IndyCar's 1995 Michigan 500 Was A True BATTLE Of ATTRITION

[@orbyfan]

I miss the Michigan 500 and 400; it was a race where it was said that you didn't want to be leading going into the last lap. It produced several first-time and only-time Indy car winners. The 1997 race was another odd one, a tortoise-and-hare race that included top-10 finishes for the immortal Dennis Vitolo and 'king Hiro.

[@JeffreyKStier]

This was my first IndyCar race and it was BRUTALLY hot that day. I was instantly hooked for life! If they were ever to return to Michigan, I'd be first in line for tickets!

[@randalskinner1194]

……did you notice how many people that attended this race??? Bleachers were packed!! I hope we get back there soon. 90’s Indy car racing was pretty entertaining back then. Great job on the video too, as always. I watch all of em and this one did not disappoint!!!🏁

[@carypyke935]

A lot of those stands are not even there now..I think it was around 150,000 seats back then.

[@RobJaskula]

Ah, bless Paul Page for keeping the cats wrangled with Uncle Bobby's contempt for Sam Posey's commentary

[@sadaba43]

always a good day to watch old Indy races

[@scullystie4389]

Great race, this was the kind of stuff that made me a big Indy fan in the 90s alongside the Papyrus sims

[@RebelTXWrestling]

Do a video on 1994 Michigan 500. It's a race no one wants to win as leaders fell by the wayside from engine and mechanical failures. Scott Goodyear gave Kenny Bernstein his only Indycar win as a car owner. It was bittersweet as Bernstein announced he's shutting down his team after the season. Finishing on the podium is Arie Luyendyk in the underfunded Euromotorsports team and Dominic Dobson driving for PacWest Racing who was in their first full time season.

[@fdzaviation]

This was the Peak of CART, right before the announcement of the US500.

[@plisskenationbackfromthede3657]

I feel lucky to have been a kid in the 90s and got to see people race like sullivan, mario and michael, aj, big and little al and emmo. So many legends still racing then. Idk if well ever quite see fields like that again.

[@ziggyziggyziggy]

I remember this one. Amazing how low and wide those cars were. And too bad Indycar doesn't race here anymore.

[@navybluethunder]

Thank You for the rundown of this '95 Michigan race. It is special to me because it reminds me while back in the day I was infused by indy car racing that time and especially on the computergame Indy Car Racing 2 from Papyrus. I loved that game! Thanks again and regards from germany

[@kennethterry8196]

My first INDYCAR race I attended. I enjoyed it so much and this race was so much fun and exciting. The finish between Pruett and Unser Jr. Was one of the all time best to watch live in person. Thanks for posting this I really enjoyed it.

[@vladimirzimonja8103]

The best maybe because it was youre first? Joke,cheers man,i LOVE Indycar/Cart and think that without it there would BE no premiere league open wheel series.For good races we would have to watch the lower tier of F1 which sucks,formula 3s and Jap Super Formulas.

[@cmderinchief]

a good old fashioned old skool shootout between Patrick Racing and Team Penske.

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

Reasons why we need more not only ovals, but big ovals: The beautiful hard and fast racing (with safety, of course)

[@KevinHarvickisnothappy4]

Vegas comes to mind we have a aero screen that should protect a drivers head just in case something like 2011 happens

[@danielhenderson8316]

@@KevinHarvickisnothappy4Vegas is also pretty narrow. Even with the aeroscreen, I'm not sure there's enough room to have more than a 1 groove race, and we saw how great Texas was with only 1 groove.

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

@@KevinHarvickisnothappy4 we know that. Instead of just taking away ovals and he scared and stuck in 2011, they should learn and improvise to make sure that doesn’t happen again. Plus 34 cars at Vegas was a bad idea and it was way too fast for them. Not all tracks are Vegas

[@KevinHarvickisnothappy4]

@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT they should have ran the finale at Indianapolis instead of some mickey mouse event for a championship race that killed somebody not even 15 laps in

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

@@KevinHarvickisnothappy4 we don’t need 2 Indy oval races a year. That’s stupid. A different oval that’s safe enough for 34 cars? Yes.

[@crystalracing4794]

Full crowds everywhere. Sad to know this will never appear again

[@ianhawkins3687]

What a race!!!!

[@davidp7414]

Am I the only one who has a signed King Hiro Matsushita visor? He was a super nice guy

[@acespace7255]

Look at that crowd!!!!

[@randalskinner1194]

…..really!!!! My goodness, you don’t see that anymore!!🏁

[@DaveCompton5150]

I was there!

