S10 E6: Indianapolis '95 - Villeneuve's stunning Indy 500 victory

Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Bring Back V10s is going IndyCar racing again, heading back to the 1995 Indy 500 - a race Jacques Villeneuve ranks above his epic 1997 F1 title decider with Michael Schumacher as the greatest of his career. Glenn Freeman and Matt Beer are joined by longtime IndyCar reporter Curt Cavin to look back at a crazy race, which was the last before US single-seater racing's dreaded CART vs IRL 'split' that changed the racing landscape in North America. But this episode isn't just a celebration of Villeneuve's incredible victory after getting a two-lap penalty. We also look at the pre-race shock of the Penske team failing to qualify, Firestone's stunning return to the Speedway for the first time since the 1970s, Honda's recovery from a humiliating 1994 attempt, and the moment that decided the race, when Villeneuve's fellow Canadian Scott Goodyear passed the pace car on the final restart, getting himself black flagged while leading. With 'the split' on the horizon, we also look at the political landscape in IndyCar racing in May 1995, when nobody realised just how bad the battle between CART and the IRL was about to become. Want MORE BBV10s? Join The Race Members' Club on Patreon and get bonus episodes, including the 1997 Revisited Series! Head to Patreon.com/therace Follow The Race on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook Check out our latest videos on YouTube Download our app on iOS or Android

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0:00.0	The Athletic
0:02.0	There's one race from Jacques
0:12.0	that he ranks above the epic 1997 F1 title decider at Heret, where he won the World Championship,
0:19.0	and that's his Indy 500 win in 1995.
0:23.6	Vilner won the race despite having to come back from a two-lap penalty, which means this
0:28.1	race is still affectionately referred to as the Indy 505. This was the last Indy 500 before the
0:34.5	dreaded split that did so much damage to IndyCar racing. So fittingly, it was a
0:39.1	crazy afternoon with several victory contenders falling by the wayside and a controversial finish
0:44.4	that meant the first car to complete the race distance wasn't declared the winner. We're going to
0:50.0	explain all of that and much, much more from a crazy month of May in 1995 as Bring Back
0:56.8	V10s takes its second detour into a golden age of IndyCar racing.
1:01.8	And joining me, Glenn Freeman, to revisit Indy95 are Matt Beer and a man who has spent a long
1:07.3	time embedded in IndyCar racing and was there back in 1995, long time IndyCar
1:13.1	reporter, Kurt Kavin. Kurt, welcome to the show. People who listen to our special episode on
1:19.4	Nigel Mansell's 1993 indie car season. We'll have heard a few clips from you on that, but I'm delighted
1:25.3	that we've got you for the full episode this time. So
1:29.0	you can take our opening question. We always start the show in the same way. So tell us,
1:33.6	when you think of the 1995 Indy 500, what's the first thing that comes to mind? I think the first
1:38.9	thing is that it was such a long time ago, not only in my career, but also in the sports history.
1:44.6	We've gone through so much as a sport from the split that you referenced, and we're going to
1:49.0	probably get into that because it was such a pivotal moment in the sports history, but just
1:54.8	you know, how much things have changed, how a Villeneuve has gone from a relatively unknown driver at that point in his life,
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