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The 1996 PPG
PPG
PPG may stand for:* PPG Industries, a U.S. manufacturer, and its PPG Place office complex* PPG tankette, a Soviet armoured vehicle* Pacific Proving Grounds, a former US-operated nuclear test site* Palm Products GmbH, an audio synthesizer company...

/Firestone
Firestone
-Harvey Firestone family:*Harvey Samuel Firestone , founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company*Harvey Samuel Firestone, Jr., son of Firestone founder*Elizabeth Parke Firestone, daughter-in-law of Harvey Firestone and mother of Martha Firestone...

 Indy Lights Championship Powered By Buick
Buick
Buick is a premium brand of General Motors . Buick models are sold in the United States, Canada, Mexico, China, Taiwan, and Israel, with China being its largest market. Buick holds the distinction as the oldest active American make...

consisted of 12 races. Canadian David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 captured three wins on his way to the championship.

Calendar

Race No Track State Date Laps Distance Time Speed Winner Pole Position Most Leading Laps Fastest Race Lap
1 Homestead
Homestead-Miami Speedway
Homestead-Miami Speedway is a race track in Homestead, Florida southwest of Miami.Since 2002 Homestead has hosted the final races of the season in all three of NASCAR's series: the Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series, and the Camping World Truck Series...

 
Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

 
March 3, 1996 37 2.4574011=90.9238407 km 0'31:51.723 171.220 km/h David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 
David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 
David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 
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2 Long Beach
Long Beach Grand Prix
The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is an open-wheel race held on a street circuit in Long Beach, California. Christopher Pook is the founder and promoter which began as a vision while working at a travel agency in downtown Long Beach. It was the premier circuit in the Champ Car from 1996, and...

 
California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 
April 14, 1996 44 2.558787=112.586628 km 0'54:17.817 124.412 km/h David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

 
David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 
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3 Nazareth
Nazareth Speedway
Nazareth Speedway was an auto racing track in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania which operated from 1910 to 2004. The track is often associated with local drivers Mario and Michael Andretti. It was associated with Frankie Schneider in its earlier dirt track history....

 
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

 
April 28, 1996 75 1.5223978=114.179835 km 0'49:08.616 139.404 km/h Dave DeSilva  Claude Bourbonnais
Claude Bourbonnais
Claude Bourbonnais , is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts...

 
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4 Brooklyn
Michigan International Speedway
Michigan International Speedway is a two-mile moderate-banked D-shaped superspeedway located off U.S. Highway 12 on more than in Brooklyn, in the scenic Irish Hills area of southeastern Michigan. The track is used primarily for NASCAR events. It is sometimes known as a "sister track" to Texas...

 
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

 
May 25, 1996 50 3.2186=160.93 km 0'32:30.239 297.065 km/h David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 
David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 
David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 
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5 Milwaukee
Milwaukee Mile
The Milwaukee Mile is a -long oval race track in West Allis, Wisconsin that seats about 40,000 spectators. It operated as a dirt track until 1953. The track was paved in 1954....

 
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

 
June 2, 1996 75 1.6607976=124.55982 km 0'38:39.070 193.360 km/h Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis is an American former racing driver from Pasadena, California.Hotchkis placed second in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1994 and moved up to Indy Lights the following year, finishing 7th in points. He captured his first win the following year from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile and...

 
Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis is an American former racing driver from Pasadena, California.Hotchkis placed second in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1994 and moved up to Indy Lights the following year, finishing 7th in points. He captured his first win the following year from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile and...

 
Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis is an American former racing driver from Pasadena, California.Hotchkis placed second in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1994 and moved up to Indy Lights the following year, finishing 7th in points. He captured his first win the following year from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile and...

 
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6 Detroit
Detroit Indy Grand Prix
The Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix presented by shopautoweek.com is a weekend of professional auto racing held at the Renaissance Center and later the Belle Isle in Detroit, United States. It has been held from 1989-01, 2007–08, and is scheduled for 2012 and beyond...

 
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

 
June 9, 1996 36 3.6482831=131.338192 km 0'56:39.773 139.073 km/h Tony Kanaan
Tony Kanaan
Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

 
David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 
Tony Kanaan
Tony Kanaan
Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

 
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7 Portland
Portland International Raceway
Portland International Raceway is located in Portland, Oregon, USA's, Delta Park complex on the former site of Vanport, just south of the Columbia River. It is west of a light rail station and less than a mile west of Interstate 5....

 
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

 
June 23, 1996 39 3.138135=122.387265 km 0'44:55.609 163.449 km/h Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

 
Tony Kanaan
Tony Kanaan
Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

 
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

 
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8 Cleveland
Grand Prix of Cleveland
The Grand Prix of Cleveland was an open wheel automobile racing event in the Champ Car World Series, held annually at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. The 2006 race, held on June 25, marked the 25th anniversary of the event...

