1996 North American Touring Car Championship

The 1996 North American Touring Car Championship was the first season of the North American Touring Car Championship. The series was organized by CART, and ran to Super Touring regulations. 16 rounds at 8 race meetings were organized, all but two (Lime Rock and Trois-Rivières) supporting the CART IndyCar World Series.

Teams and drivers[]

Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds Rod Millen Motorsports Toyota Carina E 2 Rod Millen C 1–2, 4, 8 Archer Petty Motorsports BMW 318is 3 Steve Petty I All Leitzinger Racing Ford Mondeo Ghia 5 Jeff Andretti C 2–8 Ecurie Atlanta Mercedes-Benz 190E 6 Martin Stretton I 1 PacWest Touring Car Group Dodge Stratus 7 Dominic Dobson C All 8 David Donohue C All Mirko Racing Honda Accord 9 Albert Mirko I 5-8 Delong Motorsports BMW 318is 10 Ed Delong I 1–2, 4 20 Jim Kenzie 4 TC Kline Racing Honda Accord 12 Randy Pobst C All 21 Peter Hardman C 1–7 Hartong Motorsports BMW 318is 18 Darren Law I 1–2, 4, 6–8 Motorsport Team Schemes Vauxhall Cavalier 25 Nigel Smith I 4, 6 Fastech Group Racing Ford Mondeo 27 Víctor González C 3 David Welch 5, 8 Paul Charsley 6 Honda American Racing Team Honda Accord 62 Forrest Granlund C 1, 3–4 Peter Cunningham 5–8 Metalcraft Pontiac Sunfire 81 Dave Jolly I 8 Team Contour Racing Ford Contour 86 Chris Reinke I 6–8

Icon Class C Constructor I Independent

Calendar[]

The calendar initially included an event at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 20, as a support race for NASCAR's The Winston.^[1] By December 14, 1995, Charlotte was dropped from the calendar, replaced with a doubleheader at the Molson Indy Vancouver.^[2] The Portland event was added to the schedule on April 15.^[3]

Round		Date	Circuit	Location	Pole position	Winning driver	Winning team
1	1	May 27	Lime Rock Park	Lakeville, Connecticut	Dominic Dobson	David Donohue	PacWest Touring Car Group
	2				Dominic Dobson	Dominic Dobson	PacWest Touring Car Group
2	3	June 8	Belle Isle Park	Detroit, Michigan	Randy Pobst	Darren Law	Hartong Motorsports
	4				Darren Law	Dominic Dobson	PacWest Touring Car Group
3	5	June 22	Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon	Randy Pobst	Randy Pobst	TC Kline Racing
	6				Dominic Dobson	Randy Pobst	TC Kline Racing
4	7	July 13	Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario	Dominic Dobson	Randy Pobst	TC Kline Racing
	8				Dominic Dobson	Peter Hardman	TC Kline Racing
5	9	August 3	Circuit Trois-Rivières	Trois-Rivières, Quebec	David Donohue	Dominic Dobson	PacWest Touring Car Group
	10	August 4			Randy Pobst	Randy Pobst	TC Kline Racing
6	11	August 10	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	Peter Cunningham	Peter Cunningham	Honda American Racing Team
	12				Randy Pobst	Peter Cunningham	Honda American Racing Team
7	13	August 31	Concord Pacific Place	Vancouver, British Columbia	Dominic Dobson	Dominic Dobson	PacWest Touring Car Group
	14	September 1			Dominic Dobson	Peter Cunningham	Honda American Racing Team
8	15	September 8	Laguna Seca Raceway	Monterey, California	Randy Pobst	Randy Pobst	TC Kline Racing
	16				Peter Cunningham	Peter Cunningham	Honda American Racing Team

Championship standings[]

Drivers Championship[]

Pos Driver Class LRP DET POR TOR TRV MDO VAN LAG Pts 1 Randy Pobst C 2 3 6 2 1* 1* 1 2* 3 1* 10 3* 2* 4 1* 2 282 2 Dominic Dobson C 3 1* 4 1* 4 5 2* 3 1* 2 3 4 1 5 3 9 241 3 David Donohue C 1* 2 2 4 2 4 3 4 7 8 2 6 4 2 5 4 221 4 Peter Hardman C 10 7 3 3 5 2 5 1 2 3 5 2 5 6 176 5 Peter Cunningham C 4 6 1* 1 3 1* 2 1* 145 6 I 5 6 DNS DNS 8 8 6 7 6 4 8 7 7 3 8 DNS 139 7 Jeff Andretti C 5 6 6 6 DNS DNS 9 5 6 10 6 7 9 5 106 8 Darren Law I 9 8 1* 8 9 8 4 5 8 DNS 7 6 95 9 C 4 4 3 3 5 7 78 10 Rod Millen C 8 5 8 5 4 6 4 10 63 11 C 5 7 6 3 48 12 I 7 9 7 7 8 9 47 13 Nigel Smith I 10 DNS 9 9 23 14 Víctor González C 7 7 20 15 C 7 8 19 16 I 8 DNS 11 11 10 7 17 17 Martin Stretton I 6 DNS 11 18 I 11 8 6 NC I 11 DNS 0 NC I DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0 Pos Driver Class LRP DET POR TOR TRV MDO VAN LAG Pts

Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place Light Blue 6th-10th place Dark Blue Finished (Outside Top 10) Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrawn (Wth) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Not competing In-line notation Bold Pole position Italics Ran fastest race lap * Led most race laps

Manufacturers Championship[]

Pos Manufacturer LRP DET POR TOR TRV MDO VAN LAG Pts 1 Honda 2 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 298 2 Dodge 1 1 2 1 2 4 2 3 1 2 2 4 1 2 3 4 271 3 Ford 5 6 6 6 5 5 6 8 6 7 6 3 136 4 Toyota 8 5 8 5 4 6 4 10 63 Pos Manufacturer LRP DET POR TOR TRV MDO VAN LAG Pts

See also[]

• 1996 IndyCar season
• 1996 Indy Lights season
• 1996 Formula Atlantic season

References[]

External links[]

• Results & points
• http://www.driverdb.com/standings/639-1996/