Top 10 Closest Finishes in INDYCAR History

[@Dalejr88rox]

Sam Hornish really had a thing for photo finishes

[@zeboe223423]

Yea he was a really bad ass driver back then

[@aaronrichmond9178]

Ingrid michealson

[@JoMiMi_h]

Dalejr88rox then Nascar came along.

[@Simen.tyszko]

As.

[@armorofgod777]

scott dixon too

[@sideslick1024]

I love how little Helio seems to care that he won against Dixon in victory lane, lmao.

[@TheEmilyFravel]

Now anybody would in 2020

[@tbg008]

some say he still outside...

[@AlonsoRules]

bring back Chicagoland

[@OfficialKiwiFrankencop]

+Zachary DeCiancio And Kentucky, Michigan, Auto Club and Kansas

[@5530siddons]

+2016 NASCAR Crashes & Finish's They still do autoclub speedway.

[@OfficialKiwiFrankencop]

+David Siddons They did last year but I don't think they're doing it this year. Its a shame because that Indycar Auto Club race I watched last year was one of the best races I have ever seen. That's counting NASCAR too

[@5530siddons]

+2016 NASCAR Crashes & Finish's I agree, that is sad and that was a great race even though they finished on yellow.

[@OfficialKiwiFrankencop]

+David Siddons Yeah, but there was a flip so it evens out lol

[@ezez4205]

I wonder how they feel like: "Now i'm 1 million dollars richer than 1 second ago.."

[@lightningmcdweeb]

that's only the indy 500 right? not all the races

[@sergiofletcher7567]

@@lightningmcdweeb the million dollars was for winning the championship.

[@danielwolfe4169]

80% of that goes to the team, sponsor, etc

[@starship919]

Sam Hornish jr. had a lot of photo-finishhes))

[@BeanDip96_]

I don't care what anyone says, the 4-wide finish in the Freedom at Indy deserves to be here. Even if placed under "Honorable Mentions".

[@ryancole7376]

what about this year's freedom 100 then? it was pretty amazing

[@gummy_6437]

No this is about the closest not the coolest. Coolest is based on opinions, but closest is based on facts.

[@shawnbrannigan8749]

@@gummy_6437 the 4 wide finish he mentioned was .0026 seconds, thereby placing it in second on this list.

[@Buynot]

Note how with the exception of Texas, none of these tracks are on the schedule anymore.

[@twan313]

I wish open wheeled racing would come back to Michigan!

[@brendanadams3796]

@@twan313 We all do, my friend.

[@BH28Racing]

I was at Chicago in 2009 and that was my first ever IndyCar race and I was at Kentucky in 2011 when they raced there for the final time and saw Carpenter win his first ever race

[@crosbymgo8361]

outside outside outside outside outside outside outside outside outside outside outside outside..... -Me: PLS STOP!

[@apocalypsecod]

Do you just not understand the importance of a spotter?

[@daviddonnell2153]

If you don't like this dont watch it

[@crosbymgo8361]

@@daviddonnell2153 it was a joke dude

[@AJTheLEGOFan]

i mean if hes saying that hes outside, he doesnt need to say it every second. once he says "clear" thats when you know he isnt there.

[@thereviewer8184]

inininininin

[@bw-leftturnracing7779]

Moral of the story: Indycar, PLEASE go to more ovals

[@kodyhightower1903]

@MetalMastodon IndyCar hasn''t done a very good job of marketing themselves on TV over the past few years so casual fans actually know well ahead of time when the races are. I'm not a hardcore IndyCar fan so I usually don't know they're even having a race until a couple days prior. When you watch a NASCAR race, they're already promoting races 2 and 3 months ahead on the schedule throughout the entire race. IndyCar doesn't do that. It may get mentioned once over the course of an IndyCar broadcast. Furthermore, whenever IndyCar hits on a fantastic oval package like they did from about 2013-2016, all the drivers complain that the cars are racing too close together. I got new for them...that's called great racing. If you don't want to be racing door to door with someone then why are you out there. That's what fans want to see. Not single file follow the leader and then pass them on pit strategy.

