[herr_oberst]

Boy, talk about a snapshot of Indy in transition between eras.

Penske's first year
Tires are still treaded, (siped, really) but boy are they wide!
The Turbine is still legal
Wedge-shaped car bodies and 4WD chassis' still being experimented with
One stock block engine in the field, humongous turbochargers hung out in the wind
Long lines of cars trying to qualify
Safety on the track and pits not even a twinkle in the eye of the participants yet (Lloyd Ruby's fuel just pours out of the broken connector, no attempt to contain or dilute it.)
Pitstops with no tire changes! 40 or 50 seconds to fill with fuel, but tires just inspected!
Winner laps the field many times. (Thankfully no longer a thing, It was a regular occurrence in Indycars and Nascar backintheday.)
Those shots from the front illustrating the ground clearance were great.
That interview of the winner in the convertible with his legs wrapped around the car owner was cringe-worthy.
Imagine how bad those uprights must have been for Colin Chapman to reject them!! (slight sarcasm)
Jim McKay is a little fellow! Never really noticed that before.
Race coverage on tv has come a long, long, long way. I don't need Economaki finding out how the driver feels, I want to know where my favorite driver is on the track, and who has and hasn't pitted yet.

I was ten.I'm glad it was important to me even back then; it made me nostalgic a little, and there's a tinge of regret for not trying harder to pursue a life around racing cars in some capacity.