1995 Indy Lights season

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The 1995 PPG/Firestone Indy Lights Championship Powered By Buick consisted of 12 races. Canadian Greg Moore completely dominated the season, winning 10 times and winning the championship by over 100 points over his closest rival.

Calendar[]

Race No Track State Date Laps Distance Time Speed Winner Pole Position Most Leading Laps Fastest Race Lap
1 Miami Florida March 5, 1995 25 2.943=73.585 km 0'47:00.675 93.316 km/h Greg Moore Greg Moore Greg Moore ?
2 Phoenix Arizona April 2, 1995 75 1.6093=120.6975 km 0'42:56.133 168.668 km/h Greg Moore Claude Bourbonnais ?
3 Long Beach California April 9, 1995 47 2.558787=120.262989 km 0'58:23.255 123.584 km/h Greg Moore Greg Moore Greg Moore ?
4 Nazareth Pennsylvania April 23, 1995 75 1.5223978=114.179835 km 0'44:23.382 154.333 km/h Greg Moore Greg Moore ?
5 Milwaukee Wisconsin June 4, 1995 75 1.6607976=124.55982 km 0'39:29.386 189.254 km/h Greg Moore Robbie Buhl Greg Moore ?
6 Detroit Michigan June 11, 1995 24 3.37953=81.10872 km 0'50:08.993 97.040 km/h Robbie Buhl Robbie Buhl Robbie Buhl ?
7 Portland Oregon June 25, 1995 39 3.138135=122.387265 km 0'51:19.388 143.078 km/h Greg Moore Greg Moore Greg Moore ?
8 Toronto  Canada July 16, 1995 42 2.8709912=120.58163 km 0'52:41.622 137.301 km/h Greg Moore Greg Moore Greg Moore ?
9 Cleveland Ohio July 23, 1995 32 3.8124317=121.9978144 km 0'48:37.497 150.537 km/h Greg Moore Greg Moore Greg Moore ?
10 Loudon New Hampshire August 20, 1995 71 1.7026394=120.887397 km 0'34:29.131 210.327 km/h Greg Moore Robbie Buhl Robbie Buhl ?
11 Vancouver  Canada September 3, 1995 44 2.7406379=120.588068 km 0'51:29.013 140.536 km/h Pedro Chaves Greg Moore Greg Moore ?
12 Monterey California September 10, 1995 34 3.5629902=121.141667 km 0'48:09.053 150.953 km/h Greg Moore Greg Moore Greg Moore ?

Race summaries[]

Miami race[]

Held March 5 at Miami Bicentennial Park. Greg Moore won the pole and the bonus point for leading the most laps.

Top Five Results

  1. Greg Moore
  2. Jeff Ward
  3. Pedro Chaves
  4. Robbie Buhl
  5. Doug Boyer

Full Results

Phoenix race[]

Held April 2 at Phoenix International Raceway. Claude Bourbonnais won the pole. Affonso Giaffone jumped the field on the final restart and finished the race first but he was assessed a one-lap penalty for jumping the restart, handing the win to Greg Moore. Giaffone still got the bonus point for leading the most laps.

Top Five Results

  1. Greg Moore
  2. Robbie Buhl
  3. Buzz Calkins
  4. Doug Boyer
  5. Affonso Giaffone

Full Results

Long Beach race[]

Held April 9 at Long Beach, California Street Course. Greg Moore won the pole and got the bonus point for leading the most laps.

Top Five Results

  1. Greg Moore
  2. Robbie Buhl
  4. Alex Padilla
  5. Pedro Chaves

Full Results

Nazareth race[]

Held April 23 at Nazareth Speedway. won the pole and Greg Moore got the bonus point for leading the most laps. Originally Robbie Buhl set fastest qualifying time, but was disqualified due to underweight.

Top Five Results

  1. Greg Moore
  2. Affonso Giaffone
  3. Robbie Buhl
  4. Buzz Calkins
  5. Doug Boyer

Full Results

Milwaukee race[]

Held June 4 at The Milwaukee Mile. Robbie Buhl won the pole and Greg Moore got the bonus point for leading the most laps.

Top Five Results

  1. Greg Moore
  2. Affonso Giaffone
  3. Buzz Calkins
  4. Robbie Buhl
  5. Mark Hotchkis

Full Results

Detroit race[]

Held June 11 at Belle Isle Raceway. Robbie Buhl won the pole, got the bonus point for leading the most laps, and won the race at his home track. This race featured a huge crash on the first lap that ended with Enrique Contreras upside down. He would unbuckle while still upside down and walk away uninjured.

Top Five Results

  1. Robbie Buhl
  2. Greg Moore
  3. Jeff Ward
  4. Nick Firestone
  5. Affonso Giaffone

Full Results

Portland race[]

Held June 25 at Portland International Raceway. Greg Moore won the pole and got the bonus point for leading the most laps.