[@turritopsisrockola]

@@kodyhightower1903 even here in latin america they don't broadcast Indy anymore

[@dbeardsley0]

I miss the good old days of Hornish whose my favorite and the other greats racing it out with him like Weldon, Dario, Helio, Kanan, and Dixon

[@josephbettano2569]

Now Kanaan and Dixon are the only ones left! Wheldon is of course dead. Dario is retired after a crash at Houston, and Helio is now in sports cars, but even without three of these guys, IndyCar still has a pretty great group of drivers!

[@josephbettano2569]

@ClintBoy14 Not full-time anymore jsut the Indy 500 now, and Tony Kanaan will be retiring soon as well

[@1970vlad]

The reaction of Castroneves and Dixon is awesome. Just having fun after battling inches away at 220 mph !!

[@TacticalCardboard]

Shots fired. Still don't miss the older cars.

[@RacingNationTV]

I don't either, I just miss the V8's

[@X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X]

+Empty Box I miss the late '90s- early '00s CARTs ;)

[@BeanDip96_]

+Empty Box I Completely agree. These old IRL speedway races after the "crapwagon" era followed the same style as plate racing in the tin-tops. Its white-knucked follow the leader for 90% of the race, with 5 laps of pure chaos to finish. I much prefer the lower downforce approach taken with the new Dallara for the speedways. That being said, it will be interesting to see how the race at Phoenix plays out compared to the old layout, as the lap times in testing were not far off the lap records set in '95 and '96.

[@TacticalCardboard]

X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X Just CART in general, no need to specify. :)0

[@Hachiae]

oh hai empty box :3

[@zaymclovin4178]

Bring Back Chicagoland and Kansas

[@infiniteuniverse123]

Watching this makes f1 look like you're watching grass grow

[@davp11]

but has only ovals is boring

[@Trainmaster909]

davp11 only a third of the Indycar calendar is ovals

[@davp11]

@@Trainmaster909 yes i meant only this video

[@kodyhightower1903]

@@davp11 There's nothing boring about this video. These are all better racing clips than you'd get at any road course.

[@emilianomartinez5937]

@@davp11 Are just ovals, but the presition of the pilot and the spotter it's amizing

[@TallyFox2]

"Looking high. High. Car high. High. High. High. High." HELLO SPOTTER, HOW YA DOIN

[@cbpbear9021]

There are three things I noticed about this, hornish is involved in almost every photo finish, Scott Dixon always gets the short end of the stick in these finishes, and they are all at Chicagoland

[@aj_killjoy]

I really hate that nobody is returning to Chicagoland, that had most of the finishes on this list and at the very least Indycar should’ve stayed when nascar left

[@cosmic_drew]

I wish Paul Page could call one race on NBCSN with Paul Tracy and Townsend Bell.

[@evanslater1784]

Why wasn't the Firestone 600 Texas Motor Speedway, 2016 finish at 0.0008 of a second on here?

[@tedskins]

Chairdom this video was uploaded before that

[@KenPryor]

What a great video! Can't wait to see those Indycars flying around the track again.

[@chrisk3479]

From 7:04 You remember when the Seats were Full when Indycar held a Race? Nevermind.

[@PresidentialRobloxCrew]

Fr!

[@cobaneazy3079]

ChrisK y not anymore?

[@adriananderson76]

2006 Homestead indycar race also has a closest finish as well between Castroneves and Wheldon.

[@felipesanchez1428]

Interesting how they make the video right after the closest finish in Nascar history yesterday at the Daytona 500. Just saying.

[@brettshelton9654]

I was just going to say this

[@RipCurlRules2188]

Wasn't closest in nascar history Ricky craven and Kurt Busch finished 0.002 seconds apart at darlington in 2002

[@AutoRockinRacing94]

+RipCurlRules2188 2003 actually but yes. That and the 2011 Aaron's 499.

[@bradsbeenthere2132]

People were asking for it

[@sylv2904]

Not in history. Just 500 history.

[@GoFeri]

Ah yes, a time when Marlboro was buying tickets to give away and there were actually people at the oval races.

[@gopats85]

I really wish when I was younger in the late 90s to early 00s I had watched cart/Indy races the oval races here are so much better compared to this single file racing they do now on ovals and can’t draw a huge crowd anymore.

[@jeremybeaird3608]

This video would be so much more enjoyable if the winner wasn't spoiled in the descriptions.

[@Someone-b4q-u5k]

Finally a great video well done

[@bigrooster6893]

It’s so disappointing that Indycar has almost abandoned all oval tracks.

