Well you feel the most alive when you are on the verge of death. 🙃

That was Parnelli Jones.

true☑️, turn off or lower traction control in f1 game & you’re faster

Very questionable quote.

sounds like a description of my first few laps at the race track

It's a go pro

@@DionHanssen You don't understand jokes do you

@@DionHanssen Da vlees is al serieus zuur zenne!

Ballsy if you ask me. Imaging how fast Andretti could have went with a guy hanging on.

@@dustinlamb7941 As fast as without, duh!

Similar to Isle of man TT, the true lasting motorsport event where there is massive risk every second and in every corner.

Similar to Road cycling on any era

PrimeMujica exactly, and the best thing is, most riders dont even get that much money, so its all for the speed and feeling these guys get. Its such an amazing event

The possibility of death may seem exciting and thrilling-until it’s you scraping the mangled and dismembered corpse of your friend or family from the pavement.

@@mikemoggerson6651 so then it stops being thrilling? What better you got to do? Whittle?

Lol

If it was the 1940s he'd have a cigar. If it was the 1920s he'd have a pipe.

He ran out of fuel for his lighter. Must have been siphoned into the car

No safety whatsoever, just speed.

Cars havent gotten too much faster since then. Just a whole hell of a lot safer

When driving was so tough you had to tape up your hands and put on gloves like a fighter.

um, the fastest lap in 66 was 56.5 @ 159. last year was 40.1 @ 224, and its been as low as 38.1 @236. that is a hell of a lot faster...

Yeah we should make racing dangerous again, safety equipment and measurement is for pussies i love seeing racer head decapitated in crash or flying limbs and racer dying for sake of entertainment rather than boring safe open wheeler racing of today. Just make them wear construction hard hat, google and gloves and off they go 👍

Lol chill it was supposed to be a compliment

@jonny j Who pissed in your Cheerios?

It's his Wheaties damnit ! LOL

jonny j get over it, go use your old Minolta and I’ll get better results with a digital CMOS every time

Why do people always get mad when someone uses plain old facts? You're the ones who need to chill..

Haven't we met before sweetie?? You must lead such an exciting life.. You sure are sexy...

Thelma Peckerwood what

@@CyrusFisher619 yeah like what

Thelma Peckerwood also, your profile page shows a pig, as well as your description saying you have a pig farm so you would be more likely to be this hog salesman you are talking about

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I got a ride around the track twice in one of the pickup trucks. The driver was a young guy that wasn’t afraid to push down on that accelerator. One of the biggest shockers was just how sharp those corners are. At only 70 mph you get pressed pretty hard against the side and it feels like any faster and you could possibly lose control. The idea that you could go through those corners at 150 or even more seems impossible.

RogueTrader 101 yeah thanks were aware Mario Andretti is Mario Andretti dumbass

Nathaniel Perry If Mario Andretti was “Mario Andretti Dumbass” then he’d definitely have hit the wall...

@@nathanielperry9654 You clearly are too smart for humor.

Just imagine what would've happened if he were Marío Andrettí....

@@rabdelhamidr7207 underrated comment...👀

FlatBuster 🤣 so true.

121bham lmao what

121bham bruh since when was racing an Indy car a requirement for being a man

@121bham You've got some balls saying that!

Mclaren71Slater gottem

Tom Baird semper fi brother. MCAS Miramar

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Im 58 years old. Thank you sooooooo much for my freedom.

@Zach May I was just going to say the same thing. Absolutely incredible footage. Thank you so much for posting this and sharing it.

The volume is a little low.

@@hobbesb9597 the track has two and a half miles! A pista possui 2,5 milhas!

@@hobbesb9597 would be 400 laps!👍

And doing this for 20 years

@@Ibelikemj it makes you dizzy just thinking !

Imagine a real race like the 24 hours of le mans ............where there's braking and top speed to match.....and more than two left turns..............................

That was one of the main things I noticed also!

What I stopped in to say...

Yes. Love the sound of that mill. What kind of engine powered that car? Size, configuration, induction, etc?

@@kevinwood3376 All I know is it was a Ford V8 DOHC 4-valve. I think about 2/3 of the field was running that engine for the 1966 race, and the other cars ran with Offenhausers.

I did thee exact same thing growing up in northeast ohio Except aunt mary who raised me was on the sewing machine making my clothes

Where are you

Holton 345: Sizzlers Hot Wheels. I had the oval set in about 1969. Great fun and so different to the UK based Scalextrix.

I remember those days. My younger brother had Johnny Lighting. Can you believe that they still make Johnny Lightning cars?

And now you sell insurance!

Mario was a talented driver. Of any machine

Yet,most racing fans don't appreciate him

I never seen or heard of Mario on two wheels. I need to look this up.

Randy Lovering Would definitely recommend. I live in Indy and was just there last Saturday for qualifications and going back for the race over the weekend. The sound and scale of the track is unreal.

