1990 Indianapolis 500 Intro

[60jwboy]

when i go back and watch these Indy 500 intro's with Paul Paige, and the Delta Force music, I get goose bumps and remember some of the best auto racing ever seen in my life time.

[bobbyjoe2984]

take that nascar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!

[starstriker32]

this one has the best narration !

[ptstephani]

No matter what, Indy is the best race. Regardless of the split of Cart/ /IRL, Indy is the most important race of the year, without a challenger. 1989, maybe more than every race run before or since, demonstrates this.

[racermac1988]

20 Year Anniversary this year...

HAPPY MONTH OF MAY 2010 EVERYONE!!!

[BlueFox284]

@racermac1988 Hell yeah!! This weekend baby!!!

[speeddammit]

I was there!

[totalpak1]

I would love to see the 2001 intro.. does anyone have that?

[racermac1988]

I have the abbreviated one that was aired at the start of the race portion of the broadcast, but I don't have the one from the intro of the pre race.

[VampireYoshi]

He was on the Radio Network broadcast this year with current Voice of the 500, Mike King. I think I preferred listening to him, actually, especially when he corrected King on the latter's line of "It looks like Helio is certain to win," with "Well yes..........but..."

But this...is Indianapolis.

[GOCUBBY]

Paul is great should stay w/ open wheel.

[indianamotors]

Funny the into is all about Little Al and Emo (who fought in '89) when 1990 turned out to be about Luyendyk and Rahal.

[pitts40]

Paul Page IS and will ALWAYS be the VOICE of the INDY 500! Just like Donald Davidson is the brains of the history of the Indianapolis 500! 'nuf said!

[VampireYoshi]

On television, maybe. To many of us, a man who died before we were born will always be the Voice of the 500, due to the way our families raised us. As it stands, Page shows here why he deserved the title: he got the AESTHETIC of it all. This wasn't/isn't just a job...presenting The Great Indianapolis 500-Mile Race (his phrasing, 1987 radio broadcast) is a lifetime achievement, and oh how hard is it to live up to. The last two on ABC certainly haven't.

[pajasa62]

I'd say more than the last 2 years on ABC...while maybe the actual race broadcast is "just" OK, the way the present the Indy 500 has been terrible the past 10 years. They act like its one big ABC commercial, then have these stupid opening themes and bizarre graphics instead of giving the race the dignity it deserves. I went to just my 1st Indy last year and videotaped the coverage...when I got home and watched it I was cringing with that dumb "Gathering Storm" opening they had for it.

[VampireYoshi]

Had meant the last two announcers, since Page...and even he was something of a cariacature of himself in his later years, as another fan noted. But you're right...I get reminded by ABC of the way Saturday morning cartoon shows present auto racing...explosions, literally-flying upside down cars, and trying to throw wrenches in others' cars at high speed, because it's "Not like people take real motorsports SERIOUSLY, right? Give me a break..."

[Rivelution]

I love these intros. It used to piss me off (still does) when they show the wives of racers, however. I wanna watch the damn race and not some chick cheering or crying.

[tiburon0676]

This intro is awesome. It's like the middle of winter right now and I'm pumped for Indy '09. Wish the intros were still like this

[jbracer86]

These were the best intros! unfortunately 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.

[johnnystir]

This is great! I love these old Indy intros. I think it's funny that Paul Page says that some come from across the sea when the camera's on Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi. I guess he's technically right, but I think of Europe or Asia generally when you say "across the sea."

[BlueFox284]

Paul was probably refering to their F1 background.

But I like how he put it-

"Matured, studied, driven with many championships to their credit" So pro!!!

[johnnystir]

I had not thought of that. Good point. Apologies to ABC's editors.

[PAXTONF1ob]

@johnnystir he clearly was talking about the background. Al Jr. coming from sprint cars and Fittipaldi coming from the european style of racing.

[johnnystir]

@PAXTONF1ob You are correct, but it just was kind of funny.

[walkingencyclopedia]

I can't believe this was almost 20 years ago !! This video looks like it haven't changed a bit !!

[VampireYoshi]

It was the greatest opening they ever had. The build up, the Meaning, the Power and the GLORY...

...some people have said they got away from Delta Force because it was 80s music. Screw that: THE INDY 500 THEME SONG (its real name...) is friggin' immortal.

[bunnytrdr]

Amen. I hear this music in my head every April in anticipation of the EVENT. The greatest spectacle in sports.

[VampireYoshi]

Does Champcar have 1989 as well? That was the one that forever hooked me, with the Borg-Warner turning in the background.

[bduddy55555]

I think that's the only one he doesn't have. I'd like to see that, not because I've seen it already (I wasn't even born!) but because that race formed the basis for the classic racing game by Papyrus.

[VampireYoshi]

I remember that game. Greatest individual video game race I've ever had was on it, when I was closing like Rick Mears in 1982...in the MARCH-COSWORTH, on the Penske-Chevrolet Marlboro Car #25...thus representing Al Unser, Sr. that year, who "would have been" gunning for his fifth win.

Caught him off turn four for the final time, and pulled what would,, many years later, become "a Hornish."

[racermac1988]

NVM... 1988 is up.

[racermac1988]

Anybody know anybody that has the 1988 and 1989? They are the only Delta Force Intros not posted.

[VampireYoshi]

I own the CD to it, actually. I'll try to upload it to LimeW for you.

[VampireYoshi]

Could somebody please get that crap of a last post off this?

[champcar4ever]

It's been deleted. Lots of crap like that nowadays.

[BlueFox284]

Love this Unser Jr. vs. Fittipladi intro. . . almost as good as the Mario Andretti one

[IndianaSPEED]

Paul Page, Scott Goodyear, and Bob Jenkins audio commentary combination makes watching IndyCar racing on T.V. just a bit more exciting (just a bit).

BOB JENKINS RULES!

[oz615]

i just wish that IRL and Champ Car would get their $hit together and make this event as great as it once was.

[LolaJudd]

i agree

[lockomatic]

Nobody was better with a scene setter/broadcast open than ABC and Paul Page...simply the best

[oklabo]

Stinking Emerson was way below the white line! He ran out of room and drove Jr into the wall! He should have been DQ!

[detart]

It wasn't against the rules back then.

[VampireYoshi]

Al should've let up and let Emmo by to win, by that logic.

[VampireYoshi]

I submit it was the Greatest Pass of All Time; what it meant, what it stood for, the skill needed, and three passes, inside/outside/inside, inside an eighth of a mile distance.

[GoJohjimaJihad]

Highly doubtful unless he/she uploads a condensed version.

[dtenan115]

plz, have you the complete race?

[OWfan]

Hey champcar4ever. I really dig your videos. Happen to have any other Indy 500 intros?

[champcar4ever]

There are the 1992-95 intros as well. Click on Videos above under User Details.

[OWfan]

Oh, I know about those. I meant do you have any others aside from the ones you posted?

[GoJohjimaJihad]

Thanks for posting Champcar videos from when Champcar was my favorite form of open wheel racing and when it was really cool.