I worked the flag point at Turn #7 (corner before Stag) for this event. We were a metre from the ripple strip as the cars passed. Flagging in the dark and having pieces of the track breaking up and hitting us made the job a bit difficult too. Great experience. Too bad it never happened again.
@JamesCook-u9h10 ай бұрын
I don't believe I was aware of it or I would have joined you
@ThaneDukeHeineken6 жыл бұрын
I have a piece of carbon fibre from the Crocodile Audi R8 after it crashed during the warm up for this race.
@wendigockel3 жыл бұрын
Didn't know that Martin Haven ever worked for NBC Sports. Everyone knows his voice. He is a great commentator and he gets way too little credit for his work.
@JamesCook-u9h10 ай бұрын
Used to love the stories Steve Evans would tell about the local areas of the tracks on American sports calvacade races
@shaneharrisnj34848 ай бұрын
He was TNN's spirit of Motorsport. Sprint Cars, Late Models, NASCAR, NHRA... he was their go-to guy for racing.
@Spyker8921 Жыл бұрын
Race starts at 12:28
@imsaofficialvideos11 жыл бұрын
This was the final round of the 2000 American Le Mans Series season.
@MastrL017011 жыл бұрын
That was a nice tribute for Steve Evans. RIP to an amazing legend
@MrTheExpendables311 жыл бұрын
AWESOME!!!! 2000, 2001 and 2002 = THE BEST!!!
@MrTheExpendables311 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite race EVER!
@MrTheExpendables35 жыл бұрын
5 years after this comment, i still think its in top 5 best race ever.
@paulreilly39043 жыл бұрын
I'm just about to watch it, so I'm hoping it lives up to your judgement. I'll let you know. Glad to see you are revisiting your comment.
@DiegoRuiz199111 жыл бұрын
The ACO in general wanted to promote endurance racing all over the World They made the 1000km of Fuji for ELMS and races in Adelaide, Nurburgring and Donington park for ALMS. It's all about promotion and becoming GLOBAL
@FormulaFox11 жыл бұрын
The 2001 event was going to be part of a Pacific-based series, but there weren't enough entries so all of it's races were cancelled. The ALMS was shying away from traveling overseas at this point, so it didn't get revived for 2002.
@fernandogarza91962 жыл бұрын
4:55 "Drivers Start your engines" 39:43 Steve Evans tribute (RIP)
@MrTheExpendables311 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best race ever!!!
@MrTheExpendables311 жыл бұрын
This is the best race you uploaded BY FAR 2000-2002 ftw
@Spyker89213 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that they used the F1 layout
@CaptainParallax2 жыл бұрын
imagine my surprise when I hear the cheering sounds at 1:43:43 and instantly recognise it as the SAME STOCK CHEERING SOUND EFFECT that they use in V8 Supercars and Bathurst 12hr broadcasts to this day
@Spyker8921 Жыл бұрын
There's a cheering sound effect in the V8s?
@shaneharrisnj34848 ай бұрын
@Spyker8921 Apparently so. The WWE did the same thing since the 1992 Royal Rumble. All because Hulk Hogan whined to Vince McMahon about how the fans jeered him (his character was dated for 1992, that's why.) and cheered for the "bad guy," Sid Justice, who eliminated Hulk Hogan from the 30 man Royal Rumble event, which would be won by Ric Flair. All official highlights and reruns since the next episode of "Superstars" after RR 1992 had boo sounds be dubbed in for Sid.
@shaneharrisnj34848 ай бұрын
@@Spyker8921 Hope you got the comment. Grammerly is a pain in the ass on my phone.
@billburwood70473 жыл бұрын
I'm still waiting to find out what Boris actually Said
@paulreilly39043 жыл бұрын
Very good Bill, like your sense of humour 😁
@JamesCook-u9h10 ай бұрын
He's a character for sure.
@Mhjeffrey027running5 күн бұрын
He said I'm coming to kick your arse for being such a smartarse
@AlonsoRules2 жыл бұрын
the biggest win I have ever seen in a race anywhere
@LordSpeirS00711 жыл бұрын
why werent the BMW V12 LMR's in this race?? and thank you ALMS for these awesome uploads :)!
@jasonlamgt180evo88 жыл бұрын
They stop doing sportcar racing so they focus on F1.
@atheist062711 жыл бұрын
I miss Panoz.
@ГеоргийНовиков-ы5ж7 жыл бұрын
Very good racing circuit!!!!
