Right. They like it more than people in the US do.

Too many Kiwis racing in Indy Cars. .@@scsmith4604

Starting with Jim Clark and Graham Hill when I was a kid.

​@scsmith4604 honestly as an American with a casual interest in Indycar, I didn't know it was on this weekend. I think that's a big part of their problem. You can't draw new fans if the ones you have don't even know that it's on.

@tylercady3985 honestly You didn't wanna watch this weekend, it was a rare terrible indycar race. Top 5 barely changed, no fights for the lead. Highlight was romain grosean shoving lundqvist into the tires.

Hahaha thanks so much man!

The man with the best name in motorsports since Scott Speed.

I discovered him last year and I thought its his nickname but no... it is his name.. ICONIC 🤌

Jesus car diecast this year

@@EricBurns1Ty Gibbs in shambles

Wich Race did you watch

Yep I love F1 for all the innovation and tech updates, but I do like some Indy (when they run road circuits) and F2 also, it's like watching college sports where they just throw their whole heart into it! Maybe they can revive Champ Car and make that a step above Indy Car as the North American constructor's series with a cost cap, would love to see tech and engine innovation through the season.

@@robertomorais187 i think it was the 2021 music city gp. it was wild compared to f1

Zanardi and Moore were special

And Tony George killed it

Same like Formula 1, and that's exactly why fans want bring those things back, like car, engine sonund and many more. But defenitly stay with HALO and aeroscreen which most drivers save lives

CART was amazing!!! I own several diecast models from that era, a few team pit crew shirts and a couple of flags, miss those days.

CART was among the greatest racing series of all time. Thanks SO much, Tony George.

Indycar won't get nbc in 2025

Anyone who likes Indycar but hates ads, you gotta watch the practice and qual sessions. Several hours per week of ad-free coverage, where they're willing to deep-dive into esoteric topics like camber that are "too boring" for the more general audience on the broadcast.

That's curious. Here in Brazil we have ads on the races of course and they are shown before the broadcast starts and on the race but without cutting the action off the screen, they just split in two(one showing the race and the other the ad) for like 5-10s and go back to the race on full screen

@@lucasrabelo9427 I wish it was like that here in the land of advertising. They do use split screen for many of the commercial breaks, but the commercial breaks are the normal 2-3 minutes and it is definitely the advertisement that gets the large majority of screen real estate and not the race.

@@UNHchabo I have to heartily agree that watching practice and qual is a delight. I love the IndyCar qualifying format. I love F1's as well, but IndyCar could never do it because of the number of cars. We do also have to pay to get Peacock here in the US to see them.

Is the best driver in the world an F1 driver? Possibly. Are the 20 current F1 drivers the 20 best drivers in the world? Absolutely not. It's silly to ignore the talent of drivers like Dixon, Newgarden, and Palou.

Especially condsidering that a lot of F1 drivers (Including main bae Max Verstappen) are terrfied of ovals. I always cheer for Alonso for this reason. Even if he did not do great in the Indy 500, he qualified and sent it. Also always thankful that it is the same weekend as Monaco because that race is always such a snoozefest.@@UNHchabo

@@michaelhauser8115 Alonso's 2nd attempt (where he got knocked out from qualifying) made for the best David vs Goliath moment in IndyCar history. Juncos's car wrecked during the final practice session and had 24 hours to put the spare car together. Other teams and drivers were bringing them food as they fixed the car overnight. Had to go to bump day and the smallest team you could possibly have in IndyCar knocked out McLaren and a 2 time F1 champion.

@@UNHchabo Agreed. In my estimation, the top ~8 F1 drivers are probably the top open wheel drivers in the world, but the top 12 IndyCar drivers could easily mix it up with the bottom 12 F1 drivers.

@@UNHchabo university of new hampshire?

Same for me. Far more competitive and more head-to-head action.

same

Couple hundred for Indy yes, anywhere else you’re overpaying friend. Gateway Pits are $25

Top fuel classes in drag racing are an experience to seenand feel first hand. So fast and violent it literally cannot be described, if your close enough the compression wave makes it so you cannot breath for the less than a second it takes them to pass you.

😂😂

Indycars are faster than an F1 when in Oval configuration, but F1 still wins on regular tracks

@@darkwarrior1194 Because a indycar from conception is designed to race the indycar 500. Not road and street courses. A F1 car from conception is designed to race on road and street course.

