TOP-10 CLOSEST INDYCAR FINISHES

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[@mattkowal90]

Chicagoland Speedway was built for IndyCar racing when it comes to this video. Their event always came down to the wire. I miss that track, along with the old Texas Motor Speedway.

[@CLynn-xl2gd]

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[@user-hc4sq1gh4t]

@tristanellisgaming3095 yes this is the most exciting track. NASCAR　has abandoned chicago. Now is the time for IndyCar to return .

[@lkadshglkhvani]

Strong evidence that Chicago and Kansas are two of the best ovals.

[@CLynn-xl2gd]

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[@andrewwinslow9315]

I agree. Replace Texas and the second Indy GP race with these two gems

[@ceeam]

Imagine being Vitor Meira. Imagine featuring multiple times in this selection and yet never getting a single win in the series.

[@rzmbobby8357]

Could have easily called this video “MIKE, WHOS GUNA WIN IT?!“ 😂. Absolute guts of these guys! 200+ MPH through the turns, wheels are literally Millimetres apart! 😱 Kudos

[@justinstein4712]

It would be amazing if Chicagoland speedway came back to the indycar schedule

[@CLynn-xl2gd]

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[@loyallfc7239]

RIP Dan Wheldon, gone but never forgotten.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Amazing races - phenomenal talent. I miss DW's smile. He lit up the pit line with it.

[@CLynn-xl2gd]

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[@benwalter4842]

Remember when TMS was good? Yeah miss that.

[@Rand0mContnt]

*Indycar makes a closest finishes video* Sam Hornish Jr: it’s free real estate

[@josepedrorodriguez2376]

I really miss the more ovals because they gave a best finishes

[@ILSRWY4]

yup

[@ColeslawCustard]

4 ovals this year really made me mad.

[@kailahmann1823]

Especially missing Chicagoland Speedway, where you had two or sometime even three cars dead even for several laps.

[@CLynn-xl2gd]

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[@BlueJimmie48Fan]

RIP Chicagoland Speedway. We will never forget the amazing finishes that track gave to us all. 😢

[@takahiroyamamoto4970]

I miss these races. More oval INDYCAR funs need.

[@randygravel2057]

F1 races don’t end that way.

[@LuminalSpoon]

F1 races aren't on ovals

[@randygravel2057]

@@LuminalSpoon You are correct

[@RFSDS]

I miss the 1.5 mile ovals, those were great.

[@the_chanman]

Man I get it that oval racing and Indycar is a dangerous mix, but it's some of the best racing ever

[@dj.m682]

Notice how none of these happened at a road or street circuit? Add more ovals to the calendar!

[@ILSRWY4]

YES!!!!

[@charlenemarcks7483]

Notice the crowds? Huge.

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqSxn3mrZZqEb80 Closest finish in the CART days was on a road course.

[@CLynn-xl2gd]

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[@WRXPATRICK1]

I wish Chicagoland was back. Always produced good indycar races

[@eduardorodriguesalves2708]

Verdade. Ótimas provas em Chicagoland 👍

[@axemanracing6222]

Yes, more oval racing PLEASE

[@stevie821]

Broke my heart when sam left. Such a great race car driver!

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

YES, THE RETURN OF SEXIER INDYCAR CONTENT ON THIS CHANNEL (I miss IndyCar having a lot of oval racing…)

[@mono-no-aware.Lem.]

man 2001-2011 was a wild time to be an IndyCar fan

[@nachodinos3]

Every year you should upload this! This is great. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@avantigpracingdevelopmet6467]

Anyone else's heart rate go into the high 100s/bpm? Hope that the PJ1 goes away at Texas, or Firestone develops a tire that will work with it. Hate seeing a track that has produced such great finishes be turned into a one groove snorefest!

[@Musicman81Indy]

With so many close finishes on these ovals like Chicagolan and Kansas, I'm shocked that the crowd size shrunk so much over the years to the point where IndyCar doesn't even run at these tracks anymore. How could so many people turn their backs on such good close racing?

[@w.arnold8806]

Maybe it's one thing, you can really enjoy watching those fantastic last laps. But watching those cars packed together the whole race, constantly overtaking again and again, it gets kind of ordinary and boring after a while. I remember that impression from the CART Handford wing races. A barn burner at first but a crowd killer in the long term.