@sharonlee11383 жыл бұрын
An amazing day, I won pit straight tickets and took my dad
@henryhiggins20214 жыл бұрын
Adelaide kept this race nice and quiet , never seen or heard of this race happening before till now ??? was it promoted with paper flyers only
@nickyjames19853 жыл бұрын
Nah mate I remember this was promoted heavily a year before the event, there were magazine articles/channel 10 racing show RPM were all reporting on the progress before the event It coincided with the new millennium everyone was talking about it
@jakerubino3233 Жыл бұрын
150,000 tickets sold! I’d say it was advertised well. I had my gold tickets almost a year before the date
@hayabusa2711 жыл бұрын
thank you sooooooo much for uploading these old races
@simracer12563 жыл бұрын
A fabulous race
@daniel_z11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading this
@joshuaosborne7447 Жыл бұрын
39:43 R.I.P to the late great Steve Evans
@A7V211 жыл бұрын
If this race was so successful, why didn't it run in 2001?
@jasonlamgt180evo87 жыл бұрын
A7V2 not enough people.
@leesmartin7 жыл бұрын
It was run on new years eve. Bloody stupid, as Adelaide would have turned out in droves if it was run another time of the year
@geetuz4 жыл бұрын
Politics. 76k on race day was decent numbers, even for new years. But it was too close to the Adelaide 500 and the v8 supercars director was mates with the SA premier and got it canned.
@nickyjames19853 жыл бұрын
It's strongest sell point became it's weak selling point, it was only for new years eve to welcome the new millennium, the next race will be 2999
@sebamude7 жыл бұрын
The last race were the old layout was used
@ohiopower Жыл бұрын
Be cool if the WEC went there.
@DiegoRuiz199111 жыл бұрын
They say it's for safety... but I'm quite damn sure it's just a place to put a few more stickers
@SiVlog19895 жыл бұрын
The last time this layout of Adelaide was used for racing. Pity that this didn't become a regular annual race after the City lost the Grand Prix to Melbourne in 1996
@nickyjames19853 жыл бұрын
We even tried getting Champ Car but they didn't want to stay in Australia longer than 2 weeks as it interfered with Nazareth or something
@SiVlog19893 жыл бұрын
@@nickyjames1985 that would have been fun to watch, Champ Cars round Adelaide
@nickyjames19853 жыл бұрын
@@SiVlog1989I feel one of the main reason was Conrad Jupiter's putting a stop to it by paying more money to keep it only in QLD, they were probably fearing SA would steal it as the sole Australian race
@firebladeviper8 жыл бұрын
Viper 3rd, WoW!!!
@w0nd3r63 жыл бұрын
Why is that so hard to believe those where real gt cars not the crappy underpower gt cars from today.
@jamestaylor44802 ай бұрын
In Australia, the Dodge Viper was called the Chrysler Viper.
@paulreilly39043 жыл бұрын
Having looked through the channels playlists I don't understand why there are lots of races available for this year, yet in subsequent years there are sometimes only 2 races available. Is it something to do with NBC being the people providing the coverage?
@hayabusa2711 жыл бұрын
99-01 the best years of ALMS
@andrewwinslow93156 жыл бұрын
41:41, this is the XFL
@kierenboimufc59404 жыл бұрын
3 panoz 😍
@LordSpeirS00711 жыл бұрын
now that you say it yea,i think your right. thx for your answer :)
@corvetteboy311 жыл бұрын
Pardon my ignorance, but why would the "American" Le Mans series leave North America?
@badencrump15433 жыл бұрын
This is the Asia Pacific Le Mans Series. It's run by the same person Don Panoz, but it's a separate series :)
@mArvAlcao71 Жыл бұрын
@@badencrump1543 Well this race was a part of American Le Mans Series. The season finale in fact.
@corvetteboy311 жыл бұрын
Was this actually an "American" Le Mans race? I'm kind of confused.
@jasonlamgt180evo88 жыл бұрын
It part of this series but 2001 it was gone.
@PythonVehicles10 жыл бұрын
Can someone tell me if they now if there is a video of the sports sedan category suport race @ this event post me @ Python Vehicles Australia FB
@getsome0dk6 жыл бұрын
Sweet
@juim1j3 жыл бұрын
Dude, ALMS used to race on the coolest circuits, too bad the FIA Grade 1 bs limited the tracks used by the WEC to Tilkedromes. smh
3 жыл бұрын
I like KNBC.
@JamesCook-u9h10 ай бұрын
Bob Wollek Whining again.
@Rough_justice6 жыл бұрын
God these intros were so damn cheesy
@christianponicki95815 жыл бұрын
Should've named it "Worst Race of a Thousand Years" - much more fitting for cars like these!
@rpmV85 жыл бұрын
Flog.
@christianponicki95815 жыл бұрын
@@rpmV8 ??
@motorsportfan12462 жыл бұрын
@@christianponicki9581 you heard him, you’re a flog