[@JoanseCastillo]

I dont see the point of remembering these good old times if indy car is scared of running in ovals now, face it, indycar will never be the same on road courses

[@NoPunIntended00]

good thing the Indy 500 will always exist

[@StickyBadger]

These aren't the good old times.

[@Mechaghostman2]

Ovals are boring though...

[@alexfitzpatrick2509]

CART was the good old times

[@vicdelafuente6939]

Indy needs to return to Chicagoland! What a great speedway!

[@VinayakPande53]

I hope they make a road/street course edition of closest Indycar finishes.

[@kodyhightower1903]

Oh yeah watching a finish of 3 car lengths at a road course is definitely more exciting than a side by side drag race to the line at an oval.

[@meghancavanagh2376]

Chicagoland was so much fun 💔

[@tiagocavalca5227]

i'm here after 4 years to say... he still outside! outside! outside! outside! outside! outside! outside! outside!

[@CraigHyphenO]

Now we can add Texas 2016 to this list. :)

[@True_Racer]

and most of these are closer then the closest daytona finish

[@Junieper]

True Racer all of them actually

[@austinsteed1581]

Well yeah, they’re faster.

[@MegaLlamalord]

Actually none of them are closer than the closest Nascar finish. I don't know why you want to say specifically Daytona because that doesn't make any sense to only pick and choose 1 track when this has multiple tracks featured.

[@BeastSports02]

Bring back more oval racing!! I loved this racing!!

[@luizhenriquefeitosamaciel3516]

NÃO PERDE MAIS TONY

[@ferlopez2116]

They need to bring back Chicago, seemed like every other race was a photo finish

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

I saw the Kentucky race in person. I'm pretty sure it was the last time Indy raced at Kentucky.

[@Slowdownandchilloutplease]

i saw sam hornish pass 4 wide on the outside of 1 and 2 at richmond in the pennzoil car no bullshit, he was fearless in an indycar.

[@Maverick33]

What about that CART Michigan 500?

[@aydenh4902]

Legend has it that to this day he is still outside

[@subrosabmx94]

like all these are at Chicago. why the hell don't they still race there

[@LucasGonzalezA]

+subrosabmx94 Because it belongs to the International Speeway Corporation, that's owned by NASCAR. IndyCar left ISC tracks after 2011. Now they are returning to Phoenix. Let's hope we can get Chicagoland and Michigan back too

[@LucasGonzalezA]

Yeah, you are right. 1.5 mile ovals came to IndyCar on the '96, with the slower IRL cars. But current cars are too fast for those ovals.

[@TacticalCardboard]

+Kite Texas is faster than Chicagoland would be. Then again, with the DW12 Texas has been consistently one of the most unexciting races on the calendar.... The stupidity that led up to that Las Vegas race in 2011 isn't even close to what we would see today unless Indycar decided to let them run stupid levels of downforce like at Fontana last year. It'd take a pretty colossal screw up to do that again. 1.5 mile tracks aren't the problem, the problem was the stupid pack racing which has been fixed thanks to more proper downforce levels and tire wear.

[@TacticalCardboard]

Kite Fontana was due to Indycar allowing too much downforce for the weather, like they were warned. They got it wrong, but I'd not consider that the norm at all - had it been 15-20 degrees warmer (which IIRC that race was on a pretty "cool" day by middle of the day in SoCal standards....) it could have been a different story. Chicagoland is also lower banked, 24 degrees vs 18 degrees. They'd really need to flub it with the newer cars to get a pack on a 1.5 miler now, especially with the tires falling off quite a lot now. I'd like to see them return there, I'd make the trip over. (Let's put it this way, the Indy Fixed crowd couldn't do 3 laps without imploding the field in the old car, now I complain I need a caution the DW12 strings out so much! lol)

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

+Lucas Stinziano and the Milwaukee Mile too they need to get that back and Richmond

[@aj_killjoy]

I miss this package. I know it has caused some wrecks at tracks Indycar should never have been at, but for places with near spotless records like Chicagoland and Kansas I wish they brought it back

[@JoeAriminvm]

I'm no expert, but like 6 out of 10 are in Chicagoland. Does anyone care to explain why that oval is so good for close finishes?