I went there in '93 for time trials. It was great, the cost is not much, and the crowds are not bad at all if it is not race day !!!!

Would highly recommend. But. It's nothing like it used to be. I grew up there. From the early 50's into the 90's. Worked as full time crew member the entire 1999 season. It's a fantastic place, but has lost too many of it's traditions, spectators and importance. It's no longer the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, in my opinion.

Do it bud you won't be sorry trust me!!!!!!!!!!!

Been to all the F1 races there, 500 once, Brickyard once. Moto GP. Make it your bucketlist. Oh, and bring sunscreen.....

It's a film camera, not a TV camera so probably not that big.

No

It's a gopro

@@jackoff1826 in 1966?

I'm guessing it's a 16mm camera, something like this - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BolexH16.jpg Standard film load was 100 feet, good for a bit less than 3 minutes.

Andrew Ongais Would 157 make a better race than the 230 we have today ?

Still faster than McLaren LOL

Andrew Ongais, not to dispute what you are saying, but I went to plenty of time trials and races in 60's and early 70's, they still had some roadsters, namely driven by Hurtibease (can't remember the spelling), and just the beginning of turbo-chargers and a wing, never will forget the famous words every May on the 2 weekends of qualifying.....'and it's a new track record'. It was about speed, it was getting over the 150 mph barrier, then the 160 mph barrier, then the 170, etc.. Besides all the different makes and designs of cars and all kinds of engines, it was always exciting to see if this would be the year of 'a new track record'. It was about speed, as well as who came up with something new to try to get the edge. Besides turbines, you had cars that looked like boats flipped upside down.

Still 50 mph Slower than a 1966 Ford GT at Le Mans then...

"looks too dangerous." It does?

To be fair it was probably safer than most tracks in 1965, at least it had walls on most tracks there were just trees and the crowd to hit in a crash.

iiversuzid I mean...that’s safer for the driver 😂😂😂😂

@@Nucl3arMunk3y to be fair, it would probably be safer for the driver to crash into the crowd than into a concrete wall, just not for the crowd lol

@@FoolioABC bruh.

If he was in this car in the 2003 crash, his family would have to scrape his remains from the surface

It's not that different today; the cars have a lot more grip, and thus the driver has to deal with a much higher g-force level. It's physically very demanding to do that for several hours straight.

@ Any and all open-wheel racers have steel balls

@@FT-64 The physical part is one thing, the mental concentration for the duration of the race is a completely different kind of fatigue. No - zero - room for error.

200 laps on the 2.5 mile oval, amazing physical and mental feat! Plus pit crews really had to work to keep you race.

That’s a different breed of cat

What is the name of the breed of cat?

Mario Andretti

Jim Clark: Am i a joke to you?

Jim Clark's fatal crash was caused by a car failure

@G Galilei ​ Well, Emerson Fittipaldi, Nigel Mansell and Jacques Villeneuve succeeded both in F1 and USAC/Indycars as well so what's your point? And they are all still alive and well too, so I reiterate what's your point? You know I could make a point about Mansell since he raced in both an incredibly competitive era of F1 and what was arguably the most competitive era of CART and won successive championships. Aged 39-40 no less. Jim Clark still has the record of 8 "Grand slams" (pole, win, fastest lap, every single lap led) in F1, which not even present day drivers like Lewis Hamilton (6 of them) and Michael Schumacher (5 of them) or Ayrton Senna (4 of them) in F1. All the more remarkable considering he only started 72 races, compared to Hamilton's 257, Schumacher's 307 or Senna's 161. When he arrived at Indianapolis in 1963 he nearly won the first time out if not for the lap chart. Then he won his second ever USAC race start at the Milwaukee Mile in 1963. He won the 1965 Indy 500 by breaking records and also leading 190 out of 200 laps. It took *years* before Mario Andretti won his first Indy 500. Despite him being way more experienced in USAC racing. In F1 Andretti won the championship with Lotus in 1978 when they had their revolutionary ground-effect car which made everybody else look like they were racing ten year old cars. And his team mate Ronnie Peterson was contracted not to race him (much to his chagrin) because Lotus could gain more sponsorship deals and "Ford support" with Andretti than they could with Super-Swede. In 1979 Andretti's team mate at Lotus was Carlos Reutemann who beat him over the season. And Lauda beat Reutemann at Ferrari in 1977. So was Andretti at Lauda's level in the mid 70's in F1? Well, Lauda did fix Ferrari after many years without a title. Andretti *did* have a chance with Ferrari in 1971 and 1972. He won a race so he did well. But did he make easy work of Jacky Ickx? I wouldn't say so. Mario Andretti. A technical and smart driver. Yes. Reliable and consistent. Yes. The best ever? Neither in F1 nor in USAC/CART. Scott Dixon will soon pass his overall wins in USAC/CART (combined) in far shorter time but I wouldn't call Scott Dixon the best driver in the world or one of the all-time legends as much as I respect him and his achievements. Stirling Moss won 212 out of 529 races he competed in all forms of motor racing 1948-1962 for a whopping 40% win ratio. His 1955 Mille Miglia win alone may have been one of the greatest achievements in the history of motor racing. Or his 1961 Monaco Grand Prix win driving a hundred laps of qualifying speed (literally since his winning time was his qualifying time times a hundred plus 25 seconds - and that includes all the pit stops too...) Btw, this 1966 Indianapolis 500 was won by Graham Hill. The only driver ever to win the Indy 500, the LeMans 24 hours and the Monaco GP (which he won 5 times). I'm afraid there's neither a LeMans nor Monaco GP victory for Mario Andretti - and he had plenty of fair chances. I'll tell you a little secret: You're ultimately compared to your team mates in any motor racing. The greater they were in their own right the greater the driver is. This is why somebody like Senna can legitimately have a claim to be great (beat Prost in the same car) or Hamilton (beat record-young double world champion Alonso as a rookie in the same car) whereas somebody like Schumacher (only had hand-picked number two's, most of which never had even won a race before) does not. But when it comes to raw skill and speed I wouldn't put Mario Andretti in the top 10 list of the best drivers of all time.