 
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

 
June 30, 1996 32 3.8124317=121.9978144 km 0'43:04.913 169,910 km/h Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

 
Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis is an American former racing driver from Pasadena, California.Hotchkis placed second in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1994 and moved up to Indy Lights the following year, finishing 7th in points. He captured his first win the following year from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile and...

 
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

 
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9 Toronto  July 14, 1996 41 2.8709912=117.710639 km 0'49:52.728 141.596 km/h Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

 
Jeff Ward
Jeff Ward (motocross)
Jeff Ward is the first motocross rider in history to win every major AMA motocross national championship...

 
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

 
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10 Trois-Rivières
Circuit Trois-Rivières
The Circuit Trois-Rivières is a street circuit located in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. The circuit has hosted American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am Rolex Series, Trans-Am series and Formula Atlantic races in the past...

 
August 4, 1996 50 2.4477453=122.387265 km 0'58:44.951 125.192 km/h Hélio Castro-Neves
Hélio Castroneves
Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

 
Hélio Castro-Neves
Hélio Castroneves
Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

 
Hélio Castro-Neves
Hélio Castroneves
Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

 
Hélio Castro-Neves
Hélio Castroneves
Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

11 Vancouver
Molson Indy Vancouver
Molson Indy Vancouver was an annual Champ Car race held in a street circuit near B.C. Place and running past Science World in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada held in July or August from 1990 to 2004....

 
September 1, 1996 44 2.7406379=120.588068 km 0'53:55.713 134.164 km/h Claude Bourbonnais
Claude Bourbonnais
Claude Bourbonnais , is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts...

 
Jeff Ward
Jeff Ward (motocross)
Jeff Ward is the first motocross rider in history to win every major AMA motocross national championship...

 
Tony Kanaan
Tony Kanaan
Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

 
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12 Monterey
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is a paved road racing track used for both auto racing and motorcycle racing, originally constructed in 1957 near both Salinas and Monterey, California, USA....

 
California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 
September 8, 1996 34 3.6016134=122.454856 km 0'43:55.832 167.248 km/h Tony Kanaan
Tony Kanaan
Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

 
Tony Kanaan
Tony Kanaan
Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

 
Tony Kanaan
Tony Kanaan
Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

 
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Homestead race

Held March 3 at Homestead-Miami Speedway
Homestead-Miami Speedway
Homestead-Miami Speedway is a race track in Homestead, Florida southwest of Miami.Since 2002 Homestead has hosted the final races of the season in all three of NASCAR's series: the Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series, and the Camping World Truck Series...

. David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 won the pole.

Top Five Results
  1. David Empringham
    David Empringham
    David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

  2. Chris Simmons
  3. Mark Hotchkis
    Mark Hotchkis
    Mark Hotchkis is an American former racing driver from Pasadena, California.Hotchkis placed second in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1994 and moved up to Indy Lights the following year, finishing 7th in points. He captured his first win the following year from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile and...

  4. David DeSilva
  5. Jeff Ward
    Jeff Ward (motocross)
    Jeff Ward is the first motocross rider in history to win every major AMA motocross national championship...


Long Beach race

Held April 14 at Long Beach, California
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

 Street Course. Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

 won the pole.

Top Five Results
  1. David Empringham
    David Empringham
    David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

  2. Tony Kanaan
    Tony Kanaan
    Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

  3. Gualter Salles
    Gualter Salles
    Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

  4. Hélio Castro-Neves
    Hélio Castroneves
    Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

  5. Alex Padilla
    Alex Padilla (driver)
    Alex Padilla is a former American racing driver. He began his professional career in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1992 and finished fourth in the championship. He also drove in the 24 Hours of Daytona for Alex Job Racing and finished 18th overall and 5th in class in a Porsche 911...


Nazareth race

Held April 28 at Nazareth Speedway
Nazareth Speedway
Nazareth Speedway was an auto racing track in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania which operated from 1910 to 2004. The track is often associated with local drivers Mario and Michael Andretti. It was associated with Frankie Schneider in its earlier dirt track history....

. Claude Bourbonnais
Claude Bourbonnais
Claude Bourbonnais , is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts...

 won the pole.

Top Five Results
  1. David DeSilva
  2. David Empringham
    David Empringham
    David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

  3. Mark Hotchkis
    Mark Hotchkis
    Mark Hotchkis is an American former racing driver from Pasadena, California.Hotchkis placed second in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1994 and moved up to Indy Lights the following year, finishing 7th in points. He captured his first win the following year from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile and...

  4. Chris Simmons
  5. Jeff Ward
    Jeff Ward (motocross)
    Jeff Ward is the first motocross rider in history to win every major AMA motocross national championship...


Michigan race

Held May 25 at Michigan International Speedway
Michigan International Speedway
Michigan International Speedway is a two-mile moderate-banked D-shaped superspeedway located off U.S. Highway 12 on more than in Brooklyn, in the scenic Irish Hills area of southeastern Michigan. The track is used primarily for NASCAR events. It is sometimes known as a "sister track" to Texas...