Top Five Results

  1. Greg Moore
  2. Affonso Giaffone
  3. Nick Firestone
  4. Mike Borkowski
  5. Buzz Calkins

Full Results

Toronto race[]

Held July 16 at Exhibition Place. Greg Moore won the pole and got the bonus point for leading the most laps.

Top Five Results

  1. Greg Moore
  2. Robbie Buhl
  3. Doug Boyer
  4. Affonso Giaffone
  5. José Luis Di Palma

Full Results

Cleveland race[]

Held July 23 at Burke Lakefront Airport. Greg Moore won the pole, got the bonus point for leading the most laps, and by winning this race he clinched the championship with three races remaining. On the last lap Trevor Seibert had a spectacular end over end accident. He was not injured.

Top Five Results

  1. Greg Moore
  2. Pedro Chaves
  3. Doug Boyer
  4. Mark Hotchkis
  5. Buzz Calkins

Full Results

Loudon race[]

Held August 20 at New Hampshire International Speedway. Robbie Buhl won the pole and got the bonus point for leading the most laps.

Top Five Results

  1. Greg Moore
  2. Claude Bourbonnais
  3. Robbie Buhl
  4. Pedro Chaves
  5. Mark Hotchkis

Full Results

Vancouver race[]

Held September 3 at Pacific Place. Greg Moore won the pole and got the bonus point for leading the most laps.

Top Five Results

  1. Pedro Chaves
  2. Doug Boyer
  3. Robbie Buhl
  4. Affonso Giaffone
  5. Greg Moore

Full Results

Laguna Seca race[]

Held September 10 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Greg Moore won the pole and got the bonus point for leading the most laps. This was his seventh race of the season he scored the maximum number of points available.

Top Five Results

  1. Greg Moore
  2. Affonso Giaffone
  3. Doug Boyer
  4. Pedro Chaves
  5. Nick Firestone
  • This was Greg Moores 13th and final Indy Lights victory in his final Indy Lights race. His race victory total is an all time record which as of 2019 is still unbroken.

Full Results

Final points standings[]

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 Canada United States United States Canada United States
1 Greg Moore  Canada Forsythe Racing 242 22 20 22 21 21 16 22 22 20 20 12 22
2 Robbie Buhl  United States 140 12 16 16 14 13 22 1 16 - 16 14 -
3 Affonso Giaffone  Brazil 122 5 11 - 16 16 10 16 12 - 8 12 16
4 Doug Boyer  United States 108 10 12 - 10 4 5 5 14 14 4 16 14
5 Pedro Chaves  Portugal 99 14 - 10 4 3 - 8 - 16 12 20 12
6 Buzz Calkins  United States Bradley Motorsports 77 4 14 - 12 14 6 10 5 10 - 2 -
7 Mark Hotchkis  United States 57 - 6 - - 10 3 4 8 12 10 - 4
8 Jeff Ward  United States 56 16 1 6 6 8 14 - - 2 - - 3
9 Nick Firestone  United States 52 3 2 1 - - 12 14 - 3 3 4 10
10  United States Genoa Racing 33 - - 14 - 6 2 - 4 4 2 1 -
11 Alex Padilla  United States 32 2 - 12 8 - - - - - -
8 2
12 Mike Borkowski  United States 31 - - - 2 5 4 12 3 5 - - -
13 Claude Bourbonnais  Canada Forsythe Racing 29 6 1 - - - - - - - 16 - 6
 Colombia Dick Simon Racing 29 - - - 5 - 8 - - 6 -
PacWest Lights 5 5
15 José Luis Di Palma  Argentina McCormack Racing 24 8 - - - - - 6 10 - - - -
16  Canada Forsythe Racing 16 - - - - - - 2 6 8 - - -
 Canada Forsythe Racing 16 - - - - - - - - - 5 3 8
18  United States 15 - - 8 - - - - - - - 6 1
19 Jeff Andretti  United States 12 - - - 3 - 1 - 2 - 6 - -
20 Niko Palhares  Brazil PacWest Lights 9 1 8 - - - - - - - - - -
21  United States 8 - - 4 - 1 - - 1 1 1 - -
22  United States Dick Simon Racing 7 - 3 - 1 - - 3 - - - - -
23  United States 5 - 5 - - - - - - - - - -
 Mexico 5 - - 5 - - - - - - - - -
25 Juan Carlos Carbonell  Chile 4 - 4 - - - - - - - - - -
26 Akira Ishikawa  Japan McCormack Racing 3 - - 3 - - - - - - - - -
 United States 3 - - - 1 2 - - - - - - -
28 David Donohue  United States PacWest Lights 2 - - 2 - - - - - - - - -

Complete Overview[]

