Michael and Mario Andretti HD IMAX: Super Speedway

[Icosiol]

I saw this in an IMAX theater when it came out and it was absolutely incredible. It really gave you the sensation of traveling at those speeds and I nearly wanted to close my eyes when they entered a corner. Amazing stuff.

[m197specter]

these were the days ---

[nenoslavov]

This might be more dangerous than F1, but it's so BOOORING

[jordanashelin18]

that looks like a mix btween indianapolis & homestead

[POSMaggott]

@jordanashelin18 It is Homestead. That was the original layout before it was changed to a true oval in 1997. The idea behind the track in the first place was to build a miniature Indianapolis.

[jordanashelin18]

@POSMaggott Awesome!

[nappa666]

why complain just be greatful we have motorsports to begin with

[robinhotjsabc]

TWITTER OFICIAL >> @ROBINHO_ABC

[xupthree60]

HAHA you guys are crazy, Tony George didn't kill CART, CART killed Cart. Tony just proved to them that were not bigger or more important than Indy. CART had every opportunity to thrive with all the other tracks, except Phoenix, and every major team.The cars were horrible back then always blowing a pop off valves & engines. And they were incredibly unsafe, how many drivers had 2 broken feet after accidents back then? Then what does Tony do after all the crap you give him? HE GAVE YOU FREE CARS!!!

[willgadget]

Get on with it!

[champcar31]

ya hear that........thats called a tubor charger, the glory days of CART, Tony George killed something beautiful.

[mesothorium]

where taking a left turn!!! ow wait another left turn !! and another left turn, yep that pemier racing hillbilly style ! , im so glad i live in europe

[Mainsail76]

@mesothorium Unlike F1, where the race is won in qualifying. The guy that starts the race on the pole wins because there is ZERO over taking! I remember the first F1 race at Indy. Schumacher was so far out in front, he spun off the track, and was able to get back on the course without any worry of losing the race. BORING! Yep, that's premier racing euro trash style. I lived in Germany in the early 90's. Worst three years of my life. I'm so glad I live in the US, where people bathe.

[MrPs009]

silly americacns

wasting for nothing

[Moralvorstellung28]

@MrPs009 Fuck off you ugly diaperheaded mud rat

[eaglemike1515]

@Moralvorstellung28 Thumbs up for you sir

[eaglemike1515]

@MrPs009 Go race some cows

[an0nym005e]

At one point I thought I heard a air raid siren.

[327yellow]

amazing ride

[MINIHORSE1968]

Just become F1 fans that's where the big boys race anyway. You will never see Danica in F1 you gotta have real skill.

[anthonystuart69]

@MINIHORSE1968 yeah, have fun with the sprinklers on the tracks :3

[rantanamo]

@MINIHORSE1968 I'm a big F1 fan, but several have stated their fear of oval racing. Takes some "large attachments"

[xBryanAM7x]

HD 360p??

WTF fuck you!!!!

3 videos hd 360p??

[km10nner]

Randy B -gonna bring it back-turbos

[km10nner]

long live Turbocharged CART!

[fabryvtr]

If you wanna see it in high definition 720p format search among my videos :)

[BiggerThinking1]

if mario says michael was a better driver than he ever was - then how awesome was Ayrton Senna who blew michaels doors off as team-mates in F1 - i think micheal said he was certainly the greatest driver of all time.

[BOBZS1]

Hey I worked on this film both in dowagiac and MIS shots. There were defintly some poetic licence here.

Bob

[ipsofacto297]

Is Michael coming out?

Affirmative! (lol)

What a burn-out...love that sound!!

The good old days.

[jdean9]

i wish a had a longer video with 1st person driving like this... feels like a driving game : ) or the way driving games should have been, i guess

i dunno why but i think i could watch 1st person view like that for an hour. this movie must own in imax

[mazatleco17]

Stupid  Tony George screwed everything, and then CART owners did their share of dumb decisions.

[tubeyouguy1984]

then came bankruptcy knocking on their door. Now we've got the IRL Crapwagon series. And a woman who won a single race on fuel mileage.

Or we could call it the Penski Ganassi series.

[UltimateWheelman]

@tubeyouguy1984 What's wrong with winning a race on fuel mileage? Fuel mileage decides the winner of a race so often, it can't be used as a putdown. For god's sake, it decided a championship only a few years ago!