[@artificiiall]

YES. 10 minute videos. YES. FINALLY.

[@1106Winter]

Awesome seeing those huge crowds!

[@Huge_pato_oward_fan]

Ideas for ovals to bring back or add: Homestead Phoenix Atlanta Chicagoland

[@user-hc4sq1gh4t]

penski have plan of return to michigan speedway

[@EmilRJohanssonRacing]

Those 2011 machines were so gorgeous❤🏁🏎💨

[@DW98rosy]

absolutely. most gorgeous open wheel machinery ever built.

[@charlesdutiro9526]

IndyCar were have u been 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@rimad1986]

I love indy car

[@ILSRWY4]

you mean you love the IRL.... 90 percent of those finishes are under the IRL Era.

[@CLynn-xl2gd]

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[@leimdog]

Those were definitely great years!

[@nicolasmathews8084]

These are amazing

[@chadhornish4769]

Hornish FTW ALWAYS

[@_al_7210]

Notice the respect the drivers have for each other when driving wheel to wheel and making passes. Same can’t be said about F1. You try to make a pass on the outside and the inside line driver has the right to run you off the course.

[@Rand0mContnt]

*Max Verstappen intensifies*

[@DavidGossettMusic]

Oval etiquette and road course etiquette are very different, even in IndyCar/CART. In F1, most of the corners are in the 80-160mph range with a few like Eau Rouge and 130R upwards of 190-200. If an incident happens, you have some run-off and aren't in the direct line of oncoming cars. On an oval at 210-220mph, the risk of going airborne is much higher. Also any incident is more likely to catch out following drivers. NASCAR has a bit more to protect the drivers, but even with the current aero-screen, IndyCar drivers are not as protected. Wicken's crash at Pocono was an unfortunate reminder of how dangerous the catch fence can be to an open wheel chassis at those speeds.

[@_al_7210]

@@DavidGossettMusic while I completely agree with what you said. F1 drivers still drive around and shove others off the track because it’s something they’ve been taught in the rookie series. And for the most part the FIA let’s them get away with it. This whole “it’s my corner/line” is bs. If a driver manages to get alongside another driver in the corner, without going super deep, then that driver deserves to challenge the position and shouldn’t be pushed off the track. Wickens accident was very unfortunate. Indycar oval racing is dangerous no question about it. But F1 can also resemble indycar crashes. Think back to Alonso going airborne into turn 3 I believe in the Australian Grand Prix a few years back. It was a horrible crash he somehow managed to walk away from. My point is no driver should be allowed to push another driver off the track and get away with it.

[@eduardorodriguesalves2708]

Eu lembro dessa chegada em Chicagoland. O Luciano do Valle na hora gritou vitória do Helinho, mas deram pro Dixon. Só depois de longos minutos é que checaram e confirmaram a vitória do Hélio. Lembro que o carro do Dixon já estava no Victory Lane e o tiraram rapidinho de lá. Hélio com a vitória e Dixon com o título.

[@EricBurns1]

RIP good Texas races

[@eduardosantanagomes3260]

Chicagoland and Texas are THE tracks!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@live_in_a_propriety568]

I submitted this video concept to Mailbag about a week and a half ago, IndyCar...were you listening or is this just a coincidence? I think you have to make a top 10 series for the recent season because there are so many great moments!

[@BingBangBill]

It’s fun to think about how Dixon is in so many of these races and he’s still winning😂

[@lsudx479]

Alright - as an F1 fan who's never watched Indy...I'm envious how closely the cars can race without losing performance. Does Indy have Indy TV like F1TV?

[@Ahobs]

indycar NEEDS more ovals! just saying.

[@ILSRWY4]

yup

[@granthartley3291]

More videos like this👍

[@ILSRWY4]

What Old races during the IRL era... there are a lot of finishes like these... this video is just top 10

[@granthartley3291]

@@ILSRWY4 my dad has hundreds VHS tapes of '90s and early 2000s indy and scca races.

[@sankalpgupta1556]

Still a dream for f1 fan

[@dogtorpujado9181]

Por eso me gusta mas IRL que cart , esos duelo apretados de principio a fin , espero que indycar regrese a super speedways , eso le hace falta a indycar

[@EvrytForReal]

the man in the yellow suit if you get it you know what im talking about

[@dan5213]

with safety improvements i would say you could bring the v8 era package back

[@arturorodal6402]

Bring back to Chicagoland

[@ILSRWY4]

yes!!!!!