[@larry8030]

Indycar really needs to bring back Chicagoland

[@hernendezsanchez7646]

You'd think that the inside line was the sure way to victory but 9/10 of these were from round the outside. Would be interesting to see the difference in g forces, distance travelled and speed variations between 1 and 2 in some of these finishes and have a scientific explanation of them

[@Diffie]

7:45 "24 thousands of a second" means 0.024 seconds, not 0.0024 seconds. I guess that means all the numbers in this video is wrong? One zero too much in every number?

[@Quintinohthree]

The numbers are correct, indycar measures down to a ten thousandth of a second. Commentator just read it wrong.

[@FrosteeWusky]

This series has got to get Chicagoland and Kentucky back on the schedule. There's others that need to return as well, but those two first and foremost.

[@lukmanfirdaus8497]

2008 Peak Antifreeze 300:H3lio cross finish line first but Chip Ganassi doing a cheat by locating the transponder upside down.

[@johnthiel7422]

Chicagoland Speedway gave us some unbelievable races...... and now it sits empty!

[@TomBoi]

Proof that Chicagoland is an amazing track.

[@Strat_Twelve_in_Pit_Lane]

Amazing Video 🔝🏁🏎

[@kg0173]

This is a kind of IndyCar racing fans want!

[@hiroredbeat]

Amazing finishes 👏👏👏👏

[@gusmc01]

Wow @ 2:35 that is insane

[@noblahjustblah]

And still no one notices the simple numeracy error in the graphics? (sigh)

[@m.c.martin]

“Baron takes the win from Second Place!” Um, this makes it seem like he won the race while in second place. Like yeah, you normally pass the person in first when you are in second. It’s how people take the lead. Guess the guy was too excited to care how he said it.

[@KillyJoe]

it was so much fun when sam was in the panther 4 car especially when he was taking out the penske cars

[@lordgothan]

That yellow pennzoil car was so competitive

[@carmenperalta2467]

Fantastic elio castroneves

[@Motiv4cion]

You missed the best final ever in 2000 Michigan's between Montoya and Andretti, that was a race!

[@artysanmobile]

Announcer needs to learn his decimal places. That was twenty four TEN-thousandths of a second.

[@dustinharlow2634]

Great racing i loved the IRL

[@alessandrochagas1962]

ESSA CATEGORIA É A VERDADEIRA FÓRMULA 1🏁🎌!

[@ChuckyLarms]

2 things: Hornish Jr had an underrated career and nascar cookie cutters were great for Indy cars in the 00’s

[@BigSleepyOx]

Video directors, the in-car camera shots are cool and all, but on the last lap, just stick with the wide angle shots, so we can see the actual race, please. :)

[@cliffkram]

The second clip--look at the size of that crowd in Kansas. Merger or no merger, what the hell has happened to warrant such a drop off in attendance at live races?!?!

[@gwcrispi]

Vitor deserved to stand at the top of the podium at least one time. Such a shame.

[@brendanwilliams7291]

What about Rick Mears and Gordon Johncock at Indy in 1982?

[@YellowAMc6]

@5:20 - VITOR MEIRA WON THAT RACE!!!!!! PURE AND SIMPLE, END OF STORY!!!!!!

[@elgallowayjr]

Sam had so many close finishes in his career that his over all margin of victory is probably like .900

[@R2Y2V2]

Since these were all the older ear if cars with simple aero I'm guessing that the new modern cars with high tech aero either just cant run side by side or one person's car always dominates the others.

[@cpthornman]

+TheBlackdragonnight I guess you missed the race at Fontana last year.

[@TacticalCardboard]

+TheBlackdragonnight The old cars had huge amounts of downforce and not that much power - many of the tracks in this video were pretty much foot to the floor, brick the throttle affairs. Basically the same thing as NASCAR restrictor plate racing - almost no one can get away because no car is fast enough to do it. Within the ovals they mandate pretty heavily now how much downforce can be run on cars by setting maximum wing angles and what underwing / diffuser parts can be run by the teams on a per track basis. They could pack race, but they choose not to because it's stupidly dangerous and the racing is pretty much "draw out of a hat" garbage.

[@OfficialKiwiFrankencop]

This is why Indycar should run more ovals.

[@IgorFonseca244]

Com'on , they ran only in ovals during much of the Tony George era.

