1998 Road America Race

[ArieLuyendyk]

I wake up everyday to the sound of Franchitti`s honda engine, i made a ringtone from a part of this video, one of the commercial breaks.

[ggallinisgod1]

@NazarethNostalgia they won't cause that would prove that cart was the better series and the irl was a big mistake. even though we all know it was from the outset. also if you noticed this vid says a future indycar driver got his first win so that's what they think of cart i guess. however when any champ car driver went to the irl i pretty much considered them done with openwheel racing

[tradingpilot]

Thank you so much for posting this race. I'm a huge F1 fan but indycar is gaining my respect!

[GeneralKenobiSIYE]

Fuck the IRL. CART was the FAR superior series.

[romero2k]

What needs to be done now with Zanardi! Man I hate the media, reporters, & commentators. All they are is instigators of trouble & violence...

[NazarethNostalgia]

Why can't you guys make the 2012 cars like this? The DW12 won't change anything. It's still an underpowered pig. Give them 1000hp and sequential shifters and let em rip like the old days. If you need proof that thats the way to go look no further than this video! I rest my case.

[seroyer2]

I really wish they would go back to the Turbo V8, Indy blows ass now days.

[AtomicMutant]

ugh, talking about a "future Izod Indycar Series Drive" getting his first win here is irritating as hell. Dario had tons of wins in Indycar BEFORE the 'Izod series' crap ... Just say this was his first Indycar win, and don't diminish what he did in other series before 'Izod Indycar',.. It's a slap in the face for Indycar fans.

[itsme111478]

Jimmy Vasser sure was lucky he *didn't* end up at BAR! That was pretty much the death of Villeneuve's career.

[00steven18]

Cart = the way racing should be

[rt2000pilot]

The crapwagons of the IRL will never be able to match the excitement of the Champcars.

[foxtrotalphaone]

I noticed that 'CART' was not in the title or description. I guess when Indycar absorbed Champcar they decided it gave them the right to pawn off it's history as their own.

[Malinth66]

@foxtrotalphaone When IRL bought CCWS, they also bought all the records, which basically means that all the CART/CCWS races are technically IndyCar races. It also means that from 1996 to 2007, there were two champions in Top American Open-Wheel Racing. It's no different from when CART took over USAC records back in the 80s.

[foxtrotalphaone]

@Malinth66 I just feel they should have mentioned that this was a CART race instead of pretending that CART never existed after '96.

[ggallinisgod1]

love this. love how when the guys go to break you hear the cars and nothing elce. please keep uploading these great old races.

[TheCarlsonsRaiders]

1998, when Champ Car was still better than the IRL.

[lapleader]

This is so great to see again. Yes if only the new IRL will be like this. Just to see Greg Moore again is such a wonderful thing too. This was my last road race before moving back to Dallas.

[Regret696]

YAAY finally a real track.

[PeterMayer]

If the IRL looks, sounds & performs like these cars, I might be interested.

[PeterMayer]

Place was packed!

[Mrtinkyloo]

Unfortunately, it must be a tradition when a Chip Ganassi owned car intentionally knocks out another car or two during a race.

[PangaRacing]

de ferran's car was one of the most beautiful machines ever.

[RaceKing62]

Now, if only the Indycar series would come back to Road America....

well, you are, are you? please say yes! maybe for the 2012 season.

here's a great racing equation: open-wheeled road racing + Road America= AWESOMENESS!!!

[BMB5150]

That's cool to see that you guys post the full races. Better than copies that I could get my hands on. Also cool to see you post both old IRL races and old CART races. Big thumbs up for that.

[dalejrgamer]

@darakii CART

[franneck1989]

these cars looked beautiful and sounded AWESOME!

[Ikeochoa]

Love this memories Thank you Indycars !! 

[october62]

MORE MORE MORE... THE KEY TO GET US THE FANS EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF INDYCARS IS TO LET US REMEMBER WHAT EXCITED US IN THE PAST... KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK INDYCARS!!

[menoke45]

This was the year MA in the Swift would have won the championship, save for three team mistakes that handed it to Zanardi.

[rt2000pilot]

Real racing here, real cars, IRL needs to get a clue.

[IndyCarAce]

@rt2000pilot I think IndyCar already has a clue when they're uploading CART/CC races for us, and bringing back turbocharged IndyCars in 2012.

[redriverman2006]

Workers and course vehicles on the track and NO FULL COURSE CAUTION! Learn from history Indycar, and ALMS, and NASCAR, and F1... all of modern racing needs to get their collective acts together.

[HollywoodSheen]

@redriverman2006 SO TRUE. There are entirely too many cautions now, it's a joke. Quit stopping the race every 3 laps like NASCAR does, let it be continuous, it's more exciting and entertaining that way, it makes the mistakes a driver make so much more dramatic.

[elkblitz]

holy crap brian herta got a scare! crazy crash right there. love watchin bobby rahal too... nice post indy! keep it up the series is up and coming.

[dalejrgamer]

GOODYEAR MAKES GRATE RAESING CAR TIRES!

[kalava182]

@dalejrgamer im glad to see the words "grate raesing" were so hard to spell-

[ArieLuyendyk]

Please post more races from this era, its great!!!