[BrookssRobinsonn]

@UltimateWheelman yea but she didn't win that race with driving skill, it counts as a win in the stat book, but it wasn't a "win" by my book

[UltimateWheelman]

@BrookssRobinsonn Of course she did. It takes "driving skill" just to get the car to go around the track. She was on the same strategy as Helio and she managed her fuel better than he did. That's another part of "driving skill".

So is Helio's win in Kentucky this year also not a "win" in your book?

[BrookssRobinsonn]

@UltimateWheelman Yea, it takes skill to drive in IndyCar, don't get me wrong, and Danica is definitely a skilled driver, but her team put her on that strategy, and if I recall correctly her last pit was a few laps after Helio's, so it wasn't driving skill alone that won that race

And to answer your question, Helio's KY win was not a "win" to me looking at driving, but he has won many more times in his career with his skill, that's what separates Helio, TK, Dario, etc from Danica and Marco.

[UltimateWheelman]

@BrookssRobinsonn I see what your saying, but I just disagree. To each his own, I guess.

[BrookssRobinsonn]

@UltimateWheelman well said, one of the few arguments that ends well on these comment boards

[PAXTONF1ob]

@mazatleco17 George didn't had much of an alternative. CART was becoming too expensive and didn't gave a fuck about IMS. What really screwed up everything was the 25+8 rule at Indy AND the fact that CART turned it down. Could've been easy for CART to get on with their championship and adjust it to be able to race the IRL races, and then be able to enter the 500, but they didn't wanted to please George. And the IRL rules for 97 pretty much ended any hopes of agreement, until CCWS died in 08.

[afannell]

@PAXTONF1ob

Well the good news is George is gone and Randy Bernard has taken over to bring back turbo charge engines and make the Indy Cars what it once was before the split.

[coplander101]

I really liked the film, except for the dumb sound effects they peppered all around. As if the real sound wasn't good enough... or they just kept forgetting their microphones in the van? Just for that, it doesn't qualify as a documentary to me.

[Minicat99]

Hey!

I worked on the sound!

IMAX cameras do not record any sound. Every sounds you hear was post production.

What sounds bother you?

[coplander101]

Hee hee I didn't expect this one :P

Well, in this clip, the passing shots (1:06 and 1:26) have the sound of a car recorded by trackside, with lots of reverb and Doppler effect. A car passing close would have sounded different (watch modern F1 races, they have superb in-board recording equipment nowadays).

One scene shows CNC machining of a part and it sounds like a mix of a Dewalt and dentist's drill to me, not the real thing.

I'm a racing purist... I loved the movie, but those details stuck.

[Minicat99]

You are correct, but in movieland one must take some things not so literal. The reverb sound you refer too was a sound the film editor loved. It was what he called "banshee whine". It was basically a processed distant race amb. The cars passing were reversed passes. Having a steady engine beside a steady engine is sonically boring.

Cheers.

[coplander101]

Thanks for the update really, I never thought I would get such insight into this matter. My initial comment was a bit rude to be fair, but I still hold that the sound effects moved the film away from documentary rigour (and into movieland). Still, it certainly played a part in turning the little boy I was then into a hardcore racing fan!

[NewShockerGuy]

To this day I still am sad that I did not get to see this in an Omnimax Imax theater...

This movie would have been so bad ass seeing it on there!

Awesome clip!!

[iRacerMatt]

Me too - also at the same time it is to bad this wasn't at Indianapolis because of the stupid politics!

[toetagjeee]

omg oval laps this is insulting ,,,,,,,,,

[zeekstr]

If I was younger...

[joness105639]

I loved this film, especially the parts that showd th restoration of an old racecar to the tune of sentimental journey by Juan Garcia Esquivel

[LanciaS4]

Interesting to see the old Homestead with the short chutes. :)

[fayik123]

are there different versions of super speedway? Mine came with the forst creative labs dvd drive released in 1998. was it specifically an imax movie only. NOrmally imax movies are not released on region 2 and this one was. DO all imax movies look better on normal tv definition than ordinary film quality.

[Jamran7]

Just saw this "superspeedway" on T.V. No mention of how this big A sport has effected " friends and family."

RIP

EMily and William

04-02-05

[davevis]

love it!!!

[xetlive]

Homestead

[ryan49321]

Where was this shot? Nazareth, PA? Homstead? Disney?

[jazzmonkey87]

Disney? This ain't no freakin' IRL bud!

[ryan49321]

Yeah, youre right, this looks prior to 97

[yomi1896]

1996.