I could literally watch you do recaps like this for an entire old season of indycar. Keep these coming they’re amazing

NOLA got hit with a bad deal in terms of weather, and the area around it has never been a major racing hub. I don't think there's much they could do to fix it. SRO for example doesn't get massive crowds but they do race and have success. If NOLA could get a 2nd chance, I'd be interested in it, because there is potential for it to be good if given the right place.

These vids are so fascinating to me. Love it or hate it Indycar is never afraid of trying new circuits which I honestly love.

Another number 1 hit from Demise.

I was at that race. Rained the whole day and weekend and they were even lucky to get going. Still massive fun.

6:45 I can't get over this 😆The first time I saw some highlights of this race, I couldn't believe when I saw this random guy just running to the car. What a legend

I remember obscure guys like Filippi, Coletti and Huertas from this era of IndyCar, but I had totally forgotten about Dracone. I did remember this goofy ahh race.

Back in the times when Penske, Andretti and Ganassi comprised nearly half the field and we had stellar names like Gabby Chaves, Luca Filippi, Francesco Dracone, Stefano Coletti and Carlos Huertas on the grid (Being fair to Huertas, he did win a race...)

I think the commentary team joked about Hinch not being featured on the "Winners on new race tracks" segment during the Detroit weekend.

You never miss with theses videos always look forward to seeing a new one on my feed!!!

love seeing these older IndyCar recaps, I just started really getting into IndyCar and watching every race about 3 years ago so I've probably missed a lot of classics

So glad you did the race, it was definitely... something.

Just found your channel and have watched a few of these recaps - they're excellent! Please keep these coming!

Congrats on the 9k! I told you 10K is going to happen this year! 🔥🔥🔥 Happy to be here from the start.

Really like your channel, great recaps!

This was my first indycar race and it’s what brought me into the sport that tbh I had no idea even existed! It was a blast but just seemed like the drivers in the rear of the field were just incompetent, especially when they ran over their own pit crew.

That “corner worker” was a member of the Cajun Navy. LOL

I thought I'd seen it all...then there's the dude who pushed Gabby Chaves back onto the track. 😂😂😂😂😂

Subbed! As a Dutchie who grew up with a F1 superfan for a dad, I've always been very much into racing. However, these past few years I've started growing very fond of Indy car. So glad my algorithm put me onto you. These vids are great! Please keep making em :)

I never saw this race 😱 thks for posting it 👍

DEMISE90 AT IT AGAIN🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

All I gotta say is that I’ve found your content not too long ago and I am really enjoying it! I love the commentary style that you got going. It reminds me a lot of Black Flags Matter. Keep it up man 👍

Love the indycar content

I live in the nola area and did not even know about the race. I remember the Grand Prix du Mardi Gras getting hit by a massive rain storm with flooding in the 1990s.

It’s a shame that the event couldn’t get more legs to grow. There needs to be more early season races after St Pete, but limited on road course tracks in the southern hemisphere that could bridge the gap after st Pete that aren’t in Florida. I believe St Pete in 2015 also had a lot of issues with guys bouncing off each other left and right, scattering debris everywhere from the excessive body kits they used back then. I wonder how w/ current day aero on the cars, a more talented field w/ less idiots at the back, and a dry track would do.

So cool to see old clips of Hinchtown leading

you could hear the practice rounds across the whole metro area, it was pretty cool

I really do enjoy your videos. Greetings from Mexico.

I work with that corner worker at mid Ohio….he was banned from INDYCAR for a few years and banned from NOLA

Ok ok fine fine I'll rewatch the full 2015 indy season, you don't have to twist my arm geez (but fr thanks for the breakdowns of these crazy races!!

I talked to a photographer at Road America last weekend that was at the NOLA race. They talked about how the facility was a nightmare. There was no perimeter fencing on the backside of the property and they had cows from a nearby farm wonder out into the grassy area by the track. Also, photo access for on-track action was limited because the fencing used by the track was owned by the local town and the mayor said that if anyone cut any photo holes, as normally found at other tracks, in "his" fence they'd be arrested.

Perfect way to end my binge watch XD

I remember going to this race. It was a fun weekend and it seemed race day was the only washout. I sat in that corner where Tony spun out.

Finally we get a proper video on this race lol

Another banger

You should definitely do a recap of 2017 or 2018 Barber race because i forget which one was the rain race but that race was epic

Makes me wonder if IMSA would do better there honestly, given the fact they did race in NOLA in the late 80s/early and then mid 90s for a few times. I'd be curious what the current LMDH/GT fields could do with this track

Nola park, you can see the whole track from anywhere you seated. GTWC recently had two great events there as well as the speed tour has also been coming there the last two years with pretty good crowds.

The closest Simona ever got to winning an Indycar race

I don’t miss all the fenders and cheese grater wings. New aero package looks so much better.

Great stuff!!!

I'm holding the Welcome to Nola, Indy sign in the stands

NOLA has potential to host another indycar race again either in 2024 or 2025 it just hit with bad weather that weekend

Second IndyCar race I ever watched… I was understandably very confused 😂

Was there. Stood at the entrance to the final turn. I never saw a race. There was no PA system and no screens. This facility was pathetic. It deserved to be shut down. Not even a bathroom. Truly an awful facility.

I don't know if it was you and this was a reupload or someone else entirely, but I remember watching a similar styled video about this exact thing a few months ago!

i actually went to this race as a kid and we had standing tickets and there were so few people that they handed out tickets for the bleachers to fill them up for the broadcast. Though about to start karting there and can confirm it rains alot.

