Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing

There a soft spot in my heart for racing games. It's possibly cardiac trauma due to many hours spent lounging on the couch trying to beat that last fucking impossible race for Midnight Club 2, while drinking beer and waiting for stileproject porn to finish downloading.
Now I have no idea who Al Unser is. Or why his game looks like a badly updated port of Pole Position II.

The only racer I know is Dale Ernheart. And he's dead. This was apparently big news where I grew up. People were wearing black armbands. No kidding. I, on the other hand, went around making vroom-vroom noises and skidding my grocery cart into walls. Much fun was had by all. This has absolutely nothing to do with this game, but it's a fucking racing game, ok, give me a break here.