@@randygravel2057 F1 fans will say that if the F1 car was built and set up to run on an oval it would be faster than an IndyCar, which may be true, but the changes that would have to be made to the F1 car would be so fundamental it would no longer be an F1 car.

What happens is that Indy has 17 races, which 5 are ovals, 5 street racing, and 7 tracks and some of them the worst conditions I've sen by far😮😮. For a F1 to run at Indy 500 that need to change the car in very way importantly the engine!! Indy 500 is around 3 hours racing full speed!! No F1 engine would endure that trust me with that kind of power over 1000hp they would blow their engine to pieces and we are talking a $5M engine. Lower power, longer transmission ratios for higher speed and how much will it cost to do that? And Indy is running with $300k engine!! 236mph even higher speeds for 3hours racing. Last year O'Ward reach 243mph at the curve imagine the Gs in the moment!! And F1 fans thinks Indy cars don't produce Gs forces Look for it and O'Ward was reaching 4.9Gs at 243mph!! It was just for qualifying!! 3 hours at Indy at 236mph average speed 4.8 Gs each lap if don't believe me look for the information .

Grosjean bringing the DNF action 🤌

That's an amazing mother. I wish I had a mother that loves sports in general. I watch sports from cycling to tennis and racing only with my brother. My parents hate sports.

That is the real crime here. I can't watch my home country motorsport in peace, but the assholes in the UK that don't even appreciate it get to watch it uninterrupted. Damn them and Damn NBC/Peacock

Man, there are a ton of websites that offer free live streams of any sport competition. Rojadirecta for example. Or a better one: LiveTV758. Just search it. I don't pay a penny and I enjoy all sports. So you can watch IndyCar streamed by European SkySports instead of NBC who puts so many ads.

It’s on the bucket list!

Thanks, I was really confused with what was said in the video.

Tony George has been made the scapegoat for all the ills of motor racing, but I do notice that both NASCAR and F1 have stolen his model for a racing series, both adopting and adapting the IRL’s 25/8 rule, which was the forerunner of the charter/franchise system now the rule in both F1 and NASCAR, and which Roger Penske, once the opponent of 25/8 in the IRL days, is also looking to adopt for the current IndyCar series. Tony George never gave the impression of being a great intellect, but he accidentally stumbled upon what would become the future of Major League motor sports.

Exactly! Thanks BC1961 for pointing this out (were you a member of YFDS?). The CART seiries was THRIVING in the 90s, but Fuck Tony George, the owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, CART's biggest race, wanted control of the series. When that didn't happen, FTG formed the IRL, and basically told the CART teams that if they didn't become part of the IRL, the 1996 indy 500 would have 25 guaranteed spots for the IRL on the starting grid, no matter if CART's drivers were faster than the IRL drivers. CART said "fuk dat", boycotted the race, and FTG had to fill the field of 33 drivers for the biggest race in the US with dentists and also-rans. The Indy 500 hardcores (it's kind of a cult... and I used to be part of it til that year), decided to follow the IRL, cuz INDY, and the rest of the fans followed CART. Not enough peeps to support two major open wheel series in the US, so one series needed to die off. Indycar (Cart) in the 90's had three or four chassis manufacturers, 3 motor manufacturers, and a couple tire manufacturers to choose from, plus they could develop their own aero bits and pieces. Hell... Senna even tested a Penske Indycar in '93 (mostly to get McLaren to give him a better contract, I'm sure). IRL had a stock vehicle to run, with mandated wing angle ranges and such, and did everything they could to manufacture close racing. Indycar nowadays is much better than it was in the 90s-2000s, but it's still a shell of what open wheel racing was in the early 90s. So yeah... FTG!

One does exist! I imported it last year. Can’t remember where from exactly though…

DVR is your friend 👍🏼

Sebring is where IndyCar runs testing for street circuits since it's the bumpiest place on Earth that can be closed off.

personally I just wouldn't buy a hat at all considering the shit company who manufactures them

Motorsports will never be. They arent relatable enough. Everybody has played basketball or football with thier friends, and if they dont their school has a team. It helps a sports popularity when people participate, but by its nature motorsport cant have many people participating.

Watching the reviews, not the actual Fe races. It is the worst motorsports entertainment in existence, Bar none!

Oh yh deffo agree about formula E but gives will more content for comedy 🤣