1990 Jeff Gordon IRP Super Vee Test

[@racerguy6979]

Big Gordon fan and i love how this footage is coming out. Man did indy car miss the boat. My opinion

[@robminmonaca]

Racer Guy well tell Tony George did that and a major reason the split took place. However he didn’t help Indycar at all and Tony Stewart and other USAC dirt and midget greats went over to the big money NASCAR.

[@racerguy6979]

@@robminmonaca for sure. Exactly

[@AlonsoRules]

he didn't have the money

[@robminmonaca]

Anthony Kernich it’s a shame that his mother Mari Hulman George let her son open the floodgates with the family Fortune to establish the IRL and nearly bankrupt the whole family by the end of the 2000s. Indycar was better as one than with two when the best drivers were in the CART series than the IRL but Tony George and his PR team at IMS productions and IMS were able to spin it like they were better than NASCAR and F1 drivers as well. If you were a Cart driver or owner you had to use Tony’s equipment. At least chip and Roger dominated when they came back after a 5 year break and won. Now after she died Tony sold the track to Roger Penske. So maybe she was truly behind the split and he just made the IRL to keep his mother happy because she really didn’t like CART or just wanted to have the final say for what the sport was. It all goes back to 1979 since they were still at war with CART at Indy with all of CART there from 1979-1995.

[@patrickanderson9023]

@@robminmonaca It is rumoured that Bernie Ecclestone played a major roll in the open wheel split.

[@colegumpert47]

My grandpa owns that car now

[@Mistertbones]

Things would've been a lot different had Jeff Gordon went to CART instead of NASCAR.

[@novadave7214]

Yep, he would have had zero Nascar titles.

[@randipoling635]

Imagine if he went to F1?

[@Mistertbones]

@@randipoling635 Imagine if he did go to F1.

[@CC-el2zb]

That big dude on that little 70 Honda pulling the car. Lol.

[@princepharhung3964]

You are absolutely correct , Jeff would and could have been a dominate force in Indy Cars driving for Penske . Oh well, next time.

[@pablohabibefigueiredo7142]

is it the same F A tlantic chassis?

[@068dirtboy]

Hes such a shy soft spoken guy

[@BeachBoysRemembered]

Sounds better than the Indy Cars running today ...

[@notsam_flagdirt]

Yeah no

[@kevinhuber8723]

For what it's worth Jackie Stewart called Jeff at his home to talk about the possibility of running F3000 at the time. He declined for several reasons and that seat became de Ferrian (RIP) Lots of revisionist history on the Internet and it is true Jeff's "being overlooked" was a major linchpin in the formation of the Idiot Racing League. The sport has never recovered. The entire thing is sickening to me and thousands of ticket buying race fans moved on. We are left with an Indy 500 which could be run over a weekend and spec cars. Thanks Tony. Miss my buddy DO and Robin as well as we come up on the anniversary of "R's" passing.

[@kg0173]

And 4 years later he won indy.

[@Fitch93]

Is that D.O. doing the ESPN interview?

[@torqued666]

I think it is Bob Jenkins.

[@gofastandwynn]

What could have been...

[@RingoYote]

Ford wanted him in NASCAR and paired him with Ray Evernham

[@robminmonaca]

Straightail however he drove a Chevy with Hendrick and the rest is history.

[@NotSteveCook]

@@3338MAN CART owners missed out on a great opportunity, but on the other hand, if Tony George was serious about helping drivers with Jeff's pedigree, why didn't he start a race team to develop them into IndyCar drivers?

[@patrickanderson9023]

@@NotSteveCook There`s a clip of Gordon from 1989 where he says he would really like going stock car racing, and that his ambition is to make a career in the cup series. The thing about Jeff Gordon originally wanted to race Indycars is more of a myth than reality.

[@NotSteveCook]

@@patrickanderson9023 There's definitely substance to it. That's why he so valued winning the Brickyard 400; not just because he cut his racing teeth in Indiana, but because his dream was to be in the Indy 500. His stepdad John Bickford tried to find him an Indy Lights ride, and was effectively told "show us the money, and we'll show you a seat".

[@Left-Foot-Brake]

There was a road course at IRP?!

[@fueldragster]

Left Foot Brake it’s still there

[@RandysRacingPlace633]

Left Foot Brake IMSA WSC ran there in 1994.

[@NotSteveCook]

Fastmasters ran there (oval and road course) in 1993.

[@novadave7214]

@@NotSteveCook Fastmasters did not use the actual road course shown & discussed here at IRP, they used 3 turns inside the oval itself to create another "road course"

[@patrickanderson9023]

That cap..