BEST OF SAM POSEY - KEVIN COGAN/1982 INDY START - 1983

[@Bubbles23XI]

Cogan screwed up but man look at how slow they’re going. That may have contributed to the wreck. Apparently, Rutherford, Unser, and Johncock complained about Mears bringing the field at such a slow pace. Also, Johncock went on to say that Andretti could have avoided the wreck if he hadn’t jumped the start.

[@SIGMAMAN69]

Mears’ former teammate, Bobby Unser, said the same thing

[@gsmscooter22]

Cogan couldn't control car with broken half Shaft, nobody could and Penske shouldn't have covered up what Walker knew. They should've apologized to Cogan

[@scottmaxwell8578]

AJ and Mario have LONG since conceded that it was a broken halfshaft. It's stupid fans that don't get it. I have Foyt on record multiple times as saying the halfshafts back then were fragile. This just happens to be the most high profile case of several that happened. It was a very real problem that was exasperated with the fact that the failures were rarely identical. And it wasn't until the late 80's that we see that it's resolved. Crew chief Derrick Walker also stated "We didn't come to Kevin's defense like we should have.

[@gsmscooter22]

Exactly, everything Roger said about we didn't have failures wasn't true. He shouldn't have thrown Kevin and Derrick under the bus like that

[@razburry8001]

How ironic that those same stupid fans are continuing to prove your point down in the comments.

[@scottmaxwell8578]

@@razburry8001 Until you realize by means of common sense, there is no irony whatsoever. It's just me realizing that I'm not going to fix stupidity. We just see it everywhere. Instead of using the internet to get smarter, people are instead using it to get the exact opposite of that. A simple search and I found a direct quote from AJ: "Those damn halfshafts were always breaking back then."

[@plisskenationbackfromthede3657]

Ha thats rush - chemistry playing in the intro. Awesome

[@Zoomer30]

Jackie Stewerts bullshit detector is infallible. 😂

[@williamdraper8778]

The whole thing was kind of sad.

[@SIGMAMAN69]

Such an injustice that Cogan took all that crap for all those years for that one accident which likely wasn’t even totally his fault. He didn’t deserve that

[@zigwald]

his steering wheel came off......

[@BigWheelHawaii]

The Only Thing That Broke,,,, Was The Fu_king Talent Level of The ,,,, Pimp Boy,,,,

[@kevinbaker2054]

yeah.... you stood on the gas too hard. mears had the same little fade a second before Coooogan lost it. yeah. nothing broke.

[@wesbeam5949]

If Mario would have been in his starting position, even with the second row, he probably could have missed Cogan. Mario was a few car lengths ahead of his row.

[@gsmscooter22]

Because Mears starting the field was too slow according to many

[@brandond73]

Nothing broke! Cogan got on the gas to hard when shifting on cold tires! Sam Posey was also the worst announcer ever at Indy, he said some stupid stuff.

[@Zoomer30]

Pretty much the same thing that happened to Roberto Guerrero at the start of the 1992 Indy 500. Too much power on cold tires and just lost it. Nothing broke.

[@scottmaxwell8578]

Kevin said "Ask Derrick Walker. He knows what happened." Derrick Walker said "There's no question the joint was broken. At the time, we weren't sure if it was from impact." But then other failures came to light. "The car would have done exactly what it did with that type of failure. We didn't come to Kevin's defense like we should have." Quotes from the Indianapolis Star.

[@alistairfannell6694]

⁠@@scottmaxwell8578 I agree

[@gsmscooter22]

BS the Halfshaft broke and Walker later admitted it for Penske

[@kelleyhagan960]

Gordon Johncock called it out. Watch the beginning of the race. There was nothing wrong with that car. Kevin Cogan is full of BS.