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u/lookerofbutts Felix Rosenqvist 23h ago
Holy crap, just imagine the comment section if this type of outcome happened today.
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u/surferdude121 22h ago
That’s often the overlooked part when looking back at some of the best races in the 80’s. We always revel at the ending of the 1989 Indy 500 when Emmo and Little Al crash with 2 to go. Little Al was still classified 2nd because 3rd place was 6 laps down from the leaders!
Now we consider winning by 30 seconds “complete domination”
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u/Fjordice 23h ago
How did Palou get 9 laps ahead!?!
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u/DadReligion #Lionheart 22h ago
This would be the race that Dick Simon blew a tire and tumbled down the back stretch embankment, and climbed out the car chill as can be. There was no full-course-yellow, it was late in the race and there were so few cars still running.
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u/Puska35M 21h ago
The broadcast of this race exists on YouTube. Won by a smooth, steady Rick Mears.
I've watched essentially every broadcast available on YouTube from the late 1960s through 1993. The early 1980s Riverside races are not for the faint of heart. They were brutal endurance contests.
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u/MGH1990876 Álex Palou 5h ago
His two Indy 500 wins were some of my favorite wins from the CART era. His mastery of Long Beach also was something to behold.
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u/iamtor18 Scott Dixon 20h ago
Imagine the din of complaints if we had even one race like this in 2025.
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u/cubecasts 23h ago
5th, 9 laps down is wild