Scott Goodyear
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Scott Goodyear | |
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![]() Scott Goodyear at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May 2008. | |
Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | December 20, 1959
Retired | 2001 |
Indy Racing League | |
Years active | 1987-2001 |
Teams | Treadway Racing Panther Racing Team Cheever |
Starts | 39 |
Wins | 3 |
Poles | 1 |
Fastest laps | 2 |
Best finish | 2nd in 2000 |
CART Championship Car | |
Years active | 1987, 1989–1996 |
Teams | Hemelgarn Racing Shierson Racing Walker Racing King Racing Tasman Motorsports |
Starts | 97 |
Wins | 2 |
Poles | 2 |
Best finish | 5th in 1992 |
Previous series | |
1986 | North American Formula Atlantic East Series |
Championship titles | |
1986 | North American Formula Atlantic East Series |
Awards | |
2002 | Canadian 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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1987 | C1 | 3 | M | Porsche 956 Porsche Type-935 2.8L Turbo Flat-6 |
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120 | DNF | DNF |
1996 | GT1 | 26 | M | Porsche 911 GT1 Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6 |
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341 | 3rd | 2nd |
International Race of Champions[]
(key) (Bold – Pole position. * – Most laps led.)
International Race of Champions results | |||||||
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Year | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Pos. | Points |
2001 | Pontiac | DAY 6 |
TAL 9 |
MCH | IND | 7th | 42 |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ http://www.autocourse.ca/archives/national/porsche/1988/porsche.htm
- ^ "Scott Goodyear". oshof.ca/. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ "2019 F3 Americas Schedule Revealed at PRI Show- Scott Goodyear Announced as Race Director".
External links[]
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- Living people
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