[ArieLuyendyk]

Please post more races from this era, its great!!!

[tremper47football]

best cars and track to ever be called an indy car race

[F1since1996]

@Rdwomack so true! IndyCar is fantastic! :) I love the cars of this race, pretty awesome!

[Flamabel]

I miss CART \CC, and I miss those drivers...

[espressivo41891]

I'm so glad this has been posted, not only because it was a good race, but because I was there! I was sitting in the turn 5 bleachers most of the day.

[tremper47football]

@espressivo41891 me too

[savior314]

How about not mentioning that the winner is a future IZOD Indycar star?

It takes the fun out of watching the race again, since it's probably Dario or TK.

[tremper47football]

@savior314 oe helio

[redriverman2006]

@savior314 Or Helio, or Alex Barron, or one of the multitudes of drivers who hadn't yet scored number one, and would then go across to the IRL in the early 2000s.

[savior314]

@redriverman2006 I'm pretty sure Alex Barron never had a chance to win during late 1990s in CART. He drove for All American Racers circa 1998 in a Eagle chassis with Toyota blowing up every weekend. Then drove a few races in 1999 for Penske,  when the captain was struggling with his own chassis.

[tremper47football]

Indy Car coming back to road america.....please!!!!

[richdeveau24]

I miss CART so much. The sweet sound of turbos, the variety in chassis and engines, powerful cars that never needed push to pass to make a race exciting, great tracks like Milwaukee, Road America, Portland, etc. that need to be on today's schedule, no cookie cutter race tracks, beautiful looking cars, big crowds and great commentators like Bob Varsha and Paul Page who just made the race that much better and could make anything exciting.

[doradounai]

20分20秒に、バロンがハータのマシンに乗り上げたのを見て思­い出しまた・・。何ともなくて良かったです。

[embassyhill]

CART > Indycar

[anthony0358]

wow this is great! How did you get a whole race on one YouTube Video!

Gosh thank you so much for doing that

[Fusi0nRacing]

Great upload again. Love these old CART races - probably my favourite series ever.

[GoFeri]

Other than Indy, Road America and the Milwaukee Mile are the two best tracks for open wheel racecars in North America. I hope IndyCar will return to these venues in the near future.

[franneck1989]

indycars should return to road america und laguna seca asap! most impressive road courses to race on!

[DangerousD1551]

Was wondering, Why do we get the wild feed of these races? It's cool and all, but I would really like to see these races with the running order and such on the screen.

Still awesome though!

[Thehounder]

I was there. Great race.

[rantanamo]

ahh, the beautiful liveries of my yesteryears. The lightning bolt Target's. The Kool Green cars. The old Texaco and Kmart cars. All together at Road America. Now that is some serious CART racing.

[SteadmanTech]

This is fabulous! I enjoyed these races at Road America immensely! Can you post the 1994 race where a certain rookie took his first CART win?? I always wished I had taped that one!

[FrodothePuppet]

@SteadmanTech champcar4ever has a half-hour video of that race. Great race!

[crazyful123]

maybe this is a hint that indycar is coming back, maybe Laguna seca too?

[Rdwomack]

Indycar, you are so amazing in every single way. You post old races, you stream live races, your tickets are cheap, your drivers are awesome, your schedule is the most diverse series in motor sports, your youtube, indycar.com, facebook, and flickr are inclusive for the fans and most importantly your product is the best in the biz. Thank you Indycar. Thank you thank you thank you!

[dj4monie]

@Rdwomack Too many ovals, no Road America (yet), just now engine diversity, still no chassis diversity now or in the future, Two Elite teams win 90% of the races. A decade ago the series was on Top, now its at the bottom fighting the ALMS for 2nd or 3rd most important racing series behind NASCAR.

[MojofiedGL2488]

@Rdwomack and YOU are amazing for bringing it up, kudos!

[212809]

I almost forgot. These cars are actually using stick shifters.

[youngdeezy1990]

the quilty on this video is not good.--------

[lxtb2o]

@youngdeezy1990

Its 1998 what did you expect?

[youngdeezy1990]

@lxtb2o opps sorry,its was bad when i first got to it,now its pretty good lol. this was the golden age of open wheel racing. i miss these days.

[bduddy55555]

Some people should look at this video to figure out how to do a local yellow...

[MaverickXSE]

I truly hope IndyCars return to this awesome track in the near future

[doradounai]

CART側のシリーズもこうして見られてうれしいです。フランキ­ッティが優勝したからですか？ロードアメリカのロードコース好き­なので開催してほしいです。

[nickyp28]

Thankyou for posting CART!

[dragob]

Thanx for the quick spoiler, indycars. May be now I won't watch the race because I know who won it. Damn.

[indycars]

@dragob fixed that, now maybe you will watch it :-)

[xobrentox]

@indycars I watched this race live back in '98. But I'm gonna watch it again right now. OK I started watching.

[dragob]

@indycars

That's better :)

[Marko295]

Interesting... Is this a wink-wink that IndyCar is coming to Road America in the near future? We'll see

[Pgabs123]

@Marko295 It Better Be!!

[fordfocusonme]

WOW!! Thanks for the video. I truly wish that American open wheel would return to Road America. Now that NASCAR is there, someone help us!