I absolutely love the intro music that Indy 500 used during the early 90's. I still get pumped up listening to it. I wish it would have become the regular theme for IndyCar racing.
This year showed that the Grand Ole' Race still has plenty of amazing (or at least stupifying) events left in it. A one-off wins after leading one lap, beating Joe Dawson's 99-year old record for fewest.
I still love and look forward to the Indianapolis 500 every year, but do I ever miss the "Glory Days" of this race. The legends are all retired and it just doesn't have the same excitement anymore. Those were the days!
@Porygonseizureman CART didn't have a pit road speed limit until Michael Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi crashed on pit lane at the 1991 Long Beach GP race. And before anyone corrects me, yes I know the Indy 500 at this era was sanctioned by USAC and not CART.
Safety will always trump danger, but as Paul Page even says here on this video, "Without that risk the men are just ordinary". There was a time where I guess the people involved ACCEPTED that risk. I guess I just long for the days where ENTERING and EXITING the pits made a difference. Gordon Johncock helped win the 1982 Indy 500 by threading the needle between 2 cars going down pit lane at about 120 mph....and guys like Tom Sneva and Danny Ongais would always fly down it.
The Delta Force intro's are some of the best sports intro's ever. I always love watching these around 500 time. Takes me back to a better time in open wheel racing...
224 mph in 1991. And as good a race opening as I have ever seen. I'm glad I am old enough to have been thrilled by the TV and radio coverage from 1965 onward: 250,000 for Pole Day: F1 stars Clark, Hill Gurney, Fitiipaldi, Mansell, AJ, the Unsers, Andrettis and the rest. Thanks for taking me back to when Indy was magnificent.
The section in this intro that compares to the "then and now" (A.J., Mario, Bentenhausen, the cars, the fans) is what I tried to model during my "Delta Force Intro" for 2008.
I read this blog that ABC/ESPN announcer Paul Page had written and it said that he made the producers and ABC people promise never to use the Delta Force theme unless he himself wrote and narrates the intro. It was a very special thing they did every year in creating the intro for the 500. But i guess that explains why they have not used it in recent times.
R.I.P Dan Weldon
baldwinhart 4 months ago
I absolutely love the intro music that Indy 500 used during the early 90's. I still get pumped up listening to it. I wish it would have become the regular theme for IndyCar racing.
aalynch30 8 months ago
This year showed that the Grand Ole' Race still has plenty of amazing (or at least stupifying) events left in it. A one-off wins after leading one lap, beating Joe Dawson's 99-year old record for fewest.
VampireYoshi 8 months ago
I still love and look forward to the Indianapolis 500 every year, but do I ever miss the "Glory Days" of this race. The legends are all retired and it just doesn't have the same excitement anymore. Those were the days!
KALS4Gehrig 9 months ago
Nvm I got his name. Willy T. Ribs
Dogman36 11 months ago
Who was the first black person again?
Curious
Dogman36 11 months ago
thx for posting these videos
indyracer34 1 year ago
That music got you so into it, so fired up, so exited for the race!! Those were the days!
solaire66 1 year ago
@solaire66 What's the name of it? Can I find it elsewhere, or is it, say, proprietary?
ATDOINFERNO 11 months ago
@ATDOINFERNO It is the theme song from Delta Force
solaire66 11 months ago
@solaire66 lol thx! =D
ATDOINFERNO 11 months ago
Two more days and I'm traveling to Indianpolis for my 3rd race...watching a video like this gets me so primed.
If you've never been to an Indy 500 you have to go...watching it on TV is good, but it doesn't do it justice, you don't feel or see the speed.
If the IRL is going to thrive, it has to do away with this STUPID pit speed limit (it's like they don't trust their own drivers!)
pajasa62 1 year ago
@pajasa62 Pit road speed limit was a product of a NASCAR crash in 1990 that killed a pit crew member by the name of Mike Rich.
Porygonseizureman 8 months ago
@Porygonseizureman CART didn't have a pit road speed limit until Michael Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi crashed on pit lane at the 1991 Long Beach GP race. And before anyone corrects me, yes I know the Indy 500 at this era was sanctioned by USAC and not CART.
champcar4ever 8 months ago
@Porygonseizureman
Safety will always trump danger, but as Paul Page even says here on this video, "Without that risk the men are just ordinary". There was a time where I guess the people involved ACCEPTED that risk. I guess I just long for the days where ENTERING and EXITING the pits made a difference. Gordon Johncock helped win the 1982 Indy 500 by threading the needle between 2 cars going down pit lane at about 120 mph....and guys like Tom Sneva and Danny Ongais would always fly down it.
pajasa62 8 months ago
The Delta Force intro's are some of the best sports intro's ever. I always love watching these around 500 time. Takes me back to a better time in open wheel racing...
TUowl05 1 year ago
2:15 Look at Rick when they rolled his car up to him. The oval master, Rick was the man.
romero2k 2 years ago
@romero2k Yup, he always knew what he was doing- saved the car, set a pace, then the last 50 laps or so, blitzed the feild.
BlueFox284 2 years ago
The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, and a Memorial Day weekend tradition for me.
badgersean 2 years ago
224 mph in 1991. And as good a race opening as I have ever seen. I'm glad I am old enough to have been thrilled by the TV and radio coverage from 1965 onward: 250,000 for Pole Day: F1 stars Clark, Hill Gurney, Fitiipaldi, Mansell, AJ, the Unsers, Andrettis and the rest. Thanks for taking me back to when Indy was magnificent.
WestLAGuy 2 years ago 2
What the hell happened at 0:14?!
capmidlo 2 years ago
That was Jim Crawford going airborne in a practice lap...I think in 1987.
pajasa62 2 years ago
The greatest motorsports openings of all time. Bar none.
VampireYoshi 3 years ago 25
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jamesdavison4 3 years ago
The section in this intro that compares to the "then and now" (A.J., Mario, Bentenhausen, the cars, the fans) is what I tried to model during my "Delta Force Intro" for 2008.
racermac1988 3 years ago 2
intros like this should still be on the indy 500 broadcast!!!!!
nascarandamdrag 3 years ago 13
Agreed. Unfortunately, the Indy 500 had one thing in 1991 that it doesn't have any more: MYSTIQUE. It's just another race.
BTW, front row was Mears, Andretti and Foyt.
jwsmith000 3 years ago
I read this blog that ABC/ESPN announcer Paul Page had written and it said that he made the producers and ABC people promise never to use the Delta Force theme unless he himself wrote and narrates the intro. It was a very special thing they did every year in creating the intro for the 500. But i guess that explains why they have not used it in recent times.
jbracer86 3 years ago
Very nice.
AutoRacer5 3 years ago 4