This race is a comedy. The very high frequency of incidents, Chaves being pushed by some random guy only to stall, Huertas not even making it to the line before crashing, even the pit injury looked kinda slapstick-y. Visually this one was also kinda beautiful, I think NOLA is a wonderful track in terms of scenery (I like swamps) but that combined with the dark green grass, ugly weather and many puddles, plus lightning during qualifying, kind of eye candy actually. Classic race for better or worse

The Dale Coyne crew was pissed off at Dracone. They were like get the F out of the car you are done.

I remember those races..... NOLA was a bit of a gem of a race .... I remember that guy in the dress shirt... lol

For context, yes, it is common for corner workers/marshals push cars out of wet grass during club races. They are the 1st on scene when you don’t have a traveling safety team.

What a crazy race, it.just have been frustrating for all involved.

I wonder how this race would have gone with the current Indycar field. 2015 had a lot of fillers who were drawing out most of those cautions that really bogged down the race.

NOLA kinda looks like Portland but without the charm.

Can you do a video on the 95 Phoenix race? Slick 50 200. 4/2/1995.

Hey at 7:35 it was probably Gabbys father !!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I just remember thinking this track reminded me of a karting track I went to twice in western Ohio

My brother and I were there for the race. Once the cars out of contention started putting on slicks, all hell broke loose! There was only one dry line and once the cars with slicks started catching up, there was no where to pass except in the wet areas. Yellow flags for several laps then racing for 1-2 laps and more wrecks. There were more laps under yellow than green. One of the pit crew got his leg broken because the car coming in hit a wet patch and went sideways. Horrible race!! All the other races in different classes were cancelled that Sunday, leading to a less than exciting weekend for everyone!

Never heard of this track before. (But then, I mostly follow NASCAR.). It looks to be a very interesting track, but alas, rain in NOLA is always a reality. It’s a pretty wet climate.

Simona de Silvestro! Miss her in IndyCar.

TY/ Love this shit.

Remember watching this live, one of the worst Indy races I think I'd ever seen

These rain day race are always full of surprise.Indy cart is as interesting as formula 1

This is NOLA. If the state government gave 4 million to upgrade, you can bet they only spent 2 and pocketed the rest. #louisianapolitics

God, those cars were soooooooo beautiful....mm

Great that the win was at least by strategy but honestly seeing this radar at 13:30 would've thought they could have easily given 15 mins of more time and had a two hour race instead of 1h 45min race. Seeing this I'm happy that they had a two hour race last year in the first Indy road course race despite the drastic changes in weather. Produced a great race as well

Interesting news about Todd Phillips. He stayed at Coyne until this year where he went to go to Alex Rossi and be his crew chief.

The OG Nashville race that I didn’t know existed, caution every 8 seconds. Have you thought about making a discord for the channel now that it’s a bit bigger?

Truth be told, Indycar has always been too triggerhappy with full course yellows. On ovals, I can understand it, but on road courses and street circuits not so much. Safety yes, but come on... If F1 can do "Section X yellow", so can Indycar

10:54 Holy shit first time I'm seeing this footage. What a impact. Very lucky guy to not get hurt worse. Thank god that didn't end worse

Seems to me that the lack of gravel traps and speedbump curbs makes it much MORE likely to recover from a spin, and less likely to destroy the car from an off. And you have cajuns coming out of the weeds to push cars back onto the track as well.

6:42 Legend of the race, almost kept things green!

I have never seen a track with less character.

Louisiana person here The track layout fucking sucked because indycar added a "back stretch" to the track There's no grandstands at the track. I'm not joking even now there isn't grandstands. The track had drainage problems at the time There's nothing in the infield. Literally I love this track. When Fanitec GT America came through this year with its feeder series there was great racing

I miss the bold era of indycar. They were willing to take risks

The standing water was a disgrace. Drainage!

I was there. I wish they would come back, or maybe NASCAR

This reminds me of an awful Cart race from 2000ish in Portland where Max Papis won. Feel free to skip a review of that one lol

random but when you look at the f1 race results max verstappen was still at toro rosso he is a 3 time word champion now

Thing is, the track could have recovered. But by mishandling the money, the track pissed off someone who had enough influence to kill any chance they'd get another race

19:55 Great cut to the crash

I think this track would be great for NASCAR Truck Series.

My favorite part of this race was Pagenaud refusing to yield, careening across the grass into Bourdais and Hunter-Reay, taking all 3 out of the race, then proceeding to jump out and scream at both drivers while they were still sitting in their cars. Completely ridiculous Lol.

I remember Marco Andretti could have easily won or finished second, if they had not pitted everytime they turned around. After this race his Dad took over as his strategist for the rest of the year and his results greatly improved. The race is 200 miles or 2 hours, whichever comes first.

Good to see Indy sports-guy Robin Miller in there for a comment. Miss his knowledge and straight-forward manner. RIP

I liked the areo kit cars, simon was in his prime with downforce.

I feel like this is such a cool area to have a race in, too bad the track itself is kinda lame.

The track spent/wasted all the money per Louisiana law!!😂

A win is a win lol

How does the Detroit GP we just had compare to this? This seems worse lmao, at least that one finished all laps

Montoya is a beast

That race was a total disaster

Only thing missing was an 🐊

Gotta love how Shunter Reay drives like an idiot to the point of putting other drivers at risk on many occasions. This was a prelude to the horrible accident he caused for Wickens

How about that corner worker coming out and pushing the Gabby Chaves back on the track to try and avoid the yellow!!!!! How has no one acknowledged this yet!!!!!

Odd. I don’t remember those front wings on the chevys. The uprights look so out of place

As someone who was at this race it sucked hard lol

One of the worst IndyCar races ever…

What if Sage was the real problem, not the track? /s

10:51 Didn't they pull #19 Dracone out of the car after hitting his pit crew member?