. David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 won the pole.

Top Five Results
  1. David Empringham
    David Empringham
    David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

  2. Mark Hotchkis
    Mark Hotchkis
    Mark Hotchkis is an American former racing driver from Pasadena, California.Hotchkis placed second in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1994 and moved up to Indy Lights the following year, finishing 7th in points. He captured his first win the following year from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile and...

  3. Jeff Ward
    Jeff Ward (motocross)
    Jeff Ward is the first motocross rider in history to win every major AMA motocross national championship...

  4. Robby Unser
    Robby Unser
    Robby Unser is a former Indy Racing League driver and eight time winner of the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. He was the IRL rookie of the year in 1998. Robby made two starts in the Indianapolis 500 with a best finish of 5th in 1998. He also finished second twice in the 1998 season, his best...

  5. Hélio Castro-Neves
    Hélio Castroneves
    Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...


Milwaukee race

Held June 2 at The Milwaukee Mile
Milwaukee Mile
The Milwaukee Mile is a -long oval race track in West Allis, Wisconsin that seats about 40,000 spectators. It operated as a dirt track until 1953. The track was paved in 1954....

. Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis is an American former racing driver from Pasadena, California.Hotchkis placed second in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1994 and moved up to Indy Lights the following year, finishing 7th in points. He captured his first win the following year from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile and...

 won the pole.

Top Five Results
  1. Mark Hotchkis
    Mark Hotchkis
    Mark Hotchkis is an American former racing driver from Pasadena, California.Hotchkis placed second in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1994 and moved up to Indy Lights the following year, finishing 7th in points. He captured his first win the following year from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile and...

  2. Greg Ray
    Greg Ray
    Greg Ray is a former IRL IndyCar Series driver.After winning the SCCA national Formula Atlantic championship in 1993, he moved up to the CART-sanctioned Toyota Atlantic series in 1994....

  3. David Empringham
    David Empringham
    David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

  4. Gualter Salles
    Gualter Salles
    Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

  5. Chris Simmons

Detroit race

Held June 9 at Belle Isle Raceway
Detroit Indy Grand Prix
The Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix presented by shopautoweek.com is a weekend of professional auto racing held at the Renaissance Center and later the Belle Isle in Detroit, United States. It has been held from 1989-01, 2007–08, and is scheduled for 2012 and beyond...

. David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 won the pole.

Top Five Results
  1. Tony Kanaan
    Tony Kanaan
    Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

  2. Alex Padilla
    Alex Padilla (driver)
    Alex Padilla is a former American racing driver. He began his professional career in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1992 and finished fourth in the championship. He also drove in the 24 Hours of Daytona for Alex Job Racing and finished 18th overall and 5th in class in a Porsche 911...

  3. Claude Bourbonnais
    Claude Bourbonnais
    Claude Bourbonnais , is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts...

  4. José Luis Di Palma
    José Luis Di Palma
    José Luis Di Palma , is an Argentine racing driver. He was born in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province.-Early career:Di Palma began his professional career racing in the Argentine TC 2000 Championship in 1984. After three years in the series and few notabile results, Di Palma moved to formula car...

  5. Jaki Scheckter

Portland race

Held June 23 at Portland International Raceway
Portland International Raceway
Portland International Raceway is located in Portland, Oregon, USA's, Delta Park complex on the former site of Vanport, just south of the Columbia River. It is west of a light rail station and less than a mile west of Interstate 5....

. Tony Kanaan
Tony Kanaan
Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

 won the pole.

Top Five Results
  1. Gualter Salles
    Gualter Salles
    Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

  2. Alex Padilla
    Alex Padilla (driver)
    Alex Padilla is a former American racing driver. He began his professional career in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1992 and finished fourth in the championship. He also drove in the 24 Hours of Daytona for Alex Job Racing and finished 18th overall and 5th in class in a Porsche 911...

  3. David Empringham
    David Empringham
    David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

  4. Claude Bourbonnais
    Claude Bourbonnais
    Claude Bourbonnais , is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts...

  5. Tony Kanaan
    Tony Kanaan
    Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...


Cleveland race

Held June 30 at Burke Lakefront Airport. Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis is an American former racing driver from Pasadena, California.Hotchkis placed second in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1994 and moved up to Indy Lights the following year, finishing 7th in points. He captured his first win the following year from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile and...

 won the pole.

Top Five Results
  1. Gualter Salles
    Gualter Salles
    Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

  2. Claude Bourbonnais
    Claude Bourbonnais
    Claude Bourbonnais , is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts...

  3. Hélio Castro-Neves
    Hélio Castroneves
    Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

  4. Nick Firestone
    Nick Firestone
    Nicholas Stanley Firestone is an American former race car driver.A great-grandson of Harvey Samuel Firestone and Idabelle Smith, grandson of Roger and son of Peter, he graduated from Princeton University in 1989.Starting in Karts he moved to junior formula cars then the British Formula 2...

