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Genre: Sports
Date of upload: May 20, 2021 ^^
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4:27 Ron Dennis then boss of McLaren F1 talking to the Andrettis. It's a smaller world than you think. He must have been bemused that half the drivers at the race were pensioners.
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Halcyon days ...
Greatest front row ever.
All the greats... plus Michael and Al Jr., Emmo, Luyendyk, Gordo brings it home sixth.
Mears and Michael outside moves duel near the end ... damn, I mean I just love '91.
Foyt's 34th(!!!) consecutive, four Andrettis, two Bettenhausens, with Gary in a Menard Buick rocketship, the fastest qualifier ...
Willy T, Scott Goodyear, Roberto Guerrero, Scott Pruet, Cheever, Danny Sullivan, Bobby Rahal ...
Stacked, the field was stacked.
Experiencing it at the time was amazing.
Indycar was way bigger than Winston Cup ... but open wheel losing Jeff Gordon to Nascar was a foreshadowing of what's to come.
The split.
Tony Stewart leaves open wheel for Cup.
Cup explodes, Indycar implodes.
Digging hard ... since the 90's, Indycar is clawing its way back to relevance ... now, '23 finds Indycar with meh adequate direction, with the greatest on-track racing bigtime racing... nothing compares.
Indycar must capitalize on their position.
We have a killer product ... it must be leveraged explosively.
F1 has a killer TV product.
Indycar has the on track product.
Cup is doing well ... they've righted their ship.
Rising tide lifts all ships.
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Just in case you're wondering, this isn't quite the "full race". After Emmo's car breaks (3:23:17) the video skips to the restart where Michael passes Rick. But Michael was in the lead when Fittipaldi went out. Mears only got the lead because Danny Sullivan's engine blew, bringing out a yellow, which allowed Michael to make his badly needed final pit stop, but which put him behind Mears. This version of the '91 race leaves all of that out.
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@safespacebear
2 years ago
I was such a Rick Mears fan in this era. That Marlboro livery is still gorgeous. I miss the tobacco cars. They always had style.
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