1997 Indianapolis 500-Part 9-The Finish

[980696]

cluster fuck restarts.

[KINGCOOL420]

5:52 - 5:56 Somebody says "What the FUCK are they doing?"

[GabrielVelocidade]

wow it sounds like nascar

[flutgos]

Wow...I thought the seats looked empty in 2010. 97 was dead!

[yoda10ike]

@flutgos the race was rained out on Sunday AND on Monday. The last 180 of the 200 laps were raced on Tuesday, so there were many fans (myself included) who had to go back home to work.

[flutgos]

@yoda10ike ohhh ok. I can't believe that I did not know that. That explains it. That's a pretty large crowd then for a Monday.

[Dogman36]

This Indy 500 doesn't sit right with me. The engine sounds, the split up, everything is just ...off.

[PeterMayer]

@Dogman36 the cars look and sound like scheiss....

[Dogman36]

@PeterMayer well yes

[ejajr2006]

Peace of chit of race...until de engine´s sounds are strange...a real disaster!!! how the IRL survived i don´t know.

[pnutbutrncrackers]

I've seen the last 16 Indy 500's in a row. After each race I rate them. The '97 Indy ranks as my least favorite, one below the boring 2000 race. (No offense to anyone.) Favorite was the '06 thriller.

[PinkRob0t]

You can see the flagman scrambling for the green flag with the leader already a big way up the front stretch. Arie would have won regardless, but imagine the uproar if this would have allowed Goodyear to pass him on the restart...

[hariel]

dirver: what the fuck are they doing? -> commentator: "A radio warning". Yeah, it is :D

[minonkracer]

I love at 5:31 you can hear Arie upshifting in anger awesome sound.

[XXformula]

lol thats definately a downshift dude, he was caught off gaurd when he saw the green flag wave, so he went down a gear to accelerate.

[minonkracer]

@XXformula Yea thats what I meant to say, it still sounds awesome.

[XXformula]

lol I remember being 9 years old and saying, "Dad those cars look weird, what happened to all the normal Indycars and drivers?, I only know a couple of these guys driving, and why do they sound like stock cars!?"

[ATDOINFERNO]

I remember that, too. I was like: "hey, isn't that a brazilian? (Marco Greco) Where are Raul Boesel, Mauricio Gugelmin, Gil de Ferran...?" Then I noticed other missing names, like Tracy, Zanardi, Herta and Vasser.

My uncle came with the sad news (which I couldn't understand, I was too young yet): "it seems they've split up. Now there are two OW American series where once there was one."

[2014cwajts71]

Man, I forgot just how stupid USAC was. Hell, they couldn't run a slot car race without screwing it up.

[mikegokart7]

if they would of told the drivers that they were going green.  Scott Goodyear would of won

[fluidfeel]

I understand the Goodyear sentiment and it certainly looked a last-minute decision, but in the biggest race, on the last lap, don't you think you should be prepared for anything (especially after boning it up in 1995)?

Also, was Arie speaking "Dutch" on the backstretch? heh.

[Tactical300]

Scott Goodyear kind of got screwed over in this one. That last-lap green flag decision by USAC looked like it was made in a rush--the flagger didn't look ready for it, and the lights weren't ready. It didn't even look like the other cars were ready for that.

[mightycowhero]

what the fuck are they doing? LOL.

[mightycowhero]

the cars sounded better back then than the cochlea melting scream of today IMO.

[buddas83]

My ears would be bleeding. Those indycars sound like garbage.

[poko111]

sound better than pos cart turbos

[afannell]

turbos sound better on ovals on a road courses.

[afannell]

bring back the turbos.

[hockeyfreakrob]

god those cars sound like shit!!

[leftcoastbuckeye]

Stewart hit the wall!!!  His fat ass couldn't handle Indy cars...had to move to the wide-seat series...haha.

[intensity74]

youre an idiot

[leftcoastbuckeye]

Eloquently put. But I've been following his career the entire time, and I've been to every Indy 500 he was ever in. So, I beg to differ.

[intensity74]

Tony Stewart was a champion in the IRL, and he was far from a "fat ass" back in those days. Do you forget his open-wheel resume? You seem to know so much about the Indy 500 but not Indy racing in general.

[leftcoastbuckeye]

Well, he's one of the only IRL champions that didn't win the Indy 500...ever. And he's said some nasty things about Danica's weight, even though he's 220+ (and not in speed). Sorry if your a NASSCAR fan and I insulted the captain of your mythical team. Get over yourself.

[2014cwajts71]

Take another look at Tony in those days. He was pretty much skin and bones then. Yes, he is a bit round these days, maybe Subway can get him back in shape for Indy cars. I hope so.

[leftcoastbuckeye]

You're right, and that gives him even less reason to criticize someone like Danica, whose weight is not helping her to victory as it stands. Regardless, his recent move to running his own team will actually allow him to run at Indy (the real Indy) soon enough. So we'll see.

[S2KINDYCAR]

USAC actually got booted after the Texas Race

[Dimage25]

somehow this video doesn't work like some of the others in this series. Can someone fix it or is something wrong with my computer?

[racermac1988]

Must be the computer. Video is playing fine for me and everybody else. I even checked it out on other computers and there is no trouble.

[VTyson08]

yep, and the rest of the IRL too from messing up the Texas race right after...when Arie really won but they scored Boat as the winner...and AJ punched Arie in Victory Lane...

I agree, totally pathetic on USAC's part...and now look where they are!

[VTyson08]

Haha, sounds like ol' Arie dropped the F bomb on national tv... ~5:53

BTW, thanks for posting these!

[gojenson]

i heard that too!! it sounded like.. "what the f#$@" is going on?"

[2014cwajts71]

Yes, it sure was. I remember hearing it on the live telecast and loved it. ABC edited it for the delayed broadcast but they missed it live!