My brothers and sisters who love the sounds of race cars have another treat for you here,

courtesy of my pal Brad Bernstein who dragged around an audio recorder in the 1980s and 1990s

as a photographer and shared dozens of these cassette tapes for me to transfer to digital.

And today we are going to Southern California, the fine industrial town of Fontana, for the 1998 Cart IndyCar Series season finale.

This was the Toyota 500.

Oh boy.

This is just stuff that makes my ears so happy.

This race had not my brother,

Scott Pruitt on pole in a Patrick racing,

Bernard Ford Cosworth.

He went very quickly while securing that pole position.

And then we have a mighty fine race that is won by our pal.

James Vassar, home state boy, Chip Gannasi racing,

driving a lovely 1998, Ren Honda behind him one of our

heroes late heroes Greg Moore in a players Forsyth racing Renard Mercedes and then

in third who do we have well the person whose picture adorns the thumbnail

for this it's the only one I have, by the way, thanks to Honda Performance Development.

That being the pineapple, Alex Zanardi in his Chip Ganassie racing,

Renard, Honda, oh boy, lots of RPMs, lots of velocity, lots of r pms lots of velocity lots of ferocity lots of everything just a few years later we would have

our man gilles d'affarin setting the closed course track record at 241 miles an hour not quite

there here in 1998 but i tell you we are not lacking in crazy speed and sounds.

So that's what we have for you.

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