Scott Goodyear

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Scott Goodyear
Scott Goodyear 2008 Indy 500 Second Qual Day.jpg
Scott Goodyear at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May 2008.
NationalityCanada Canadian
Born (1959-12-20) December 20, 1959 (age 62)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Retired2001
Indy Racing League
Years active1987-2001
TeamsTreadway Racing
Panther Racing
Team Cheever
Starts39
Wins3
Poles1
Fastest laps2
Best finish2nd in 2000
CART Championship Car
Years active1987, 1989–1996
Teams
Hemelgarn Racing
Shierson Racing
Walker Racing
King Racing
Tasman Motorsports
Starts97
Wins2
Poles2
Best finish5th in 1992
Previous series
1986North American Formula Atlantic East Series
Championship titles
1986North American Formula Atlantic East Series
Awards
2002Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee

Scott Goodyear (born December 20, 1959) is a Canadian former race car driver. He ran the Indy Racing League and Champ Car series during his career from 1987, winning the Michigan 500 in 1992 and 1994.

Goodyear qualified for eleven runnings of the Indy 500 races from 1990 to 2001, missing only the 1996 race which he did not enter. After starting last (33rd position) in the 1992 race, he finished second to Al Unser, Jr. by 0.043 seconds. Goodyear could have won the 1995 race but after leading 42 laps, he mistakenly passed the pace car on a late restart and was penalized to fourteenth place after ignoring the black flags. Goodyear again finished second in the 1997 race after being passed by Arie Luyendyk on the backstraightaway at lap 194. He might have won if not for a controversial restart on the last lap, when the green and white flag waved despite the on-track lights still signaling yellow. Goodyear, who had expected the race to finish under caution, was weaving his car to keep his tires warm at the time of the restart. Meanwhile, eventual winner Luyendyk had already begun accelerating away from the field.

He drove in a couple of CART races for Walker Racing in 1996 before a practice accident at the Emerson Fittipaldi Speedway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil sidelined him for most of the season. In 1997 he moved to the Indy Racing League with Treadway Racing and the next year, he moved to Panther Racing, where he stayed for three seasons just losing out for the series title in 2000 to Buddy Lazier. He retired from his racing career after a crash with Sarah Fisher in the 2001 Indianapolis 500 and then he became a color analyst for ABC and ESPN's coverage of the IndyCar Series, previously with Paul Page, Jack Arute, Rusty Wallace, Todd Harris, Marty Reid, and currently with Allen Bestwick and Eddie Cheever.

In 1988, he was crowned champion of the Rothmans Porsche Turbo Cup series driving the Pop 84 / Pfaff 944 Turbo race car, winning 3 out of the 8 races.[1] He also co-drove the second of the factory entered Porsche GT1 machines in the 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans with Yannick Dalmas and Karl Wendlinger. They finished third behind the other GT1 and the winning #7 Porsche WSC-95 of Joest Racing.

Goodyear was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.[2]

Goodyear was announced[3] as the Race Director for both the Formula 4 United States Championship and the F3 Americas Championship starting in the 2019 season.

Racing record[]

American open–wheel racing results[]

(key)

CART Indy Car World Series[]

Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Rank Points
1987 March 87C Cosworth DFX V8t LBH PHX INDY MIL POR MEA
22 		TOR
8 		MIS POC ROA
20 		MDO
18 		NZR LS
11 		MIA
15 		28th 7
March 86C CLE
15
1989 Hemelgarn Racing Lola T89/00 Judd AV V8t PHX LBH INDY MIL DET POR CLE MEA TOR
23 		MIS POC MDO ROA
23 		NZR LS 48th 0
1990 O'Donnell Racing
Shierson Racing 		Lola T89/00 Judd AV V8t PHX
10 		LBH
17 		INDY
10 		MIL
10 		DET
8 		POR
22 		CLE
18 		MEA
17 		TOR
9 		MIS
10 		DEN
8 		VAN
7 		MDO
22 		ROA
12 		NZR
10 		LS
14 		13th 36
1991 O'Donnell Racing
Walker Racing 		Lola T91/00 Judd AV V8t SRF
23 		LBH
7 		PHX
21 		INDY
27 		MIL
9 		DET
8 		POR
10 		CLE
19 		MEA
8 		TOR
7 		MIS
15 		DEN
24 		VAN
8 		MDO
11 		ROA
9 		NZR
21 		LS
11 		13th 42
1992 Walker Racing Lola T91/00 Chevrolet 265A V8t SRF
9 		5th 108
Lola T92/00 PHX
18 		LBH
5 		INDY
2 		DET
22 		POR
8 		MIL
8 		NHA
3 		TOR
6 		MIS
1 		CLE
10 		ROA
20 		VAN
5 		MDO
16 		NZR
4 		LS
26
1993 Walker Racing Lola T93/00 Ford XB V8t SRF
10 		PHX
20 		LBH
16 		INDY
7 		MIL
23 		DET
10 		POR
12 		CLE
20 		TOR
9 		MIS
5 		NHA
19 		ROA
10 		VAN
4 		MDO
3 		NZR
2 		LS
4 		9th 86
1994 King Racing Lola T94/00 Ford XB V8t SRF
10 		PHX
11 		LBH
19 		INDY
30 		MIL
22 		DET
11 		POR
28 		CLE
14 		TOR
10 		MIS
1 		MDO
22 		NHA
11 		VAN
4 		ROA
7 		NZR
8 		LS
27 		12th 55
1995 Tasman Motorsports Reynard 95i Honda HRH V8t MIA SRF PHX LBH NZR INDY
14 		MIL DET POR ROA TOR CLE MIS MDO
12 		NHA VAN
14 		LS 32nd 1
1996 Walker Racing Reynard 96i Ford XB V8t MIA
12 		RIO
DNS 		SRF LBH NZR 500 MIL DET POR CLE TOR
19 		MIS MDO ROA VAN
9 		LS
18 		25th 5

