1984 Mid Ohio Race

Watch the entire race from Mid-Ohio Sports car course.

[@andyharman3022]

This video has been up for 12 years, and I'm just now finding it? Shame on me. Bobby Rahal running at his home track. Classic era for IndyCar.

[@Senninha70]

The best thing about the reconciliation between ChampCar and IndyCar is that there is now one owner of all of the historic video. So, we now get to see these wonderful old races online. Thank you, IndyCar!

[@franneck1989]

more classic races, please... love it

[@AustinLaPlante]

Disclaimer: The race name is the 1984 Escort Radar Warning 200...

[@racingmaniac2549]

Great upload. Thanks Indycar.

[@Treetop64]

excellent video quality for such an old race. Thanks for sharing!

[@ryantunks]

i love Chip Ganassi!! what a treat!!

[@MrTHallas]

If we can get the 82' Cleveland race up that would be great. My cousin had his best finish there.

[@michaelflaherty3202]

MrTHallas I tried to figure this out and couldn't. Who's your cousin?

[@mthedean]

It’s wild how narrow the track was back then; barely a two-car wide ribbon between the grass.

[@WhiteHatBobby]

One thing that deceives fans is that grandstands do not matter on wonderful circuits such as Mid-Ohio, Road America, and the rest. Fans prefer to drive the family car or truck, load up the campers as they would for their favourite gridiron team, and watch the race from a spot in the infield. A great example is the Daytona 24 hours where they have sold out the infield. Full campers matter.

[@beeemm2578]

Corrado Soprano Fabi is in this race. Gonna whack the competition..lol.

[@villy27]

Here you can see the difference between a proved road racer like Mario Andretti and all the oval specialists. It's like when the IRL startet road racing.

[@moye41]

awesome

[@tjon901]

More old races!

[@secundrabeasley855]

Hi! I would like to know who was in the tv booth calling this race? I tried Google with no luck.

[@ShmuelWeintraub]

Hello. I've only listened to the first few laps so far, but the commentary is being done by Larry Nuber (who did ESPN racing with Bob Jenkins for a good part of the 1980s). I am not sure who the second voice belongs to... it might be Chip Ganassi (who was still driving then I believe) but it's definitely Nuber doing the "play by play".

[@secundrabeasley855]

Huge THANK YOU for your reply to my question Samuel.

[@tedthemoose]

i don't know why road course racing is not more popular in america. you guys have such great road courses!

[@F1000X]

Is it just me, or was the track narrower then than it is now?

[@andyharman3022]

Yes, it was narrower then. They widened it when it was repaved in 1988. Or was it 1990? Somewhere around that time.

[@jimcook2715]

Oil fire a fuel fire would have been invisible

[@macchim39]

１：２８：５６！！！ very very wonderful!

[@tedthemoose]

that's true, though even when CART/champcar/IRL/whatever did decide they needed a race with right-hand turns, they went to long beach or belle isle (or down here to the gold coast!) rather than use a road course. I mean, road america, road atlanta, sebring, infineon, laguna seca, mid ohio, lime rock, portland, ... even the indy road course. I'm an aussie and i know every race fan in aus would KILL for that kind of selection!

[@tedthemoose]

@rpdexter01 sorry, but watching someone draft behind another car for eight laps on an oval and then slowly inch past them is just not exciting. and the only reason that oval racing is 'close' is because they have a zillion full-course yellows for every single bit of contact which artificially bunches up the field. give me divebomb outbraking manouvres into hairpins, elevation changes, and (gasp!) right-hand corners over oval racing any day of the week.

[@B__L]

So many brilliant tracks and yet F1 chooses to run the Indy road course... one of the worst tracks in the world for F1 IMO.

[@cenonsaranguero6421]

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Tomorrow 10:00 PM