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[EvilPhil II]

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Very simply, I think the CART Championship in 1999 may have been the best championship of modern time. 

 

I've been searching for an official HD season review on Bluray or even DVD or a copy of some of the races in HD but I have had no luck. 

 

The official IndyCar YouTube channel has a few races as part of their Classic Rewind series but Id love to relive the others. 

 

Does anyone know of any material out there that can be bought? 

 

Thanks, 

 

P

[pacificquay]

The deaths of Greg Moore and Gonzalo Rodriguez made it an appalling season and the quality of the racing itself irrelevant.

 

I can’t look back on that season with anything other than sadness.

[EvilPhil II]

No offence intended. 

[messy]

To be fair there was some incredible racing that season, and it was my introduction to CART - the Rodriguez and Moore accidents were terrible but I don’t think it negates everything that was good about the year, or else you’d have to write off Moore’s own final win in the season opener. The title battle between Montoya and Franchitti was incredible. I still can’t believe how effortlessly Montoya replaced the irreplaceable Alex Zanardi by somehow being every bit as exciting as him.

In terms of what’s actually out there, I only ever watched any of those races in horribly grainy fuzz-o-vision and aside from the stuff put up on the official Indycar channel on YouTube I really don’t think there’s anything else out there. There certainly wasn’t a DUKE season video or DVD that I know of, maybe the only other thing I can think of is to scour EBay to see if anybody has one in the US that could be shipped.

[Nigel Beresford]

No offence intended.

Of course no offence. This is a good illustration of how one’s perspective is skewed depending on loyalties or employment. For me personally it was the worst season endured in the almost two decades I worked for Team Penske, beginning with our lead driver (AUJ) breaking his leg in the first corner of the first lap of the first race and finishing with our newly signed driver (Greg) losing his life in the final race. Of course, there was also the terribly distressing loss of Gonzalo, who made a huge impression on the team in his brief period with us. In between there were a series of increasingly desperate measures to try to get some performance out of our cars, flip-flopping on chassis and drivers. That is not to detract from the fact that clearly it is perceived (correctly) as a classic season, but merely to mention that we can’t all recall it with affection.

Edited by Nigel Beresford, 21 August 2023 - 11:49.

[Dan333SP]

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Very simply, I think the CART Championship in 1999 may have been the best championship of modern time. 

 

I've been searching for an official HD season review on Bluray or even DVD or a copy of some of the races in HD but I have had no luck. 

 

The official IndyCar YouTube channel has a few races as part of their Classic Rewind series but Id love to relive the others. 

 

Does anyone know of any material out there that can be bought? 

 

Thanks, 

 

P

 

You're not going to find any HD videos of that year quite simply because they weren't filming the races in HD. Best you'll be able to do is 4:3 aspect ratio standard definition footage, and much of what's out there now is pulled from VHS recordings of the over the air broadcasts so you get all the weird tape-induced fuzzies in the footage.