[@taufiqutomo]

That list has to be updated after the 2016 Firestone 600. Also, Rahal won that one from the inside, contrary to most of the finishes here.

[@pjrohe]

Anthony Kernich i totally agree also bring back Auto club, Kentucky, Michigan and Kansas get rid of the road course in alabama

[@Quintinohthree]

Barber has given us some of the best races. Why would you want to get rid of it?

[@pjrohe]

No offense just not a big road course fan

[@Quintinohthree]

+Pj Rohe But why Barber specifically, why not any of the 6 other road course events or if you'd include them among road courses any of the 5 races on 4 street courses? I agree that we could do with some more good ovals. I'm not entirely sure that adding Kansas and Kentucky, Fontana and Michigan helps the variety given how similar these pairs are (they were both meant to look alike), but if they're good events I can deal with some ovals being alike. Whatever the case, Barber is a good event and getting rid of just this event only because you don't particularly like ovals doesn't seem like a good idea.

[@pjrohe]

There are some tracks "road courses" that indy has gone too for a very very long time. I went to may races in chicagoland both indy and nascar the nascar races there are a snoozefest it is like that track was built specifically for indycars so if they bring back races to chicago or Fontana/Michigan that would be awesome. Have you ever been to the Indianapolis 500? uf you are a real racing fan i suggest you go at least 1 tine i have gone to every year since 2001 and have ony seen 2 bad indy 500's 04 and 07 both because they were rain shortened,,,,

[@pjrohe]

if

[@raulandrades9629]

The video is very epic. Epic, epic, epic, epic

[@a.estevez5791]

Portland 1997?

[@weirdo21212]

Man the 2002 season had some amazing finishes

[@Permayonnaise]

Man, Hornish was a beast.

[@bradleykioski47]

And no indycar is all road street courses 2021 what a joke you’ll never see this action again

[@sludge4125]

“There wasn’t even one fan sitting.” So, even the people in wheelchairs got up?

[@beanman4531]

y e s

[@sludge4125]

Okay. :)

[@andrewmartin7027]

Please race at Michigan next year

[@KingJonAtl]

Omg now thats racing. 33 sec and 24 sec. shhesh exciting

[@matthewricker5317]

What about the legendary race when Lightning McQueen one with his TONGUE?

[@cozmicvideos702]

I don't care if they bring back these old cars or not, I want a Penske VS Ganassi championship battle.

[@scwfan08]

7:50 24/1000? More like 2,4/1000

[@nathanwells9136]

You really wanted to be on the high side, great racing.

[@TotoDG]

Am I surprised that Sam Hornish Jr. has won three championships? Given how he drives in these videos, I wouldn’t be.

[@AshTheMohican]

I'm not a big fan of the radio chatter but the commentary in Indycar (as well as the close racing of course) is legendary. FOM, hire some of these guys.

[@malikdigger4544]

2nd,3rd & 4th clips I remember well

[@Gullett38]

Is all of Sam Hornish Jr's finishes side by side lol

[@FixItAMIGO]

man I miss CART

[@michael88h]

Hornish has a thing for photo finishes

[@Praster89]

Notice how all the best racing and finishes were on ovals.... wake up INDYCAR!

[@beanman4531]

Alec David Bauer they cant use the tracks because of the company that owns most of the tracks

[@cdname47]

considering the amount of downforce the cars ran, these shouldn't really count as anything but artificial entertainment doing exactly what they were designed to do. people like dario have made it clear, you couldn't pass in this cars on ovals, all you could do was get Alongside then the car would stall out and you'd be stuck side by side. its not racing it's pure manufactured entertainment. Proper close finishes include Portland 96 and stuff like that from proper race cars that have way more power than grip

[@kyleknorr823]

+David Malinovsky It does, the Nascar K&N West series still runs there.

[@josephbettano2569]

It does, and IndyCar is going back there on Labor Day Weekend!

[@absofruitlyriley]

If I were a driver in Indy Car and my spotter wouldn't shut his pie hole - *"STFU I'M NOT BLIND"*

[@Quintinohthree]

No, you most certainly are blind in those cars. Can't see much more than what is straight ahead.

[@alvilla701]

3 very close laps in a row gives you extra points

[@dewalt1716]

Not Jacques Villeneuve 1995 Indy 500