  5. Hideki Noda
    Hideki Noda
    is a racing driver from Japan. He participated in 3 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in the 1994 European Grand Prix, but did not score any championship points. He replaced Yannick Dalmas in the Larrousse car for the last 3 Grands Prix of the season, but failed to finish in any of the three races....


Toronto race

Held July 14 at Exhibition Place
Exhibition Place
Exhibition Place is a mixed-use district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by the shoreline of Lake Ontario, just west of downtown. The 197–acre area includes expo, trade, and banquet centres, theatre and music buildings, monuments, parkland, sports facilities, and a number of civic, provincial,...

. Jeff Ward
Jeff Ward (motocross)
Jeff Ward is the first motocross rider in history to win every major AMA motocross national championship...

 won the pole.

Top Five Results
  1. Gualter Salles
    Gualter Salles
    Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

  2. Claude Bourbonnais
    Claude Bourbonnais
    Claude Bourbonnais , is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts...

  3. Hideki Noda
    Hideki Noda
    is a racing driver from Japan. He participated in 3 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in the 1994 European Grand Prix, but did not score any championship points. He replaced Yannick Dalmas in the Larrousse car for the last 3 Grands Prix of the season, but failed to finish in any of the three races....

  4. Shigeaki Hattori
    Shigeaki Hattori
    Shigeaki Hattori is a Japanese race car driver currently based in the United States. He is not related to Naoki Hattori, whom he briefly raced against in CART....

  5. Alex Padilla
    Alex Padilla (driver)
    Alex Padilla is a former American racing driver. He began his professional career in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1992 and finished fourth in the championship. He also drove in the 24 Hours of Daytona for Alex Job Racing and finished 18th overall and 5th in class in a Porsche 911...


Trois-Rivières race

Held August 4 at the Trois-Rivières, Quebec
Trois-Rivières, Quebec
Trois-Rivières is a city in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada, located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence Rivers. It is situated in the Mauricie administrative region, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of Bécancour...

 Street Circuit. Hélio Castro-Neves
Hélio Castroneves
Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

 won the pole.

Top Five Results
  1. Hélio Castro-Neves
    Hélio Castroneves
    Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

  2. Tony Kanaan
    Tony Kanaan
    Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

  3. Alex Padilla
    Alex Padilla (driver)
    Alex Padilla is a former American racing driver. He began his professional career in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1992 and finished fourth in the championship. He also drove in the 24 Hours of Daytona for Alex Job Racing and finished 18th overall and 5th in class in a Porsche 911...

  4. David Empringham
    David Empringham
    David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

  5. Bertrand Godin

Vancouver race

Held September 1 at Pacific Place
Pacific Place
Pacific Place is a complex of office towers, hotels and a shopping centre situated at 88 Queensway, in Admiralty, Hong Kong. The latest phase, Three Pacific Place, is located at 1 Queen's Road East....

. Jeff Ward
Jeff Ward (motocross)
Jeff Ward is the first motocross rider in history to win every major AMA motocross national championship...

 won the pole.

Top Five Results
  1. Claude Bourbonnais
    Claude Bourbonnais
    Claude Bourbonnais , is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts...

  2. Tony Kanaan
    Tony Kanaan
    Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

  3. Jeff Hotchkis
  4. Alex Padilla
    Alex Padilla (driver)
    Alex Padilla is a former American racing driver. He began his professional career in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1992 and finished fourth in the championship. He also drove in the 24 Hours of Daytona for Alex Job Racing and finished 18th overall and 5th in class in a Porsche 911...

  5. David Empringham
    David Empringham
    David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...


Laguna Seca race

Held September 8 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is a paved road racing track used for both auto racing and motorcycle racing, originally constructed in 1957 near both Salinas and Monterey, California, USA....

. Tony Kanaan
Tony Kanaan
Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

 won the pole.

Top Five Results
  1. Tony Kanaan
    Tony Kanaan
    Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

  2. Hélio Castro-Neves
    Hélio Castroneves
    Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

  3. Claude Bourbonnais
    Claude Bourbonnais
    Claude Bourbonnais , is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts...

  4. Alex Padilla
    Alex Padilla (driver)
    Alex Padilla is a former American racing driver. He began his professional career in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1992 and finished fourth in the championship. He also drove in the 24 Hours of Daytona for Alex Job Racing and finished 18th overall and 5th in class in a Porsche 911...

  5. Jeff Ward
    Jeff Ward (motocross)
    Jeff Ward is the first motocross rider in history to win every major AMA motocross national championship...