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

R22=retired, but classified NS=did not start

Place Name Country Team United States United States United States United States United States United States United States Canada United States United States Canada United States
1 Greg Moore  Canada Forsythe Racing 1 1 7 1 1 1 5 1 4 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 5 1 1
2 Robbie Buhl  United States 4 4 14 2 9 2 18 3 1 4 1 1 2 12 3 2 2 R22 1 3 2 3 3 21
3 Affonso Giaffone  Brazil 8 8 2 5 12 R25 3 2 2 2 5 5 4 2 8 4 6 R23 17 6 12 4 2 2
4 Doug Boyer  United States 5 5 16 4 2 R22 10 5 15 9 9 8 11 8 2 3 5 3 13 9 6 2 6 3
5 Pedro Chaves  Portugal 3 3 8 R14 10 5 13 9 9 10 10 21 9 6 15 R19 4 2 2 4 3 1 8 4
6 Buzz Calkins  United States Bradley Motorsports 9 9 4 3 16 16 6 4 6 3 7 7 10 5 12 8 12 5 8 R17 11 11 14 13
7 Mark Hotchkis  United States 18 R20 11 7 13 R17 4 R18 5 5 13 10 15 9 9 6 10 4 4 5 13 13 5 9
8 Jeff Ward  United States 2 2 19 12 5 7 7 7 10 6 3 3 16 R14 16 18 9 11 - - - - 16 10
9 Nick Firestone  United States 12 10 18 11 6 12 20 R19 13 15 4 4 5 3 5 R23 13 10 14 10 4 9 7 5
10  United States Genoa Racing 10 R21 10 R16 3 3 2 15 7 7 11 11 6 R16 14 9 22 9 7 11 10 12 12 R23
11 Alex Padilla  United States 15 11 3 R15 4 4 11 R6 - - - - 7 17 - - - -
? NS 18 6 18 11
12 Mike Borkowski  United States - - - - - - 8 11 3 8 8 9 14 4 11 10 7 8 - - - - - -
13 Claude Bourbonnais  Canada Forsythe Racing 7 7 1 R22 8 R15 ? NS - - - - - - - - - - 6 2 5 R19 11 7
 Colombia Dick Simon Racing 11 R22 6 R21 11 R18 9 8 16 13 6 6 8 R19 10 R22 11 7 ? NS
PacWest Lights 14 8 13 8
15 José Luis Di Palma  Argentina McCormack Racing 6 6 - - - - - - - - 17 13 13 7 7 5 15 15 9 13 8 R20 10 R25
16  Canada Forsythe Racing - - - - - - - - - - 20 14 3 11 6 7 3 6 - - - - - -
 Canada Forsythe Racing - - - - - - - - ? NS - - - - 13 R20 8 R18 10 8 7 10 4 6
18  United States 17 16 21 R19 19 6 16 14 17 14 18 16 17 13 17 14 17 13 15 14 17 7 20 12
19 Jeff Andretti  United States 16 15 9 NS 14 R20 12 10 12 R19 15 12 - - 4 11 23 R20 5 7 - - - -
20 Niko Palhares  Brazil PacWest Lights 13 12 5 6 7 R24 19 13 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
21  United States 19 R23 17 R20 22 9 14 R16 11 12 16 15 18 18 18 12 14 12 12 12 19 R17 19 19
22  United States Dick Simon Racing ? NS 15 10 18 14 15 12 14 R18 19 20 19 10 21 R24 21 R21 - - 20 15 24 18
23  United States - - 13 8 25 R19 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 Mexico 14 13 - - 15 8 - - - - 12 R22 - - - - 18 14 - - 15 R18 17 R26
25 Juan Carlos Carbonell  Chile 20 19 12 9 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
26 Akira Ishikawa  Japan McCormack Racing - - - - 20 10 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 United States 21 R24 - - 17 R21 1 R17 8 11 14 17 12 R21 19 13 19 16 ? NS 9 16 9 20
28 David Donohue  United States PacWest Lights - - - - 24 11 ? NS - - 21 18 - - 20 R16 16 19 11 15 - - - -
- Jack Miller  United States McCormack Racing 24 18 10 13 23 R23 17 R20 19 17 22 19 21 R20 23 15 20 17 ? NS - - - -
-  United States - - 18 R18 21 13 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-  United States McCormack Racing - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 16 14 22 16
- Chris Simmons  United States 22 14 ? NS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-  Mexico ? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 25 14
-  United States McCormack Racing - - 22 R17 - - ? NS 18 16 - - 22 15 - - - - 16 16 - - - -
- Chris Smith  United States ? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 21 15
-  Canada 23 17 - - - - - - - - - - 20 R22 22 R21 - - - - 21 R21 23 R22
-  Canada McCormack Racing - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 24 R17 - - - - - - - -
- Zak Brown  United States - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 26 17
-  United States - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 15 R24
- Davey Hamilton  United States Dick Simon Racing - - ? NS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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