Jim Clark is still the greatest driver to ever get behind the wheel of a car ... the guy was on another planet, even Fangio said it ... still to this day he has the biggest winning distance in an F1 race ... he also pitted and came out last in one race and went on to win ... the guy was incredible ... but for a car failure that took his life in an F2 race he would have won double figure world titles

If talking USAC spectrum, Indy, 24hrs, etc, etc AJ hands down…he was the one to beat whenever he rolled off the trailer only man to win Indy in front and rear engine cars…master of the loose car if you don’t believe me ask Smokey Yunik

Very well played!

Ha!

ouch

Lol

LMFAO....

Coffin with wheels

@@pit19931 that's exactly the nickname Nelson Piquet have the Ferrari car after the death of Gilles Villeneuve in 1982. He comment was and I quote: "The Ferrari is a f*cking coffin on wheels. People tell me it's a dream to drive for Ferrari and now I can say with confidence that not only this has never been a dream of mine, but my current dream is to stay away from a Ferrari as much as possible" at that point Enzo Ferrari answered saying that: "this is a comment based on envy. Nelson had a good year in 81 but will never be anything more than that. Specially without a Ferrari". After Piquet got his 3rd WC title in 87, and knowing about the poor conditions of health that the Ferrari "comendadore" was in, he said: "I feel sorry for him. He has to live knowing that his cars killed many talents and now he has to live with the fact that I won 3 titles and never needed a Ferrari for anything". Enzo died in 1988, and Piquet's 3rd title in 1987 would be his last.

@@DimitriMoreira Wow!... Your comment alone justifies the existence of this comment page. Thank you for the anecdote and the accuracy of the quotes.

@@DimitriMoreira wtf ? such a great brand , shame on you shame on Piquet for that statement !!! greetings from germany !!!

@@archstanton5385 you're an idiot. Enzo only cared about one thing. Winning.

what

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Your comment is confusing. It's funny tho 😂😂

Thanks I was wondering. Awesome... 50mph slower than the 1966 Ford GT..!

Your calculation assumes the correct film speed.

@@powernoodle1224 1966 Indy won by Graham Hill. Who set a pole position lap speed of 165.899 mph. So I think the film speed is just about right...

@@MBCGRS totally different purpose.... it's like comparing a civic to a Ferrari

Considering how big the camera must’ve been to get this kind of quality footage in the old days, it’s very likely the drag from it caused the car to go a few MPH slower. Or Mario was just chilling, looks a lot like a practice lap to me anyway.

not as much as his brass balls

@@VirusTornadoYa I'm a racer and I don't even like to watch a race at that track.

say it in kilogram!!!!!!!!!!!! learn metric system you noob

@@pommesmayo7336 1966 in America you thought it was kilograms did you, talk about a noob....

@@pommesmayo7336 okay in metric it's one British Mum.

they had, but this model (Lotus 38-R-5) has only 2 gears he shifted at 0:10

@@heatxtm I missed that, too!

He was one of those drivers of the future lol. He achieved around a 227mph lap back in 1994.

@@iride5725 oh yeah, I totally agree, however the issue now is that if they went back to that, there would be road cars that are quicker.

I still have trouble excepting the fact that the stock cars are running faster than Mario was in 1966. Heck they run faster than Mario did in 1972.

No, you’re just a coward

he raced through history... once in his intros, Paul Page mentioned that in the early days the cars had sheet metal as a component. And on the year of the intro it was carbon fyber. Mario raced with both (I think)

Oddly enough the closest any will get to drive car and track today is on a computer with a vr headset and steering wheel