Driver

For every race the points were awarded: 20 points to the winner, 16 for runner up, 14 for third place, 12 for fourth place, 10 for fifth place, 8 for sixth place, 6 seventh place, winding down to 1 points for 12th place. Additional points were awarded to the pole winner (1 point) and to the driver leading the most laps (1 point).
Place Name Country Team Total Points  United States  United States  United States  United States  United States  United States  United States  United States  Canada  Canada  Canada  United States
1 David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 
Forsythe Racing  148 22 21 16 22 14 1 14 - 8 12 10 8
2 Tony Kanaan
Tony Kanaan
Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

 
Tasman Motorsports
Tasman Motorsports
Tasman Motorsports Group is a former racing team owned by Steve Horne that competed in the Indy Lights series and, most notably, the CART series from 1995 to 1998. Tasman was one of the first teams to successfully field a Honda powered entry...

 
113 3 16 1 - 6 21 11 - - 16 17 22
3 Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

 
Brian Stewart Racing  108 8 15 2 8 12 - 21 21 21 - - -
4 Claude Bourbonnais
Claude Bourbonnais
Claude Bourbonnais , is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts...

 
Forsythe Racing  104 - 6 1 - 5 14 12 16 16 - 20 14
5 Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis is an American former racing driver from Pasadena, California.Hotchkis placed second in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1994 and moved up to Indy Lights the following year, finishing 7th in points. He captured his first win the following year from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile and...

 
Leading Edge Motorsport  102 14 4 14 16 22 4 3 1 4 - 14 6
6 Alex Padilla
Alex Padilla (driver)
Alex Padilla is a former American racing driver. He began his professional career in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1992 and finished fourth in the championship. He also drove in the 24 Hours of Daytona for Alex Job Racing and finished 18th overall and 5th in class in a Porsche 911...

 
Team Medlin  90 - 10 - - - 16 16 - 10 14 12 12
7 Hélio Castro-Neves
Hélio Castroneves
Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

 
Tasman Motorsports
Tasman Motorsports
Tasman Motorsports Group is a former racing team owned by Steve Horne that competed in the Indy Lights series and, most notably, the CART series from 1995 to 1998. Tasman was one of the first teams to successfully field a Honda powered entry...

 
84 - 12 - 10 2 - 5 14 - 22 3 16
8 David DeSilva  Genoa Racing  61 12 3 21 6 - 8 1 - - 6 - 4
9 José Luis Di Palma
José Luis Di Palma
José Luis Di Palma , is an Argentine racing driver. He was born in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province.-Early career:Di Palma began his professional career racing in the Argentine TC 2000 Championship in 1984. After three years in the series and few notabile results, Di Palma moved to formula car...

 
Tasman Motorsports
Tasman Motorsports
Tasman Motorsports Group is a former racing team owned by Steve Horne that competed in the Indy Lights series and, most notably, the CART series from 1995 to 1998. Tasman was one of the first teams to successfully field a Honda powered entry...

 
56 - 8 8 5 - 12 2 6 5 2 8 -
10 Chris Simmons  Team Green  54 16 - 12 1 10 6 - 2 - - 6 1
11 Jeff Ward
Jeff Ward (motocross)
Jeff Ward is the first motocross rider in history to win every major AMA motocross national championship...

 
Dorricott Racing  53 10 5 10 14 - 2 - - 1 - 1 10
12 Greg Ray
Greg Ray
Greg Ray is a former IRL IndyCar Series driver.After winning the SCCA national Formula Atlantic championship in 1993, he moved up to the CART-sanctioned Toyota Atlantic series in 1994....

 
Team Green  48 6 2 - - 16 5 8 3 - 8 - -
13 Shigeaki Hattori
Shigeaki Hattori
Shigeaki Hattori is a Japanese race car driver currently based in the United States. He is not related to Naoki Hattori, whom he briefly raced against in CART....

 
Dorricott Racing  42 4 - 3 - 8 - 6 4 12 5 - -
14 Hideki Noda
Hideki Noda
is a racing driver from Japan. He participated in 3 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in the 1994 European Grand Prix, but did not score any championship points. He replaced Yannick Dalmas in the Larrousse car for the last 3 Grands Prix of the season, but failed to finish in any of the three races....

 
Indy Regency Racing
Indy Regency Racing
Indy Regency Racing was a racing team owned by Sal Incandela who had worked with several Formula One and CART teams.The team made its debut in 1991 fielding a car in the Indy Lights series for David Kudrave. In 1993 the team made its move to the CART Championship Car series by fielding a car for...

 
34 2 - 6 - 1 - - 10 14 1 - -
15 Robby Unser
Robby Unser
Robby Unser is a former Indy Racing League driver and eight time winner of the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. He was the IRL rookie of the year in 1998. Robby made two starts in the Indianapolis 500 with a best finish of 5th in 1998. He also finished second twice in the 1998 season, his best...

 
PacWest Lights  25 - - - 12 3 3 - - 3 4 - -
16 Bertrand Godin  Forsythe Racing  21 - - - - - - - - 6 10 2 3
17 Felipe Giaffone
Felipe Giaffone
Felipe Giaffone is a race car driver from Brazil. He competed in the Indy Racing League between 2001 and 2006. His father, "Zeca" Giaffone is the 1987 Stock Car Brasil champion and Mil Milhas Brasil five times winner in the 1980s.-Racing career:...

