2000 Target Grand Prix of Chicago at Chicago Motor Speedway | INDYCAR Classic Full-Race Rewind

[@osu4mul8r]

I was at this race. This track was a great venue with good racing action down to the end. I went each of the 3 years CART raced there.

[@nickporter574]

Same here dude. My Dad was a big fan. Glad I went.

[@EvanLoxley]

Loving all if these recent uploads of the 2000 season, the first season I followed along closely! Quite an exciting season!

[@matthewmcsweeney5996]

First time IndyCar uploads a race at the Chicago Motor Speedway!

[@justiceamerica5437]

They should go back and race there!

[@RebelTXWrestling]

@@justiceamerica5437 track been bulldozed down. I believe its a Walmart on the site of it

[@purwantiallan5089]

@@justiceamerica5437 have u ever played CART Fury?

[@racingmaniac2549]

Thanks Indycar for the upload.

[@juanmanuelbonzano]

PLEASE MORE CART RACES. And make this race public. I can only access it from the IndyCar App.

[@williamford9564]

20:51 "Toyota Spotlight" showing engines blowing up for the other engine makers. LOL!!

[@senorsoupe]

Which is amusing as Toyota had some of the least reliable engines that year

[@toriantheus3008]

I was at this race in the pit road area when I was a kid with my Dad while he was working. I still remember the atmosphere, joy, and fascination, and sounds of the cars😏. Even came home with a Formula 1 car souvenir for free😁. Too bad the track isn't there anymore😐😒.

[@purwantiallan5089]

IndyCar 2000 is still the 4th best NTT IndyCar season.

[@calvinsallee1180]

Thank you for the uploads but please fix the echo chamber audio issues 🙏 there must be one audio setting that is making most of these uploads do that.

[@Indyracer12]

This was my first race I loved it so much I have always been a cart irl and indycar fan after that great race

[@joeb7975]

I was there, 8 years old with my dad and grandpa

[@aidengraves7737]

Gotta love Paul Page!

[@williamford9564]

Page was one of the best at that time. Something happened a few years later, possibly because ESPN/ABC wanted more focus on "personal stuff" and "people" but by the 2010s the quality of his work dropped dramatically.

[@marcovenosta9950]

I didn't understand the black flag to Marques, they were racing for position

[@LeoA2600]

Me too, was hoping to see someone explain it in the comments.

[@marcovenosta9950]

"We need some help here" and the black flag immediately comes out. I guess that at the time Ganassi was a little too influential to let a backmarker possibly ruin JPM's race

[@lukelyall5879]

Target didn’t only sponsor this race but a couple NASCAR Busch series races the target house 300 at Fontana and the target house 200. At Rockingham

[@williamford9564]

In 2021 terms, da Matta won the race with an undercut on the last pit stop. He was 3rd when he pitted on lap 163, Andretti stayed out to 166 and Montoya 171 both of whom were in traffic. If da Matta came out in clean air he would have made up seconds in the time before the others pitted and that was why he led Andretti and Montoya when that last yellow came out. Cal Wells' thumbs up after da Matta passed Big Mo a couple of laps before the end was a signal that Mo, another Brazilian, did his countryman a favor in letting him by when it was obvious it was too late to benefit from staying on the lead lap. That was probably agreed to laps before and when Michael did start closing up, then they executed the switch. Was happy at the time to see da Matta win. Finally, the end of the story was also a sign of the times and the damage of the split to CART.. Wells left open wheel at the end of the year to start a NASCAR operation, as that series was booming. He ran Scott Pruett and then Ricky Craven in the #32 Tide stock car.

[@KillyJoe]

What do you know I saw that Motorola car then I thought the track seemed familiar I was thinking this looks like a race from driven then Paul page talking about vasser having a red roll bar rather than his usual yellow because Stallone was still working on his movie

[@heanarco]

I have a question, was this track the same Joliet track?

[@richardleandro4508]

30/07/2000 Dia de Vitórias Brasileiras na F1 e Cart

[@TristanRacingFan2000]

Hey Indycar Could you do the 2004 Nazareth Indy 225 for your next video???????

[@FormulaPunRacer]

I was at that race. Sad it was to say goodbye to that place

[@juanmanuelbonzano]

@Michael Mcintyre has uploaded that race, and it has very good Quality.

[@TristanRacingFan2000]

@@juanmanuelbonzano yeah but 1 Problem its not HD????

[@juanmanuelbonzano]

@@TristanRacingFan2000 It's a broadcast from 2004, what did you expect?😂

[@TristanRacingFan2000]

@@juanmanuelbonzano in HD ???? I guess like what asopher1 did????

[@ikymagoo]

was at this race, i wish they kept this track!

[@juanmanuelbonzano]

Same. Unfortunately,now it has become an industrial warehouse.

[@xSoccerxCorex]

people stopped coming because it was in a "bad" part of town and went to chicagoland instead. ganassi wasted millions trying to make this track work.

[@juanmanuelbonzano]

@@xSoccerxCorex not safe?

[@ikymagoo]

I heard rumors the neighbors didn’t like the noise, and the mayor who helped make the deal got convicted on corruption charges, as for the location not being safe, it wasn’t the greatest, but not the worst, I grew up in Chicago, so Cicero where this was located was not the greatest city

[@purwantiallan5089]

@@juanmanuelbonzano what happened to this track?

[@thedirtybubble9613]

The 1 mile Martinsville is no longer in existence. What could have been for this track and that community.

[@sideslick1024]

Race start at 3:25

[@senorsoupe]

As I watch through this season I notice that Page and Johnstone start throwing a bit of shade on Sly Stallone and Driven lol

[@vinicioscaldasferreira8264]

20 Years

[@jasoncampbell7765]

Was this a common occurrence with mechanical problems in CART back in the late 90's and early 2000's? Were the engines and turbos tuned too high?

[@xSoccerxCorex]

yep, and cart kept messing with the boost to stop teams from tuning it too high but they'd still get around it. it would only be remedied when ford was left as the only engine in champ car in 2003 as everyone else left for the IRL

[@pabloalarcon6003]

this circuit is more interesting than chicagoland... indy should have more circuits as Chicago Motor Speedway and less like chicagoland

[@bryanska]

What a small track. I remember watching these cars and my mind was blown, because it looked like a midget track. For silver crown cars rather than champ cars.

[@xSoccerxCorex]

it's a mile oval, it probably looked that way to you because of how paperclip shaped it was

[@thedirtybubble9613]

It was a 1 mile race track. Not too small but it was a paperclip shape like Martinsville.

[@vinicioscaldasferreira8264]

First Victory Of Brazilan Cristiano da Matta

[@t1dal26]

What happened to this track?

[@RebelTXWrestling]

closed and bulldozed down for bottling company and a Walmart

[@ragingbull154]

It's probably a great spot for drive by shootings these days.

[@AlonsoRules]

A flat one mile oval with tight turns is just about the worst track you could build. So much aero push.

[@thedirtybubble9613]

Which is what made it exciting to watch.

[@DrColoso]

And think really soon, by the speculation, the Chicagoland Speedway will shut down and will become an Amazon warehouse, Chicago, the state that was with 2 ovals, will have nothing from next year if something change to keep the oval.

[@AlonsoRules]

Chicagoland has no races next year in any series

[@xSoccerxCorex]

chicago is a city, idiot. and no one cares about racing in that region now. CMS died cause no one wanted to go to cicero and chicagoland is gonna die because no one in actual chicagoland wants to go to joilet.