Chip Ganassi & Al Unser Jr Crash Indy Michigan 500 1984

Chip Ganassi & Al Unser Jr. crash during the 1984 Indy Michigan 500. Credit goes to Roys Memorial.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Chip
• Ganassi
• Al
• Unser
• 1984
• Indy
• Michigan
• 500

[hristoitchov]

Reminds me of Greg Moore's accident.. Ganassi was lucky to hit the wall with the rear first. Shame they didn't learn much from this accident and still kept making those grass edges in the run-off areas.

Great to see Dan Gurney near the wall at 6:56!

[nascarfan8833]

i know. too bad they didn't learn.

[INTERFAMOUSSECRETS]

Congratz to chip on the Indy 500 win and then second in the Coke-a-cola 600 yesterday!

[geek49203]

@charlesintestine -- Correct. Chip told me (grins) that he doesn't consider this crash to have been the reason his career ended.

[felicetanka]

i believe JP Montoya

will make Gnassi

proud, entering

the Sprint Cup chase

again this year.

[ApocalypseForFree]

The race was full of nasty crashes that year

[BillClausen]

I remember watching this live on T.V. As I recall, Al was arguing with the rescuers because he was worried about Chip and wanted them to pay more attention to him.

[Twi11ig]

I swear at 1:32 I can see Ganassi's (big, helmeted) head on the other side of the armco amongst the support poles. If there was another sensible layer of armco, or concrete wall, well...

Who would have thought at that point in time that Chip would be the big winner in life?

[topski100]

let alone nearly ended his career, the docs thought he was a gonner at the time

[taybo20]

You don't know much about Indy Car or I just don't read sarcasm very well...