 
Leading Edge Motorsport  20 - - - 3 4 - - 8 - - -
Brian Stewart Racing  5
Nick Firestone
Nick Firestone
Nicholas Stanley Firestone is an American former race car driver.A great-grandson of Harvey Samuel Firestone and Idabelle Smith, grandson of Roger and son of Peter, he graduated from Princeton University in 1989.Starting in Karts he moved to junior formula cars then the British Formula 2...

 
Brian Stewart Racing  18 - - - 2 - - 4 12 - - - -
19 Jack Miller
Jack Miller (driver)
Jack Miller , usually known as Dr. Jack Miller, raced in the Indy Racing League from 1997 to 2001 and the Indianapolis 500 from 1997 to 1999. Miller is a dentist and, thus, was known as "the racing dentist." His best IRL finish was a 9th in 1998 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. His best finish in the Indy...

 
Brian Stewart Racing  12 - - 5 - - - - - - 3 4 -
Jaki Scheckter  FRE Racing  12 - - - - - 10 - - - - - 2
21 Roque Aranda  RaceCars  8 - - 4 4 - - - - - - - -
22 Freddy van Beuren  RaceCars  7 - - - - - - - 1 1 - 5 -
23 Doug Boyer
Doug Boyer
Doug Boyer is a former American racing driver. He competed in the Indy Lights series from 1994 to 1996 for Summit Motorsports with Red Line Oil sponsorship. He finished 8th in series points in 1994 and 4th in 1995. He only competed part-time in 1996 and finished 23rd in the championship. His best...

 
Summitt Motorsports  5 5 - - - - - - - - - - -
Casey Mears
Casey Mears
Casey James Mears is the driver of the #13 GEICO Toyota for Germain Racing in the Sprint Cup Series. He is a former winner of the Coca-Cola 600....

 
Team Mears  5 - - - - - - - 5 - - - -
25 Robbie Buhl
Robbie Buhl
Robbie Buhl is a former Indy Racing League competitor and current team-owner, with the Dreyer & Reinbold Racing team in the IRL's IndyCar Series...

 
FRE Racing  2 - - - - - - - - 2 - - -
Rodolfo Lavín, Jr.
Rodolfo Lavin
Rodolfo Lavín is a Mexican racing driver from San Luis Potosí. He most notably raced in the Champ Car World Series.In Mexico, Lavín raced in Formula Azteca and Formula 3. With funding in the form of sponsorship from Corona, with whom his father is on the board, Lavin raced in Indy Lights from...

 
Leading Edge Motorsport  2 - - - - - 1 - - - - 1 -
27 José Cordova  FRE Racing  1 1 - - - - - - - - - - -
Shan Groff  Team Leisy/McCormack  1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - -

Complete Overview

first column of every race 10 = grid position
second column of every race 10 = race result


R21=retired, but classified NS=did not start NQ=did not qualify (18)=place after practice, but grid position not held free
Place Name Country Team  United States  United States  United States  United States  United States  United States  United States  United States  Canada  Canada  Canada  United States
1 David Empringham
David Empringham
David Empringham , is a Canadian auto racing driver. David is a two-time Toyota Atlantic and one-time Indy Lights champion. Most recently, Empringham won the 2005 Grand-Am Cup GS division drivers title, competing for Multimatic Motorsports.Empringham began his racing career in 1987, competing in...

 
Forsythe Racing  1 1 2 1 3 2 1 1 6 3 1 R21 7 3 11 R21 8 6 11 4 14 5 9 6
2 Tony Kanaan
Tony Kanaan
Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

 
Tasman Motorsports
Tasman Motorsports
Tasman Motorsports Group is a former racing team owned by Steve Horne that competed in the Indy Lights series and, most notably, the CART series from 1995 to 1998. Tasman was one of the first teams to successfully field a Honda powered entry...

 
9 10 3 2 11 R12 4 R17 13 7 5 1 1 5 3 R19 4 R24 2 2 6 2 1 1
3 Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles
Gualter Salles , is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing...

 
Brian Stewart Racing  5 6 1 3 14 R11 3 6 7 4 2 R22 2 1 2 1 2 1 6 R15 16 R21 13 19
4 Claude Bourbonnais
Claude Bourbonnais
Claude Bourbonnais , is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts...

 
Forsythe Racing  24 NQ 8 7 1 R16 2 R18 5 8 4 3 9 4 6 2 6 2 9 R20 7 1 2 3
5 Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis
Mark Hotchkis is an American former racing driver from Pasadena, California.Hotchkis placed second in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1994 and moved up to Indy Lights the following year, finishing 7th in points. He captured his first win the following year from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile and...