Indy Racing League[]

Year Team Chassis No. Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Rank Points
1996–1997 Treadway Racing G-Force GF01 6 Oldsmobile Aurora V8 NHM LVS WDW
3 		PHX
17 		INDY
2 		TXS
4 		PPIR
7 		CLT
3 		NH2
16 		LV2
2 		5th 226
1998 Panther Racing G-Force GF01B] 4 WDW
17 		PHX
6 		INDY
24 		TXS
4 		NHM
2 		DOV
6 		CLT
3 		PPIR
18 		ATL
4 		TX2
22 		LVS
22 		7th 244
1999 G-Force GF01C WDW
2 		PHX
1 		CLT
C1 		INDY
27 		TXS
1 		PPIR
12 		ATL
16 		DOV
17 		PPIR
21 		LVS
25 		TX2
23 		9th 217
2000 Dallara IR-00 WDW
4 		PHX
2 		LVS
12 		INDY
9 		TXS
5 		PPIR
16 		ATL
11 		KTY
2 		TX2
1 		2nd 272
2001 Team Cheever Dallara IR-01 52 Infiniti VRH35ADE V8 PHX HMS ATL INDY
32 		TXS PPIR RIR KAN NSH KTY STL CHI TX2 48th 1
1 The 1999 VisionAire 500K at Charlotte was cancelled after 79 laps due to spectator fatalities. Goodyear qualified 3rd and was running 2nd when it was red-flagged.

Indy Racing League career summary[]

Year Team Wins Points Championship Finish
1997 Treadway Racing 0 226 5th
1998 Panther Racing 0 244 7th
1999 Panther Racing 2 217 9th
2000 Panther Racing 1 272 2nd
2001 Team Cheever 0 1 47th

3 wins, 0 championships

Indianapolis 500[]

Year Chassis Engine No. Start Finish Team
1990 Lola T89/00 Judd AV V8t 28 21 10 O'Donnell/Shierson Racing
1991 Lola T91/00 Judd AV V8t 15 12 27 O'Donnell Racing
1992 Lola T92/00 Chevrolet 265A V8t 15 33 2 Walker Racing
1993 Lola T93/00 Ford XB V8t 2 4 7 Walker Racing
1994 Lola T94/00 Ford XB V8t 40 33 30 King Racing
1995 Reynard 95i Honda HRH V8t 24 3 14 Tasman Motorsports
1997 G-Force GF01 Oldsmobile Aurora V8 6 5 2 Treadway Racing
1998 G-Force GF01B Oldsmobile Aurora V8 4 10 24 Panther Racing
1999 G-Force GF01C Oldsmobile Aurora V8 4 9 27 Panther Racing
2000 Dallara IR-00 Oldsmobile Aurora V8 4 13 9 Panther Racing
2001 Dallara IR-01 Infiniti VRH35ADE V8 52 16 32 Team Cheever

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results[]

Year Class No Tyres Car Team Co-Drivers Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1987 C1 3 M Porsche 956
Porsche Type-935 2.8L Turbo Flat-6 		Switzerland Brun Motorsport United Kingdom Bill Adam
Canada Richard Spenard 		120 DNF DNF
1996 GT1 26 M Porsche 911 GT1
Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 		Germany Porsche AG Austria Karl Wendlinger
France Yannick Dalmas 		341 3rd 2nd

International Race of Champions[]

(key) (Bold – Pole position. * – Most laps led.)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.autocourse.ca/archives/national/porsche/1988/porsche.htm
  2. ^ "Scott Goodyear". oshof.ca/. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  3. ^ "2019 F3 Americas Schedule Revealed at PRI Show- Scott Goodyear Announced as Race Director".

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