1997 CART Portland Finish

Closest finish in CART history at Portland International Raceway. This was a flashback that was broadcast during the 1998 Portland broadcast.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• CART
• OWRS
• Champcar
• CCWS
• Portland
• de
• Ferran
• Blundell
• Boesel

[PanzerAngriff]

Going to miss them at Portland. end of an era. ): I've been going since I was born.

[davegto67]

One of the greatest moments in motorsports. I remember watching it live, standing up and screaming at the TV.

Great stuff.

[bduddy55555]

Iran 1 U.S. 0... oh dear... >_>

[Quintinohthree]

So what was the exact margin of victory?

[sevla4]

I was at that race. In the video as he's coming off the last turn me and my son were sitting at the top corner of the stands. you could see that he was going to get around him if he could get some room. We coulldn't see who won because the rooster tails that those three cars were throwing out. The were all gettin it.. It was a great finish..

The weather sucked though!! Typical Portland.

[bigskyboiler]

That was a crazy race. I think they kept switching between wet and dry tires due to intermittent showers. Blundell was on slicks, while DeFerran was running wet tires. As for the baseball scores, that was an early version of the "Bottom Line." It ran (and still runs) during all ESPN2 broadcasts.

[MarioAndrettiFan]

AWESOME race...those were the days!

[HomeDepot20TS]

Obviously it was a recap clip on RPM2nite or something.

[maybrook1]

I noticed the worldcup scores, how could this race be ran in 1997, when the Worldcup took place in 1998 in France?

[FordFusion2006]

how can espn put that shit at the bottom of the screen during that finish. who the fuck gives a shit about baseball scores.