Onboard lap with Cristiano da Matta - Elkhart Lake 2002 [No commentary]

Onboard lap with Cristiano da Matta on the great Road America track. THankfully, both commentators didn't say a word during the whole lap !

[@SuperBuzz71]

da Matta is one of the most underrated drivers in the last 20 years. His career peaked in time when Indy Car and Champ Car were at odds. His F1 drive at Toyota being cut short was a joke. He was better or as good as Castroneves or Kanaan in his day. Opportunity caught him out. He had the same engineer as Kanaan had in Indy lights and pretty much set the car up himself. The man was a legend unsung I can tell you from personal experience. Up there with the greats. The deer at RA just killed it.

[@mpa1931]

Cristiano was an awesome CART driver, miss these days

[@josimarsilva3238]

Cart, I miss you 😭

[@kpcart]

The CART cars were pure single seater racing heaven to watch.

[@Montgomery_N_Pottichen04]

They sound like proper open wheel racing cars

[@NotSteveCook]

As long as IndyCars are formula cars, this is how they need to sound!

[@a7racing]

@GoFeri you are absolutely right, this was american open wheel racing at its best

[@georgecross85]

My favourite season so far! and my favourite track when CART was still alive... I miss CART so much, maybe Indycar one day can be this good and return to this great track.

[@RIUUI007]

merci Cristiano da Matta

[@Montgomery_N_Pottichen04]

This is now my favorite song

[@Montgomery_N_Pottichen04]

Goddamnit this is medicine! I’m sick damnit!

[@GoFeri]

The IRL teams who are pushing for the Delta Wing project are talking about 350 hp engines. Ridiculous. I want these old CART turbos back.

[@diovanisantosfontesfontes154]

Que espetáculo de pilotagem. Câmbio sequencial.

[@theodounis272]

this is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@foxtrotalphaone]

It kinda feels like Spa in that it seems like the cars are traveling somewhere, as opposed to just doing laps. I wanna to say F1 should come to this cicuit, but F1 is kinda lame now with the changes they've made recently, except for slick tires; I like those. So I guess too bad F1 before '09 never came here, but with slicks... Whatever. Epic race track.

[@racerdaveracerdave]

Sound so much better than the V6s

[@kzahn151]

Formula 1 needs to go here :D I would be there in a heartbeat.

[@dmitrykiselev8087]

Such a smooth drive

[@georgecross85]

Nice!! perfect lap!

[@p.s.6021]

👌👍✨💖

[@GabrielVelocidade]

champ car was the american formul one

[@theodounis272]

200MPH not bad

[@OEdwardsZ34]

De Matt’s almost died here hitting a deer that came onto the circuit.

[@fasterandnoiser]

16000 rpm

[@F-Man]

Champ Car was the best series America ever had. Open wheel racing will never gain huge popularity in the U.S. now. The politicians and rules makers have essentially made it just like NASCAR, but with different cars. Open wheeled cars belong on road courses, not ovals.

[@whoasked9500]

Boy, is this outdated.

[@arimotorsport3437]

7 years later IndyCar is getting better and better and 2019 looks amazing hehe

[@markpatterson7828]

What the hell do politicians have to do with it?

[@Montgomery_N_Pottichen04]

@@markpatterson7828”sustainability” “global cooling -> global warming” “gas shortage” and if it weren’t for the Clinton administration to have spent more money than they could afford to begin with there wouldn’t have been a reason for downsizing… unless by politicians he’s referring to that absolute cuckold Tony George who insisted on leaving the professional European drivers out of the series and only wanted to race on scam ass ovals like Indy, the Indy oval doesn’t count for creating American Champ Car racing to begin with because the 1st points championship race was in 1905 at Morris Park, the Indy 500 race stared in 1911 and it wasn’t until 1916 that the 1st series race championship was hosted which included the Indy oval and some board tracks. The policies came into play for the IMS which influenced the rest of the contributing elements of the series since the IMS created a majority of the series’ fan base and revenue, Tony George who was president of the IMS at his time compromised his own series through his authority over the Indy Oval which trumped all other American open wheel venues as time progressed and as the newly introduced IRL regulations were not appreciated by their fans they sought to revive their series off of what Champ Car was already doing.

[@theodounis272]

top speed 200 MPH

[@kidblood1]

Good luck

[@Regret696]

@Lock007i Road america is the best american road track man!

[@piffiiiiiiit]

Awesome. Do they still have proper circuits like this in the US?

[@italoacosta2026]

Eu ficaria bugando com esse câmbio sequencial diminuindo as marcha puxando e subindo marcha empurrando kkkk

[@leonardotaylhardat96]

Nice toyota engine!!

[@mikestevens5512]

Much better looking than F1 cars, lower Sleek wider longer wheel base.

[@petromil88]

@MazdaArai it's not F1 , it's C.A.R.T.

[@keeganfennec8514]

and to think only 4 years later he almost died here because of a deer

[@rolux4853]

For a [no commentary] lap there surely is a lot of commentary in the beginning

[@mcbeaulieu]

Yep all the way from Carousel to the last corner, then the actual lap starts. You got anything to add? 😝

[@VWatch07]

@foxtrotalphaone There are talks going on to bring Indycar back to Road America, though.

[@KingOfChins]

@MazdaArai ...What?

[@kennethkilleen8758]

Champcars couldn't handle any corners

[@vinrusso821]

Did anyone see him let up at the kink? Whats up with that. Mansell in the mid nineties didn't lift the foot. Andretti,Jacque Villenueve, Zanardi and Montoya, are the only ones Iv'e seen flat out there.

[@japotak99]

Maybe he was on worn tires

[@jimjohnstone2641]

mclaren bmw da Matta was an f1 driver

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

Worn tires or possibly less aerodynamic downforce then what they had in the prior years.

[@carfan3649]

I think he didn't lift.

[@MazdaArai]

can some 1 tell me wat type transmission these old F1's have. there a bit different from the new ones.is it like the one's rally cars use?

[@TheColinChapman]

unfortunately too dangerous. look at 0:08 and at 1:54 - "The Kink" is a 200mph-corner with no run-off-area. As long as the kink stays this way, F1 will never go there. all the other corners would probably do.

[@japotak99]

TheColinChapman there's a chicane before it that F1 could use to slow down the kink.

[@orsomethingorno]

The problem is not the amount of runoff, it's the oblique angle of the barrier due to what runoff does exist. The best thing to do at a corner like this -- assuming you can't create acres of runoff -- is to bring the barrier right to the track edge on the corner entry, and have it gradually and smoothly move away from the track to the corner exit, where it can use all available space. Add that to a SAFER barrier, F1 would be fine with the kink. Really, it's more of an issue with slower cars -- F1 cars would be so easily flat here, the only issue would ever be with tyre failures.

[@MazdaArai]

oh never mind . im stupid.

[@MazdaArai]

Nvm....

[@GeneralKenobiSIYE]

No... It was a dude.