Currently even in Brazil, where current IndyCar run at São Paulo streets each year since 2010, we had no live network TV broadcasting of many races. Around 2/3 of the season are broadcasting in overnight, a full tape of the race some hours after the checkered flag. This occours because the races starts around the same hour of the football here in Sunday evening, and "Brazil is the Football nation", as said here... And the TV choose to broadcast live some game of our national football league instead IndyCar races...
The IndyCar of the 90's...
I miss that, the best era of a motorsport series I've watched. Better than 90's Formula One in many aspects. And tremendous better and funniest than 2000's Formula One...
Emerson Fittipaldi (our hero), Nigel Mansell (a popular and well known driver here), Mario and Michael Andretti, Al Unser Jr, Jacques Villeneuve, Alessandro Zanardi (a hero for many race fans here), Greg Moore (a legend), Gil de Ferran (a very popular driver here), Juan Pablo Montoya, André Ribeiro (and his unforgettable win at Rio 1996), Reynard chassis, Lola chassis, Penske PC94 chassis, Mercedes-Illmor engines, Ford-Cosworth engines, Honda engines, Firestone x Goodyear battle, races at Michigan super-speedway, speed records at Fontana, Laguna Seca and its Cork Screw, Elkhart Lake's Road America and its challenging 4-mile beautiful road course, Cleveland airport's wide track and fast race, Surfer's Paradise with its glamour and jumping chicanes, and each car sponsored by a well-known company, as Marlboro, Texaco/Havoline, Target, Kool, Player's, Miller, Budweiser, Valvoline, Pennzoil, Shell, etc
From May 1989 to November 1998 all CART races was broadcasted LIVE for Brazil in network TV.
Great times. Great days. Great races. Great Sunday afternoons/evenings watching that races. Unforgettable moments of my teenage years.