 
Leading Edge Motorsport  2 3 11 9 5 3 6 2 1 1 7 9 14 10 1 R18 11 9 7 R19 10 3 6 7
6 Alex Padilla
Alex Padilla (driver)
Alex Padilla is a former American racing driver. He began his professional career in the Barber Saab Pro Series in 1992 and finished fourth in the championship. He also drove in the 24 Hours of Daytona for Alex Job Racing and finished 18th overall and 5th in class in a Porsche 911...

 
Team Medlin  12 17 7 5 19 R15 - - 18 17 6 2 5 2 7 R20 7 5 4 3 2 4 5 4
7 Hélio Castro-Neves
Hélio Castroneves
Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

 
Tasman Motorsports
Tasman Motorsports
Tasman Motorsports Group is a former racing team owned by Steve Horne that competed in the Indy Lights series and, most notably, the CART series from 1995 to 1998. Tasman was one of the first teams to successfully field a Honda powered entry...

 
(18) NS 5 4 7 R17 15 5 10 11 12 R17 8 8 5 3 3 R23 1 1 3 R10 4 2
8 David DeSilva  Genoa Racing  3 4 10 10 2 1 7 7 2 R19 9 6 12 12 16 16 14 R15 12 7 5 R18 7 9
9 José Luis Di Palma
José Luis Di Palma
José Luis Di Palma , is an Argentine racing driver. He was born in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province.-Early career:Di Palma began his professional career racing in the Argentine TC 2000 Championship in 1984. After three years in the series and few notabile results, Di Palma moved to formula car...

 
Tasman Motorsports
Tasman Motorsports
Tasman Motorsports Group is a former racing team owned by Steve Horne that competed in the Indy Lights series and, most notably, the CART series from 1995 to 1998. Tasman was one of the first teams to successfully field a Honda powered entry...

 
13 15 4 6 9 6 14 8 14 14 10 4 15 11 8 7 13 8 5 11 8 6 19 13
10 Chris Simmons  Team Green  4 2 16 R23 8 4 11 12 3 5 17 7 11 R21 13 11 16 R14 13 R17 13 7 11 12
11 Jeff Ward
Jeff Ward (motocross)
Jeff Ward is the first motocross rider in history to win every major AMA motocross national championship...

 
Dorricott Racing  8 5 13 8 4 5 9 3 (7) NS 8 11 6 R17 4 13 1 R20 3 R16 1 R20 3 5
12 Greg Ray
Greg Ray
Greg Ray is a former IRL IndyCar Series driver.After winning the SCCA national Formula Atlantic championship in 1993, he moved up to the CART-sanctioned Toyota Atlantic series in 1994....

 
Team Green  7 7 14 11 12 R18 12 15 4 2 19 8 13 6 12 10 19 R16 8 6 17 R17 15 16
13 Shigeaki Hattori
Shigeaki Hattori
Shigeaki Hattori is a Japanese race car driver currently based in the United States. He is not related to Naoki Hattori, whom he briefly raced against in CART....

 
Dorricott Racing  11 9 27 NQ 6 10 8 R19 9 6 14 13 16 7 9 9 5 4 15 8 15 R16 16 14
14 Hideki Noda
Hideki Noda
is a racing driver from Japan. He participated in 3 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in the 1994 European Grand Prix, but did not score any championship points. He replaced Yannick Dalmas in the Larrousse car for the last 3 Grands Prix of the season, but failed to finish in any of the three races....

 
Indy Regency Racing
Indy Regency Racing
Indy Regency Racing was a racing team owned by Sal Incandela who had worked with several Formula One and CART teams.The team made its debut in 1991 fielding a car in the Indy Lights series for David Kudrave. In 1993 the team made its move to the CART Championship Car series by fielding a car for...

 
14 11 9 R16 10 7 17 13 8 12 11 R16 4 R20 10 5 9 3 14 12 4 R13 8 15
15 Robby Unser
Robby Unser
Robby Unser is a former Indy Racing League driver and eight time winner of the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. He was the IRL rookie of the year in 1998. Robby made two starts in the Indianapolis 500 with a best finish of 5th in 1998. He also finished second twice in the 1998 season, his best...

 
PacWest Lights  16 13 24 R15 13 R14 5 4 12 10 18 10 21 15 - - 17 10 17 9 12 R14 18 20
16 Bertrand Godin  Forsythe Racing  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 12 7 10 5 11 11 10 10
17 Felipe Giaffone
Felipe Giaffone
Felipe Giaffone is a race car driver from Brazil. He competed in the Indy Racing League between 2001 and 2006. His father, "Zeca" Giaffone is the 1987 Stock Car Brasil champion and Mil Milhas Brasil five times winner in the 1980s.-Racing career:...

 
Leading Edge Motorsport  17 14 15 R24 15 R13 13 10 11 9 15 R18 3 R16 13 6 - - - -
Brian Stewart Racing  9 R22 12 8
Nick Firestone
Nick Firestone
Nicholas Stanley Firestone is an American former race car driver.A great-grandson of Harvey Samuel Firestone and Idabelle Smith, grandson of Roger and son of Peter, he graduated from Princeton University in 1989.Starting in Karts he moved to junior formula cars then the British Formula 2...