[@TeganCantEven]

My dad took me to this race. The speed of the cars was just unbelievable.

[@KellieLeigh48]

Great video and win for Scott Pruett... RIP Andre Ribeiro 😢

[@kennethterry8196]

Sadly I didn’t know that he had passed away until a few months ago. Ribeiro was one of INDYCAR racing’s best drivers in the mid 90’s.

[@KellieLeigh48]

​@kennethterry8196 yeah and he was young. Only 55. Cancer sucks

[@DaveCompton5150]

Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Love that engine sound!

[@davidpeters2625]

I would much rather have Michigan rather than the Downtown Detroit Street Course and Belle Isle. I believe the last race there was like 2005......

[@tigerphid9677]

I attended the last CART race at Michigan in 2001 (after that it was Indy Car). 2001 was well after the split and the crowd was only about 25% of the crowd you see here. But it was a fantastic race. I think there were 62 lead changes. That was the era of the Hanford device with lots of drafting and passing..

[@brandensimmons653]

What A war of An race I love this racing

[@NTon13]

I much prefer this style of racing to the modern "everybody cycling within 3 seconds of one another" style.

[@itsmebatman]

For his first win Pruett did this like a total boss. Let Unser pass with just enough time to slipstream past him again. As if he had done this a hundred times.

[@lonewolf2513]

I wonder if Parker Johnstone knew in 1995 he would be in the tv booth fulltime simply a few years later and give us timeless one liners

[@kailahmann1823]

the way he dominated the early part of the race, he probably more thought a win would only be a matter of time…

[@davesoverthere]

It was a good race, but the '94 Michigan 500 was a TRUE battle of attrition, with numerous leaders falling out and Scott Goodyear winning by an entire lap.

[@francocasentieri932]

If only todays races where so spectical

[@PaulCarter-u5d]

I went to the Phoenix race that year, and it was awesome.

[@Leahi84]

That sucks that theres no footage of him in victory lane talking about his win. :(

[@TeganCantEven]

You should do the 1994 version at some point. Equal if not more attrition than this running.

[@mikulitsi1819]

Great finish. Clearly at Michigan it's not the best to lead going into the final lap

[@ae3898]

It wasn’t too long after this that Paul Page started referring to Hiro Matsushita as “Hiro Ma-SHOOS-ta” for some reason.

[@jacekatalakis8316]

If I'm remembering it right, that's down to, at least the way Paul stated it on the air, that the team said it was supposed to be pronounced that way. I'm wondering which way is correct now, never did get too far with Japanese to figure it out

[@stevenkilsdonk2046]

On the 1990 broadcasts, there was a lot of back and forth. Sounded like the family preferred one way and Hiro preferred the other.

[@jacekatalakis8316]

@@stevenkilsdonk2046 Which ones, specifically? I don't remember that from the 90 Indy 500 which is the main race I remember from that year, though I'd be interested on how it's supposed to be pronounced correctly by a native Japanese speaker though. I wasn't aware there was that back and forth with Hiro and his family, but knowing how Japanese society is it makes me wonder about who was right vs who was using a power and cultural dynamic. Also makes me wonder how much the team had an input on this, both from the broadcast side and the actual race team side. And then you got Eurosport who pronounce it a different way altogether

[@stevenkilsdonk2046]

@@jacekatalakis8316 Granted, this is 30-second discussions in the middle of a race. I feel like Portland was one for sure. From re-watching a few months ago, it felt like nearly every ESPN race in the back end of the calendar had an update and explanation of whether Hiro wanted Mah-tsoo-shee-tah or Mat-shoo-stah

[@gagemcpherson1956]

this is what's missing in the current state of Indycar to have the Indy 500 as your only superspeedway race is absolutely pathetic don't get me wrong Iowa Gateway and Milwaukee are nice but we need at least 2 other big ovals id say Michigan or bring something back like Homestead Chicago Kansas i don't mind road or street courses here and there but it's not a diverse schedule when over half your races are road or street courses

[@Andre_The_Millennial]

The ghost of Dan Wheldon continues to haunt the IndyCar management.

[@danielhenderson8316]

What other real Super Speedways are left besides Michigan?

[@AlistairMaxwell77]

@@danielhenderson8316 Just Pocono now given IndyCar can't really race on Daytona or Talladega . Indy , Michigan and Pocono would make a great triple crown though .

[@KyanCamaro-yd7le]

Indy road course 2021 please

[@rffcauso]

Your content is good. But you really need to work on your pronunciation, especially of the non-American pilots' names (your pronunciation of the Brazilian pilots' names is really bad). Watch the original videos and copy the narrators' pronunciation...