Miss the old days of CART. All the whos who raced in it

I remember stumbling upon this on PBS while channel surfing one night in 1995. First time I've seen it since. Thanks for uploading it, oldSCCAguy!

Dear sir, once again you have come up trumps with this one. I know that I am late to the party, but it's a fascinating look at a relatively obscure, for an Englishman, branch of our sport. In no way do I wish to belittle Indy cars, but firstly its historical, and secondly we got absolutely no coverage at the time. Also thank you for a very good description, the right mix of family history, without being intrusive, and context. Very well done. Best wishes from Oxford.

I spent 4 hours practically shaking while molding Emerson's steering wheel -- Ser.#001 -- the day after qualifying...and it got STOLEN at the Victory Banquet! I built a replica of that wheel and donated it to the Indy museum. Danny Sullivan's wheel -- Ser.#002 -- shows my grips nicely at the beginning of the credits. Willy's wheel was more flamboyant since he asked for his sponsor's colors: red/white. I did 2 wheels for Lyn and the Brickyard, and one for Eddie and Scott Goodyear...not too a bad debut for PersonaGrip! Truth be known, Bobby Rahal was the first to have me do a wheel, but his struggles prevented him from using it until later in the season when I made a proper wheel at Nazareth. Ser.#409 got shipped last week. Thanks for posting this video...almost a tearful trip down Memory Lane for me!

Love the scenes from Surfers Paradise @23 minutes. I wish Indy Car would return there. It's a great venue.

Then Tony George came along and stuffed it all up

God I miss that sound

I can't help but get the image of Mr Potato head out of my brain when I see Bobby Rahal in the 90's.

Thanks, this takes me back to good old days. Used to visit Mid-Ohio for IMSA, CART, and the SVRA. The sounds and smells. !st trip to Mid-Ohio, I arrived to the Sound and site of a Ferrari 512S. That was Glorious.

Jim Hall, nobody did it better!!!!!!!!!

Brings back memories. Thanks for posting that.

It may have been on in 95 but it's showing the 93 season.

Thanks for this ! I've been looking for this, off and on, for years. I saw it once, way back in the day, and always wanted to see it again.

I remember when this was on PBS. Good documentary piece.

Jim Hall!! this is priceless...

I remember watching this back in the day on PBS.

This is a killer video, thanks, dude!

great video. Ya know, I've always thought that it seemed as if Rahal wasn't ALL that upset about missing the 500. Seems to me that the car wasn't ready for it and Rahal was thankful that he didn't have to struggle with that POS during the 500. Just my take back then.

i saw this on youtube in pretty rough quality, i think it was taped from the broadcast, so good to see this in good quality, thanks again. i'll do you one better, in 1996 you had the indycars which..didn't race at indy

Is this the lead up to the 93 season? I don't remember that much about indycars/cart from before then but being a Mansell fan i watched a little and do remember that Bobby went back to a Lola during the season . I think it was after dnq'ing at indy. Maaaan that would be crushing, the defending series champ doesn't make it into the field at the biggest race of the season and arguably the biggest if not one of the biggest races on the planet. It mustve hurt to have to scrap a car that youve put so much cash into. Great video, thanks to the uploader. Hope everyone is doing good.

Emerson Fittipaldi and Bobby Rahal listed as "a couple of others". Indy 500 winners, CART Champions, and a 2-Time World Champion. Genius!

Thats my brother, Gary Grossenbacher, at 27:37. He passed away 4 years ago!

6:05 it's "cha sis" is made of space age carbon fiber... ;-)

Saudades da verdadeira F Indy. Aquela divisão só prejudicou a categoria.

at 38:30ish you can hear the legend pa announcer tom carnegie in the background.

I love Nova! They are very best at explaining complex ideas to laypersons. Just brilliant! Cliff Robertson as the narrator is an added bonus. Google him. His starring roll

I watched these races growing up. I never appreciated the level of sophistication in CART.

ps always liked lyn st. james, i always felt she was an underrated driver who was always looked at as a novelty. but i always thought she had talent

I miss the days of Can-Am............No RULES!!!!!!!

Fans had a lot of hope for the Rahal-Hogan chassis (just don't call it the RaHog). Carl Hogan ran a trucking company in St. Louis and was always a hometown favorite. Nice to see some decent interviews with him, even though it was at a terrible time and he was under tremendous stress.

was the aspiring indycar driver working out anyone of future note?

1993...... Someone who follows racing should know that. Of course Fittipaldi and Rahal are "a couple of others".

220 is just shy of 4 miles a minute... about 1 mile every 20 sec.

15:16 but if you have to choose. 90 % of the drives take the lose car. They can control that ( not on a speedway but on a normal race track)...

damn I was not paying attention back in 1993 I mean I remember Rahal missing the show but I forgot it was because they had their own unproven chassis. Why didn't they buy a Lola or Penske chassis and try again after realizing his own car was not good enough to make the show?

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This was 1993, not 1995

FAST CARS

Indy cars could never claim the title of "most sophisticated in the world". Formula cars always had (and still have) that title. When the Indy organizers outlawed gas turbines, I stopped watching Indy 500 races.

...........shopping cart?

Geez... leave it to PBS to make even this politically correct and boring.