[@diogosilva27]

Dixon involved in 4 out of 7 top finishes since he joined the IRL, but didn’t manage to win any of them

[@jerrymorgan2769]

Am looking to purchase a Kentucky tool box

[@KPDigitalTravel]

1) I miss Vitor, as you can see in my profile pic. 2) This is my number one evidence when I argue that the IndyCar season should ALWAYS end on an oval.

[@AndynatorHD]

So insane, but the YT channel definitely needs a new concept/ fresh design of thumbnails and titles like the F1 channel

[@BrentTnerb2217]

I think Hornish won every photo finish he was part of.

[@sakshamsharma5429]

One finish which was bumped off this list by Hinchcliffe and Rahal, 2003 Michigan, Hornish lost on a photo finish to Alex Barron

[@JaaS0on]

Man, twitch streamer Tony Kanaan is pretty good at this racing thing huh? He should do it more often.

[@somanath00ganesalingam35]

F1 will never be this interesting

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

👍🏁🏁🏁🏁

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

Bring Chicago back, surely NASCAR would be willing to part with it now that it's not making them any money. And danm, Texas was soo good before the PJ1.

[@schweckles1142]

"Oval racing is boring."

[@gagemcpherson1956]

Lmao compared to a street race your crazy street races it's follow the car in front of you all race

[@max_plastic]

Interesting that most of them are pretty old and the newer aren't even that exciting. I guess the old commentators are really intense.

[@EVENo94]

Dixon really like to be 2nd on ovals

[@X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X]

The famous "too draggy to pass" finishes ;)

[@ILSRWY4]

yet produced the most "famous" finishes... ironic huh?

[@X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X]

@@ILSRWY4 Two drivers running flat out side by side for laps. Where's the value in victory? What did the winning driver do better than the losing one?

[@heliogt1961]

dont blink. you might miss it

[@sion2697]

bring back Chicagoland

[@ColeslawCustard]

Why did Wheldon do donuts at Kansas despite the fact that he didn’t win?

[@sadsharksvehementcomics8265]

These don't even have the original tv broadcast commentary. it's playing the radio broadcast over the tv broadcast. seriously, why?

[@homeperson11244]

Re post?

[@izzdin6228]

Think of it as a refresh. I have the old version downloaded on my pc. This has extra onboards and additional commentary, so its a good refresh.

[@homeperson11244]

@@izzdin6228 ah i see. Yeah is a very good refresh video

[@izzdin6228]

@@homeperson11244 I've rewatched this new version and the old version. The major difference is the addition of the 2016 finish at Texas in this new refresh. The old top 10 was made before the texas race was underway, so the old version didn't have it. Everything else follows the same structure with extra footage and commentary.

[@vinyi_arnau96]

No pack racing, more safety

[@CLynn-xl2gd]

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[@chrisaud5331]

These are the closest, but they are not the most famous or iconic.

[@gagemcpherson1956]

Hmmm none of these finishes are on a road course don't get me wrong I like road courses but Indycar has got to get more ovals on the schedule and no not short ovals

[@DW98rosy]

short ovals are still great tracks but, i would also love an additional superspeedway.

[@jaxonjaxoff3291]

sorry but I cant listen to any of the early 2000s stuff when Paul Page isn't commentating

[@SilentSpades]

Mike King had better calls for these finishes.

[@nolancain8792]

@@SilentSpades if he and Paul teamed up it would be awesome.

[@deanhirasawa1414]

Ridiculous pack racing created by the split in 1996 - with dumbed-down, slow high downforce cars designed to emulate high banked NASCAR stock car racing. Something that never should have been created and the type of racing that helped destroy American open-wheel.

[@DW98rosy]

cars that still looked, sounded, and raced better then the ugly, ear grating death traps CART was using, and infinitely more exciting to watch then most nascar races. this, to me, is american open-wheel racing. glorious cars with blissful sounding engines, screaming around ovals at insane speeds, which is something you just wouldn't find at any other place in the world. it's beautiful, and i love it for it.

[@JosebaZubiaurre]

I like indycar but i don't like ovals

[@JosebaZubiaurre]

I like the new Nashville circuit instead

[@JosebaZubiaurre]

In addition to all circuits that are not oval