentioned once over the course of an IndyCar broadcast. Furthermore, whenever IndyCar hits on a fantastic oval package like they did from about 2013-2016, all the drivers complain that the cars are racing too close together. I got new for them...that's called great racing. If you don't want to be racing door to door with someone then why are you out there. That's what fans want to see. Not single file follow the leader and then pass them on pit strategy.

@@kodyhightower1903 even here in latin america they don't broadcast Indy anymore

But not Daytona!

I don't either, I just miss the V8's

+Empty Box I miss the late '90s- early '00s CARTs ;)

+Empty Box I Completely agree. These old IRL speedway races after the "crapwagon" era followed the same style as plate racing in the tin-tops. Its white-knucked follow the leader for 90% of the race, with 5 laps of pure chaos to finish. I much prefer the lower downforce approach taken with the new Dallara for the speedways. That being said, it will be interesting to see how the race at Phoenix plays out compared to the old layout, as the lap times in testing were not far off the lap records set in '95 and '96.

X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X Just CART in general, no need to specify. :)0

oh hai empty box :3

but has only ovals is boring

davp11 only a third of the Indycar calendar is ovals

@@Trainmaster909 yes i meant only this video

@@davp11 There's nothing boring about this video. These are all better racing clips than you'd get at any road course.

@@davp11 Are just ovals, but the presition of the pilot and the spotter it's amizing

Now Kanaan and Dixon are the only ones left! Wheldon is of course dead. Dario is retired after a crash at Houston, and Helio is now in sports cars, but even without three of these guys, IndyCar still has a pretty great group of drivers!

@ClintBoy14 Not full-time anymore jsut the Indy 500 now, and Tony Kanaan will be retiring soon as well

Do you just not understand the importance of a spotter?

If you don't like this dont watch it

@@daviddonnell2153 it was a joke dude

i mean if hes saying that hes outside, he doesnt need to say it every second. once he says "clear" thats when you know he isnt there.

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ChrisK y not anymore?

Chairdom this video was uploaded before that

good thing the Indy 500 will always exist

These aren't the good old times.

Ovals are boring though...

CART was the good old times

I really wish when I was younger in the late 90s to early 00s I had watched cart/Indy races the oval races here are so much better compared to this single file racing they do now on ovals and can’t draw a huge crowd anymore.

I was just going to say this

Wasn't closest in nascar history Ricky craven and Kurt Busch finished 0.002 seconds apart at darlington in 2002

+RipCurlRules2188 2003 actually but yes. That and the 2011 Aaron's 499.

People were asking for it

Not in history. Just 500 history.

Oh yeah watching a finish of 3 car lengths at a road course is definitely more exciting than a side by side drag race to the line at an oval.

True Racer all of them actually

Well yeah, they’re faster.

Actually none of them are closer than the closest Nascar finish. I don't know why you want to say specifically Daytona because that doesn't make any sense to only pick and choose 1 track when this has multiple tracks featured.

No, you most certainly are blind in those cars. Can't see much more than what is straight ahead.

Alec David Bauer they cant use the tracks because of the company that owns most of the tracks

Barber has given us some of the best races. Why would you want to get rid of it?

No offense just not a big road course fan

+Pj Rohe But why Barber specifically, why not any of the 6 other road course events or if you'd include them among road courses any of the 5 races on 4 street courses? I agree that we could do with some more good ovals. I'm not entirely sure that adding Kansas and Kentucky, Fontana and Michigan helps the variety given how similar these pairs are (they were both meant to look alike), but if they're good events I can deal with some ovals being alike. Whatever the case, Barber is a good event and getting rid of just this event only because you don't particularly like ovals doesn't seem like a good idea.

There are some tracks "road courses" that indy has gone too for a very very long time. I went to may races in chicagoland both indy and nascar the nascar races there are a snoozefest it is like that track was built specifically for indycars so if they bring back races to chicago or Fontana/Michigan that would be awesome. Have you ever been to the Indianapolis 500? uf you are a real racing fan i suggest you go at least 1 tine i have gone to every year since 2001 and have ony seen 2 bad indy 500's 04 and 07 both because they were rain shortened,,,,

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+TheBlackdragonnight I guess you missed the race at Fontana last year.

+TheBlackdragonnight The old cars had huge amounts of downforce and not that much power - many of the tracks in this video were pretty much foot to the floor, brick the throttle affairs. Basically the same thing as NASCAR restrictor plate racing - almost no one can get away because no car is fast enough to do it. Within the ovals they mandate pretty heavily now how much downforce can be run on cars by setting maximum wing angles and what underwing / diffuser parts can be run by the teams on a per track basis. They could pack race, but they choose not to because it's stupidly dangerous and the racing is pretty much "draw out of a hat" garbage.

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+subrosabmx94 Because it belongs to the International Speeway Corporation, that's owned by NASCAR. IndyCar left ISC tracks after 2011. Now they are returning to Phoenix. Let's hope we can get Chicagoland and Michigan back too

+subrosabmx94 Because as far as tracks go, Chicagoland is quite dangerous for Indycar. Very similar to Las Vegas where that massive crash killed Dan Wheldon and even this track has a history with Ryan Briscoe's terrible wreck in '05.

Yeah, you are right. 1.5 mile ovals came to IndyCar on the '96, with the slower IRL cars. But current cars are too fast for those ovals.

+Kite Texas is faster than Chicagoland would be. Then again, with the DW12 Texas has been consistently one of the most unexciting races on the calendar.... The stupidity that led up to that Las Vegas race in 2011 isn't even close to what we would see today unless Indycar decided to let them run stupid levels of downforce like at Fontana last year. It'd take a pretty colossal screw up to do that again. 1.5 mile tracks aren't the problem, the problem was the stupid pack racing which has been fixed thanks to more proper downforce levels and tire wear.

+Empty Box Chicagoland is far wider than Texas though, I'd bet we'd see a race like Fontana with the new aero package