# @motorsport.images on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLFH8HVoeCI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31591076-motorsportimages-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/b448c137fd.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-06-19T09:55:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Motorsport Images (@motorsport.images) — https://gondola.cc/motorsport.images

## Caption

F1 making a terrible impression in the USA? It's more likely than you think! 🫣

On This Day twenty years ago, the disastrous United States Grand Prix saw only six cars start the race after Michelin-shod teams suffered tyre failures on Indianapolis' high speed banking, with Toyota's Ralf Schumacher suffering a frightening echo of his back-breaking 2004 crash in practice. Replacement tyres were flown in by Michelin, only for those to fail too! 😰 Michelin refused to allow teams to race unsafe tyres, and the FIA in turn refused to allow requested circuit modifications.

Plans to run the race as a non-championship event without the FIA disintegrated, and as only three teams ran the unproblematic Bridgestones - Ferrari, Jordan and Minardi - only three teams took the start, the Michelin runners pitting to withdraw after the formation lap. It would be Michael Schumacher and Ferrari's only win of the year(!).

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#OnThisDay #F1 #UnitedStatesGP #USGP #RalfSchumacher #Toyota #crash #scandal #IndianapolisMotorSpeedway #IMS #FormulaOne #Formula1 #GrandPrix #ClassicF1 #F1History #PhotographyHistory #MotorsportHistory #MotorsportPhotography #GettyImages #GettySport #SuttonImages

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