 
Brian Stewart Racing  - - - - - - 10 11 16 16 16 R20 18 9 14 4 15 R19 - - - - - -
19 Jack Miller
Jack Miller (driver)
Jack Miller , usually known as Dr. Jack Miller, raced in the Indy Racing League from 1997 to 2001 and the Indianapolis 500 from 1997 to 1999. Miller is a dentist and, thus, was known as "the racing dentist." His best IRL finish was a 9th in 1998 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. His best finish in the Indy...

 
Brian Stewart Racing  19 21 17 R18 18 6 20 R20 19 18 22 R15 19 19 20 14 21 R21 20 10 22 9 22 23
Jaki Scheckter  FRE Racing  - - - - - - - - - - 3 5 10 R18 - - - - - - - - 14 11
21 Roque Aranda  RaceCars  - - 19 R20 17 9 16 9 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
22 Freddy van Beuren  RaceCars  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 19 12 10 12 18 13 21 8 17 17
23 Doug Boyer
Doug Boyer
Doug Boyer is a former American racing driver. He competed in the Indy Lights series from 1994 to 1996 for Summit Motorsports with Red Line Oil sponsorship. He finished 8th in series points in 1994 and 4th in 1995. He only competed part-time in 1996 and finished 23rd in the championship. His best...

 
Summitt Motorsports  6 8 6 R22 ? NQ 19 16 15 13 13 R19 - - - - - - - - ? NS - -
Casey Mears
Casey Mears
Casey James Mears is the driver of the #13 GEICO Toyota for Germain Racing in the Sprint Cup Series. He is a former winner of the Coca-Cola 600....

 
Team Mears  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 18 8 - - - - - - - -
25 Robbie Buhl
Robbie Buhl
Robbie Buhl is a former Indy Racing League competitor and current team-owner, with the Dreyer & Reinbold Racing team in the IRL's IndyCar Series...

 
FRE Racing  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10 11 - - - - - -
Rodolfo Lavín, Jr.
Rodolfo Lavin
Rodolfo Lavín is a Mexican racing driver from San Luis Potosí. He most notably raced in the Champ Car World Series.In Mexico, Lavín raced in Formula Azteca and Formula 3. With funding in the form of sponsorship from Corona, with whom his father is on the board, Lavin raced in Indy Lights from...

 
Leading Edge Motorsport  18 16 22 R19 ? NQ 18 14 17 15 21 12 20 14 21 15 21 R13 19 R18 20 R12 20 21
27 José Cordova  FRE Racing  15 12 18 R25 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Shan Groff  Team Leisy/McCormack  - - 26 12 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ? NS 23 22
- Mauricio Slaviero  RaceCars  - - - - - - - - - - - - 17 13 17 R17 18 R18 - - - - - -
- Mattias Andersson  Brian Stewart Racing  21 20 21 13 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- Sohrab Amirsardari  Leading Edge Motorsport  - - - - - - - - - - 20 14 - - - - 23 R17 - - - - - -
- José Giaffone  Leading Edge Motorsport  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 16 R14 19 R19 21 18
- Andy Boss
Andy Boss
Andy Boss is a former American racing driver from Narragansett, Rhode Island. He is the grandson of 1950's sportscar driver Russ Boss and younger brother of fellow racer Geoff Boss.-Early career:...

 
Performance Racing
Performance Racing
Performance Racing is a racing team based in Great Britain, involved in many areas of motorsports. The team has been managed since 1999 by Bobby Issazadhe.- History :...

 
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- David LaCroix  Performance Racing
Performance Racing
Performance Racing is a racing team based in Great Britain, involved in many areas of motorsports. The team has been managed since 1999 by Bobby Issazadhe.- History :...

 
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- Niclas Jönsson
Niclas Jönsson
Niclas Jönsson is a former driver in the Indy Racing League. He raced in the 1999-2000 seasons with 4 career starts. His best career IRL finish was in 12th position in the 2000 Delphi Indy 200 held at Walt Disney World Speedway.He made 1 NASCAR Busch Series start at Montreal, he started 8th and...

 
Team Leisy/McCormack  - - 25 R17 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- Diego Guzman  RaceCars  10 18 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- Peter Faucetta, Jr.  FRE Racing  - - - - 16 R19 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- Paulo Carcasci  RaceCars  - - 12 R21 - - 21 NQ - - - - - - - - - - - - 18 R15 - -
- Danny Candia  RaceCars  22 22 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- Bob Reid
Bob Reid
Robert "Bob" Reid was a former professional footballer, who played for Burnley, Huddersfield Town and Southend United.-References:*99 Years & Counting - Stats & Stories - Huddersfield Town History...

 
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- Harry Puterbaugh  Team Leisy/McCormack 23 23 - - (20) NS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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